Training routines (Scientology)

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The training routines (TR) are training exercises or drills used in the Church of Scientology[1][2] as well as affiliated programs Narconon,[3]: 29 [4]: 258  Criminon,[3]: 29  WISE, and Applied Scholastics. The church describes them as a way of learning to communicate effectively and to control situations. Some critics and former Scientologists claim the training routines have a strong hypnotic effect, causing hallucinations and an out-of-body experience known in Scientology as "exteriorization".[5][6][7]

The Training Routines that are part of early Scientology indoctrination have been compared to acting exercises: students are taught to "duplicate," or mirror, a partner's actions; project their "intention," or thoughts, onto inanimate objects; experiment with vocal tones, the most dominant being a commanding bark known as "tone 40"; and deepen their ability to "be in their bodies" without reacting to outside stimuli.

— Janet Reitman [4]: 255 
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