Primary Rundown | LRH vs COB
LRH — Founder of Dianetics and Scientology
If one speaks to highly-trained auditors, executives, and other veterans from the 70’s about the Primary Rundown, he immediately discovers that a high percentage of them have not only done this course, but credit it as essential to their success in Scientology and life.
The reason is simple — LRH insisted it be done:
“…THE PRIMARY RUNDOWN IS THE REQUIRED FIRST STEP TO ALL STUDY.”
HCOB 4 April 1972R
Primary Rundown
(Tech Vol. X, p. 84)
“It is up to the Course Supervisor to hold this line in. His students will not prosper if their study is begun without a Primary Rundown.
“It is a high crime to omit this vital step.”
HCOB 4 April 1972R
Primary Rundown
(Tech Vol. X, p. 84)
David Miscavige — SELF-APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, RTC
Since COB’s rise to power in the early 1980s, there has not been one mention of the PRD either by him or anyone else in upper management. In fact, the only reference to it at all is an “HCOB” written in 1991 (five years after LRH’s death) which makes Key to Life and the Life Orientation Course prerequisites to the PRD. (HCOB 24 April 1991, Modification of the Primary Rundown; Tech Vol. XIII, p. 502)
The Primary Rundown has been eliminated from the training line-up. It is no longer available at any org or mission on the planet.