R-Factor and observation:
Around 1978 the Church of Scientology started attempts to standardize
the Tech (to publish everything in the form of HCOBs and HCO PLs
instead of having BTBs and BPLs) and make it more easily
understandable. The Church wrote a lot of new "HCOBs" which were based
on true LRH tech but actually were not written by him personally. And
in this way some fatal errors crept up - very probably intentionally.
(especially revisions R and
RA) very probably is not from LRH and only an interpretation
of his Tech. There is no issue and no lecture by LRH which says that an
auditor must check a standard Grades process for read.The basis for
this HCOB probably was HCOB 27 May 1970, "Unreading Questions and
Items" (revised and unrevised), which says that a question must read
before it can be run. But this refers to LISTING AND NULLING QUESTIONS,
not commands of Grades processes. No auditor whom I know who did the
Academy and/or the SHSBC before 1978 has ever checked a Grades process
for read.
The HCOB 23 June 1980R,
"Checking Reads on Grades Processes" was actually the starting point of
a deadly wave of quickie Grades which was followed by the "solution" of
the "Golden Age of Technology".
The HCOB 23 June 1980R,
"Checking Reads on Grades Processes" and the practice to check normal
Grades commands for interest and read should no longer be employed and
no longer be taught on any course or checksheet. Please don't use it
any longer. The original issue HCOB 23 June 1980 includes the correct
datum that a normal Grades process does not need to be checked for
read, only specific items do.
(only the revised version!)
also shouldn't be used any more, because it says that each flow must
read, but this relates to Dianetics and not Scientology. Therefore this
issue is misleading, and the subject (Dianetic Flows which don't read)
is actually covered in HCOB 3 December 1978, "Unreading Flows".
is a summary on how to do a repetitive prepcheck, and that would be fine - but it contains a statement that you have to check the buttons for read, which is an arbitrary. The subject the auditor is going to prepcheck has to read, not the buttons. Everything else in the HCOB is fine. Please use instead the BTB of 10 April 1972RA, "Prepchecks", and the HCOB 14 August 1964, "Prepcheck Buttons".
The HCOB 27 May 1970R,
"Unreading Questions and Items" was mis-interpreted in that way that a
tick or a change of characteristic is not a read and that a read is
only a Small Fall or bigger Fall. The sentence "A 'tick' or a
'stop' is not a read. Reads are Small Falls or Falls or Long Falls or
Long Fall Blowdowns (of TA)" was put into the Tech Dic out of context
and became a generally applicable datum. That you need a Small Fall or
bigger is refering to ITEMS and Listing and Nulling QUESTIONS, not to a
rudiment question, nor to a question on a correction list or a
sec-check. See also the reference HCOB 3 July 1971R, "Auditing by
lists".