Training in the Independent Field
My name is John Aaron Williams and I joined the SO in July 1988. With no Scientology Courses done I routed onto the EPF and when completed went directly to the 800 Unit (Dianetics Hotline) in CMU (Central Marketing Unit) where I counseled many thousands of people. In 1992 I went to Bridge Publications and was there till I went to PAC Renos and out in August 1995. When I left I was Clear and had completed OT Eligibility. The Sea Org story is saved for another time.| Training in the Independent Field | | Print | |
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by Joe Howard
Jimmy Rebel and I have been working for some time now to make it possible for people to do auditor training outside of the formal Church of Scientology, which many feel has become so weighed down with arbitraries and extraneous demands on their time and bank balances as to make it virtually impossible to learn the subject. The Year of Tech Breakthroughs: 1978
In 1978, LRH undertook a review of Academy training. He found that the Academy Levels had become overly long and had become a mish-mash of all kinds of tech not, strictly speaking, related to Academy Level training, which was supposed to be directed towards teaching students to audit the Expanded Lower Grades, ARC Straightwire through Grade 4. It is understandable how this occurred. After 1968, which had been the previous time a checksheet evolution was done, there were a ton of tech breakthroughs and developments: Word Clearing, Standard Dianetics, Int Rundowns, the C/S Series, Expanded Grades, PTS/SP tech and on and on. Many of the developments related to all auditing in general and so many bulletins wound up appearing on Academy Levels checksheets. By 1978, a Class IV auditor was trained to do Int Rundowns, C/S 53s, PTS Rundowns, Expanded Green Form 40s and much else. He or she was the equivalent of today’s Class V Graduate with all the Tech Specialist Courses to boot. Auditor training had become overlong. LRH’s solution was to shorten checksheets and concentrate them on specific bodies of tech or rundowns. The basic auditor training lineup would still remain Academy Levels 0-IV but if an auditor found he needed to do an Int Rundown, he could do a quick course that taught only that and get right back to auditing. So, in overseeing the compilation of the 1978 Academy checksheets, LRH mandated that the number of issues on those checksheets could not exceed the number of issues that appeared on the 1968 checksheets, which had been the last set he reviewed. Many issues not specifically relevant to delivery of Expanded Lower Grades were stripped from the checksheets. RTRC complied with those directions and checksheets were released in the fall of 1978. I didn’t work on these as I was not in the unit at that time. But I did compile the 1987 checksheets when Academy training was once again updated to incorporate the Tech Films. These checksheets adhered to the LRH datum restricting the number of issues that could appear and also included the appropriate Tech Films for each level and improved the demos, drills and practical assignments over the ’78 compilations. When Jimmy Rebel approached me to assist in his project it became clear that the 1987 checksheets should form the basis of what we have today under the heading of Independent Checksheets. Many auditors trained on these checksheets and copies are all over the internet. Another checksheet evolution was done in 1996 as part of the Golden Age of Tech program but those incorporate all the Standard Tech Drills, which are not currently available in the independent field. The 1987 checksheets are good, standard training checksheets that made auditors who could get results on pcs. They do not require a separate metering course such as the current Professional Metering Course being delivered in the church but instead include the meter drills necessary to audit the tech taught at each level. The Professional Metering Course is loaded with arbitraries and some students have spent years trying to pass the dating drills and final assessment video. Most Expanded Grades processes require only the metering skills necessary to spot an instant read and an F/N, since the vast majority of processes are repetitive processes. The goal, then, with these checksheets is to provide an auditor training lineup that anyone can follow to learn the mechanisms of the mind and gain the skills needed to apply LRH’s breakthroughs to help others. We intend to make this lineup broadly available and Jimmy Rebel has plans in place to make quality training affordable at very reasonable costs. Getting Scientology back on the railsIn an utterly misguided and off-Source effort to attain “perfection,” the church has placed so many obstacles in the way of auditor training that they are choking off the practice of Scientology, which is the entire point of the subject--practice. Application. The runway to application is so long now that many never get off the ground. While other subjects are mainly philosophic studies, Scientology is meant to be an applied philosophy and that is what Jimmy Rebel has set out to provide. It’s personally gratifying for me to be able to contribute to his efforts.These checksheets don’t replace any other checksheets being offered by any individual, group or organization. If someone sees something they think is wrong with these checksheets or which could be improved they are free to communicate about it. People are free to use these checksheets in any way they wish or not. In the final analysis, each of us has our own direct line to LRH and it is ultimately up to each one of us what we do with that line. It’s the hope that people who are not able to or who are no longer willing to study in the church will avail themselves of this LRH data, learn to apply what he has left us and use this knowledge to improve the ability to better conditions, which is the entire mission of Scientology. (IAS, Super Power, Idle Org and Library Campaign Registrars take note.) Joe Howard |
"Scientology has been taken over by a self-appointed dictator, David Miscavige, who has turned the Creed of the Church of Scientology, the Code of a Scientologist, and the Credo of a True Group Member on their heads and instituted the virtual practice of Reverse (Black) Dianetics..." 
Comments
Do you have an assist process to handle DM's upcoming heart attack?
:-)
YES! YES! YES!
This is the best news I've heard all year!
I did the 78 checksheets when I did my levels.
Short sweet and to the point.
Wish you and JR much success in the New Year.
I know its going to be a blast.
Ml
Robin
So did I. Produced many Clears and Releases easily and quickly. Not hard at all.
Great idea, I'd like very much to get my training as far as possible.
I'm in South Africa which is rather a far way from anywhere else on the planet.
The question is where, when will the training centre be up and running?
Regards,
Rafael
I well remember your coming to Clearwater in 1979 (the Pro TRs Pilot course that Int Training Org was trying to deliver was unfortunately totally bugged) and and you got people to pass their TRs tapes finally.
What's happening in Scientology training history is so unbelievable.
The Drills Simulator and the GAT Drills I found generally okay, the ones that called for using the Drills Simulator.
But in my training history, I found good coaching by tech people who were topotch Flag auditor vintage, people who'd been C/Sed by LRH, and who'd been in the old Flag HGC, those people as coaches were even MORE helpful in my opinion, to the Drills Simulator and GAT binder drills with coach reading their lines out of the GAT binder drills.
Good coaching using the principles in the Coaching HCOB, and if possible, coaching by tech persons who have DONE years of good auditing, THAT's completely adequate!
Thanks so much Dan!
Chuck Beatty
Mark this date as the start of the final roll to the end game--CofM 0 Indies 100,000,000,000.
Take THAT you little piece of burned cinder for a heart beasty.... :)
Happy New Year!!!!
An italian indipendent
due to the recent shut down of mega upload website, could you re-upload the checksheets on a new place? cheers!
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