Drills | LRH vs COB
LRH — Founder of Dianetics and Scientology
“The only allowed practical drills on any Scientology course including PE are:
1) Modified Comm Course for PE
2) Original Comm Course TRs 0-4
3) Original Upper Indoc TRs
4) E-Meter drills contained in The Book of E-Meter Drills
5) Dissemination drills when I write and release them.
“NO other practical drills of any kind will be permitted.
“Other practical drills are abolished. Reason: They consume time uselessly, suppress actual processes and mess up data and cases. I did not develop or authorize these drills and have now seen that they teach alter-is of easy processes. They are not needed. They make poor auditors. I have just reviewed this matter thoroughly and have traced several training failures to these wildcat drills. Further, I traced several failed cases on course to them. Somewhere along the line somebody went mad inventing ‘drills’ and ‘TRs.’”
“If this is permitted to continue, we will no longer turn out good auditors. The standard drills as listed above have proven sufficient for years.”
HCO PL 16 April 1965, Issue II
Drills, Allowed
(OEC Vol. 4, p. 616)
“When in doubt do the usual, the routine, the standard.”
HCO PL 31 July 1971
The Usual
(OEC Vol. 0, p. 257)
David Miscavige — SELF-APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, RTC
The release of the Golden Age of Tech in 1996 ushered in the largest array of student drills in Scientology history. These include “what do you do” drills, vast amounts of memorization, and paraphrasing.
None of these drills were authorized by LRH, and are in fact specifically forbidden by him, as covered above.
Meanwhile, standard course room tools like Method 4 word-clearing, spot checks, and starrates have all but disappeared from the Academy.