BRACKET

a classification or grouping. —9th ACC Volume 1 Approved Glossary

a word taken from the field of artillery. You fire over and under, to make sure you hit the target. Over and under, over and under, and you eventually hit the target. In Scientology processing bracket means you run something happening to the individual, and you run it happening to others because of the individual, and you have it happening to others by others. For example: (1) times when the preclear was hit over the head with a baseball bat, (2) times another person was hit over the head with a baseball bat by the preclear, (3) others being hit by others with baseball bats. That's the mechanics of the bracket. You could find the old stuck needle, and so forth, on help and sort it all out, and run brackets on it, and gradually get him separated out and squared around, and he'd think life was much better; get him so his bank wouldn't bite, get it all keyed out nicely and level him off.

a word taken from the field of artillery. You fire over and under, to make sure you hit the target. Over and under, over and under, and you eventually hit the target. In Scientology processing bracket means you run something happening to the individual, and you run it happening to others because of the individual, and you have it happening to others by others. For example: (1) times when the preclear was hit over the head with a baseball bat, (2) times another person was hit over the head with a baseball bat by the preclear, (3) others being hit by others with baseball bats. That's the mechanics of the bracket. You could find the old stuck needle, and so forth, on help and sort it all out, and run brackets on it, and gradually get him separated out and squared around, and he'd think life was much better; get him so his bank wouldn't bite, get it all keyed out nicely and level him off.

1. the standard bracket is a five-way bracket. The general form of this is as follows: you . . . terminal; terminal . . . you; terminal . . . another; another . . . terminal; terminal . . . terminal. (HCOB 30 Apr 61)2. the word bracket is taken from the artillery, meaning to enclose with a salvo of fire. A bracket is run as follows: first one gets the concept as happening to the preclear. Then one gets the concept of the preclear making it happen (or thinking or saying it) to another. Then one gets the concept as being directed by another at others. (Scn 8-80, p. 40)3. with these three things: the thetan trying to put up mock-ups of his own which persist; trying to divert the mock-ups of others; and trying to observe what others are doing to others; we have what we call a bracket in Scn. (PAB 11)4. the individual does it himself, somebody else does it, others do it, or the individual does it to somebody else, or somebody does it to him or others do it to others. (PDC 31)