*This glossary is not meant to be a comprehensive Scientology dictionary, but rather to help the casual reader. For more in depth definitions please see the Scientology Technical Dictionary, or Modern Management Dictionaries.

1.1 - Pronounced "one one". Means that someone is "covertly hostile" - they smile to your face, but will stab you in the back. Miscavage,( the current self appointed leader of the Church), is a good example of this tone level, on a good day as a social tone level. 

10 August - A term referring to a technical bulletin for a simple PTS (see PTS) handling which gets one to spot the suppressor that is re-stimulating the pre-clear vis a vis a simple recall method.

2D - The second Dynamic. In Scientology, the second dynamic refers to family, children, personal relationships and sex. Can be used in a variety of ways, including: "She was my 2D" means "I was dating her". "Going out-2D" means cheating on your partner, or committing "deviant" sexual acts. "I need to handle my 2D" can, depending on context, meaning "I need to fix my relationship with my partner/spouse" or "I need to find a boy/girlfriend".

3D - The third Dynamic. Refers to groups one is a part of. This can mean work, school, a sports team, a wine tasting club, or anything else of that nature.

4D - The forth Dynamic. Means "mankind".

ARC Break - ARC stands for Affinity, Reality, Communication. An ARC Break refers to sadness, upset, or anger resulting from an argument or negative situation. "You haven't spoken to Bob in days. Did you two have an ARC break?" All ARC breaks stem from missed witholds. (missed witholds)

ASI - Author Services International: Scientology's personal publishing house.

Auditing - Pastoral counciling delivered by an auditor, one who listens. Oftentimes using an e-meter, a device that shows the presence, change in, or lack there of in mental mass. Auditing is a very precise and workable means to alleviate man of his reactive mind (*see reactive mind) and guides one through and to higher states of awareness and ability.

BC (also SHSBC) - Briefing Course (also St. Hill Special Briefing Course). One of the largest and most comprehensive auditor training courses originally delivered in the early 1960's in East Grinstead, Sussex England.

Black PR - To slander someone to discredit their statements. Can be used as noun or verb.

Blow - To blow means "to leave without permission" or "to leave before something is completed". One can "blow staff", "blow course", "blow session", or "blow the org". It is a very, very serious offense in Scientology to blow currently. A person blows for two reasons, either the situations is so bad such as living in slovenly quarters, or they have committed enough harmful acts that they feel compelled to leave in order to do no more harm to the person, persons, or area. People who leave without permission in this way are usually declared by the current regime. Depending on context, "blow" can also have a positive meaning. It can mean 'to go away', eg. "My pain just blew!"

Blown Out - Excited, happy, thrilled. Having a feeling of being so happy that one is elated and feels disconnected from their body. "I just finished a course and I'm so blown out!"

Bridge, The - Shortened from "The Bridge to Total Freedom". A series of steps laid out by L. Ron Hubbard, both in auditing, and training as an auditor designed to make you more aware, knowledgeable, causative, and able as a being.

Bridge (2) - Short for "Bridge Publications", a Scientology operated enterprise for the publication of books.media, and e-meters in the United States.

Cadet Org - The Sea Org for children, and for the children of Sea Org members.

Case Gain, making case gain - Having successes in Scientology through auditing or even by reading books or listening to lectures on the subject of Scientology.

Comm Ev - Stands for Committee of Evidence. During a Comm Ev, the accused is required to sit before a panel of Sea Org members or in a local organization, his peers, which is a fact finding body per policy. If you are accused of misdeeds and ordered to stand before such a panel, you are said to be "Comm Ev'd". Today with the current state of the church, these Committees of Evidence generally end up as kangaroo courts. One is guilty until proven guilty, due to the influence of David Miscavage on the justice technology in the policies of comm. ev's.

Conditions - A set of formulas to be applied to one's life depending on the state of one's life. For instance, if you are doing exceptionally well, you would apply the steps outlined the condition of "affluence". If you have done something bad, the org may require you to do a "treason" condition. The various conditions, from worst to best, are: Confusion, Treason, Enemy, Doubt, Liability, Non-Existence, Danger, Emergency, Normal, Affluence, Power Change and Power. There are specific formulas for each of these conditions. Lower conditions (those below "normal") are frequently used as punishment currently which is a misduplication of their original intended purpose.

Counter-Intention (or CI) - Having or acting as if one has a purpose that is contrary to the purpose of the group. Often used to refer to malicious or stubborn refusal to do as ordered.

Course - One of many set study programs in Scientology where the Scientologist studies bulletins and or policies and practices using a checksheet designed to gradiently teach the steps to do a desired action or actions. Once one has completed the "theory" of a checksheet, one then applies it in practical application per the checksheet to a set standard.

C/S - Case Supervisor. This is the person programs a folder for a person to be audited. A C/S ensures the auditng goes smoothly and the pre-clear gets the desired result. Any mistakes by the auditor are caught by the C/S, the auditor corrected, as well as the pre-clear and then continued on per the program adjudicated by the C/S. It can be used as a verb and a noun: "My files were sent to the C/S." or "I was up all night C/Sing."

Dead Agent - A verb, meaning  disprove a piece of information to such an extent that he or it can never be used against you. "We need to dead agent that article." Currently in the church with the influence of Miscavage, the term has been meant to mean 3rd party or slander someone.

Declared, to be declared - To be labeled a Suppressive Person (evil) and thrown out of Scientology. People who are declared may not have ANY CONTACT with Scientologists, and Scientologists can be declared for talking to a declared person. This concept, currently used by the Church, violates the cancellation of disconnection by Hubbard in the late 70's. It had been found to be harmful. It was reimplemented with the advent of the mission-holders conference in 1982.. A mass declaration, instantly by Miscavage, of some of the most successful and on purpose Scientologists who owned missions throughout the world. A house cleaning of sorts of the more successful organizations at the time so Miscavage could take better financial control from his viewpoint. 

Dev-T - Developed Traffic. Annoying, frivolous actions or activities that cause hassle. "This paperwork is really Dev-T."

Downstat - A person who does not produce enough, or a state of not working hard enough. "She's such a downstat." or "If I'm downstat this week, I won't get any time off." See also: stats, upstat

Entheta - Something negative. Sad emotions, bad news, an angry letter, a violent movie - all of these things can be said to be "entheta".

E/O (or EO) - Ethics Officer. One who assists you with ethics situations. Today, sadly, the post is abused and generally used to coerce a person to do the bidding of the Church under Miscavage and his perversion of the technology.

EPF - Estates Project Force. When one first joins the Sea Org, one must do a sort of "orientation boot camp" for several weeks or months. This boot camp is called the EPF.

Flap - A major problem or serious incident. "There was a huge flap at the org."

GO - Guardian's Office. This was the church's investigation branch until the FBI caught them doing illicit operations involving documents which are still unclear as to whether they were real or planted. The GO was disbanded, and replaced by OSA, an even worse iteration of investigations under Miscavage's  perversion of the policies regarding special affairs.

Goldenrod -  In Scientology, only ethics orders are printed on paper this color as it is the color of their division on the Scientology organizing board, so an SP Declare (see Declared), which is the most infamous kind of ethics order, is often referred to as "a goldenrod". Any order from ethics is printed on paper of this color.

HCOB or HCO PL - Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin or Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter. Bulletins are of a technical matter whereas Pl's deal with policy. Some issues are printed as both if the matter being covered applies to types of issue

KSW - An acronym that stands for Keeping Scientology Working. This is a policy that defines the stance of non tolerance regarding alteration of the Technology in Scientology. Originally published in 1965, and reissued numerous times since then before his death. Unfortunately, it is one of the least followed issues in Scientology under Miscavage due to his alterations and perversions of the technology and policy.

MEST - Matter, Energy, Space and Time. The physical universe.

MEST Work - Manual labor.

<;strong>Non-Enturbulation Order -The order basically warns you that if you upset anyone else, or if the ethics officer receives any bad reports about you, you will be in serious trouble. 

Org - An abreviation for a Scientology Organization. Some of the more famous orgs have their own names (see below), while local orgs are referred to as "[City] org", eg. Boston Org. The names of some of the most commonly talked-about orgs:

- AOLA: Los Angeles, California
- ASHO: Los Angeles, California
- Celebrity Center (CC Int or CCI): Los Angeles, California
- FLAG: Clearwater, Florida
- Int Base (also called Int or Gold Base): Hemet, California
- LA Day: Los Angeles, California
- PAC: Los Angeles, California
- HGB: Los Angeles, California. This isn't really an org, but a building owned by Scientologists and operated by Sea Org members.
- Saint Hill: East Grinstead, Sussex, UK

OSA - Office of Special Affairs. Often referred to by critics as Scientology's Secret Service.

OT - Stands for Operating Thetan. This is someone who has attained a high spiritual level via auditing and training. There are currently 8 OT levels. One begins the OT levels after attaining the state of Clear. 

Out Ruds/out body ruds - A state of having one of more of the main "rudiments" that allow a pre-clear to be interested in his own case and willing to talk to the auditor "out" or needing to be handled. These are arc broken, having a present time problem, or having a missed withold.

Out body ruds are the state of being one or more of the following things, hungry, tired, ill, etc. Something physically awry with the pre-clear.

Overt - Something you have done that you would not want done to yourself. Something you have done because you can't have something.

Example- A boy steals an apple as he has no money, but wants an apple, so he takes it from a fruit stand without paying for it.

O/Ws - An abbreviation meaning Overts and Withholds

Out Tech - Diverging from standard Scientology auditing technology.

Out TRs - Losing your temper or becoming flustered. Non optimum training regimens being exhibited by someone. See also: TRs

PC - Pre-clear. The person receiving auditing who is not yet clear. If one is clear and not yet OT 8, he is known as a Pre-OT.

Pink Sheet - When a course supervisor finds that some student does not fully understand materials he studied earlier, the supervisor will write a 'pink sheet' for the student. The pink sheet contains orders to re-study that section of the materials, and lists which materials are to be re-studied before continuing on. It is called a pink sheet because it is only issued on pink paper.

Potential Trouble Source (or PTS) - Someone who is connected to a Suppressive Person (SP). According to Scientology a PTS will often be sick (in fact, they believe that PTSness is the only reason anyone gets sick), have emotional ups and downs, and not be able to get very far in life.

PTS/SP (course) - A major Scientology course in which one learns about suppressive person and people who become a potential trouble source to the suppressive person. The course gives one the tools to spot these personalities and how to handle them in one's life  See also: Potential Trouble Source, Suppressive Person

Raw Meat - Someone who just joined Scientology, or is thinking about joining Scientology. This is commonly used among the staff and Sea Org members, but not really among the public.

Reg - Noun - Someone or the post responsible for raising money for an organization, there can be one or many depending on the size of the organization. Smaller organizations will oftentimes have a person who is a registrar or REG. and another post as well, usually in the smaller local organizations know as Class 5 Organizations (see Class V Orgs). It can also be used as a verb, eg. "She was regging money."

RPF - Rehabilitation Project Force. When a Sea Org member has done something considered particularly bad, they are isolated from the rest of the Sea Org members in the RPF program. People on the RPF are not allowed to walk (they run everywhere), are not allowed to speak to another Sea Org member unless spoken to, and spend most of their time doing manual labor such as repairs on constructing buildings or cleanup as well. This is a program that has been severely altered by the David Miscavage to be used as a long term punishment/ mind altering experience to mold people into basically robots, and not free thinking individuals.

RPF's RPF - A program for people who get in trouble while on the RPF. The work is harder and the living conditions are even worse than those given to the RPF.

RTC - Religious Technology Center. This organization is run by the top-echelon of the Sea Org. Overseen only by STC, which is group of Tax attorneys who 

Sea Org (or SO) - The inner core of the Scientology parish. Sea Org members run and operate the churches, raise money, give auditing, and perform any number of other tasks. Current pay is less than sixty cents per day under Miscavage's control.

Sec Check - Security check. A confessional given while on the e-meter. Sec checks can take anywhere from a short time to a year or longer depending on the situation. Done standardly they work great, done non-standardly they can be a real problem if delivered by those with less than good intentions,

Senior - Boss. As in, "I have to get this paperwork checked by my senior."

Session - An auditing session. See auditing.

Sup - (pronounced 'soop') Short for supervisor. Someone who oversees the course students and course room in any organizations academy for training.

Stats - Statistics. Most Scientology staff members, Sea Org members, business persons and school children keep statistics of their work and progress in order to measure their production. See also: upstat, downstat

Suppressive Person (or SP) - An evil person. If someone is found to be an SP by the Church, they are "Declared", meaning they cannot have any contact with any Scientologist whatsoever using the current 

Treas Sec - Treasury Secretary.

TRs - Training Routines. These are basic drills done in Scientology meant to improve your communication skills as anu auditor or just in life.

Twin - A course partner. Twins study everything on any particular course together, and help each other through the course. You can also say you are "twinning" with someone.

TWTH - The Way To Happiness. A very basic pamphlet containing 21 moral "precepts".

Type III Pts'ness - Insane, crazy, criminal, psychotic.

Upstat - A person who consistently works very hard and gets good results. "She's such a upstat." or "If we're upstat this week, we'll get Sunday off." See also: stats, downstat

Verbal Tech - Talking about Scientology policy or technology without showing the written source to whom you are speaking with.

Withhold - An overt that is being not being revealed.

Wog - A acronym of Worthy Oriental Gentleman meaning "non-Scientologist".