1. Q and A with the pain and unconsciousness of incidents.

The auditor has to have enough confront and determination to get the pc through the incident regardless of any obstacles encountered. The old rule was and sill is: "What turns it on will turn it off". If the pc turns on a feeling of terror while running an incident the cure is to get him to continue; because it was the incident that turned it on. Another old rule says: "The way out is the way through". That would apply to the same example. The terror is part of the incident. To park him there, looking into the lions mouth, would be cruel. To run away from the incident will leave the terror as By-passed Charge. He wouldn't escape the lion since it is on his Time Tack; and running away would have the lion chase him and stay exactly the same 4 feet away from his head as when he first contacted it in the incident. "The way out is the way through" means thus, we simply confront the beast and walk straight towards it and it will usually behave as a little kitten. The same rule would apply to a pc seemingly going unconscious. Unconsciousness is part of the content of any Engram. It will run out. It is not uncommon in Engram running that pc's dope off momentarily. This is less a problem when using R-3-RA than it used to be with earlier techniques. In R-3-RA we do extensive pre-assessment using the Meter and that ensures we find something that will run well, deep and relative fast. In 1950 style Engram running auditors didn't have that and as a result the pc would unexpectedly find himself in impressive Time Track scenarios he wasn't quite prepared for. Yet the auditor would apply the above rules and successfully get the pc through it and safely home from his Time Track safari; pc shining from his accomplished adventures and ready to go on a new Engram safari.

Another reason for trouble is:
2. Failing to handle the pc's Time Track for the pc.

All three have time in common: "The moment when you thought _____" "The moment you entered the burning house______" "Two years before you were wounded in battle" are examples. They all depend on the time factor. Each mark a clear instant on the pc's Time Track with no mistake possible. You can handle the Time Track by any one of these methods, Significance, Location, Time.
 
The track will respond well to an auditor using any of these methods. Auditors will have trouble if they can not grasp the accuracy and speed by which the Time Track responds. If they wonder if the pc went. If they question the pc's being there. Any fumbling around will undermine or destroy their command over the pc's Time Track.

If the auditor says, "Go to 14,987,878,383 years 3 months, 8 days 6 hour and 15 minutes ago!" 
it will cause just that to happen when stated clearly and without any doubts. If the auditor starts to fumble or hesitate or sound doubtful or too impressed about the big numbers the outcome can be doubtful.

In moving the Time Track about, you only move the track. The pc is always in present time so you don't say, "You will move to". You can say "Move to", meaning the Time Track. You don't have to say (but it would be correct) "The Time Track will move to..." In the original procedure of 1950 they used "The Somatic strip will move to..." The Somatic strip was the recordings of somatics on the Track.
 
In getting to the incident you always use To. "Move To_____." In running an Engram or incident, you always use through. "Move through to the end of  that incident."
 
If the auditor doesn't have a good grasp of the Time Track and its composition, he won't ever be able to run Engrams. So, obviously, the first thing to learn in Engram running is about  the Time Track itself. When the auditor knows that, he will be able to run Engrams. If the auditor does not know the subject of the Time Track well, then he can't be taught to run Engrams. You are handling a motion picture projector and to be able to operate that you have to be familiar and at ease with handling film. An auditor just sitting there and being uncertain about what he is really doing will soon have film all over the place. He will just get tangled up in more film so long as he doesn't know it is film and that he, not the preclear, is handling it.

The auditor is handling the Time     Track of the pc. He is the film  operator and has to make sure to  keep things under control.     Otherwise he and the pc will soon    have 'film strips' all over the place.

 
When an auditor has learned this, he will then be able to learn how to run those small parts of the Time Track called Engrams. If an auditor can't run a pc through some pleasant experiences on the Track flawlessly, he sure can't run a pc through the living Hell parts of the Track called Engrams.

You have to be able  to handle those small    film clips called Engrams.

 
An Engram Clearing auditor who can't handle the Time Track is hardly an ST5 auditor as that's all there is to auditing Engrams besides handling postulates. This is actually true for any process you are using. You are handling the Time Track one way or the other. The so-called "bio-chemical approach" to the mind is a complete misunderstanding. There is only the Time Track to affect. Bio-chemicals are unpredictable and usually result in a subdued thetan and thus apparently bring about a result. Sometimes it results in the thetan going exterior on a compulsive basis, but with an equally disastrous outcome.

Using Medicine and Drugs to handle the mind    with is a complete misunderstanding. There is  only the Time Track. Drugs can suppress the  pc's ability to create the Track. Or they can  exteriorize him; both have bad "side effects".

 
There is the thetan, there is his Time Track. The thetan gets caught in the Time Track as a result of living. The job of the auditor is to free the thetan by untangle him from his Track. Pc is all wrapped up in film strips. So if you have to know what you're untangling the pc from and do your work without a quiver. Unless you do that you're going to have an awful lot of pc's suffocating and half strangled in all that film and a lot of auditing losses for both you and your pc's.

Charge and the Time Track
Charge is what is being relieved or removed from the Time Track. Charge is the stored quantities of energy on the Track. By running the incidents the auditor enables the pc to As-is or erase it.
 
When this charge is present in huge amounts the Track overwhelms the pc and he becomes unable to observe the actual Track. Instead he may experience different phenomena, such as Dub-in. There is a scale for this. It can be applied to the pc as a case but also to monitor his progress concerning certain sections of his Time Track:

(1) NO TRACK - No Charge.
(2) FULL VISIBLE TIME TRACK - Some Charge.
(3) SPORADIC VISIBILITY OF TRACK - Some heavily charged areas.
(4) INVISIBLE TRACK - Very heavily charged areas exist (Black and Invisible Fields).
(5) DUB-IN - Some areas of Track so heavily charged pc is below consciousness in them.
(6) DUB-IN OF DUB-IN - Many areas of Track so heavily charged, the Dub-in is submerged.
(7) ONLY AWARE OF OWN EVALUATIONS - Track too heavily charged  to be viewed at all.
(8) UNAWARE - Pc dull, often in a coma.

On this scale the very good, easy to run cases are at Level (3). Skilled Engram running can handle down to Level (4). Engram running is useless from Level (4) down.

As State of Case: (1) is of course an ideal state. (2) is the clearest Clear anybody has ever seen. (3) can run Engrams. (4) can run early track Engrams if the running is skilled. (5) has to be run on Grades 0-4 and general ARC processes. (6) has to be run carefully on recall processes. (7) responds to Objectives and the CCH processes. (8) are best run on reach and withdraw Objective processes.

By following the Grades from Life Repair and up it will be taken care of. Results are best assured when the pc is brought up to a certain level through Grades 0-4. Handling drugs, including the Cleansing Rundown and Objectives early on, is important as drugs is a major factor in shutting off the Time Track. As a note, the shut off caused by drugs is what makes the use of bio-chemicals (such as psychiatric drugs and street drugs) appear to be effective. The pc is actually pushed down on the above scale and his Time Track is completely being submerged.

Most mental studies, such as psycho-analysis, psychiatry and most of clinical psychology,  seem to be observations of people at (7) who considered Levels (5) and (6) and (8) as the only possible states of case. Oddly enough they overlooked (7) (their own group) entirely.

On some portions of every Time Track in every case you will find each of the Levels momentarily expressed. Thus the scale can also be used as an Indicator in Engram running. Thus (1) would be an erasure. But the scale was originally designed as a tool to estimate the pc's state of case. To do that, you estimate his chronic case level and doing so the scale is useful in programming a case and determine if he is ready for Engram running. But any case will for shorter or longer periods of time hit these levels as a result of processing. There is the temporary case Level. A pc going through a rough area of Track will momentarily show the manifestations near the bottom of the scale. When full erasure of an incident is accomplished that piece of track will appear to be at (1) and the pc in general in better shape.
 
As Engram running is only recommended on cases on (4) and up it can be seen to be limited to higher level cases. A full drug handling and Grades 0-4 is what moves the case up to be able to run Engrams well. This is the basis of the Grade Chart.

Charge and Case Level
What makes up this scale is entirely amount of charge  on a case. The more heavily charged, the lower it falls on the above scale. It is charge that prevents the pc from confronting the Time Track and submerges the Time Track from view.

Charge is two things (1) it is permanently stored energy or (2) stored 'blueprints' of recreatable energy.

Charge can be like a blueprint that only gets recreated when    the thetan bumps into it. Or it can be permanently charged up.

The Meter registers charge. A very high or low Tone Arm, a sticky or dirty needle, all reveals this charge. The chronic TA position of a case is an index of chronic charge. The movements of the TA during a session shows relative charge in different portions of the pc's Time Track.
 
But of more interest to an auditor,  the Meter registers released charge. You can see it blowing on the Meter. The blowing down of the TA, the heavy falls, the loosening needle all show charge being released.
The Meter shows charge contacted (TA goes up) and then charge released (TA blows down). When the TA goes up or the needle gets tight it reveals charge found but not yet released. TA going below the 2.0  position also means lots of charge in restimulation. When the charge is cleaned up through auditing the charge is seen to "blow". You will see a Blowdown of the TA - and in low TA cases (below 2.0) you will see a "bow-up" of the TA; it will come back up in normal range. This last phenomenon is rare in modern auditing, but if you see it, that is what it means.

"The whole cycle of  restimulating charge  that is then blown is     the action of auditing".

Charge which is restimulated but not released causes the case to "charge up". Charge already on the Time Track is being triggered but is not yet viewed by the pc. The whole cycle of restimulating charge that is then blown is the action of auditing. When prior charge is restimulated but not located or seen, so it can be closely inspected and thereby blow, we have By-passed Charge and  ARC Breaks.
 
The above scale of charge on the case is the totality of charge. Level (I) has no charge on it. Level (8) is total charge. The day to day condition of a pc and his case, his temper, his reaction to things and brightness, depends upon two factors, (a) the totality of charge on the case and (b) the amount of charge in restimulation. Thus a case being processed varies in tone by (a) the totality of charge remaining on the case (b) the amount of charge in restimulation and (c) the amount of charge blown by processing.
 
Charge is held in place by the basic on a Chain. If you were to only run later than the basic incidents charge will be restimulated, then some of the charge will handled from the running.  You have reduced those incidents. But then the Chain can charge up again and very little charge is blown permanently. Running too late on a Chain to bring about erasure is known as "grinding" an incident. An Engram is getting run, but if it is not basic on a Chain, no adequate amount of charge is being released. With R-3-RA we have a process that will find the right Chain to run and quickly bring the pc back to the basic incident and basic incidents do erase - often in a spectacular manner.
 
Later than basic incidents are run as part of any Chain. It is the string to pull. It takes charge off the case (and that particular Chain) by unburdening it. When charge has come off the pc is capable of finding and running earlier incidents on that Chain.
 
No full erasure of incidents later than basic is possible, but charge can be removed from them providing they are not ground out but only run lightly a time or two and then an earlier incident on the Chain found and run. When the basic is found it is erased by going through it many times. The Basic is the only incident which can be run through over and over. The later the incident is - further away from Basic - the lighter it is run.
 
There is no difference in how you run a basic incident or a later one. They differ only in the number of times through you can do with benefit. The Basic is run through many times. A somewhat later Engram is only run through a couple of times. An Engram very late on the Chain usually only needs to be gone through once. Otherwise all Engrams are "pictures" or facsimiles and whether it is the Basic or not they are all run exactly the same way.

Charge is released primarily to return a thetan to be in control of his Time Track. It helps him restore his power of choice, and Engram Clearing frees him of his most intimate trap, his own Time Track. You cannot have sane or capable beings as long as they are trapped and overwhelmed. While this way of thinking may go against  the intentions of slave masters or degraders it is nevertheless true. The universe is not itself a trap. But there exist beings, who themselves are beaten down and overwhelmed, that uses this universe to degrade others.
 
The purpose of Engram running is to release the charge which has accumulated on a case and restore the being to a state where he can appreciate life.
 
All cases will sooner or later have to be run on Engrams - no matter what else has to be done. For it is Engrams that make up the core charge of the Time Track. Those parts of the Time Track we call Engrams are the parts which overwhelmed the thetan. These contain pain and unconsciousness; they are therefore the recordings of the moments when a thetan was most at effect and least at cause. In these moments then the thetan was least able to confront or be causative.

The Engrams also contain the moments when it would have been wiser to get out of the way; these are the most degrading moments to his basic powerful ability to hold a position in space. The Engram invalidated that.
 
The heaviest ARC breaks a thetan has with the environment and other beings are usually also Engrams.

Charge in generated between  Plus and Minus. In terms of a     thetan:    Must Reach/Must Withdraw.

Generating Charge
All these things add up to charge and the generation of charge.  We have an impulse to withdraw from something which can't be withdrawn from or a reach towards something which can't be approached or reached. This forms a two pole system, like a two pole battery, and it generates current. This constantly generated current is chronic charge. It works the following way in Engram running:

(a) The pc's attention is directed in the general direction of such a track record. This causes  the current to increase.
 
(b) The auditor directs the pc's attention more closely and accurately to the incident; the current starts to discharge.

(c) The auditor/pc team finds the basic on the Chain and erases it. That was what composed the poles themselves; by erasing that no further generation is possible by that Chain and it becomes incapable of producing further charge to be restimulated.
 

When Basic is found and    erased the whole Chain      discharges. The mechanism    is permanently unplugged.  The Must Reach/ Must Withdraw in the  Basic incident held the  +/- Poles in place.

The above are the actions that are supposed to happen in Engram Clearing. If these actions do not occur despite auditing, then there is no case betterment; so it is the auditor's responsibility to make sure they do occur.

The Time Track is created by an involuntary intention of the thetan. It is not only 'ideas' or thought. It exists as a real thing. The Time Track is composed of space, matter, energy, time and thoughts. The thoughts are embedded in the recordings as significance. On the above scale Level (8) is a case where the Time Track is completely pushed out of sight by charge. It goes down to a level where a total unawareness of thought itself exists. At Level (7) awareness of the track is restricted to having opinions about existing charge. At Level (6) (Dub-in of Dub-in) you have all kinds of delusions. You have pictures of pictures of the track being offered; very inaccurate - all due to heavy charge. At Level (5) (Dub-in) the charged condition only allows inaccurate copies of the track to be viewable. At Level (4) charge simply obscures the track. At Level (3) the charge wipes out portions of the track, but they can be recovered. At Level (2) there is so little charge it is only enough to keep the track as a blueprint. At Level (1) there is no charge left and no track to worry about. 

A thetan can create energy by his ability to hold two poles apart. This does not have to be obsessive or automatic. From Level (1) and up into higher states energy is generated knowingly by the thetan by his ability to hold locations in space and poles apart. This ability degenerates again if he puts this ability on an automatic or begins, once more, to make an automatic Time Track.  But these actions by themselves are not capable of aberrating a thetan until he runs into new violent degradation and entrapment, such as implants. Aberration itself must be planned for and intended to occur. But the existence of the Time Track makes it possible for it to happen and stick with him. Thus a thetan's first real mistake is to consider his own pictures and their recorded events important. He is perfectly capable of knowing the past without the use of pictures. Erasing the facsimiles does not mean amnesia. This false datum has been part of how thetans 'got sold on' the idea of hanging onto their pictures. The second mistake the thetan made was not eradicate the entrapment activities taking place. This should be done as to close the door on becoming entrapped and aberrated again. 
 
Engram Clearing done expertly is a big step towards the state of Clear. You get down and dirty by going down and handling the living lightening out  of the very real experiences of the Track. In the process you will unburden and erase a lot of charge and at some point in time reach a moment where the whole Bank seems to erase.  So it is a skill which must be done and done well.