HCOPL: O/W Write-ups

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead,  Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 2 MARCH  1984R
REVISED 24 APRIL  1990

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All Staff
HCO
Eth Offs/MAAs
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(Also  issued as an HCO Bulletin, of the  same date and title)

O/W WRITE-UPS

Refs:
HCOB 3 Jan. 60 A THIRD DYNAMIC FOR SCIENTOLOGY
HCOPL 1 Nov.   70 III YOU CAN BE RIGHT
HCOB 5 Oct. 61 CLEAN HANDS MAKE A HAPPY LIFE
HCOB 21 Jan. 60 JUSTIFICATION

It has been longstanding knowledge in Scientology that in the presence of overts and withholds no gains occur.

An overt act is an act of omission or commission which does the least good for  the  least  number  of dynamics  or  the  most  harm  to  the  greatest  number of dynamics. Overts are the biggest reason a person restrains and withholds himself from  action.

Man is basically good.  When people commit overts  and then withhold them it  is  because  they  conceive that telling them would be another overt act. By withholding overt acts, these are kept afloat in the universe and are themselves, as withholds, entirely the cause of continued evil.

A person who has  overts and withholds  becomes less able to influence his dynamics and falls out of communication with  those people  and  things he has committed overts against.

Writing up one’s overts and withholds offers a road out.  By confronting the truth an individual can experience relief and a return of responsibility.

BASIC THEORY

The  theory  behind  the  action  of  writing  up  one’s  overts  and  withholds  is contained  in  the  Scientology  Axioms,  published  in  their  entirety  in  the  book Scientology 0-8:  The  Book of Basics.

Axiom 38 is particularly applicable:

1:  Stupidity is the unknownness of consideration.

2:    Mechanical definition: Stupidity is the unknownness of time,  place, form and event.

1:     Truth  is the exact consideration.

2:     Truth is the exact time,  place, form  and event.

Thus we see that failure  to discover truth brings about stupidity.

Thus  we  see  that  the  discovery  of truth  would  bring  about  an  as-isness  by actual experiment.

Thus we see that an ultimate truth would have no time, place, form or event.

Thus,  then,  we  perceive  that  we  can  achieve  a  persistence  only  when  we mask a truth.

Lying is an alteration of time,  place, event or form.

Lying becomes alter-isness,  becomes stupidity.

(The  blackness of cases  is  an  accumulation  of the  case’s  own  or another’s lies.)

Anything which persists must avoid as-isness.

Thus,  anything,  to persist,  must contain a lie.

Writing  up  one’s  overts  and  withholds  can  accomplish  an  as-isness  and thereby relieve a person of the burden of his transgressions.

O/W WRITE-UP FORMAT

When  people  do  O/W  write-ups,  abuses  can  occur  if the  specifics  of the action are not known and followed.

The  first  step  to  be  done  before  one  undertakes  the  action  of  an  O/W write-up is to word clear exactly how such write-ups are done.

Experience has  proven that people have run  into  trouble  on O/W write-ups when the format (including the key words and terms) was not word cleared before embarking on the action.

Format:

The format for doing an O/W write-up is as follows:

1.    Write down the exact overt of commission or omission.

2.    Then  state  explicitly  the  specifics  regarding  the  action  or  inaction,  including:

a.    Time  (Definition:  A  precise  instant,   second,  minute,  hour,  day, week,  month or year,  determined by clock or calendar;  the point at which something has happened.)

b.    Place (Definition:  A definite location.)

c.    Form  (Definition:  The  arrangement  of  things;  the  way  in  which parts of a whole are organized.)

d.    Event  (Definition:  That  which  happens;  result;  any  incident  or occurrence.)

One has to get the time,  place,  form and event and one has to get a done or a failure in order to get as-isness.

Example:

“1.  I hit a friend’s  car when  backing out of my  parking space at work and caused about five  hundred dollars worth of damage to his car.

“2.  On the 30th of June  1987,  when I was  leaving work,  I was backing out of my parking space and hit the back end of my friend Joe’s car. There was  no  one else  around  and  the parking  lot was  almost empty.  I drove away  without leaving a note or telling Joe,  knowing that I caused about five hundred dollars damage to his car which he had to pay for.”

or,  when there is a withhold or withholds to be gotten off:

1.    Write down the withhold.

2.    Then state explicitly the specifics regarding the action or inaction with-
held,  including:

a.    Time

b.    Place

c.    Form

d.    Event

For example:

“1.  I cheated on my wife (Sally) by seeing another woman and never told her about this.

“2.  Three years ago,  when I was first married to Sally,  I cheated on her by seeing another woman.  I have never told Sally about this.  One morning (in June  1985) I had told Sally I would take her to the movies that night and  on  my  way  home  from  work,  when  1 was  at  Jones’  Department Store,  I saw an old girlfriend of mine  (Barbara).  1 asked Barbara to go out to  dinner  with  me  that night  and  she  accepted.  (She  did  not  know that  I  was  married.)  I  told  her  I  would  pick  her  up  at  8:00  P.M.   that night.  When 1 got home from  the store I told Sally 1 had to go back to work to get some things done and would not be able to go to the movies with her.

“I then went out to dinner in another city with Barbara (at the  ‘Country Inn’) so that I would not risk seeing any of my friends.”

ADMINISTERING O/W WRITE-UPS

The action of writing up one’s averts  and withholds can  be applied to  anyone,  and the breadth of its application is  unlimited.

Examples:

A  person  is  assigned  a  Danger condition  and  is  instructed  to  write  up  his O/Ws per HCO PL 22 Mar.  85,  Esto Series 51,  FULL DANGER CONDITION HANDLING.

A person wants to leave a course and the Ethics Officer has him write up his O/Ws.

It could  be  that  a  person  is  nattering  or  feels  critical,  in  which  case  the Ethics Officer or MAA could have the person write up his O/Ws.

C/S Okay:

It  is  the  responsibility  of  the  person  administering  the  O/W  write-up, whether this is the Ethics Officer/MAA, an Esto, the person’s senior or a Supervisor, to get the person’s pc folder checked by a qualified C/S to ensure that they are not in the middle of a major case action such as Int repair or List repair or in the middle of an incomplete listing action,  any of which would need to be completed before the pc started on an O/W write-up.  (Ref: HCOB  10 June 71  I, C/S Series 44R, CIS  RULES,  PROGRAMING FROM PREPARED LISTS)

This is not to be construed as  a rule that someone needs a C/S  okay to get handled in Ethics.  It simply  means that the CIS  and Ethics must be coordinated when handling a pc who needs to do an O/W write-up as fully covered in HCOB 13  Oct.  82, CIS Series  116, ETHICS  AND THE C/S.

End Phenomena:

In doing an O/W write-up a person writes up his overts and withholds until he is satisfied that they are complete. The person will feel very good about it and experience relief.  One  would  not  engage  in  carrying  on  an  O/W  write-up  past this point.

End Ruds Check:

When a person has completed his O/W write-up he must receive an end ruds check.  This acts as an acknowledgment of the  action completed.  End ruds  must be done by a qualified auditor (Class II or above,  or a Hubbard Senior Security Checker).  The original copy of the O/W write-up  must go into the person’s  pc folder,  regardless of whether or not any copy is additionally given to the MAA or Ethics Officer.  (Ref: HCOB 28 Oct. 76, C/S Series 98, Auditor Admin Series 26, AUDITING FOLDERS,  OMISSIONS IN COMPLETENESS)

Repair:

When a person doing  an  O/W  write-up  bogs  on  the  action  at  any  point or gets sick or falls  on his head shortly  after doing  an O/W write-up,  he  must be repaired  at once  by  a qualified  auditor  using  a  Confessional  Repair List.  (Ref: HCOB 23 July 80R, CONFESSIONAL REPAIR LIST-LCRE)

O/W WRITE-UP PROCEDURE

The following steps are the full procedure for getting a person to do an O/W write-up:

0.     The first action is for the person administering the O/W write-up to:  (a) study and word clear this HCOB,  (b) clear the  words  included in  step 4 below,  (c) word clear the O/W write-up format.

1.    Get  a qualified C/S  to  check  the  person’s  pc  folder  to  ensure that  the person is  not in  the middle of a major case action  such  as lnt repair or List repair or in the middle of an incomplete listing action that would be interrupted by an O/W write-up.

2.    Ensure  that a space  is  provided where  a person can write  up  his overts and withholds  undistracted.

3.    Provide paper and pen.

4.    Have the person clear the following words in the Tech Dictionary: overt, withhold,  motivator, justification, overt-motivator sequence.

5.    Have  the  person  read  this  HCO  PL  and  word  clear  the  O/W  write-up format  as covered above,  to full understanding.

6.    Have the person  write  up  his O/Ws,  exactly  per the O/W write-up  format above.  This is done until  the person  is  satisfied that he has  written them up completely and he feels very good about it.

7.    Get the  person  an end ruds  check once  the  O/W write-up  is  complete.

8.    See that the original copy of the O/W write-up is filed in the pc’s folder along with the worksheets of his end ruds check.

SUMMARY

Writing up one’s overts and withholds is  a simple procedure that has unlimited application.  O/W write-ups can bring about great relief and enable a person to achieve greater happiness.
L.  RON HUBBARD
Founder

Revision assisted by LRH Technical Research and Compilations

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