1. means somebody who isn't registering by
reason of being
stuck in
machinery. A
stage four
needle rises and sticks and then falls.
(5811C07)2. this is the sole survivor of an
old system (
20th ACC) that used four stages of
meter reaction as a test of
state of
case. A
stage four
needle is still important to
identify when met as it means this
preclear is from no
place as a
case. A
stage four is below a merely
stuck needle. A
stage four
needle goes up about an inch or two (always the same distance) and sticks and then falls, goes up, sticks, falls, about once a
second or so. It is very regular, always the same distance, always the same pattern, over and over on and on, and nothing you say or the
preclear says changes it (except
body reactions). It's a disheartening phenomenon. Until you
break it, there's no
case change.
(EME, p. 19)