What Dianetics Actually Says

Chapter Twelve - How to Audit Your Friends (Without Going to Jail)

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CHAPTER TWELVE

How to Audit Your Friends (Without Going to Jail)


SO.

YOU’VE STUDIED the reactive mind.
You’ve learned about engrams, the Tone Scale, psychosomatic dental trauma, and why Freud should log off.

Now it’s time for your final form:
Not just a reader.
Not just a preclear.

But a practicing auditor.

Yes, that’s right. You, too, can now perform mental surgery on your loved ones, using nothing but a notebook, unwavering eye contact, and the raw confidence of a man who wrote this entire system on a boat.

Let’s begin.

You don’t need a license.
You don’t need credentials.
You don’t even need common sense.

To audit your friends, you just need some simple stuff.

A chair.
Another chair.
A notebook.
An intense belief in your spiritual authority.
A willingness to pretend none of this is therapy.
And a complete lack of shame.

If you're feeling fancy, you can buy an E-meter. A glorified lie detector that looks like a 1950s toaster wired to two soup cans.
But for now, let’s stick with raw, unassisted charisma.

You and your target, sorry, preclear, sit down facing each other.
You assume the sacred role of auditor.

Your job?
Ask questions.
Track the pain.
Keep them talking.
Nod seriously when they cry about an incident involving peanut butter and emotional neglect.

You do not give advice.
You do not analyze.
You do not react, even when they admit to feeling aroused during Shrek 2.

You’re here to observe and guide. Like a spiritual Uber driver with no map.

You find an incident.
You isolate it.
You make them relive it.
Then you say, “Return to the beginning of the incident.”
Then they repeat it.
And you say it again.
And again.
And again.

If they start crying? Great.
If they start sweating? Fantastic.
If they say, “I think I’m done,” you say, “Return to the beginning of the incident.”

You do this until their soul taps out and the memory goes limp.

At that point?
You nod.
Scribble something in your notebook like you’re a real doctor.
Then ask if they’d like to explore earlier similar incidents.

They will not want to.
You will ask anyway.

You can audit anyone.

Your spouse? Yes.
Your coworkers? Absolutely.
The guy who installed your internet? Ideally.
Children? …Sure, just don’t tell anyone.
Your dog? Give it a shot. Worst case, it becomes Clear and ascends.

The only real requirement is that the person agrees to be audited, or is too polite to stop you.

This is not therapy.
This does not replace therapy.
We never said it was therapy.
Please stop calling it therapy.

If you’re audited in a room that looks suspiciously like a therapist’s office, with a man who wears cardigans and charges $200 an hour, that’s a coincidence.

You’re not treating trauma.
You’re clearing the reactive mind.
Big difference.
Wink.

Congratulations.

You are now qualified, according to a man who once tried to copyright the word “truth,” to help other humans excavate the darkest moments of their lives using repetition and vibes.

Just don’t say it’s medical.
And if anyone asks, it’s religious counseling with science words.

You’re now part of something greater.

Something world-changing.

Something that probably has a recruitment office near the nearest Whole Foods.