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I did Expanded Grade 0 in the mid-70s. It took a hundred hours or so, and I got quite a lot out of it, in that it did become much easier for me to talk to people. In all honesty, the "proper" EP of "can talk to anyone about anything" is an overstatement, but a lesser version of that would be accurate. I did some more on it 30 years later in 2000 (outside the CofS), and found a bunch more stuff to run then, so I don't agree with the idea that once you've run it then that's it, Bud.

Communication processes addressed to people in one's life are harmless enough, and I don't have a problem with those at all. But there is one process in Exp Grade 0, R2-60 from Creation of Human Ability, that is problematic. Part of the process (spotting things like inhibited communication or protected sex) is wonderful, as long as the questions are well grooved-in as to meaning and thoroughly restimulated to stir up stuff to run, but the auditor is supposed to check all the time if the pc is spotting the item in the physical universe or merely spotting it in his mind. Spotting it in his mind is clearly the inferior answer, and the pc is supposed to be able to spot the things in the physical universe, whatever that means in reality.

Exterior perception like this, especially of things that happened years ago and in another place, are hardly abilities a Grade 0 pc is likely to have, and to actively pursue this line of questioning would seem to me to be encouraging delusion.