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October 15, 2012    
This is tricky stuff. I sup'd for ten years at Saint Hill and ITO. I have written extensively about the subject online in articles and message board posts. I used to think that "Study Tech" was so wonderful, but in reality what is wonderful is what I cherry-picked out of study tech to use while discarding the rest. For example, in the Study Tapes Hubbard talks about the importance of the student's power of choice over data, being able to accept or reject information under study. Very true. But in Method 4 word-clearing, if you have a disagreement with something Hubbard said then you must have a misunderstood word. Most modern CofS supervisors do not make use of the power of choice data, pushing the infallibility of Hubbard instead. As a sup, for preference I used Method 3 word clearing as THE laser-sharp debug tool for fixing up students and I was very good at it too. I've written that up extensively. The other methods of word-clearing aren't so hot, and Method 2 and Method 4 really suck *as written.* A good sup and good word-clearer can work their way around the idiocies (and we did), but what is being done in such a case is NOT study tech. Study Tech is the whole enchilada, the good stuff and the crap too.
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Reviewed by Paul Adams November 10, 2012
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Some bits are hot and some are not

This is tricky stuff. I sup'd for ten years at Saint Hill and ITO. I have written extensively about the subject online in articles and message board posts. I used to think that "Study Tech" was so wonderful, but in reality what is wonderful is what I cherry-picked out of study tech to use while discarding the rest. For example, in the Study Tapes Hubbard talks about the importance of the student's power of choice over data, being able to accept or reject information under study. Very true. But in Method 4 word-clearing, if you have a disagreement with something Hubbard said then you must have a misunderstood word. Most modern CofS supervisors do not make use of the power of choice data, pushing the infallibility of Hubbard instead. As a sup, for preference I used Method 3 word clearing as THE laser-sharp debug tool for fixing up students and I was very good at it too. I've written that up extensively. The other methods of word-clearing aren't so hot, and Method 2 and Method 4 really suck *as written.* A good sup and good word-clearer can work their way around the idiocies (and we did), but what is being done in such a case is NOT study tech. Study Tech is the whole enchilada, the good stuff and the crap too.

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Some parts of study tech are wonderfully useful.
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Some parts of study tech are just plain awful.

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