Aaron Smith-Levin

Well, when you're training on how to use the E-meter, there are drills where you practice generating with your mind various needle reactions.

So, you know, there is a drill where you sit there and you consciously try to create a floating needle by recalling happy thoughts.

Go to your happy place.

And at the end of every auditing session, you actually have to go to a third party, sit down in front of an e-meter and verify that your needle's floating.

Every single auditing session not only has to end on a floating needle, but then you have to go to someone else and have the floating needle verified.

Any Scientologist who's a seasoned recipient of auditing knows how to make their needle float at the examiner.

Is there good aspects to this?

Sure.

A lot of people find auditing very helpful.

I mean, I've heard some describe it as quite thoroughly addictive.

Me personally, I never enjoyed getting auditing.

That's probably more a function of having been raised in it.

And it was never something I wanted to do.

It was something that was forced on me as a child.

And also I was never, I don't like talking about private secret stuff.

Like you kind of have to want to be an open book

to honestly and thoroughly participate in an auditing session.

Because there's not necessarily a belief that this is going to be private.

There's no expectation of privacy, but there's no expectation that your stuff's going to be leaked for blackmail either.

If you're a Scientologist and you're participating in an auditing session, you know that anyone in the organization has the ability to know the stuff that you talk.