Doing it with a “twin” also increases the social bonding of the experience. For bonus cult points the org will guilt you over letting your twin down if you are late or miss any sessions.

Actually, that was a very good description of what twinning is as well as a good comparison between twinning and having a professional auditor take you up the Bridge.

Thank you for the great “rundown” on the co-audit twin.

A twin in scientology is someone you partner with to work your way thru an auditing action. Generally you have to be at or about the same ‘case level’ as your twin.

Twinning is supposed to be the economical way to progress along ‘the bridge to total freedom’. Twins study the materials they are going to audit on each other and then actually do the auditing on each other as opposed to paying for auditing by a professional auditor. Twinning is relatively cheap and professional auditing is very expensive but a faster way to go (nowhere). Paying straight up saves one the long hours on course studying the material. The cult always encourages people to get professional auditing because there is more money in it. But, they will take what they can get and they know if people opt for the co-audit route they will have to pay for ‘repair auditing’ because of mistakes made in the co-audit. It’s all about the money.

As noted in the document that Mike posted, many of the auditing actions listed are the SRD (Survival Rundown). There are lots of individual auditing actions involved on this level and they can be VERY time consuming. This is why these poor folks (literally) are looking for twins to get them thru it.

If you want to see an excellent example of what a typical SRD auditing action looks like check out the movie The Master starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman as an L. Ron Hubbard character. In my opinion, those scenes are so good they could be used as scientology training films.

PS Someone correct me if I am wrong here, I’ve been out of the cult for decades and may have gotten some of this wrong.