GRINDING

going over and over and over and over an incident without obtaining an actual erasure ("vanishing" entirely by recountings, at which time it is filed as memory and experience). A Dianetics auditor who puts a pc through an incident four or five times without erasure or appreciable reduction is encountering "grinding." —ExDn Lectures Approved Glossary: Expanded Dianetics (30 March 1972)

going over and over and over and over an incident without obtaining an actual erasure ("vanishing" entirely by recountings, at which time it is filed as memory and experience). A Dianetics auditor who puts a pc through an incident four or five times without erasure or appreciable reduction is encountering "grinding."

1. charge is held in place by the basic on a chain. When only later than basic incidents are run charge can be restimulated and then bottled up again with a very small amount blown. This is known as "grinding out" an incident. An engram is getting run, but as it is not basic on a chain, no adequate amount of charge is being relieved. (HCOB 8 Jun 63)2. going over and over and over and over a lock, secondary or engram without obtaining an actual erasure. The Dn auditor who puts the pc through an incident four or five times without erasure or appreciable reduction is encountering "grinding." (HCOB 1 May 69)3. a level below ARC breaking. A pc who just sits there and grinds is very often not up to getting ARC broken. (SH Spec 66, 6110C12)