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Dear Trommer,
Dennis, as you know, was a Scientologist, going way back to very early
Scientology days.
TROM was written by him.
My contention is that a knowledge of Scientology helps understand TROM.
(Dennis considered a knowledge of Scientology not necessary)
And I believe many on this list have been in contact with
Scientology.
However Scientology has changed over the years. Dennis was in at the very
early days of Scientology, and I think this has influenced his
work.
Scientology's gradation chart (listing the many Scientology processes in
different categories, forming a gradient) did not come until about
1964. After 64 although you could handle immediately what the preclear
desperately wanted handling, it became normal to "go up the
bridge" (guess it was a lifting bridge which they had left open,
think of Tower Bridge in London, open to let ships through :-) )
taking the processes of the grades in the order given.
Here is some data from the mid 50s when there was no gradation chart (I
audited for the London Scientology organisation at that time).
Here is how people buying intensives (blocks of 25 hours, covering a
week) were handled when they came for processing in the mid
50s..
At the beginning of the intensive they took what was called in England an
OCA (Oxford Capacity Analysis) test. This was known in USA as the
APA (American Personality Analysis), in South Africa SAPA and was nearly
the same.
The test had 200 questions, and when it was done, results were displayed
on a chart with 10 columns, each of which recorded a figure from -100 to
+100.
If any point on the first four columns was below 0 the person was given
objective processes until all of the first four columns was above
0.
The first four columns were (highest characteristic first)
Stable - Unstable/Dispersed
Happy - Depressed
Composed - Nervous
Personable - Undependable
Objectives were processes concerned with the physical universe now.
Commonly used were CCH1 to CCH4, which required a certain amount of
expertise, but there were a number of other objective processes.
This was common practice for a number of years. You were also
assessed for a specific number of 25 hour intensives (depending on the
OCA result) and told that although you could buy less hours, one could
not be sure of stable results if you took under that number of
hours.
Hope this little bit of background data helps.
All best wishes,
Ant
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Antony Phillips.
www.antology.info
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