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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 10 AUGUST 1973

PTS HANDLING

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HCO Secs
E/Os
MAAs
Tech Secs
Ds of P
PTS Pack

(PTS = Potential Trouble Source)

There are two stable data which anyone has to have, understand and know are true in
order to obtain results in handling the person connected to suppressives.

These data are:

1. That all illness in greater or lesser degree and all foul-ups stem directly and only from
a PTS condition.

2. That getting rid of the condition requires three basic actions: A. Discover. B. Handle
or disconnect.

Persons called upon to handle PTS people can do so very easily, far more easily than
they believe. Their basic stumbling block is thinking that there are exceptions or that there is
other tech or that the two above data have modifiers or are not sweeping. The moment a person
who is trying to handle PTSs gets persuaded there are other conditions or reasons or tech,
he is at once lost and will lose the game and not obtain results. And this is very too bad because
it is not difficult and the results are there to be obtained.

To turn someone who may be PTS over to an auditor just to have him mechanically
audited may not be enough. In the first place this person may not have a clue what is meant by
PTS and may be missing all manner of technical data on life and may be so overwhelmed by a
suppressive person or group that he is quite incoherent. Thus just mechanically doing a process
may miss the whole show as it misses the person’s understanding of why it is being done.
A PTS person is rarely psychotic. But all psychotics are PTS if only to themselves. A
PTS person may be in a state of deficiency or pathology which prevents a ready recovery, but
at the same time he will not fully recover unless the PTS condition is also handled. For he
became prone to deficiency or pathological illness because he was PTS. And unless the condition
is relieved, no matter what medication or nutrition he may be given, he might not recover
and certainly will not recover permanently. This seems to indicate that there are „other illnesses
or reasons for illness besides being PTS”. To be sure there are deficiencies and illnesses
just as there are accidents and injuries. But strangely enough the person himself precipitates
them because being PTS predisposes him to them. In a more garbled way, the medicos
and nutritionists are always talking about „stress” causing illness. Lacking full tech they
yet have an inkling that this is so because they see it is somehow true. They cannot handle it.

Yet they recognize it, and they state that it is a senior situation to various illnesses and accidents.
Well, we have the tech of this in more ways than one.

What is this thing called „stress”? It is more than the medico defines it – he usually
says it comes from operational or physical shock and in this he has too limited a view.
A person under stress is actually under a suppression on one or more dynamics.

If that suppression is located and the person handles or disconnects, the condition diminishes.
If he also has all the engrams and ARC Breaks, problems, overts and withholds
audited out triple flow and if all such areas of suppression are thus handled, the person would
recover from anything caused by „stress”.

Usually the person has insufficient understanding of life or any dynamic to grasp his
own situation. He is confused. He believes all his illnesses are true because they occur in such
heavy books!

At some time he was predisposed to illness or accidents. When a serious suppression
then occurred he suffered a precipitation or occurrence of the accident or illness, and then
with repeated similar suppressions on the same chain, the illness or tendency to accidents became
prolonged or chronic.

To say then that a person is PTS to his current environment would be very limited as a
diagnosis. If he continues to do or be something to which the suppressive person or group
objected he may become or continue to be ill or have accidents.

Actually the problem of PTS is not very complicated. Once you have grasped the two
data first given, the rest of it becomes simply an analysis of how they apply to this particular
person. A PTS person can be markedly helped in three ways: (a) gaining an understanding of
the tech of the condition (b) discovering to what or to whom he is PTS (c) handling or disconnecting.
Someone with the wish or duty to find and handle PTSs has an additional prior step:

He must know how to recognize a PTS and how to handle them when recognized. Thus it is
rather a waste of time to engage in this hunt unless one has been checked out on all the material
on suppressives and PTSs and grasps it without misunderstoods. In other words the first
step of the person is to get a grasp of the subject and its tech. This is not difficult to do; it may
be a bit more difficult to learn to run an E-Meter and considerably more difficult to learn how
to list for items, but there again this is possible and is much easier than trying to grope around
guessing.

With this step done, a person has no real trouble recognizing PTS people and can have
success in handling them which is very gratifying and rewarding. Let us consider the easiest
level of approach:

I) Give the person the simpler HCO Bs on the subject and let him study them so that he
knows the elements like „PTS” and „Suppressive”. He may just cognite right there and
be much better. It has happened.

II) Have him discuss the illness or accident or condition, without much prodding or probing,
that he thinks now may be the result of suppression. He will usually tell you it is
right here and now or was a short time ago and will be all set to explain it (without any
relief) as stemming from his current environment or a recent one. If you let it go at
that he would simply be a bit unhappy and not get well as he is discussing usually a late
lock that has a lot of earlier material below it.

III) Ask when he recalls first having that illness or having such accidents. He will at once
begin to roll this back and realize that it has happened before. You don’t have to be
auditing him as he is all too willing to talk about this in a most informal manner. He
will get back to some early this-lifetime point usually.

IV) Now ask him who it was. He will usually tell you promptly. And, as you are not really
auditing him and he isn’t going backtrack and you are not trying to do more than key
him out, you don’t probe any further.

V) You will usually find that he has named a person to whom he is still connected! So
you ask him whether he wants to handle or disconnect. Now as the sparks will really
fly in his life if he dramatically disconnects and if he can’t see how he can, you persuade
him to begin to handle on a gradient scale. This may consist of imposing some
slight discipline on him such as requiring him to actually answer his mail or write the
person a pleasant good roads good weather note or to realistically look at how he
estranged them. In short what is required in the handling is a low gradient. All you are
trying to do is move the PTS person from effect over to slight gentle cause.

VI) Check with the person again, if he is handling, and coach him along, always at a gentle
good roads and good weather level and no H E and R (Human Emotion and Reaction)
if you please.

That is a simple handling. You can get complexities such as a person being PTS to an
unknown person in his immediate vicinity that he may have to find before he can handle or
disconnect. You can find people who can’t remember more than a few years back. You can
find anything you can find in a case. But simple handling ends when it looks pretty complex.
And that’s when you call in the auditor.

But this simple handling will get you quite a few stars in your crown. You will be
amazed to find that while some of them don’t instantly recover, medication, vitamins, minerals
will now work when before they wouldn’t. You may also get some instant recovers but
realize that if they don’t you have not failed.

The auditor can do „3 S&Ds” after this with much more effect as he isn’t working
with a completely uninformed person.

„3 S&Ds” only fail because of wrong items or because the auditor did not then put in
triple rudiments on the items and then audit them out as engrams triple flow.

A being is rather complex. He may have a lot of sources of suppression. And it may
take a lot of very light auditing to get him up to where he can do work on suppressives since
these were, after all, the source of his overwhelm. And what he did to them might be more
important than what they did to him but unless you unburden him he may not get around to
realizing that.

You can run into a person who can only be handled by Expanded Dianetics.

But you have made an entrance and you have stirred things up and gotten him more
aware and just that way you will find he is more at cause.

His illness or proneness to accidents may not be slight. You may succeed only to the
point where he now has a chance, by nutrition, vitamins, minerals, medication, treatment, and
above all, auditing, of getting well. Unless you jogged this condition, he had no chance at all:
for becoming PTS is the first thing that happened to him on the subject of illness or accidents.
Further, if the person has had a lot of auditing and yet isn’t progressing too well, your
simple handling may all of a sudden cause him to line up his case.

So do not underestimate what you or an auditor can do for a PTS. And don’t sell PTS
tech short or neglect it. And don’t continue to transfer or push off or even worse tolerate PTS
conditions in people.

You can do something about it.

And so can they.

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

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