Golden Age of Tech

Is the Golden Age of Tech based on Mr. Hubbard’s materials?

Most certainly. One of the references is a September 5, 1971 lecture, “A Talk on a Basic Qual”, in which Mr. Hubbard made clear that flubless auditing is comprised of 3 parts -- 1) knowledge of his materials, 2) handling misunderstoods and 3) drill. In that lecture, he called for “a drills course which has a drill for every auditing action.”

Another reference that applies to these drills is a lecture on the Student Hat where Mr. Hubbard described the use of duplication drills:

“Beyond duplication comes understanding. Understanding comes after duplication not before.”

“So what’s the conclusion here? The conclusion is that you can learn to have judgment, and the way you learn to have judgment is just those two steps: duplication of data, and pursuant to that, understanding. There’s a duplication – they understand. You don’t get it this way: you don’t get understanding and then duplication.”¹

The drills that teach the student duplication are the Standard Tech Procedure Drills. They take a student to the level of “knowing about” and ready to apply. There is another gradient from course room drilling to the reality of a session with a pc, and that is covered in the session drills.

In a famous 1968 lecture, Mr. Hubbard described the level of certainty that auditors should aspire to:

"Standard tech, then, requires that one know his tools, know the laws of the game, know the correct action so instinctively and so instantaneously that he never has to think a thing to do it.”²

The Golden Age of Tech drills are designed to accomplish that and to make perfect auditors.

Is it true that Mr. Hubbard said that any auditing is better than no auditing?

Mr. Hubbard made a statement of this kind in Dianetics, which was published in 1950. However, as auditing technology advanced he made clear that the later techniques do demand perfection. For example, at the 1961 “Clean Hands Congress” he stated:

“Understand then, what I’m doing at the present moment is taking full responsibility for auditor training and upgrading it throughout the world with total intolerance for anything short of total perfection on the part of an auditor, period.”

He also clarified his earlier comment in Dianetics:

“Oh, this is a new look, isn’t it? Remember at the beginning of one of the – I think about the third book of Book One – the third part of Book One, it says any auditing is better than no auditing. It’s only been in the last year that we have violated that principle for the first time.

“That is only true of skills as they existed, well, let’s say, up until maybe the autumn ’59. That is completely true of those early skills. Any use of them was better than no use of them at all.”

And he added:

“All other types of auditing are horrible if you use these technologies of 1962.”³

Freezone websites justify a “horrible” standard and complain because churches of Scientology insist on Mr. Hubbard’s standard of uncompromising perfection.

Did Mr. Hubbard say that the only authorized practical drills on a Scientology course are comm course drills, TRs 0-9, E-meter drills and dissemination drills yet to be released?

Mr. Hubbard made this statement in HCO PL 16 April 1965, “Tech and Qual Division Policy: Drills Allowed.”⁴ But he subsequently developed several other drills, including TR 101-104, which he described in HCOB 16 July 1969, URGENT IMPORTANT “I have made a breakthrough.”⁵

The 1965 Policy Letter preceded his taped lecture “A Talk on a Basic Qual,” referenced above, in which he called for a book of drills for every auditing action.

And it also preceded the taped lecture, “Standard Tech Defined,” in which Mr. Hubbard stated:

“If you can’t rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat off the laws of listing, poppity-poppity-pop, and know that those are the laws – those are the laws. There aren’t any other laws. There are no exceptions to these laws. These are the laws of listing. Those are the laws of listing! That is how it is done. It isn’t done any other way. There are no exceptions of any kind whatsoever. Any list is listed that way. Do I make my point?”

Later on in the same tape, he said,

“When I started doing CCHs, when I started doing Model Session, I set myself up just like you. And I drilled it till I knew it cold. I could write down the laws of listing again after a lapse of several years, even though the bulletin that recorded them originally had been removed from the lines. And I wrote them from memory. And I think it took me something on the order of about fifteen, twenty minutes.”⁶

¹LRH lecture of 24 January 1962, Training: Duplication.
²LRH lecture of 27 September 1968, Standard Tech Defined.
³LRH lecture of 30 December 1961, Auditing Perfection and Classes of Auditors.
⁴HCO PL 16 April 1965, Tech and Qual Division Policy: Drills Allowed.
⁵HCOB 16 July 1969, URGENT IMPORTANT I have made a breakthrough.
⁶LRH lecture of 27 September 1968, Standard Tech Defined.