HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 29 JUNE 1961R1
REVISED 8 NOVEMBER 1980Remimeo
HCO
Tech/QualConfessional Form 5R
STUDENT CONFESSIONAL LIST
Ref:
HCOB 30 Nov. 78 CONFESSIONAL PROCEDUREAnyone doing a Confessional must be on or have done a Confessional course or internship.
The procedure for doing a Confessional is contained in HCOB 30 Nov. 78, CONFESSIONAL PROCEDURE.
When applying Confessional tech correctly, you are helping the individual to face up to his responsibilities in his group and the society and putting him back into communication with his fellow man, his family, and the world at large.
The first few questions below are for a student who has registered, but not yet started on course, and who has never had a course in Scientology or Dianetics.
The whole battery is given to a student actually on a tech course, or who has had a previous course in Scientology or Dianetics. When using this Confessional list for a student on a nontech course (staff courses, OEC, etc.) omit those questions marked with an asterisk (*).AUDITOR:_________ PRECLEAR:_________
ORG:_________ DATE:_________1. HAS ANYONE GIVEN OR LOANED YOU MONEY TO HELP COVER YOUR TUITION OR EXPENSES WHILE ON THIS COURSE?
If so: HAVE YOU PROMISED THEM SOMETHING IN RETURN FOR THIS?
If so: WHAT EXACTLY HAVE YOU COMMITTED YOURSELF TO?
If so: DO YOU INTEND TO MAKE GOOD THIS OBLIGATION?
2. ARE YOU COMING ON THIS COURSE IN ORDER TO GET AWAY FROM SOMEONE OR SOMETHING?
3. DO YOU HAVE ANY GOAL FOR BEING ON THIS COURSE WHICH, IF ACHIEVED, WOULD RESULT IN HARM TO ANOTHER PERSON, HIS POSSESSIONS OR HIS REPUTATION?
4. ARE YOU HERE IN ORDER TO GET INTO ANYTHING?
*5. HAVE YOU PROMISED ANYONE AUDITING WHICH YOU DO NOT INTEND TO GIVE?
6. HAVE YOU READ OR HAD READ TO YOU THE STUDENT’S GUIDE TO ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR?
If so: ARE THERE ANY RULES YOU DO NOT INTEND TO COMPLY WITH?
7. ARE YOU HERE TO FIND OUT WHETHER SCIENTOLOGY WORKS?
8. ARE YOU HERE TO PROVE THAT SCIENTOLOGY CAN’T HELP YOU?
9. ARE YOU HERE TO PROVE THAT YOU CANNOT HELP OTHERS WITH SCIENTOLOGY?
10. IS THERE ANYTHING, DISCREDITABLE TO YOU, GOING ON BACK HOME WHICH IS LIABLE TO BE FOUND OUT BY REASON OF YOUR BEING ON THIS COURSE?
11. ARE YOU NEGLECTING ANY RESPONSIBILITIES OF YOURS IN ORDER TO TAKE THIS COURSE?
12. IS THERE ANYTHING IMPORTANT THAT YOU ARE SETTING ASIDE UNTIL AFTER THE END OF THIS COURSE?
13. DO YOU ALREADY KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY?
14. ARE YOU HERE FOR ANY OTHER REASON THAN TO BECOME AN EXPERT AUDITOR OR ADMINISTRATOR?
15. DO YOU HAVE OVERTS AGAINST THE SUBJECT YOU ARE STUDYING?
16. ARE YOU COMING ON THIS COURSE WITH THE INTENTION OF KILLING OFF YOUR BODY?
17. ARE YOU COMING ON THIS COURSE WITH THE INTENTION OF SPINNING OR GOING INSANE?
18. IS THERE ANY GOAL THAT YOU HAVE FOR THIS COURSE HARMFUL TO ANY DYNAMIC?
19. ARE YOU PRESENTLY TAKING TRANQUILIZERS, DRUGS OR MEDICATION OF ANY SORT?
20. IS THERE ANYONE YOU ARE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THAT REGULARLY MAKES A PRACTICE OF DISCREDITING SCIENTOLOGY, ITS PERSONNEL OR ITS ORGANIZATIONS TO YOU?
21. IS ANYONE COUNTING ON YOU TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET WHILE YOU ARE ON COURSE?
22. ARE YOU PRESENTLY SUFFERING FROM SOME BODILY OR MENTAL CONDITION THAT OTHERS HAVE FAILED TO ALLEVIATE?
23. ARE YOU SECRETLY WORRIED ABOUT SOME CONDITION OF YOUR BODY OR YOUR MIND?
24. ARE YOU UPSET BY MY QUESTIONS?
25. WHILE ON COURSE, HAVE YOU EVER FAILED TO LOOK UP A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD?
26. HAVE YOU EVER CHECKED OUT ANOTHER STUDENT WITHOUT DEMANDING APPLICATION?
27. HAVE YOU EVER FLUNKED ANOTHER STUDENT FOR SOMETHING HE REALLY KNEW?
28. IS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS COURSE OR THE ACADEMY OR SCIENTOLOGY THAT YOU ARE MAKING ALLOWANCES FOR?
29. HAVE YOU DONE ANY DRINKING ON CLASS DAYS?
30. HAVE YOU TOLD ANY OTHER STUDENTS THAT YOUR SUPERVISOR’S DATA WAS WRONG?
31. HAVE YOU EVER GIVEN A TWIN A FALSE PASS?
32. HAVE YOU ALLOWED YOURSELF TO BE PASSED ON SOMETHING YOU DIDN’T FULLY UNDERSTAND?
33. HAVE YOU EVER FALSELY SIGNED OFF AN ITEM ON A CHECKSHEET?
34. HAVE YOU HAD SEX WITH ANOTHER STUDENT?
35. ARE YOU TRYING TO GET ANOTHER STUDENT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU?
36. HAVE YOU HAD SEX WITH A STAFF MEMBER?
37. ARE YOU TRYING TO GET A STAFF MEMBER TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU?
38. HAVE YOU BORROWED ANY ORGANIZATION PROPERTY AND NOT RETURNED IT?
39. HAVE YOU INVALIDATED OR CRITICIZED ANY AUDITORS TO THEIR PRECLEARS?
40. DO YOU INTEND TO PRACTICE SCIENTOLOGY IN THE FIELD DIFFERENTLY FROM HOW YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IT HERE?
41. HAVE YOU TAKEN A COURSE IN SCIENTOLOGY FOR STATUS ONLY?
42. HAVE YOU TAKEN A COURSE IN SCIENTOLOGY THAT WAS NOT ON YOUR OWN SELF-DETERMINISM?
If so ask: WHO EXACTLY HAVE YOU MADE GUILTY OF THIS?
43. HAVE YOU TRIED TO BE BETTER THAN OR BEAT SOMEONE ELSE ON COURSE?
44. HAVE YOU QUICKIED A COURSE?
45. HAVE YOU COUGHED OR DISTRACTED OTHERS DURING COURSE TIME?
46. HAVE YOU DONE ANY SELF-AUDITING?
47. HAVE YOU DONE ANY UNAUTHORIZED AUDITING?
48. HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY UNAUTHORIZED AUDITING?
49. HAVE YOU CRITICIZED YOUR AUDITOR TO OTHERS?
50. HAVE YOU BEEN THINKING UNKIND OR CRITICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT YOUR PRECLEAR?
L. RON HUBBARD?
YOUR SUPERVISORS?
YOUR AUDITOR?
OTHER STUDENTS?
STAFF MEMBERS?
51. HAVE YOU CRITICIZED THIS COURSE OR THE ORGANIZATION VERBALLY OR IN WRITING TO NON-SCIENTOLOGISTS?
52. HAVE YOU CRITICIZED YOUR SUPERVISORS OR THE D OF T TO OTHERS?
53. HAVE YOU SAID OR DONE ANYTHING TO MAKE FIELD SCIENTOLOGISTS THINK BADLY OF THIS ORGANIZATION OR ITS STAFF?
54. IS THERE ANYTHING HERE THAT YOU FEEL SO UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT THAT YOU ARE THINKING OF LEAVING?
55. HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY MEDICAL, DENTAL OR OTHER TREATMENT WHILE ON COURSE WITHOUT PERMISSION?
56. HAVE YOU BEEN LATE TO ANY SCHEDULED COURSE PERIODS?
57. HAVE YOU CHEATED ON ANY COURSE EXAMS?
58. HAVE YOU PASSED OFF ANY OTHER STUDENT’S WORK AS YOUR OWN?
*59. HAVE YOU QUICKIED A STUDENT AUDITING REQUIREMENT TO GRADUATE FROM COURSE?
60. HAVE YOU FALSELY ATTESTED ON GRADUATING A COURSE?
61. HAVE YOU ATTESTED TO COMPLETION OF A COURSE WHEN YOU KNEW YOU HAD UNCERTAINTIES ON THE MATERIALS?
*62. HAVE YOU TRIED TO PERSUADE ANY POTENTIAL PRECLEAR TO WAIT AND BE AUDITED BY YOU AFTER THE COURSE RATHER THAN BY THE HGC?
*63. HAVE YOU VIOLATED THE AUDITOR’S CODE WHILE AUDITING YOUR PRECLEAR?
*64. HAVE YOU DONE ANYTHING REALLY STUPID WITH YOUR PRECLEAR?
65. HAVE YOU VIOLATED THE CODE OF A SCIENTOLOGIST IN ANY WAY?
66. HAVE YOU BEEN ABSENT FROM ANY COURSE PERIOD WITHOUT YOUR SUPERVISOR’S KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT?
67. ARE YOU IN DISAGREEMENT WITH ANY OF THE STABLE DATA OF SCIENTOLOGY?
68. HAVE YOU BEEN GETTING LESS SLEEP THAN USUAL?
69. HAVE YOU BEEN EATING LESS THAN USUAL?
*70. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU ARE WITHHOLDING FROM YOUR AUDITOR BECAUSE HE’S “ONLY A STUDENT”?
71. HAVE YOU TAKEN TRANQUILIZERS OR DRUGS OF ANY SORT?
72. HAVE YOU DELIBERATELY DISOBEYED YOUR SUPERVISOR’S ORDERS OR DIRECTIONS?
73. HAVE YOU UNINTENTIONALLY FAILED TO FOLLOW YOUR SUPERVISOR’S ORDERS OR DIRECTIONS?
74. HAVE YOU GIVEN VERBAL TECH TO ANOTHER STUDENT?
75. HAVE YOU BEEN INSECURE WITH CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS?
76. HAVE YOU TRIED TO BREAK UP ANYONE’S MARRIAGE?
77. HAVE YOU SECRETLY VIOLATED ANY COURSE RULE OR REGULATION?
78. HAVE YOU TRIED TO ENTURBULATE THE COURSE OR ANY PERSON CONNECTED WITH IT?
79. HAVE YOU FAILED TO FULLY CLEAR A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD TO FULL CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING?
80. HAVE YOU GONE BY AN AREA OF STUDY YOU KNEW YOU HAD CONFUSIONS ON AND DIDN’T CLEAR IT UP?
81. HAVE YOU PRETENDED NOT TO BE BOGGED ON STUDY WHEN YOU REALLY WERE?
82. HAVE YOU EVER ACCEPTED VERBAL TECH WHILE DOING A DRILL?
83. HAVE YOU TAKEN ANY OTHER STUDENT’S PROPERTY?
84. DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER STUDENT’S PROPERTY IN YOUR POSSESSION?
85. HAVE YOU TAKEN ANY STAFF MEMBER’S OR HGC PC’S PROPERTY?
86. DO YOU HAVE ANY STAFF MEMBER’S OR HGC PC’S PROPERTY IN YOUR POSSESSION?
87. HAVE YOU TAKEN ANY ORGANIZATION PROPERTY?
88. HAVE YOU BROKEN OR DAMAGED ANYTHING BELONGING TO THE ORGANIZATION OR ITS STAFF?
89. HAVE YOU ANY ORGANIZATION PROPERTY IN YOUR POSSESSION?
90. HAVE YOU PASSED ANY RESTRICTED DATA OF SCIENTOLOGY TO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS?
91. HAVE YOU TRIED IN ANY WAY TO GIVE SCIENTOLOGY A BAD NAME?
92. HAVE YOU TRIED TO GIVE ANY SCIENTOLOGIST A BAD NAME?
93. ARE YOU A DIFFICULT OR UNCOOPERATIVE STUDENT?
94. HAVE YOU EVER ALTER-ISED OR MISADVISED OTHERS ON THE USE OF STUDY TECH?
95. DO YOU HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST ANY OTHER STUDENT OR STAFF MEMBER?
96. HAVE YOU TRIED TO GET ANY OTHER STUDENT REMOVED FROM THIS COURSE?
97. HAVE YOU TRIED TO MAKE ANY STAFF MEMBER LOSE HIS JOB?
98. HAVE YOU TOLD LIES ABOUT ANYONE WHILE ON THIS COURSE?
99. HAVE YOU DONE ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF COURSE HOURS WHICH YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE?
100. HAVE YOU BEEN DOING LESS THAN YOUR BEST TO BECOME AN EXPERT AUDITOR OR ADMINISTRATOR?
101. ARE YOU DOING ANYTHING WHICH WILL PREVENT YOUR BECOMING AN EXPERT SCIENTOLOGIST?
102. HAVE YOU BEEN SPENDING TIME, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPENT STUDYING SCIENTOLOGY, DOING SOMETHING ELSE?
103. HAVE YOU EVER USED LISTENING TO TAPES AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DRIFT OFF INTO YOUR OWN THOUGHTS UNNOTICED?
104. HAVE YOU EVER BLUFFED YOUR WAY THROUGH A CHECKOUT?
105. HAVE YOU EVER ACCEPTED A NONSTANDARD CHECKOUT JUST SO YOU COULD GET ON WITH IT?
106. ARE YOU MAKING ANY SCIENTOLOGIST GUILTY OF ANYTHING?
107. HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ANYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS NOT RIGHT TO OBTAIN MONEY FOR THIS COURSE?
108. HAVE YOU DONE ANYTHING WHILE ON THIS COURSE THAT YOU WOULD HATE TO HAVE KNOWN BACK HOME?
109. HAVE YOU BEEN MISAPPLYING ANYTHING YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE IT APPEAR THAT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN TAUGHT DOESN’T WORK?
110. HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ANYTHING SOLELY BECAUSE IT IS “THE SUPERVISOR’S IDEA”?
111. HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ANYTHING SOLELY BECAUSE IT IS “L. RON HUBBARD’S IDEA”?
112. HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING INTO PRACTICE ANY METHOD OR DATUM THAT YOU DON’T SEE THE REASON FOR?
113. HAVE YOU DONE ANYTHING THAT WOULD DISCREDIT RON OR MARY SUE HUBBARD OR YOUR SUPERVISORS BY REASON OF THEIR HAVING TRAINED YOU?
114. IS THERE SOMETHING YOU’VE BEEN WONDERING ABOUT CONCERNING SCIENTOLOGY OR SCIENTOLOGISTS WHICH YOU HAVEN’T ASKED YOUR SUPERVISOR ABOUT?
115. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT L. RON HUBBARD OR YOUR SUPERVISORS SHOULD MISTRUST YOU FOR THAT YOU HAVEN’T TOLD THEM ABOUT?
116. ARE YOU WITHHOLDING ASKING ANY QUESTION BECAUSE YOU’RE AFRAID IT WILL SOUND STUPID?
117. HAVE YOU BEEN MAKING A PRACTICE OF GETTING OTHER STUDENTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS RATHER THAN THE SUPERVISOR?
If so: WHAT QUESTIONS? WHY?
118. HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING OTHER STUDENTS FROM DOING THEIR WORK?
119. HAVE YOU BEEN SUCH A PROBLEM TO YOUR SUPERVISORS THAT YOU’VE BEEN ROBBING OTHER STUDENTS OF THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE SUPERVISORS’ TIME?
120. HAVE YOU EVER DONE A CLAY DEMO JUST TO PLEASE THE SUPERVISOR WITHOUT REALLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT WAS DEMOED?
121. HAVE YOU EVER USED A DEMO KIT TO KEEP THE SUPERVISOR OFF YOUR BACK?
122. HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT YOU WERE INCORRECTLY TARGETED ON COURSE?
If so ask: WHO EXACTLY HAVE YOU MADE GUILTY OF THIS?
123. HAVE YOU BEEN WRITING LETTERS HOME OR ELSEWHERE CRITICIZING THIS COURSE?
THE SUPERVISORS?
YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS?
124. DO YOU REGULARLY MAKE A PRACTICE OF GOSSIPING ABOUT THE AFFAIRS OF STAFF, STUDENTS OR PRECLEARS?
*125. HAVE YOU TRIED OUT ANY PROCESSES THAT YOU’VE DREAMED UP YOURSELF ON STAFF, STUDENTS OR PRECLEARS?
*126. HAVE YOU BEEN TESTING ANY SQUIRREL PROCESSES ON ANYONE?
*127. IS THERE ANY PROCESS YOU ARE CERTAIN WOULD RESOLVE YOUR CASE OR YOUR PC’S CASE WHICH IS NOT BEING USED?
128. IS THERE ANYONE TO WHOM YOU MAKE A REGULAR PRACTICE OF DISCREDITING SCIENTOLOGY, ITS ORGANIZATIONS OR ITS PERSONNEL?
129. ARE YOU IN COMMUNICATION WITH SOMEONE WHO IS A MUCH BETTER SCIENTOLOGIST THAN YOUR SUPERVISOR?
130. ARE YOU IN COMMUNICATION WITH SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS MORE ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY THAN L. RON HUBBARD?
131. HAVE YOU EVER, WHILE ON COURSE, FELT THAT YOU WOULD NOT ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS BY REASON OF POOR AUDITING OR POOR SUPERVISING?
If so ask: WHO EXACTLY HAVE YOU MADE GUILTY OF THIS?
132. HAVE YOU PREVENTED ANYONE, INCLUDING SUPERVISORS, FROM ACHIEVING GOALS CONCERNING YOU OR OTHERS IN SCIENTOLOGY?
133. HAVE YOU EVER ALLOWED YOURSELF TO BE RUSHED THROUGH YOUR MATERIALS SO YOU COULD BE COUNTED AS A STAT?
If so ask: WHO EXACTLY HAVE YOU MADE GUILTY OF THIS?
134. HAVE YOU THOUGHT SO BADLY OF THIS ORGANIZATION FOR ANY REASON THAT YOU WOULD UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ACCEPT A JOB HERE ON COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE?
135. ARE YOU IN FAIRLY REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH ANYONE WHO HAS A LOT OF ARC BREAKS WITH L. RON HUBBARD OR SCIENTOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS?
If so ask: WHAT IS THE NATURE AND FREQUENCY OF THIS COMMUNICATION?
136. ARE YOU IN FAIRLY REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH ANY GROUP THAT IS INTERESTED IN SEEING SCIENTOLOGY FAIL OR ITS ORGANIZATIONS DISCREDITED?
137. IS ANYONE HOSTILE TO SCIENTOLOGY ASSISTING YOU FINANCIALLY ON THIS COURSE?
*138. HAVE YOU RUN ANY UNAUTHORIZED PROCESSES ON ANYONE?
139. HAVE YOU PERMITTED ANYONE TO RUN UNAUTHORIZED PROCESSES ON YOU?
140. IS ANYONE HERE COUNTING ON YOU TO KEEP A SECRET FOR HIM?
141. HAVE YOU ANY FEELING OF “INJURED INNOCENCE” AT HAVING BEEN ASKED THESE QUESTIONS?
142. HAVE YOU BEEN GOING TO SOME OTHER PERSON RATHER THAN YOUR D OF T OR SUPERVISORS TO GET THE “REAL DATA” ON SCIENTOLOGY?
143. HAVE YOU BEEN CRITICAL OF THE DATA OR QUALITY OF TAPES?
144. HAVE YOU BEEN CRITICAL OF THE DATA IN OR QUALITY OF TEXTS ON DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY?
145. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CRITICAL OF SCIENTOLOGY TERMINOLOGY?
146. HAVE YOU EVER WRITTEN AND THEN DESTROYED CRITICAL MESSAGES ADDRESSED TO L. RON HUBBARD?
147. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THESE QUESTIONS?
148. IN THIS CONFESSIONAL, HAVE YOU TOLD A HALF-TRUTH?
149. IN THIS CONFESSIONAL, HAVE YOU TOLD AN UNTRUTH?
150. IN THIS CONFESSIONAL, HAS A WITHHOLD BEEN MISSED?
151. IN THIS CONFESSIONAL, HAVE YOU TOLD ALL?
Give the pc the Proclamation of Forgiveness:
BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME, ANY OVERTS AND WITHHOLDS YOU HAVE FULLY AND TRUTHFULLY TOLD ME ARE FORGIVEN BY SCIENTOLOGISTS.
On any adverse reaction to the Proclamation of Forgiveness, get the rest of the withhold or repair the withhold session. (Ref: HCOB 10 Nov. 78RA, PROCLAMATION: POWER TO FORGIVE)
Note: If this is being used as an HCO Confessional the Proclamation of Forgiveness is omitted.L. RON HUBBARD
FounderRevision assisted by Mission Issues Revision
Adopted as official Church policy by CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Hubbard, L. R. (1961, 29 June). Student Confessional List. Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (1991 ed.,Subject Vol. 4, pp. 647-57). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc.
Notes
- Document studied on the Hubbard Senior Security Checker Course. ↩
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