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Scientology Definitions

Over 200 terms from the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary, based on original LRH source materials updated through 1982.

202 definitions

A=A=A

Anything equals anything equals anything. This is the way the reactive mind (or bank) thinks. Irrationally identifying...

ABERRATION

Irrational or deranged behavior, or thought, on or about a specific subject or subjects. Resulting from the influence...

A.C.C

(an abbreviation for Advanced Clinical Course): These were lectures delivered in concurrent series on a particular...

ACCEPTANCE LEVEL

The degree of a person's willingness to accept people or things freely, monitored and determined by his consideration...

ADDITIVES

Anything extra added to an already workable process or procedure which reduces or nullifies the results obtainable from...

AFFINITY

Degree of liking or affection or lack of it. (This is often expressed as an emotion- enthusiasm towards a person...

ALLY

A person who sympathized with or appeared to aid the survival of an individual when he or she was ill, injured or...

ALTER-IS

To change or falsify the way something actually is.

ALTER-IS-NESS

One of the four conditions of existence. It is the consideration which introduces change, and therefore time and...

ALTITUDE

The prestige which anyone has in the eyes of another.

ANALYTICAL MIND

This mind consists of visual pictures, either of the past or the physical universe, monitored and presided over by the...

ANATEN

An abbreviation of "analytical attenuation", meaning a diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an...

APPARENCY

The way someone or something appears to be, where this is different from the way that they actually are.

ARC

A acronym made from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality and Communication, which together equate to understanding....

ARC BREAK

A sudden drop or sundering in Affinity, Reality and Communication with or toward someone or something, which is often...

ARC TRIANGLE

It is called a triangle because it has three related points: Affinity, Reality and the most important, Communication....

ART

(The basic definition) ART is a word which summarizes the QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

AS-IS

To view anything exactly as it is, without any distortions or lies, at which moment it will vanish and cease to exist.

AS-IS-NESS

One of the four conditions of existence. It is the condition of immediate creation without persistence and is the...

ASSESSMENT

The auditor in a standard model session, calls aloud a list of questions from (a prepared assessment list) to find...

ASSIST

Simple, easily done processes that can be applied to anyone to help them recover more rapidly from accidents, mild...

AUDITING

The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. The exact definition of...

AUDITING BY LIST

A technique, - using prepared lists of questions, that relieves and helps the preclear find out more about himself.

AUDITING COMMUNICATION CYCLE

The communication cycle used in auditing. It consists of (1) The auditor observes the preclear to see if the preclear...

AUDITING SESSION

A precise period of time during which an auditor audits a preclear.

AUDITOR

A listener or one who listens carefully to what people have to say. An auditor is a person trained and qualified in...

AUDITOR'S CODE

A collection of rules (do's and don'ts) that an auditor follows while auditing someone, which ensures that the preclear...

AUTOMATICITY

Anything one is doing that he is not aware he is doing or is only partially aware he is doing. Also, a sudden, very...

BANK

A colloquial name for the Reactive Mind. (This is what the procedures of Scientology are devoted to disposing of, for...

BASIC

The first incident, such as an engram or overt act, of a chain of similar incidents.

BASIC AUDITING

The fundamental and most important elements of auditing- the skill of handling and keeping the preclear in session,...

BASIC-BASIC

The first engram on the time track.

BEINGNESS

The assumption or choosing of a category of identity. Beingness is assumed by oneself or given to oneself or is...

BLOW

A colloquialism for a sudden departure. It is usually used to describe either the sudden dissipation of mass in the...

BLOWDOWN

A definite, rapid drop of the E-Meter tone arm of 0.2 divisions or more, associated with a vanishment of mental mass or...

BOOK AUDITOR

Someone who has successfully applied Scientology from a book to help someone else and who has received a 'Hubbard Book...

BUTTON

Items, words, phrases, subjects or areas that are easily re-stimulatable in an individual by the words or actions of...

BYPASSED CHARGE

Mental energy or upset that has been stirred up but not recognized or dealt with. In everyday terms, it is the feeling...

BY-PASSED CHARGE ASSESSMENT

Auditing by list to help the preclear find by-passed charge. The moment a correct by-passed charge is found the...

CASE

The way a person responds to the world around him by reason of his aberrations.

CASE GAIN

The improvements and resurgences a person experiences from auditing. CCHs: Four associated processes which bring a...

CHAIN

A succession of incidents, occurring at various intervals along the time track, that are related to one another by some...

CHARGE

Harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the Reactive Mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant...

CIRCUIT

as though it were someone or something separate from him or her, and that either talks to him or goes into action of...

CLASS VIII AUDITOR

A very highly trained and skilled auditor in Scientology. Class VIII auditors have completed advanced training to audit...

CLASSIFICATION

A system of classes and grades denoting levels of training and processing in Scientology. Classification refers to the...

CLEANING A CLEAN

Attempting to clean up or deal with something that has already been cleaned up or dealt with that wasn't troublesome to...

CLEAR

(noun) A thetan who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the...

CO-AUDIT

An abbreviation for co-operative auditing. It means a team of any two people who are helping each other reach a better...

COFFEE SHOP AUDITING

An activity casually done in odd moments by someone who is trying to show somebody else that he knows something about...

COGNITION

A new realization of life. It results in a higher degree of awareness and consequently a greater ability to succeed...

COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE

Part of the Ethics system of a Scientology Organization-being a fact- finding group appointed and empowered to...

COMMUNICATION

The interchange of ideas or objects between two people or terminals. More precisely, the definition of communication...

COMMUNICATION LINE

The route along which a communication travels from one person to another.

COMMUNICATION PROCESSES

Processes that result in a person being able to communicate freely and easily. Such a person is called a Communications...

CONFUSION

Any jumble of things, communications, actions, thoughts etc., that don't apparently make sense. More broadly, a...

CONTROL

The ability to start, change and stop things at one's own choice. (With processing a person is capable of controlling a...

COURAGE

(Scientological definition) The availability of inherent ability (free Theta), necessity level, recognition of validity...

CYCLE

beginning to the conclusion of an intended cycle of action.

CYCLE OF ACTION

The sequence that an action goes through, wherein the action is started, is continued for as long as is required and...

DESTIMULATION

The action of deleting the moments of re-stimulation of the Reactive Mind or some portion of it, so that it moves away...

DEV-T

Developed and unnecessary traffic in any organization or between organizations, consisting of off-line, off-policy or...

DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION

One who through Standard New Era Dianetic Counselling by a qualified auditor has become a healthy, happy, high-I.Q....

DRAMATIZATION

Thinking or acting in a manner that is dictated by masses or significances contained in the Reactive Mind. When...

DUB-IN

Any unknowingly created mental facsimile that appears to have been a record of the physical universe, but which is, in...

DYNAMIC(S)

The urge, thrust and purpose of life - SURVIVE! - in its eight manifestations. - THE FIRST DYNAMIC...

E-METER

(Hubbard Electrometer) An electronic instrument for measuring mental state, mental mass and its presence or lack...

8C

A slang term meaning good and effective control of an individual or group.

EMOTIONAL TONE SCALE

A scale of emotional tones or states which range from death at the bottom, up through apathy, grief, fear, covert...

ENGRAM

A mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness and a real or fancied threat to survival. A...

ENTHETA

Means enturbulated theta (thought or life): especially refers to communications, which, based on lies and confusions,...

ENTURBULATE

Cause to be turbulent or agitated and disturbed.

ETHICS

Rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group and mankind, and the...

EVALUATION

Any attempt by someone to impose his arbitrary stable datum (whether correct or incorrect data) upon another. The first...

EXTERIORIZATION

The state of the thetan being outside his body. When this is done, the person achieves a certainty that he is himself...

FACSIMILE

A mental copy of one's perceptions of the physical universe sometime in the past, and also known as a mental image...

FIRST STAGE RELEASE

(obsolete) A general term that loosely referred to any Grade of Release below Grade V.

FLATTEN A PROCESS

To continue a process as long as it produces change and no longer. The free needle is the most important phenomenon...

FREE NEEDLE (FLOATING NEEDLE)

This is a needle manifestation of the E-Meter of great importance. When good indicators are present, it indicates the...

GENERALITY

A general or non-specific statement which is applicable to all and used in Scientology to mean a statement made in an...

GPM

Means Goals Problem Mass. A GPM is composed of mental masses and significances which have an exact pattern, unvarying...

GRADE

A level of auditing on the scientology Grade Chart with a specific ability gained as the desired result of the...

GRADIENT

A gradual approach to something, taken step by step, level by level, each step or level being, of itself, easily...

GRIEF CHARGE

An outburst of tears, that may continue for a considerable time, in a session, after which the preclear feels greatly...

HAPPINESS

The overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal and, transiently, the contemplation of, or indulgence in,...

HASI

Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International. A membership group of fellow auditors and Scientologists alike....

HAT

Slang for the title and work of a post in a Scientology Organization; taken from the fact that in many professions,...

HAVINGNESS

The concept of being able to reach.

HIDDEN STANDARD

An undisclosed opinion, decision or consideration which an individual formed sometime in the past of how things should...

IMPLANT

A painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial purposes or false concepts in a malicious attempt...

INCIDENT

An experience, simple or complex, related by the same subject, location, perception or people that takes place in a...

IN-SESSION

Used to describe a pre-clear who, during an auditing session, is willing to talk to the auditor and is interested in...

INTELLIGENCE

The ability to perceive, pose and resolve problems.

INTENSIVE

A specific number of hours of auditing given to a preclear over a short period of time, as a series of successive...

IS-NESS

One of the four conditions of existence. It is an apparency of existence brought about by the continuous alteration of...

ITEM

Anyone of a list of things, people, ideas, significances, purposes etc., given by a preclear to an auditor while...

ITSA

A coined word, taken from the phrase "It is a," meaning a statement which positively identifies something; especially...

KEY-IN

The moment an earlier upset or painful incident has been re-stimulated.

KEYED-OUT

Released or separated from one's Reactive Mind or some portion of it.

LEVEL OF AWARENESS

That of which a being is aware. (This can be established by finding which general condition of existence he is most...

LEVEL VI

The level which a person is trained to solo audit and at which he audits himself to the state of Whole Track Release.

LINE CHARGE

A period of sudden laughter, often uncontrollable, that a pre-clear experiences in a session and that results from the...

LISTEN STYLE AUDITING

A method of auditing in which the auditor just listens to the pre-clear talk without evaluating, invalidating or...

LISTING

A special procedure used in some processes where the auditor writes down items said by the preclear in response to a...

LIVING

Having and following a purpose. (Only if an individual has a purpose toward which he works, can he be said to be truly...

LOCK

A mental image picture of a non-painful but disturbing experience the person has experienced, and which depends for its...

LOCK WORDS

Words that are not in the GPMs, but which are close in meaning to significances that are part of the GPMs. They keep...

MACHINE

An actual machine in the mind, (like ordinary machinery) constructed out of mental mass and energy, that has been made...

MECHANICS

The physical and quantitative structure and operation of things, and the way they inter-act one with another under...

MEMORY

Any facsimiles of consciously perceived data created or not created by the individual, which can be recalled by the...

MEST

The physical universe. A word coined from the initial letters of Matter, Energy, Space and Time, which are the...

MIND

A control system between the thetan and the physical universe. The mind is not a brain.

MINUS RANDOMITY

Anything which has too little motion in it for a person's tolerance.

MINUS TONE SCALE

The sub-tones below the Emotional Tone Scale which are so low as to constitute by the individual a no-affinity,...

MISEMOTION

Emotion which is irrational and inappropriate to the present time situation. Mis- emotion is also emotion which has...

MISSED WITHHOLD

An undisclosed contra-survival act which has been re-stimulated by another but not disclosed. This is a withhold which...

MOCK-UP

A mental model, construction or picture created by a thetan. A mock-up is distinct from a facsimile in that it is...

MODEL SESSION

The same exact pattern and script (patter) with which every auditing session is begun and ended; the overall form of...

MOTIVATOR

The consideration and dramatization that one has been wronged by the action of another or a group, and which is...

MUZZLED AUDITING

The correct way to audit a preclear using only TR 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 in textbook fashion without any additives such as a...

NECESSITY LEVEL

This is a person's ability to rise above his or her aberrations when his action is required to handle an immediate and...

NOT-IS-NESS

The effort to handle Is-ness by reducing its condition through the use of force. It is an apparency and cannot entirely...

NULLING

The auditor's action in saying items from a list to a preclear and noting the reaction of the pre-clear's bank by the...

OBJECTIVE PROCESSES

Processes which familiarize a person with the MEST universe.

OBNOSIS

Observation of the obvious. The only way one sees anything is by observing the obvious: one looks at the is-ness of...

OCCLUSION

Any part of a person's memories that is hidden on the time track and is not available to conscious recall except...

OFF-LINE

An adjective which describes a dispatch or communication in any organization or from one organization to another which...

OFF-ORIGIN

An adjective which describes a dispatch or communication in any organization or between organizations which is...

OFF-POLICY

An adjective which describes a dispatch or communication in any organization or from one organization to another which...

OPTIMUM RANDOMITY

From the viewpoint of the individual, something which has in it the right amount of motion or unexpectedness for his...

O.T

(Operating Thetan): A Clear who has been familiarized with his environment to a point of total cause over matter,...

OTHER-DETERMINISM

The condition of having one's actions or conclusions determined by something or someone other than oneself.

OVER-RESTIMULATION

The condition of having in re-stimulation more charge than one can easily handle, accompanied by a feeling or...

OVERT-MOTIVATOR SEQUENCE

The sequence wherein someone who has committed an overt has to claim the existence of motivators. The motivators are...

PAN-DETERMINISM

Broad determinism: The action of determining not only one's own actions, but the actions of others as well, especially...

PLUS-RANDOMITY

From the viewpoint of the individual, something which has in it too much motion or unexpectedness for his tolerance.

POLICY

The rules and administrative formulas and procedures by which individuals in an organization agree on action and...

POSTULATE

(noun) A conclusion, decision or resolution made by the individual himself on his own self-determinism on data of the...

POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE (PTS)

Any person who, while active in Scientology or a pre-clear, remains connected to a Suppressive Person or Group. (A...

POWER PROCESSES

The processes audited only by very highly trained auditors which make Grade V Power Releases.

PRE-CLEAR

This term covers anyone who is not a Clear; however, it is principally used to describe a person who, through...

PREMATURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Any habit of agree-able noises, nods or acknowledgement made by the listener before the person has finished saying all...

PRESENT TIME

That which is conceived in the here and now and which becomes the past almost as rapidly as it is observed. It is a...

PRESENT TIME PROBLEM

A special problem that exists in the physical universe now, on which the preclear has his or her attention fixed. One...

PROBLEM

Anything which has opposing sides of equal force, especially postulate counter- postulate, intention counter- intention...

PROCESS

A set of questions asked by an auditor to help a person find out things about his or her life. More fully, a process is...

PROCESSING

That action or actions, governed by the technical disciplines and codes of Scientology, of administering a process to a...

PSYCHOTIC

Term which refers to the condition a person is in who is fighting or is accompanied by invisible or long dead enemies...

Q AND A

(noun) A failure to complete a cycle of action. (verb) To fail to complete a cycle of action; to deviate from an...

QUAD GRADES

The expansion of the levels from Dianetics to Grade IV Release to address all FOUR of the present day primary flows;...

RANDOMITY

The ratio of unpredicted motion to predicted motion.

REACTIVE

Irrational, reacting instead of acting- behavior dictated by the Reactive Mind rather than the individual's own...

REACTIVE MIND

That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain...

RECALL

Thinking of, remembering, putting your attention on something that happened in the past, all done from PRESENT TIME.

REDUCE

To take all the charge or pain out of an incident.

RELEASE

A person whose Reactive Mind is keyed out and is not influencing him or her on a given topic, or area of case.

REPEATER TECHNIQUE

(Historical) The repetition of a word or phrase in order to produce movement on the time track into an engram...

RESPONSIBILITY

The concept of being able to care for, to reach or to be; the ability and willingness to be cause. To accept...

RESTIMULATOR

Anything in the individual's surroundings which is sufficiently similar to something in his or her Reactive Mind that...

RIDGE

Solid accumulations of old, inactive energy suspended in space and time. They are generated by opposing energy flows...

ROUTINE

A standard process, designed to release an in-session pre-clear on the grade to which it applies.

R6EW

Routine 6 End Words: The process used in solo auditing to release oneself from lock end words and thus become a Grade...

SAD EFFECT

A state of great sadness, apathy and misery. The individual sinks into this condition when a heavy ARC break is...

SANITY

The ability to evaluate similarities and differences.

SCIENTOLOGIST

One who knows he has found the way to a better life through Scientology and who, through Scientology books, tapes,...

SCIENTOLOGY

An applied religious philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge, which, through the application of its technology...

SECOND STAGE RELEASE

An obsolete term used to describe someone who had been released by Power Processing. d'.

SECONDARIES

Mental image pictures containing mis-emotion (encysted grief, anger, apathy etc.) and a real or imagined loss. They...

SELECTEE

A person specially chosen or selected for training or processing by a Field Staff Member.

SERVICE FACSIMILE

A computation generated by the individual to make self-right and others wrong, to dominate or escape domination and to...

SIGNIFICANCE

A word which is used in the special sense to denote any thought, decision, concept, idea, purpose or meaning in the...

SOLO AUDITING

An auditor who is trained in the ability of auditing by themselves without accompaniment of another in session on upper...

SOMATIC

Physical pain or discomfort of any kind, especially painful or uncomfortable physical perceptions stemming from the...

SONIC

The ability to recall a sound so that one can hear it again as he originally heard it in full clarity, tone and volume.

SQUIRRELLING

The action of altering Scientology through doingness.

STABLE DATUM

Any part or factor (which itself may or may not be correct or true) in a confusion that an individual selects out as a...

STANDARD TECH

Standard Technology: The exact processes and auditing actions laid down and used for the invariable resolution of...

SUPPRESSIVE ACTS

Actions or omissions undertaken knowingly to suppress, reduce or impede others by harming their survival potential.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON OR GROUP

One or a group of others who actively seeks to suppress or damage others by suppressive anti-social acts. Usually there...

TECHNOLOGY

The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself.

TERMINAL

Anything that can receive, relay or send a communication (most common usage); also, anything with mass and meaning.

THETA

Energy peculiar to life or a thetan which acts upon material in the physical universe and animates it, mobilizes it and...

THETAN

The being, not the body or name, the physical universe, his mind or anything else. That which is aware of being aware,...

THIRD STAGE RELEASE

(obsolete) A term that referred to what is now Grade VA- Power Plus- Release. TIME TRACK (Track): The consecutive...

TONE

Any level of survival and state of being plotted on the Tone Scale and Chart of Human Evaluation.

TONE ARM

Meter control lever on a physical E-Meter or virtual e-meter (software) that has dual meanings. It can mean the level...

TONE ARM ACTION (TA)

Movement of the Tone Arm when it has to be moved more than .2 divisions to keep the needle at set (except during...

TONE 40

Intention without reservation or limit.

TONE SCALE

A scale measuring and relating the various factors of behavior, emotion and thought to levels on the scale. (The book,...

TR 0

Training drill which trains students to confront a preclear or other terminals. This drill has three types done in...

TR 1

Training drill which trains students to reach a preclear or other terminals with their communication.

TR 2

Training drill which trains students to listen to and acknowledge the communication of a preclear or other terminals.

TR 3

Training drill which trains students to get a question answered, also to develop the ability to complete communication...

TR 4

Training drill which trains students to confront, understand and handle smoothly the communications of a preclear or...

TRIPLE GRADES

The expansion of the levels from Dianetics to Grade IV Release to address all three of the primary flows; OUTFLOW (self...

TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION

Communication between two people in which each one takes turns, while the other listens attentively, in expressing...

TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION IN AUDITING

The action of asking the preclear questions (not repetitive) that guide the preclear into talking about the difficulty...

VALENCE

The unwitting assumption by one individual of the characteristics of another individual.

VISIO

Ability to see in facsimile form something one has seen earlier so that one sees it again in the same color, dimension...

WHAT'S IT

(verb) A coined word, coming from the phrase, "What is it?" It basically means to ask a question. However, it has come...

WHOLE TRACK

The moment to moment record of a thetan's existence in this universe, in picture and impression.

WITHHOLD

An undisclosed contra-survival act. It is a no action after the fact of action, in which the individual has done or...

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