3. BASIC AUDITING

   
  The 1966 course lineup moved the student immediately onto level zero after a communication (TRs) course, but this was a bit too steep of a gradient because the student had no experience auditing and had to study too much before getting any feel for what auditing was.

So a beginners level course called the HQS or Hubbard Qualified Scientologist course was added which taught some basics, mostly by means of lecture by the instructor, and taught the students some basic assists such as the touch assist and contact assist which they then could audit.

Slightly later, the book self analysis was also added to the course and the students did an unmetered co-audit of the book, which gave them a real feeling for how to audit somebody else. This seemed to be a very successful action.

Note that both the HAS and HQS designations, which refer to beginners courses from the late 1960s onward, had previously been used in the late 1950s and early 1960s for more advanced professional courses which corresponded more closely to the level 0 and level 1 auditing skills. So these designations have a different meaning in older bulletins.

In the late 1970s, an objectives co-audit called the survival rundown was added after the purification rundown. Again this was unmetered. Subsequently this was labeled as a David Mayo development and removed from the lineup. But it eventually returned as the "TRs and Objectives Co-audit". However it is not a required step in most cases.

The current lineup has most people doing the purification rundown early on and then they have to get the scientology drug rundown, which requires class 3 level auditing skills. This tends to derail most efforts to co-audit all the way up the bridge.

I would suggest that a good deal of unmetered co-auditing should be done before professional training. This will keep the student from interiorizing into the e-meter and help him to confront the preclear and be in better communication.

The self-analysis book is good for this, or the early chapters of the self-clearing book, or even objective processes such as those done on the survival rundown.

In all cases, however, unmetered co-auditing does need to include basic training on essentials such as the auditor's code and the auditing communication cycle. Materials on this could be extracted from the level zero references below.