The Dumbleton - Powles Report

Auditor	A listener or one who listens.carefully to what people have to say. The person trained and qualified in applying Scientology processes to others for their betterment.
Auditing (Processing)	The application of Scientology procedures to a person by a trained Scientologist. That action or actions governed by the technical disciplines and codes of Scientology, of administering a process of a preclear in order to release or free him. The means by which a person progressively emerges as his essential self.
ARC	Affinity, Reality, Communication.
Clear	An unaberrated state of mind; a person who is clear of aberrations. One who through the technology of Scientology has achieved the state of being able to be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the first dynamics (survival of self).
Committee of Evidence	A fact-finding group appointed and empowered to impartially investigate and recommend upon Scientology matters of a fairly severe ethical nature.
Dianetics	The modern science of mental health. Man's most advanced school of the mind. A way up to a capable human being.
Ethics Report	A report to Ethics concerning misuse or abuse of technology or the misconduct of a Scientologist.
Entheta Letter	A letter containing insult, discourtesy, "chop" or nastiness about an organisation, its personnel, Scientology or the principal figures in Scientology (EN=Enturbulated; Theta=Greek for thought or life).
Files, Dead	A file held by Ethics Division which includes all persons who write nasty or choppy letters to an organisation or its personnel.
Grade	A level of release or auditing.
HAS	Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist.
HCO	Hubbard Communications Office.
HCS	Hubbard Certified Scientologist.
HPA	Hubbard Professional Auditor.
Hubbard	Lafayette Ronald Hubbard.
Overt Acts	The administration of pain or destruction to another.
Potential Trouble Source	Any person who while active in Scientology or a preclear remains connected to a suppressive person or group.
Preclear	A person who has not reached the state of clear. One who through Scientology processing is finding out more about himself.
Security Checks	A check made to see whether a person has any counter intentions towards Scientology or Scientology organisations.
Suppressive Person	One who is battling constantly in covert ways to make others less powerful and less able because of imagined danger to himself.
Sea Org	The organization which sends out missions to put ethics in on the planet.
Scientology	The route from human being to total freedom or total beingness.
Standard Technology	The exact processes and auditing actions laid down and used for the invariable resolution of cases; taught and used without variation by all Scientology auditors.
Statistic	A number or amount compared to an earlier number or amount of the same thing. Statistics refer to the quantity of work done or the value of it in money.
Sub-zeros	The grades of release below Grade O.
Thetan	Akin to the soul or spirit. The person himself - not his body or name, the physical universe is mind or anything else - that which is aware of being aware; the identity that is the individual. (From Theta=Greek for thought or spirit).
Operating Thetan	Operating is being able to act and handle things; Thetan the spiritual being that is a basic self. The operating thetan is one who can handle things without having to use a body or physical means.

Last updated 3 July 1997

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