Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 13:40:17 -0600
From: "Jeaux" <jeauxblo@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: E-metered Counseling as Biofeedback


Edward E. Rigdon wrote in message ...
>As I (an outsider) understand it, the auditor performs some adjustments on
>the e-meter, again, out of sight of the subject.

>Do these adjustments have
>a substantial influence on the e-meter's behavior during the session?

They 'set' the E-meter's detection and display properties.  It seems a
little unusual to discuss the e-meter's 'behavior'.  ;)

>If so, do auditors seek to induce certain behavior in the e-meter?

I'll respond to this question as if the phrase "set certain parameters" were
substituted for "induce certain behavior".  Yes the auditor does seek to set
the meter's detection and display properties.

Now I'll respond to what I believe you are asking (If I'm wrong, please 
say so):

The customer enters the auditing environment with his attitude--whatever
that is.  If it is a positive attitude his anxiety level is low or
non-existent.  If it is a negative attitude, the auditor's action of "flying
rudes" should address the problem and ease his apprehensions.  But sometimes
there remains some anxiety or apprehension.  This is ostensibly due to the
customer's case which is the subject to be addressed by the counseling.

This attitude, apprehensive or accepting, or some degree in between,
determines the customer's skin resistance at the beginning of the session.
The auditor sets either a high voltage to overcome resistance to current
flow (in the case of apprehension) or a minimal voltage which easily draws
current though the non-resistive body (in the case of an accepting subject).

The auditor sets the voltage with an adjustment called a "Tone Arm".  The
auditor does not think in terms of voltage, but of overcoming the
resistance, or evasiveness, of the customer's "case".  The action of
increasing the voltage to overcome resistance was designed into the
counseling process by the Founder.  Increasing the voltage is a natural
option to overcome body resistance so that some reading may be attained.
Polygraph operation entails the same option.

>Is there
>such a thing as a session going "too well" or "too poorly," according to
>policy?


Yes.  If a customer cannot confront his aberration or past wrong-doings he
may not 'be able' to cough-up items to audit.  If he cannot trust the
auditor he "will not" give up any items.  The auditor's trained persistence,
if unproductive, only increases the resistance, the customer's measurement
gets more and more resistive, and emanates "bad indicators" (bad vibes--he's
really pissed, or blocked up--his body is highly resistive to current flow).

Standard Tech avoids ending session in a case of such a failure, and the
auditor tries his best to attain a resolution (get some agreement, or
confront, from the customer).  In the event of such a failed session, and
the examiner determines the high body resistance after session, the customer
might be green-formed--which requires some hefty ethics actions.  Often this
amounts to blaming.

The reasons are sought.  The options are:  a)  The customer was not properly
prepared for session.  b)  The auditor is in error.  c)  The auditor is a
socio-path  d)  The customer is a socio-path.

The first three of these incriminate the auditor, and/or the Technology,
and/or the Church, and/or the Founder.  The fourth blames the customer and
exonerates the auditor, the Tech, the Church, and the Founder.  Which do you
suppose they would decide on?

The session may have gone "too well", in that the customer is beaming so,
that his readings no longer permit an intelligent measurement of other case
items.  The customer then must "have his win" until he once again acclimates
to 'busines as usual' and exhibits some more of the aberrative qualities in
his 'case'.  This can take hours or days.

These explanations will sound unusual to trained Scientologists as I haven't
formally taken the courses and been drilled on the conformity to standard
terminologies.  In my excitement about what I considered the possibilities
of the Tech, I dug through everything I could find about auditing.  While I
have never applied metered auditing, I have given perhaps 100 hours of
non-metered regression auditing.  I have received about 100 hours of metered
Scientology auditing and NED, including "Out/int".

David Alexander