Speculative Questioning
What is Speculative Questioning?
Speculative: engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge
Questioning: the action of asking someone questions, especially in an official context
Therefore Speculative Questioning is the process of asking questions based on conjecture rather than knowledge.
Overview of Past Life Auditing
Part of Scientology auditing (= therapy) concerns clearing up difficulties in the present by looking at unpleasant incidents in the past. A person is an immortal being and some of the troubles she/he has may be due to something in an earlier life. That is what we are handling and the basic "motto" could be said to be "life is in you now and you make your own future" so we are helping people create a better future, including if they're afflicted by the common (or not so common) problems of old age.
It should be noted that the common reality of ‘old age’ is negative and destructive (if one wants to live a long and active life). This is only an overview and I will discuss this more fully.
My first whiff of past life auditing was in 1959. There was a certain stir of interest in past lives due to someone in the USA remembering a past life in Ireland. See Bridey Murphy (December 20, 1798-1864) in Wikipedia.
L.Ron Hubbard thought this would be a way of getting people into Scientology and devoted two ACC†s to it. The 5th London ACC is recorded to some extent in the book "Have You Lived Before This Life" ‡. In my opinion it was not a success as it did not approach the subject on a gradient scale.The preclears on the 5th London ACC were assessed for and audited on the incident with the greatest read, rather than an incident which was confrontable, resulting in a certain amount of wild dramatisation. I was running the HPA course in the same building and we certainly heard the noise of people being pushed into engrams beyond their tolerance. If you read some of the accounts in the book "Have You Lived before This Life" you will perhaps see what I mean.
The 6th London ACC also tackled past lives, I was on 5 (out of 6) weeks of it and co-audited past lives. I ran about 8 past lives. At another nearby date I had a 25 hour intensive (as a staff member) and in this ran a past life about 500 years ago when I was a young boy and got eaten by a lion.
In about 1974 I got the "feeling" that I'd been associated with my present life father in my last life. I told him at the time, wondering whether he would react. I didn't discern any reaction and I found out why he probably suppressed a reaction later, as we had been associated and he had been involved in my death which was dramatic (shelling on the Western front in 1917).
In 1980 I inherited some money and took full time two sections of the St Hill Briefing Course and the Happiness Rundown Course and Internship (at AOSH EU Copenhagen). This markedly increased my understanding of auditing and how to do it. The Happiness Rundown was said to be three quarters standard auditing one quarter Happiness Rundown. I certainly gained a lot of understanding of auditing. After I was thrown out of the church I audited a number of people on various procedures, basically handling what they wanted handled about themselves.
There is a little bit of theory here. I'm not quite sure where this is mentioned in Scientology but it is mentioned quite a bit on the Internet: 'what you put your attention on you get.'
I have two very sad examples of this. In one case a friend was sort of forced to look after her mother who had Parkinson's and got really bad with it — the friend herself later got Parkinson's in the end very severely. Secondly my brother's wife suffered and died from cancer to the extent that she was unable to move and had to have a nurse to help move her position. Later my brother died in nearly the same circumstances/condition.
I used this principle of "what you put your attention on you get" in developing techniques for auditing occluded areas (past lives are often occluded).
A good example of using this follows. I had a feeling that my name had been Betty Smith. I therefore was run on an overt/withhold type process as follows:
"What might you have done as Betty Smith?"
"What might you have withheld as Betty Smith?"
I had my auditor run me on this and similar processes. I now have a much greater reality on my life as Betty Smith. I died as Betty Smith in 1917, I think a little desperate as I was discriminated against frequently both for being a woman when I wanted to investigate interesting things like motorcars and engineering generally, and for being illegitimate (I got the impression that I couldn't open a bank account, although my father at that time who did bring me up was quite lavish with money which I was unable to bank, I think because of my sex). I was deeply interested in motorcars (new at that time) but had very great difficulty in getting any education et cetera with regard to mechanics.
We didn't use an Emeter (we were working over the Internet) and got guidance by auditing indicators including of course interest.
† An ACC (Advanced Clinical Course) was a course which Ron Hubbard lectured to personally in the early days of Scientology. Most were held in London or the US, though there was one held in Melbourne Australia and one in South Africa.
‡ A PDF file copy of Have You Lived Before This Life? Is downloadable from Antology.info. (Look in the left hand menu Books on Scientology, click on First Editions of Scientology Books and then click on Have You Lived Before This Life (8.13 MB) to download the book into your download folder.
