Hi, everyone.  I just feel chatty, so here goes.

I'm really happy that I had the opportunity to come up the experimental
track in Dianetics and Scientology.  By that I mean running the processes as
they came out, in date order.

It gave me a grounding in the basics I think I could not have achieved in
any other way.  Perhaps others could, and do, but for me, I needed to get in
and get my feet wet with book co-auditing and P.A.Bs co-auditing
(Professional Auditor's Bulletins)

I'm also very glad that I wasn't born "natural clear".  I feel priviledged
to have had a "reactive mind" and to see how it worked.  One of the fun
things we did in the early days was "think" like a reactive mind.  People
would say a phrase socially and I would conceive how that A=A=A mind would
act on the phrase.  I learned how to view words "literally" as well as how
they were intended at the time.

I had an experience with Dianetics that I have told before, mainly because
it was such "proof" that Dianetics worked.  I mentioned it to a friend
yesterday.  It was the story of my numb shoulder after the birth of my third
daughter.  It had been numb for a month.  I went into session and we ran the
birth.  Just before she was born, they put me "out".  A couple of nurses
were in the room with me...one gave me a shot in the arm, (hitting the
bone?) The other one said, "It's a good thing she can't feel it".  Because I
had studied DMSMH, I cognited right there on the a=a=a "survival" of the
phrase and blew the incident.  The flow in my shoulder came through right
away, about 98% functioning, and in two days it was totally normal.

My friend made a comment about a postulate.  In NED auditing you ask "Did
you make a postulate".  I said "no", I was unconscious, I made no postulate.
  This was viewing the reactive mind recording and how the literalness of it
could effect my body and thus my life.

This was Dianetics in the early days.

So why is all this important?  It has to do with the bridge.  The bridge is
the basic road out, but it is like building a skyscraper.  You have to have
a good foundation.  You really have to have a good basic foundation.

The Gradation Chart is there to be followed--from the bottom up.  Dianetics
is for the body; Scientology is for the spirit.

In the early days we went from DMSMH to Science of Survival to lectures on
the whole track.  We read History of Man and understood the differences of
the Theta line and the G.E. line.  We audited "The Creation of Human
Ability" and did Route 2 and Route 1, including change of space on implants.
  We ran black and white.  We ran intention and separation processes that
were later put on the old OT VII.  We ran objectives Terrible Trio, group
auditing by the hour.

All of this before the kind of processes later put on Grades were even
published.

Guess what, we didn't even have rudiments.:) Sometimes we ran with a
meter...then when the meter was cancelled for awhile, we ran to comm lag
flat.

Of course, eventually there were process on communication, help,  JoBurgs,
HAS co-audits that addressed processes later put on the Gradation Chart.  I
wouldn't give up this experience for anything in the world!

But I understand why the Gradation Chart.  If we move people through, and
they all get the same basic foundation, they build the same way block by
block, then when someone comes in as Grade III any C/S will know the next
step is Grade IV.

What surprises me is that I see so many holes.  Forgive me Rich, but I need
to use your success to make my point.  I think it was a great cogition.  My
question is, how come you didn't get that on Grade II?  How come an OT is
going around considering that there are some people he instantly dislikes? 
Happy you handled it, but the point I'm making is I see this with people
many, many times.  I'm wondering, what has happened to the foundation, the
ground work?  What is it that the somehow, on the rote application of the
bridge, that a person doesn't get what he should and he winds up on the
upper part of the bridge bouncing around, doing a little of this level, and
now a little of that level...

Well, this has resulted in a cognition now, thank you all very much, and
especially Rich whose success brought this entire thread into my view.  The
cognition is,  and <smile) it is so obvious I don't know why I didn't see it
before, that there are two sides to the bridge.  There really, really is two
sides to the bridge.  You don't make OT's by going up one side without a
balance of the other.  This has been said before, but never has it been as
subjectively real to me as it is now.

Will it effect my C/Sing.  Oh, yes.  I will make sure that training occurs
as well as auditing.

Pat