What is Scientology
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What is Scientology was the topic L. Ron Hubbard addressed on the evening of March 3, 1952. He spoke for an hour defining the term Scientology and presenting its development from Dianetics. The title of his lecture was Scientology: Milestone One, [1] it being a recognition that the work he and his practitioners had done in Dianetics had grown beyond the field of Dianetics.
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Dianetics
Dianetics begin with the idea that a person could listen to another person and help them resolve their problems. A person tends to get involved in their problems and talking about them can be helpful. Hubbard's Dianetics applied itself with this broad, general idea and developed intense methods of listening. Hubbard's methods include such things as indicators that a problem has been cleared, when to ask a question, and what sorts of questions to ask. Dianetics found some listener responses are simply not helpful, such as advice, judgements and evaluation.
Scientology
Hubbard's work continued along the line, "how can a listener best help a friend work through problems". The person listening is called the auditor. The person talking is called the pre-clear, "pre" in the sense of "before becoming clear of problems". As Hubbard's listening technique improved he found the most obvious problems sometimes had roots much deeper than expected. Yet the pre-clear must work through their own problems by their own efforts. No amount of evaluation by the auditor and no amount of judgement by the auditor proved to be the least bit helpful to the preclear.
Auditor
In the time period from 1950 to about 1965 Hubbard developed methods to improve how well an auditor could listen, when to ask appropriate questions and how to acknowledge what a friend said.
Study Technology
As the organization which disseminated Scientology grew, Hubbard could no longer instruct every auditor. He found that the methods that worked were not easily grasped. He therefore developed study methods to improve the practicality of study. A result was that students became effective auditors. Study Technology is one of the first courses of study an auditor engages in the present Church of Scientology
E-Meter
An E-Meter measures electrical resistance. It is a specialized ohm meter with a scale that reads small changes in electrical resistance in the range of the human body. A tiny electrical current flows through the pre-clear's body while the pre-clear holds its leads. Hubbard and his practitioners developed and improved the E-Meter because he found that it helped an auditor listen better. Using a meter, an auditor can use it to better observe how a pre-clear is doing with a specific memory. Before the meter, auditors observed the emotional state of the pre-clear, their general cheerfulness, their skin tone and like parameters.
references
- ^ Scientology: Milestone One, 3 Mar 1952, Bridge Publications, Hubbard
