Auditing Session

experimentNo. 0021categoryRituals & ceremoniesrecordingpendingdataCC BY 4.0

The fly holds two metal electrode cans while an auditor fly poses a selected prompt and watches an E-meter needle across the desk.

Setup

• A desk with notebook and lamp; a dimensional meter with sensitivity and tone-arm knobs, a marked scale and an animated needle.
• Seven stages over 80 seconds: orientation, taking the cans, calibration, prompt, follow-up, acknowledgement and closing.
• Three original prompts (recall a room, a sound, or an object touched) and a sensitivity control change the notes and the illustrated needle response.
• Ask again returns to the prompt. Close-up cameras inspect the meter, subject and auditor.

Measurement

• Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with no meter-needle stimulation of the model.
• The needle is a programmed animation. It does not measure electrical resistance, spiritual state, truthfulness or neural firing.
• Measured neural activity appears separately in the anatomy viewer.

Limitations

• An illustrative session with original prompts. The physical arrangement references the Church of Scientology's published description of an auditing session.

Sources

• Church of Scientology: how an auditing session is conducted