Reviews written by Paul Adams

I sup'd students on this in the early 90s. At the time I thought it was a pretty damn good course, that didn't have a whole lot of theory but had them do TRs 0-9, little bits of auditing and process theory, and then lots of auditing, both giving and...

My own Self Analysis was done as part of Expanded ARC S/W around 1973, and is detailed in that review. Around 1990 as Staff Courses Practical Sup in the Hollywood Guarantee Building I supervised the HQS Course for a couple of dozen new staff when it was on their training...

I supervised this at Saint Hill in the early 80s. Not many people did it, but there were one or two. If you look at the HCOBs from this time and the various R6EW* alternatives, you might get the idea it can fairly complex. However, R6EW is actually pretty simple,...

I did this at Saint Hill as soon as the sauna opened there. There were about 20 naked men squashed into the male sauna. After several weeks of that I certainly got flat on naked male bodies. It also made a nice change from working on post all the time....

I completed this in maybe 7 hours and perhaps 5 sessions. I started it in 1984 and finished in around 1992. Ah, the joys of getting audited as a non-paying staff member! By 1992 I was far more interested in getting it done so I could get onto other stuff...

I could copy/paste into this review much of what I said about OT2, but I won't. I will just say that doing the procedure seems to produce good results if the person is well set up case-wise, and well-trained and confident as a solo auditor. I used to sup this...

I sup'd this for a few years at Saint Hill in 1984-5 and at ITO in the early 90s for some execs. I got very familiar with what it took to train someone to do the actions per the instructions. One very important thing I noticed was that people who...

I didn't receive this, at least not the version the CofS introduced in 1985, but I sup'd maybe a dozen people through it at Saint Hill and later ITO. When it first came out I read it and went, meh. Then the first person did it, and wowie-zowie, they were...

I did the NED course around 1980, as my first real auditor training course. At the time, NED was delivered before the grades. It sounded quite miraculous in what it could handle. Now, not so much, as there are auditing actions that cover the ground much better. For example, when...

I received this shortly after it first came out, while on staff at Saint Hill. It was around Christmas time. Up to this point I was always broke, with very low havingness on money. While on the HRD I decided that I was going to go to the US that...

I got this at Saint Hill in the mid-70s. The auditor didn't find much to run. I figured there was something wrong with me, especially later when I had gotten more tech training and read all the wow things that were supposed to happen regarding service facsimilies. Well, to...

I received Expanded Grade 3 in the mid-70s at Saint Hill. I don't remember much about it beyond not finding much to run. Rightly or wrongly, I figured something was wrong with me. Maybe there just wasn't much to address, as I wasn't particularly upset about change points in my...

I received Exp Grade 2 in the mid-70s. It took something like 75 hours. I cleaned up a lot of stuff at the time, all the little seamy things that I had never told anyone about. The one person I audited it on in 2005 took about 40 hours, with...

I did Exp Grade 1 as a pc in the mid-70s. It took over 100 hours to do. At the time I thought it wasn't bad and felt I had got something out of it, although it was hard to nail down what it was I had got. The stated...

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"...

Definitely the way to go if you are a Scientologist wanting to get "up the Bridge" and can afford the time. Personally, I think that the "standard" 20th century model of the students doing virtually all their training in a courseroom with a sup and word-clearer and enforced...

Personally, I got a Dianetic Clear Special Intensive in 1978, which was a forerunner to the CCRD. It was quick, to the point, I attested Clear, and never really had any trouble with it afterwards. But I have heard *awful* things about the problems people have had with their...

When I first got back to the UK in 2006 after 20 years in LA I hooked up with some local freezoners. They were meeting every week but just sitting around chatting. I said right, let's get some auditing going. At the next meeting there were a couple of new...

At the end of 2007 I did a word-by-word, page-by-page comparison of the 2007 edition of Scn 8-8008 and the 1989/90 edition. People were assuming that DM had screwed up Hubbard's works and the reissue was purely a money grab, but no-one had presented any actual evidence. So I eyeballed...

From observation, locationals can help people who are out of it, although the "sober up a drunk" aspect seems to be overstated. Contact assists reportedly help and I have heard of good results, but personally I have observed nothing spectacular with one. That said, even today if I bang my...

This was pretty much my first auditing service, way back in 1973 at Saint Hill. There sure was a "wow" factor, in that while running Self Analysis I seemed to go whole track for the first time. Now, whether I actually did or not is another question, but at the...

I don't get the numbers voting. Should I vote 1 for disconnection being inhuman, or 5 in support of it being cancelled? I'll choose 1. Personally I only lost a few friends when I got declared in 2004 and they were afraid of the cult if they stayed in...

I worked in the HGB from 1989-1997, mostly as a Staff Courses Supervisor. A few years before that I worked for New World Corps and OSA Int before we moved into the Hollywood Guaranty Building on Hollywood Boulevard. I'll lump it all together into this review, but concentrate on the...

I worked at Saint Hill from 1972-1986. The grounds are gorgeous, they really are. I used to spend lunchtimes down by the lake feeding the swans in the 80s, and after a year of daily visits literally had them eating out of my hands (vice-like beaks!). The tech while I...

In the early 90s I sup'd lots of people on the Scn Handbook version of the VM course. I thought it was wonderful, and a definite improvement over the old VMH. The checksheets were better, more relevant, with better drills, and the text was far clearer and easier to understand....

There's a lot of intention drilled in this course. It's meant to be used in session too, so when you ask a student to look up a word you *intend* him to look up the word at the same time. I never did particularly like to do this as to...

I co-audited about 100 hours each way of this back around 1980. Looking back on it now, it was quite fun and good experience at auditing easy stuff to audit.

Some of the basic drills, like being able to face people and talking clearly and giving acks that get across are very useful. But it is a shame that the overall orientation of the drills is in CONTROLLING the communication. It might be useful for an auditor or for someone...

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...

I did this course around 1980. It was quite interesting to find out about the world religions, but most useful to be ordained as a proper CofS minister, useful for later getting a green card. When I left the Sea Org my minister's cert was cancelled. I later got ordained...

I did a few of these courses over the years in the CofS. Hubbard's ideas are not all well-researched at all. For example, "All illness stems from PTSness" is a vast over-generalization. And his "12 characteristics of the anti-social personality" don't match at all (apart from the remorse one) the...

I added up recently that I have done over 2000 hours of TRs. My three Pro TRs courses in the CofS took about 8 or 9 weeks full time (very full time) each. The last one with the clay table processing was the most fun. I sup'd a bunch of...

In theory Debug Tech looks great. I had a few wins using it, especially the inspection step of the Debug which seemed to yield fruit quite quickly if one dug in and didn't gloss over it "to get at the meaty stuff." I must have done several hundred hours of...

This huge course used to be studied solo, then in the late-80s some idiot in the CofS made it a twinned action. I sup'd a couple of students through it at ITO (solo, not twinned) in 1987, and it took them literally three months full time. I can't imagine how...

This was really my first auditor training course, which I did around 1980, when NED was before Grades on the Grade Chart and before Class IV was a pre-requisite. I was very impressed with it at the time, and thought the power of NED auditing sounded wonderful. I didn't have...

I've sup'd this. The M1 Co-Audit Course can take 100+ hours of auditing. Both ways, that is a huge chunk of time wasted for the people concerned when they could be doing something more productive. The usual errors, once the people have got into the swing of it, is that...

If you must use a meter for auditing then you need to be trained on it. Especially if solo auditing. If you don't have confidence in your ability to solo audit with a meter you will have a horrible, horrible time in session and be convinced that OT2/OT3 "don't work."...

I did this at ITO around 1992 after the Key To Life Course. It didn't take too long (only months), but was not at all interesting to do and I don't feel I got anything out of it at all beyond the ability to now get on with other auditing/training...

I'm writing this from the viewpoint I had when a Scientologist. I both supervised this course and later did it. I was far from green when I sup'd it and was very familiar with everything in it. The checksheet is long, but there is a lot of basic stuff an...

This is a tricky course to review. I did it while on staff at the International Training Organization around 1992. It took me over a year at 5 hours a day, and I personally have always been able to Method 9 things very easily indeed. Before I started it I...

I supervised dozens of new Sea Org students on this at the International Training Organization, as it was part of the mandatory training line-up for a year or so. For many, it was the *only* tech training and auditing (apart from sec checks) they ever got in the Sea Org....

I did this course as my introduction to Scientology in London in 1972. It was basically a Div 6 Hard TRs course. After a couple of weeks full time I had just got through TR-4, when I ended up joining the Sea Org and stayed for the next 23 years....

I'm no longer a Scientologist, so don't recommend much of it these days. But at the time I thought it was a good course.

Not so useful if you are execing in a non-Scn work environment.

Not as useful to the general user as the more tech-oriented courses.

Overall, if you really want a good understanding of the Data Series, the DSEC with its discipline of studying in a properly-supervised courseroom and doing all the drills on the checksheet will definitely help.

But if you want to solo audit the usual stuff with a meter, as supervised by a KSW stalwart, then there isn't much choice.