(Scientology spiritual counseling is called auditing, and the period in which a person receives auditing is called a session.) From the first moment of a Scientology auditing session, the preclear, the person being audited, begins to make discoveries—discoveries to him far more important than (Spanish explorer) Balboa’s glimpse of the Southern Sea or Columbus’ glance at San Salvador. The preclear begins with mystery and ends with knowledge. And even in those few cases where “nothing happens” he at least discovers the pattern of his life—nothing happening.