Book One Auditing Hot

I was posted as a Book One Auditor at San Francisco Foundation in 1987-88. Having audited over 2000 hours of Book One, I can say that it can be highly effective and it can do everything it is intended to do but it requires a highly trained and competent auditor with excellent TRs (starting with OT TR0 and all of them through the Upper Indocs), full proficiency with the techniques and absolute certainty with the Tone Scale. I was somewhat trained (not a brand new person) and I was already a Clear when I audited Book One and that helped me achieve some stunning results but there were some misses too.

I've delivered over 500 hours of Book One Auditing and have trained hundreds of people to use this technology. I'm also a Graduate Class V auditor. I often use Book One as part of a Life Repair, if it's appropriate for the person I'm auditing. Some PCs are just more in tune with Dianetics than Scientology. They want to handle their upsets by running the actual incident. They want to tell you all about it, over and over. And they get good wins doing it.
I read Dianetics while I was studying psychology at university. It just made sense to me. I've trained several psychologists on the comm course and then Book One. Great reception from all of them.
I think Book One is a tool that no auditor should be without. Good gains fast with minimal runway for the PC.

IF you go to an Indie center and get trained or just read the Dianetcs book and give it a try you can really be surprised what you can do to help someone through this procedure. Most practitioners also do a course called TR's (training routines) which helps train you on how to listen and not interrupt the person you are helping and so forth. It's pretty good stuff.

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 faces, including one guy who had been trying for TWO YEARS to get Book 1 auditing at the local CofS org (Sunderland). They had "no auditors," for crying out loud.

The guy whose house we were using had the CofS Book 1 DVD, so we played the 2nd half of that to the newbies. The 1st half is irrelevant to auditing. They then drilled the Book 1 commands from a cheat sheet for ten minutes or so, then went into session! I can't say it was technically the best Book 1 session ever, but so what? With that little bit of theory and drilling, and an "expert" (me) visibly there supervising them and able to take care of any trouble, they had enough confidence to get in there and do it.

At the next meeting they switched around, and continued like this. A few sessions later the group leader kicked me out for being a squirrel (!), so I don't know what they got out of it all, but I do know it is easy to get someone new going at it.

As for the overall effectiveness of Book 1 auditing, and the theory as laid out in DMSMH, well, that's something else. But in terms of the ease of getting someone going and getting *something* done, it is wonderful, especially with something like a video showing the actions of usual Book 1 session and a commands cheat sheet and minimum theory and a bit of drilling and not the whole original book.

it´s not easy to understand and therefore needs some training to do it correct.

People could apply book one much more often and lightly when something comes up.