Floating Needles | LRH vs COB
LRH — Founder of Dianetics and Scientology
“A floating needle is a rhythmic sweep of the dial at a slow, even pace of the needle.
“That’s what an FN is. No other definition is correct.”
HCOB 21 July 1978
What Is a Floating Needle
(Tech Vol XI, p. 204)
“One does not sit and study and be sure of an ‘FN.’ It swings or pops, he lets the pc cognite and then indicates the FN to the pc, preventing overrun.”
HCOB 21 October 1968R
Floating Needles
(Tech Vol. VIII, p. 258)
As far as how to understand the definition of an FN (or any other tech):
“All Word Clearing is done under the discipline of the Auditor’s Code.”
HCOB 13 September 1971
Word Clearing Series 23, Troubleshooting
(Subject Vol. 2, p. 180)
David Miscavige — SELF-APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, RTC
At a Senior C/S conference in 1995, COB hinted at a new interpretation of FNs in the works when he told attendees, “You guys have been falsifying FNs all over the place. What’s more, we not only know you do it, we have the remedy.”
That remedy was released a few months later as part of the Golden Age of Tech. Through leading questions and cherry-picked definitions of key words, students were, for the first time since the development of the meter, led to the understanding that a real FN must swing at least three times.
This definition does not occur anywhere in LRH materials. If it did, the thousands of auditors who had studied and word-cleared LRH’s definition since 1978 would have already come to this understanding on their own.
None ever did.