HOW AN AUDITING SESSION IS CONDUCTED

In auditing, the minister, or auditor (“one who listens”) asks the parishioner a series of specific questions in the area of spiritual travail being addressed in that particular session. Once the auditor locates the area of spiritual trauma, he will ask further specific questions or give directions needed to help the parishioner address and come to grips with that incident, experience or area of life.

The minister does not offer any “advice” to the parishioner. One of the essential principles of Scientology is that an individual can advance spiritually only if he is allowed to find his own answers to life’s problems. This is accomplished by helping one to examine his own existence and improve his ability to face what he is and where he is—peeling away the layers of experience that have weighed so heavily upon him.