Glossary: How to Confront and Shatter Suppression PTS/SP Course
To assist in your understanding of these issues, hard-to-find terms and other words which you may not be familiar with are included in this glossary. AMA: abbreviation for American Medical Association. American Medical Association: a physicians’ organization in the United States. APA: abbreviation for American Psychiatric Association. assessment: the action of an auditor calling off [...]
Glossary: PTS/SP lectures
To assist in your understanding of these lectures, hard-to-find terms and other words with which you may not be familiar are included in this glossary. An example of usage from the lectures is included at the end of each definition. Adler: Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Austrian psychiatrist who developed a theory that man’s difficulties resulted from [...]
Merchants of Chaos
MERCHANTS OF CHAOS, there are in our civilization some very disturbing elements. These disturbing elements are the Merchants of Chaos. They deal in confusion and upset. Their daily bread is made by creating chaos. If chaos were to lessen, so would their incomes. It is to their interest to make the environment seem as threatening [...]
Merchants of Fear
MERCHANTS OF FEAR, 1. probably the truly aberrative personalities in our society do not number more than five or ten per cent. They have very special traits. Where you find in the preclear’s bank a person with one or more of these characteristics, you will have the person who most thoroughly tried the preclear’s sanity. [...]
Potential Trouble Source (PTS)
POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, 1. a person or preclear who “rollercoasters,” i.e., gets better, then worse. This occurs only when his connection to a suppressive person or group is unhandled and he must, in order to make his gains from Scn permanent, receive processing intended to handle such. (ISE, p. 48) 2. somebody who is connected [...]
PTS Type A; PTS Type 1; PTS Type 2; PTS Type 3
PTS TYPE A, a person intimately connected with persons (such as marital or familial ties) of known antagonism to mental or spiritual treatment or Scn. (HCO PL 5 Apr 72 I) PTS TYPE ONE, the SP on the case is right in present time, actively suppressing the person. Type one is normally handled by an [...]
Resistive Case
RESISTIVE CASE, 1. symptoms of a resistive case are thick review folder, roller-coasters, complains, blows courses or churches, long sessions, hard to get F/Ns, doesn’t want auditing, makes trouble for auditors, and/or does not respond to auditing. (HCOB 8 Sept 71) 2 . TA in normal range but not responding well to auditing. (BTB 11 [...]
Suppression
SUPPRESSION, suppression is “a harmful intention or action against which one cannot fight back.” Thus when one can do anything about it, it is less suppressive. (HCO PL 26 Dec 66) Hubbard, L. R., (1975). Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary. Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California Publications Organization.
Suppressive Acts
SUPPRESSIVE ACTS , 1. acts calculated to impede or destroy Scn or a Scientologist. (HCO PL 23 Dec 65) 2. actions or omissions undertaken to knowingly suppress, reduce or impede Scn or Scientologists. (HCO PL 23 Dec 65) Hubbard, L. R., (1975). Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary. Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California Publications [...]
Suppressive Groups
SUPPRESSIVE GROUPS, are defined as those which seek to destroy Scn or which specialize in injuring or killing persons or damaging their cases or which advocate suppression of mankind. (HCO PL 29 Jun 68) Hubbard, L. R., (1975). Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary. Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California Publications Organization.
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