Thou shalt not… (evaluate)
- Jun 2
- 6 min read
Introduction: Below is an excerpt from a wonderful lecture covering the entire Auditor's Code in detail, as well as the coffee-shop auditing and much more. But let’s first focus on understanding when it is appropriate to evaluate someone and when it is not. The famous “Thou shalt not…” loses all meaning after reading the entire lecture.
I just studied a lecture, I hope you find that part interesting as well.
Much love,
Max Hauri
Evaluate
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Now, you get over into administration, you have to handle the public. Don't you see?
They come in and they say, "I have terrible pains in my head. What is that?"
All right, that has nothing to do with the Auditor's Code. That's a casual conversation you're embarked upon. You can tell him anything you want to. Not your pc.
"Pains in your head? Well, I'll tell you, did you ever have a fear of knitting needles?"
Fellow says, "Yes."
"Well," you say, "There you have it. There you have it. Get the idea of a knitting needle sticking half in this side and out that side. Got that? Got that? Well, that's it!"
Person says, "No, that isn't it."
You say, "Well, that's just your hard luck."
And you say – you're telling him, "That's what the pain in the head is." See? It's this or it's that. This is how you are so depressed on this stability factor here, this is why you're so low on the line.
You can tell him, "Well, you had a hard childhood, didn't you? I can see it right here in my crystal – I mean, my OCA." Get the idea?
"Is it true that you hate women?"
"What do you mean? I don't necessarily hate women."
"Well, I don't know. It says here that you haven't very much empathy and so forth and… How about it? Do you hate women?"
"Uh, well, I don't know."
"Well, I think you do."
Totally not allowed in an auditing session. Don't you see?
Auditors sometimes, when they've been doing tremendous quantities of auditing, forget to shift their hats the other way.
Now, here you had an example of people who have been a Registrar or something like that – they keep on evaluating for a PC. Then they get into session and they kind of tend to – all of a sudden, why the D of P, after they've been a staff auditor for a little while, you know, he's got them down on the carpet. And he says, "You know – you know those explanations – those explanations you were giving the pc for the engram I found very, very interesting. But you're wondering why the pc was trying to blow during the session. Well, that was why. You were telling him what his engram was all about, and it's up to him."
Well, the person says, "Oh, yeah, well, I'll get my hats straightened out, here, and – one way or the other."
Well, reversely an auditor can come out of session, go down and meet Joe and run right straight on through the line working with the Auditor's Code. But no, no – he's having dinner with a friend, don't you see? And he's bound by the Auditor's Code. Oh, no, he isn't bound by the Auditor's Code. The Auditor's Code applies to a session and that's it. Got the idea?
So he finds Joe is going on and on and saying, "Well, I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know whether I ought to stick around or not because it just seems so fruitless – keep on arguing all the time."
And this auditor is perfectly at liberty to say, "Well, I think it's just because you've got a nasty temper. I think that's – you keep flying into people's faces and so forth. And that's why they're mad at you and if you just learn to cool your temper down a little bit, why, you'll get along."
Boy, he couldn't do that in a session, don't you see? But he sure could do it in social intercourse because in the social world conversation is almost totally evaluation, see? But not in a session.
All you have to do is explain the pc's aberration to him, or explain the nature of his mother, or explain to him the factors which are involved in his case, and how these things have mounted up in his life, and tell him what they mean, and he's had it. And you've had it too. That's all – that's all you've got to do and that's it. This boy is not in-session, he's not going to get any gains, he's not going anywhere. It's something to remember.
Any part of this Code is something to remember. You ought to know it by heart.
Now, in handling a preclear, then, his case is his case. And his case is what he says it is, not what you say it is. Nothing like evaluation could be done while you're running an engram. It's just unthinkable to evaluate for somebody while he's halfway through an engram. Wow! Oh, boy! He's mired way down, he's in physical pain, he feels a great deal of duress, he's already snorty and out of ARC with the environment of the engram, which tends to make him out of ARC with the environment of the auditing session. And then you say to him, "You know, I think that last part you ran was dub-in." That's it! He's had it! Get the idea?
The funny part of this thing – this goes even further than this. If you tell him what the engram is all about or something like this, why, it just caves him in terrifically.
Now, you will see, just from this, why older psychotherapy practices failed so terribly. They were always explaining to people what their aberration was. Look at – look at psychoanalysis, huh. "Now, the reason why – the reason why you don't feel so well, Mr. Jones, is because you had that altercation with your sister when she was four. Yes, that's why. I've got that settled in my mind now. You're well now. That's it."
Well, of course the basic evaluation of "You were sick" or "You were well," these things cannot be practiced in an auditing session. But remember they are perfectly admissible outside of an auditing session if the person isn't your Pc. This doesn't bind a Scientologist up across his whole social activity. When it does, he finds himself rather uncomfortable.
Just out of plain viciousness sometimes, somebody walks in, says, "I have a terrible headache what's wrong with me?" I look at him piercingly and tell him. They're not my pc.
Now, sometimes this might cross your mind – you say the process that you select to run on the pc is an evaluation. You decided what was wrong with him and you ran this process on him. That does not classily to the pc as evaluation. Philosophically it could be classified as evaluation, but from what viewpoint?
So, let's get just a little bit further on this – the whole Code – and let's find out something about it. It's from a specific viewpoint, which is to say, the pc's viewpoint. Now, if the pc says you're evaluating, I'm afraid you are. Got it? If he thinks what you just did or said is evaluation, that's fine. But he sit there just as happy as a clam while you choose homosexuality as the center action of your process. And what are you doing, actually?
You're saying, "This is what I think is wrong with you, son," see, and you're processing directly right straight down the groove at homosexuality. And he sits there, perfectly happy.
So it's not evaluation, is it? Because the pc doesn't say it is. He doesn't think it is, he doesn't say it is.
Just like an engram is what the pc runs, not what the auditor tells him it is. Similarly, that is an Auditor Code break which is viewed as a Code break by the pc.
Very often in session when I'm processing somebody – I'm in a terrific hurry, something like that, I evaluate for them, I invalidate them, I push their buttons. It's not from their viewpoint. Now, that may seem – sound very strange, and I don't recommend it until you're a real old hand at this.
But I've had a person going on and on and on and on and saying, "You've just got to process my mother because I know that's my mother – it's – no, no it's my mother – that's wrong with me – and my mother, my father. They were both Presbyterians and that could – and that's wrong – and that's what you've got to process.
"Shut up," I have said.
First, I've said, "Good," you know. "You – thank you, yeah, that's fine."
"And I know this is it…" and so on, so on, and yabba-yabba-ya. "And I've got it all figured out and this is what we got…"
"Shut up."
"Huhh!"
"Now, shall we get down to business?"
"Well, all right, if you say so."
There are a lot of rules in the game you can disobey. But I'll give you a clue about disobeying rules in the Auditor's Code. Know what they are and know how to follow them, and then you will be good enough to here and there disobey them.
L. Ron Hubbard
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