New Hubbard Professional TR Course

This document is a summary and review of the New Hubbard Proffesional TR Course pack, which is copyright (c) 1989 by the L. Ron Hubbard Library. Quotations are made under the "fair use" provision of the US copyright code.

Notation:

HCO PL: Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter. These are printed in green ink on white paper. The collected policy letters are also issued in hardbound volumes with green covers, known as "green volumes".
HCOB: Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin. These are technical bulletins, printed in red ink on white paper. They are also issued in hardbound volumes with red covers.
PAB: Proffesional Auditor's Bulletin, is a series of publications written by Hubbard in the early days of Scientology. Thes are printed in black ink, and are also included in the red bound volumes.
Ability: A Scientology periodical from the early days of the movement.

The notation "1971R II" refers to the second revision of a bulletin originally issued in 1971.

Contents of the Course Pack

The pack is divided into four sections, but 22 of the 26 bulletins are in the second section, Training Routines. Most bulletins are 2-3 pages in length.

Keeping Scientology Working

This section contains a couple of policy letters (harangues would be a more accurate description) that appear at the beginning of every Scientology course pack.

HCO PL 7 Feb 1965: Keeping Scientology Working
HCO PL 17 June 1970RB: Technical Degrades

Training Routines

HCOB 16 August 1971R II: Training Drills Remodernized
Defines TR 0 through TR 4.
Ability 54, September 1957: More Confronting
HCOB 4 January 1973: Confront
HCOB 3 February 1979 II: Confront Tech
PAB 147, 1 November 1958: Communications Course
HCOB 25 September 1971RB: Tone Scale in Full
A one-page bulletin defining the tone scale from -40 (Total Failure) to +40 (Serenity of Beingness).
HCOB 31 January 1979: Mood Drills
Mood drills involve doing the TRs at every level of the tone scale, e.g., at Anger (Tone 1.5) the student should sound angry.
HCOB 15 September 1958: More on Training Drill Two
The auditor should be careful about timing of acknowledgments so as not to acknowledge the pc before he has said everything he meant to.
PAB 149, 1 December 1958: Dummy Auditing Step Two: Acknowledgment
HCOB 12 January 1959: Tone of Voice -- Acknowledgment
PAB 150, 15 December 1958: Dummy Auditing Step Three: Duplication
HCOB 7 April 1964: Q and A
What Q and A (Question and Answer) really refers to is failure to complete a process or line of questioning once it has begun. The auditor must not allow the preclear to take control of the conversation and lead it off in a different direction. Maintaining control is paramount; a preclear who questions or objects to the auditor's actions rather than complying with instructions or answering the auditing question asked of him would be guilty of attempting to Q and A.
HCOB 20 November 1973 I: Anti-Q and A Drill
HCOB 5 April 1980: Q&A, The Real Definition
Simply allowing the conversation to follow the direction of a preclear's remarks counts as Q and A, and is considered a "grievous auditing fault". For example, if the auditor asks "How are you?" and the student says "I have a stomach ache", a reply of "When did the pain start?" would be considered Q and A. The auditor should instead give a proper acknowledgment (good TR 2) to complete the "comm cycle" on that question, and then continue with whatever auditing process he is running.
PAB 151, 1 January 1959: Dummy Auditing Step Four: Handling Originations
HCOB 1 October 1965R: Mutter TR
The proper response to a muttered, unintelligible reply from the pc is to acknowledge it with good TR 2. It is not necessary for the auditor to understand what the pc actually said or meant. (This is a remarkable statement for a course whose goal is supposedly to improve communication skills. But responding to muttering by requesting a clarification would be ceding to the pc some measure of control over the discourse, which must never happen.) There are exceptions to the rule, such as when trying to find out what the pc thinks is wrong so the topic can be pursued with further auditing. But in general, if the auditor acknowledges the muttered reply and the pc feels it necessary for the auditor to really understand what was said, the pc will amplify his remarks on his own.
HCOB 24 May 1968: Coaching
HCOB 26 April 1971 I: TRs and Cognitions
HCOB 24 December 1979R: TRs Basics Resurrected
HCOB 7 August 1983: Robotic TRs
HCOB 8 August 1983: Cycling Through TRs on a Professional TR Course
HCOB 5 July 1989: Coaching TRs 0-4
Here we learn, among other things, that "Blinkless" TR 0 doesn't really have to be blinkless after all. Normal blinking is permitted, but nervous blinking, or any other type of twitch or nervous reaction, is grounds for a FLUNK!

Communication

HCOB 5 April 1973: Axiom 28 Amended
The axioms of Scientology appear in What is Scientology? and are available on-line at the cult's web site. The commentary on Axiom 28 is: "The formula of communication is cause, distance, effect, with intention, attention and duplication WITH UNDERSTANDING." Hope that helps.

TRs Clay Table Processing and TRs 0-4 in Clay

HCOB 26 October 1989: TRs Clay Table Processing: Instructions for the Student Auditor
Many Scientology courses (especially the Key to Life Course) include clay table work. The student is asked to illustrate ideas by modeling them in clay, a ridiculously simplistic approach to understanding abstract concepts. The real purpose of this exercise is to foster a kind of age regression, making the student more suggestible and hence more easily indoctrinated into the cult's worldview.

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