Straightwire
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Straightwire is a Scientology auditing process.
It involves the act of mentally stringing an imaginary line between present time and some incident in the past, while connected to an E-meter. It is intended to mentally connect the cause of a person's problems to the effect.
According to the official Scientology glossary:
"The auditor is stringing a straight wire of memory between the actual genus (origin) of a condition and present time, thus demonstrating that there is a difference of time and space in the condition then and the condition now, and that the preclear, conceding this difference, then rids himself of the condition or at least is able to handle it. The motto of Straightwire could be said to be, Discover the actual genus of any condition and you will place the condition under the control of the preclear. " [1]
Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard, in his book Notes on the Lectures, states:
"The first law of Straightwire: A person does not aberrate himself. Somebody does it to him. Blow enough locks off until you get him moving. Then try to get off some emotion. Then try basic area. If none of this works, you are dealing with circuits. You will have to get into the basic area when you track a circuit down. But that's all you are looking for. You are not trying to accomplish erasures. The purpose at this point is to try and deintensify circuits so that the person can run in his own valence." (pg.43, 1989 edition)
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[edit] Variants
[edit] Repetitive Straightwire
Repetitive Straightwire, discussed in Hubbard's book Self Analysis, is an auditing process which consists of running the same incident over and over until desensitization occurs. (pg.70, second printing, 1982 edition)
[edit] ARC Straightwire
Another variant, designed to increase one's ARC, improve memory and recall abilities. [2]
[edit] Straight memory
The term "Straight memory" is also sometimes referred to as synonymous with "Straightwire", but also sometimes seemingly used as a slightly separate and distinct concept. [3]
