For those unfamiliar with the subject of PTS/SP Tech, a suppressive person (often abbreviated "SP") is an anti-social or "toxic" personality. Their actions are predicated on their belief that the only way they can survive unmolested is to keep others around them down. Their victims, because of being kept down, get sick, have accidents, have worries, and basically are unproductive and in constant fear. Because they are under suppression, and create extra work and plenty of trouble for others on all sides of them, LRH called them a "potential trouble source" (or PTS, for short).

Whenever you notice someone in your environment is a particular source of trouble, you can correctly assume that they are connected somehow to a suppressive or toxic person.

It is surprising, but ALL illness and ALL accidents are due to a PTS condition. The manifestation is one of “roller coaster” -- the person gets better, gets worse. Two steps forward, two steps back.

This kind of valuable insight into the mechanisms of life that makes the philosophy of Scientology so valuable.

So solve a PTS situation, LRH evolved several kinds of handlings. Among these, there is a counseling (called in “auditing” Scientology) procedure called the PTS Rundown. This rundown helps a PTS person weed out all the various toxic persons from their past so they are no longer suffering from the cumulative effect of having been victimized by these people. Most everyone has run into one or more of these personality types in their lifetime but sometimes they are hard to spot because toxic personalities tend to camouflage themselves by the use of misdirectors, generalities and most notably by blaming you for everything that is wrong. By introverting you into your own failings, you don’t notice what they are actually up to.

The auditing rundown is fantastic and results in a person who no longer roller coasters. That means he never gets sick and never has accidents... unless he runs into a new suppressive person and fails to do something about that new connection.

I’m a good example of that. I don’t take drugs because I don’t need to. I don’t have accidents or get hurt and I don’t get sick. I used to get sick regularly -- at the Int base. But after leaving and spotting WHO the suppressive person was that I was connected to, and moreover after starting to DO something about it, my own PTS condition vanished.

Moving on, obviously one of the worst, most suppressive persons in recent memory -- at least to any Scientologist -- is David Miscavige.

However, in the Church, if you signed up to receive the PTS rundown and offered up his name as a suppressive person on your list of all the toxic persons you have known, even though correct, the auditor -- in complete violation of the code of ethics which auditors are sworn to uphold -- would not allow you to have that correct item -- because if he does, his auditing career will be over. In other words, no Scientologist is allowed to name David Miscavige as a source of suppression.

In Scientology, the technology of auditing is considered inviolate. By corrupting this technology, David Miscavige renders Scientology useless and that is a crime of magnitude since there is no other known way to produce the kinds of results that auditing can produce routinely when done correctly.

That is what the following article is about. It is an article intended to enlighten Scientologists who have had the wool pulled over their eyes on the exact nature of that wool so they can rip it away, open their eyes and see.

One last note: within LRH's writings starting in the 1950s, the format included the full capitalization of titles, plus important maxims and laws. So when you see things being capitalized, it doesn't mean the writer is "shouting"; it merely means what is being capitalized is important.

The reason that I'm taking the care to explain basic terms for non-Scientologists is because we really need help to rectify the situation of this criminal that has taken over the organization. My specialty is in explaining Scientology concepts and terms in normal words that anyone can understand. Hope this helps. - Thoughtful


One of the false datums that’s cropped up in the Church of Miscavology is that “You can’t be PTS to a 'good hat' or to a VIP in the Church.”

Here’s the background.

LRH says in HCOB 20 October 76 PTS HANDLING basically that people with evil purposes and destructive intentions claimed they were PTS to explain their aberrated behavior.  The discovery that led to a handling was that these people didn’t understand what PTS was or meant.  

(Hence, DM’s blanket TIP that everyone had to do the PTS/SP course…of course, it doesn’t explain why everyone had to redo, and redo, and redo the PTS/SP course.)

The issue says that studying the actual PTS material had a tendency to blow charge on past bad PTS handlings.

That same issue brings up the notion of False PTSness, but it points out that “unhattedness, ignorance of Scientology basics for handling life, past bad auditing uncorrected, as well as unhandled bad intentions and personal out-ethics can be mistaken for PTSness and won’t resolve as PTSness.”

The original reference on False PTSness is actually HCOB 15 December 1973 THE CONTINUOUS MISSED W/H AND CONTINUOUS OVERT WITH DATA ON DEGRADED BEINGS AND FALSE PTS CONDITIONS.  This issue says that a person who doesn’t respond to PTS handling should be dealt with as a person with continuous missed withholds and/or continuous overts.

Another LRH reference that applies is HCOB 24 April 1972 I PTS INTERVIEWS (C/S SERIES 79 / EXPANDED DIANETICS SERIES 5. It says, “A somewhat suppressive pc will find the good hats suppressive.  He is PTS to SP people, groups, things, or locations no matter how SP he is.  DO NOT BUY ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE he is PTS to.”

The important, but always overlooked piece of that sentence is that the PTS person, EVEN IF HE IS SOMEWHAT SUPPRESSIVE, is STILL PTS to SP people, groups, things, or locations.

Isn’t that interesting? Even a somewhat suppressive pc remains PTS to SPs. Real SPs.

And of course HCOB 24 November 1965 SEARCH AND DISCOVERY says: “lf, however, there is no success in finding the SP on the case or if the person starts naming org personnel or other unlikely persons as SP, the Ethics Officer must realize that he is handling a Type Il PTS and, because the auditing will consume time, sends the person to Tech or Qual for a Search and Discovery.”

Finally, in HCOB 21 May 1985 TWO TYPES OF PTSes it is stated that “On Pretended PTSness …your very reliable clue is that the person says he is PTS to a well-intentioned person, such as  a staff member or Scientology VIP. This is almost totally conclusive evidence that you are dealing with a person with an evil purpose. Thus, he would be programed for auditing geared to locating and handling evil purposes. He won’t get any relief on being found 'PTS' to a well intentioned person.”

(Note that it does not say to refuse the item. Note that it does not say to stop the PTS handling and route him to Sec Checking/FPRD immediately.)

Now, we know that the reactive mind operates on the mechanism A=A=A=A.  

Due to that mechanism, this whole PTS/SP haywire mess has become altered and warped into the following:

“If the PTS person names a Scientologist, Church executive (especially David Miscavige) or big IAS donor, don’t accept that answer, and send the PTS person for sec-checking, because he has evil purposes.”

Even though the LRH tech says nothing of the sort.  

(This has become so pervasive that I myself wasn’t allowed to name executives of a Scientology company individually on a PTS terminal list because…“He can’t be an SP because he’s OT VIII and gives lots of money to the Church.” Turns out that company has collapsed into dust since I quit. Hmmmmm.)

And the situation has become so insidious that a person I know went to Flag, got an S&D, named David Miscavige as the item, which blew down and F/Ned, and THE AUDITOR AND C/S REFUSED TO GIVE THE PC HIS ITEM BECAUSE IT WAS PRESUMED TO BE A “GOOD HAT”. The pc was promptly Sec Checked and list-repaired into apathy.

The pc had been out-list for over 10 years because of it.

I recently had this person on my C/Sing lines as a pc, and I ordered a list correction, because he was manifesting the horrendous bypassed charge and self-listing an out-list can generate.

He BD’d, F/Ned, and recovered from 10 years of hopelessness instantly when he was allowed to put the so-called “good hat” back onto the list.

Notice how clever this is.

DAVID MISCAVIGE WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.

AN IAS REG WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.

A BRIDGE MATERIALS CONSULTANT WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.

A FLAG PUBLIC THAT’S BEEN TRYING TO FORCE YOU TO GO TO FLAG FOR SERVICE DESPITE ALL HER EVALUATION AND INVALIDATION WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.

A HIGH-PROFILE IAS DONOR WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.

There is a huge complication that’s avoided if you don’t accept these people onto a PTS terminal list. Once you accept the item, you then have to ask “DO YOU WANT TO HANDLE OR DISCONNECT?”

No Church Ethics Officer who wants to keep his head is going to suggest that you “handle” David Miscavige.

No Church Ethics Officer who wants to keep his head is going to suggest that you “disconnect” from the glorious wonderful Church that is draining your bank account.

So the INVENTED and OUT-TECH solution is to say “you can’t put that person on your PTS terminal list”.

Another Flag pc I know got an S&D, and named an OT VIII completion as the item on that list, which blew down and F/Ned, and THE AUDITOR AND C/S REFUSED TO GIVE THE PC HIS ITEM BECAUSE IT WAS PRESUMED TO BE A “GOOD HAT”. (This is the worst kind of evaluation and invalidation: an IN-SESSION refusal of an item.) The pc was promptly repaired into apathy. (“Sad effect” and “a down tone and slow case gain” are the consequences of this nonsense, which could have been predicted per Laws of Listing and Nulling number 13 and 20.)

This happened even though the OT VIII in question couldn’t hold a post as a Div 6 Registrar, Dissem Sec, HCO Sec, Bookseller, or Course Supervisor. It happened even though the OT VIII in question physically attacked another Scientologist in the parking lot of the org. This happened even though the OT VIII in question refused to be hatted on OCA evaluation technology. This happened even though the OT VIII blew staff and refused to do a leaving staff confessional.

Nope: he was an OT VIII, a Scientologist, and gave the Church lotsa money. So he couldn’t be a PTS terminal for someone.

Whaddaya know? A does equal A does equal A does equal . . .

Accepting the OT VIII as the PTS terminal for someone would mean at least one thing. Flag and the Freewinds let someone with obviously unhandled 3rd dynamic aberrations, service facsimiles and evil purposes onto and through OT VIII.

It would mean Flag and the Freewinds totally f’ed up. All because a pc was able to use the smokescreen of “donating lotsa money to the Church.”

It doesn’t matter if you have someone on interminable OT VII because YOU MADE THEM OUT-LIST, DOOMING THEM FOREVER TO AN UNRESOLVABLE PTS SITUATION.

(This perverted approach totally ignores the possibility that the person you name as an SP strung you up by your thumbs and flailed the skin off your body...a thousand years ago…and may be in Scientology today and have given a million dollars in donations to the Church. So he’s not an SP …to your Ethics Officer… even if he’s an SP to you!)

Now, let’s take a look at the OTHER PTS terminal.

HCO PL 16 October 1967 SUPPRESSIVES AND THE ADMINISTRATOR; HOW TO DETECT SPs AS AN ADMINISTRATOR gives a 6-item checklist for detecting a suppressive person:

• No ethics change
• No case chance
• No admin change

• Thick ethics files
• Thick (or no) case files
• Thick, full (or no) comm baskets.