Speed of Training | LRH vs COB
LRH — Founder of Dianetics and Scientology
“Speedup of HDCs, Class IV, VI, VII, VIII and ‘HGC Auditor’ courses at all orgs, AOs (and SHs) would encourage more students. My time for it is 3 weeks. This was up to 5 and even 11 to 13 weeks at once by illegal checksheet increases….
“The Class VIII Course is 3 weeks long. Period….
“Fast training gets students in. Slow training messes up the whole field and denies enrollments.”
HCOB 23 December 1970
Fast Courses
(Tech Vol. IX, p. 213)
“Indiscriminately adding materials to course checksheets has been largely responsible for extending training time. This practice caused the Classs VIII Course, a 3-week course in 1968, to take up to 8 months to do in 1970.”
HCO PL 21 July 1981R
Issue I, What Is a Checksheet
(OEC Vol. 4, p. 441)
“Unreal and lengthy checksheets [are] the most frequently used methods of stopping students.”
LRH ED 592 INT
3 October 1967
Special Program, Fast Academies
(OEC Vol. 4, p. 372 )
“Earlier this year I evaluated this auditor shortage scene.
The BASIC WHY of all this is:
“YOU HAVE HAD CHECKSHEETS WHICH WERE FAR TOO LONG….
“We’ve had the datum for some time that a student too long on the runway is going to lose the spark and zeal he started out with.”
LRH ED 299 INT
28 September 1978
The End of Endless Training
(OEC Vol. 4, p. 419)
“Courses should be fast, auditing drawn out. This is the exact reverse of what has been happening. Slow courses and fast auditing destroy the subjects of Dianetics and Scientology.”
LRH ED 107 INT
3 June 1970
Orders to Divisions for Immediate Compliance
(OEC Vol. 5, p. 267)
David Miscavige — SELF-APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, RTC
At Auditor’s Day 1991, COB announced the completion of a long-term project to overhaul every single auditor course checksheet.
As outlined in his RTC Executive Directive #450 of the same year, these included a new Pro TRs Course, New Upper Indoc Course, new Academy Levels, new NED Course, new Grad V Course, and new Briefing Course.
Five years later, in 1996, he re-revised each of these checksheets to incorporate the new drills for the Golden Age of Tech.
These checksheets have been compared to all earlier versions available, including those already found to be “far too long” by LRH. In every instance, modern checksheets came out the longest often three to five times the length of their predecessors.
Additionally, over the past 17 years, four pre-requisites have been added to the line-up before a student can even begin his Academy Levels training: Pro TRs, Upper Indocs, Pro Metering, and most recently, The Basics.
The Basics alone, with 18 books and 280 tapes, is the second longest course in Scientology.