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 There are certain characteristics and mental attitudes which cause about
      20% of Man to be against any betterment activity or group. Such people are
      known to have anti-social tendencies.
 When the laws and political life of a country come
      to a point, where such personalities can easily advance and reach high
      positions, the constructive and decent organizations of that country
      become suppressed. Barbarism, suppression, criminality within and outside
      government follow. The economy becomes one-sided and honest, hardworking
      people can hardly make it. Criminal behavior is what succeeds and gets
      rewarded. Crimes and criminal acts are committed or accepted by
      anti-social personalities. 
        
        
          
            
              |  |    In a suppressive society criminal   behavior, inside and outside
 government, is what succeeds
 and gets rewarded
 |     Insane patients in institutions can routinely
      have their psychotic break traced back to contact with such personalities. 
        
        
          
            
              |  | Insane patients in institutions can routinely have their
 psychotic break traced back to
 contact with such personalities.
 |    It is thus important to be able to recognize and
      isolate such a personality type. You may sometimes find them in high
      government positions, in the police force, in the courts, in health care
      and in the field of mental health. At this time they remain relatively
      undetected and free to do harm by covert and overt means. It is estimated that as much as 20% of any
      population fall into this category. But furthermore it is estimated, that
      only about 2.5% of this group (or 0.5% meaning 1 in 200) is truly
      dangerous. The 0.5% are known as Suppressive Persons (SP's). The remaining
      19.5% are known as Potential Trouble Sources (PTS). Depending of the
      degree and type of PTS'ness, PTS'es  can usually be processed if you
      recognize their condition and actually handle it head on. 
        
        
          
            
              |  | A straw-man is somebody posing as an SP. They may
 cause a lot of trouble but
 usually do not belong to
 the hard-core 0.5%, but
 still mean "trouble" = PTS.
 |  It would thus be a doable task to protect society
      and individuals from the destructive acts and effects of such individuals,
      especially the 0.5% group (the SP's - often called the 21/2 percent'ers).
      Isolating or handle this little group with justice would cause the
      situation and the PTS individuals to cool off and destimulate.   
        
        
          
            
              |  | History is full of examples of suppressive regimes. They use
 fear and terror to their advantage.
 High officials committing crimes,
 taking bribes or close their eyes
 become the order of the day;  but
 usually their 'success' is short-lived.
 (Picture: Josef Stalin)
 |  Well known historic examples of anti-social
      personalities would include Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein and numerous
      other dictators; and infamous criminals such as Al Capone, Jack the
      Ripper, and other serial-killers, etc. You will see their deeds - big and
      small - in any daily newspaper; you watch movies about them and so on. You
      will often see totalitarian regimes and organizations bent towards this
      behavior. But although you can find all these clear examples you must not
      overlook the real point here, that anti-social personalities exist in real
      life and they are very often hard to detect.   
        
        
          
            
              |  | Anti-socials exist in real life and they are
 often hard to detect.
 |    If you were to trace the causes for failing
      businesses and enterprises you will often enough find an anti-social
      person right in the middle of it and hard at work. In other human
      tragedies, such as families breaking up or constructive efforts fail and
      come to nothing, you will usually find an anti-social personality was at
      work. If life is becoming rough or your hard work comes to nothing, where
      good health and happiness seem to loose, the trained observer will be able
      to detect one or more such anti-social person working at it. 
        
        
          
            
              |  | In the middle of a failing business you will often find
 an anti-social person hard
 at work, but he can
 be hard to detect.
 |    Since 80% of the population try to get along and
      make a go of it and only 20% seem to work against this it would be of
      great benefit to us to be able to clearly identify such people. It would
      save us a lot of hardship and help to prevent failure and misery. So what
      is exactly the characteristics and attributes of the anti-social
      personality? Anti-Social Attributes
 We have a list of 12 main characteristics and attributes to describe and
      identify the anti-social personality with. These applies mainly to
      Suppressive Persons, but Potential Trouble Sources may display them in
      greater or lesser degree:
   
        
        
          
            
              |  |    The anti-social deals   mainly in bad news.
 |  1. An anti-social person deals mainly in bad news.
      He or she comes with critical or hostile remarks, invalidates and
      generally suppresses people around him. Also, you will rarely find such a
      person pass on good news or give compliments. 2. Such a person speaks only in generalities.
      "They say ..." "They all think..."
      "Everybody knows..." etc., etc. are used routinely,
      especially when passing on rumors. "Gossip head" or
      "bringer of evil or bad news" or "rumor-fabricator"
      often describes such a person. If you confront such a person with,
      "Who is everybody?" or track down a rumor it usually turns out
      to be just one person at work. The anti-social person made up what he or
      she pretended to be the only or dominating opinion of society or a group.They usually see society at large as a hostile generality, which is set
      against the anti-social in particular, so the above activities come about
      quite natural.
 
        
        
          
            
              |  | They speak in generalities and deal in bad
 news and starting rumors.
 |  3. The anti-social person typically alters to the
      worse any message going through him or her. Good news are stopped and only
      bad news, often made worse, are passed on. Such a person may even
      "pass on bad news" which were in fact invented to make the PTS
      person or others feel bad.   
        
        
          
            
              |  |    Receiving any form   of therapy terrifies
 the anti-social.
 |  4. A truly anti-social person does not respond to
      treatment, processing, reform or psychotherapy. It terrifies him.   
        
        
          
            
              |  |  The anti-social's associates are often ill and
 'crippled' with little success.
 |  5. Around such a personality you will find ill and
      'humble' friends and associates. They will typically behave in a crippled
      manner. They will be seen to fail in life; any little success is
      invalidated.   
        
        
          
            
              |  | The PTS associates make troubles for others. They are
 more noisy and visible than
 the anti-social. The SP is
 often invisible, but active
 behind the scenes.
 |  Such associates of an anti-social make trouble for
      others. When they are treated or educated, they have no stability of gain
      but promptly relapse or lose their advantages of knowledge. They are under
      the suppressive influence of the truly anti-social.Treated medically, such associates commonly do not recover in the expected
      time but can get worse or have a poor and long recovery time. It is quite
      useless to treat or help or train such persons as long as they remain
      under the influence of the anti-social person.
 The largest group of insane are insane because of such anti-social
      connections. They do not recover easily for the same reason. Oddly enough
      we rarely see the anti-social personality institutionalized. Only his
      "friends" and family are there.
   
        
        
          
            
              |  | The anti-social will pick the wrong target or
 blame the wrong cause.
 A flat tire
 "is the cat's fault".
 |  6. The anti-social personality routinely picks the
      wrong target or blames the wrong cause.If a tire is flat from driving over a nail, he or she blames a passenger,
      the cat or some other irrelevant 'cause' for the problem. If the TV won't
      turn on he blames it on whoever is present instead of checking if it is
      plugged in and in good repair. He routinely blames any mishap or failure
      on others instead of finding the cause.
   
        
        
          
            
              |  | Anti-socials cannot finish cycles of action. As a result
 their quarters and equipment
 are often found in a mess.
 |  7. Anti-social's cannot finish a cycle of action.They routinely become surrounded with incomplete projects. As a result you
      will often find their homes and equipment or office in a mess and in bad
      repair (types of unfinished cycles may however vary so the above is just a
      possible indicator).
   
        
        
          
            
              |  |  Anti-socials have a low sense of responsibility
 |  8. As the police knows, many anti-social persons
      will have no trouble with confessing to alarming crimes when forced to do
      so, but they will have no sense of responsibility. They see their actions
      as having little to do with their own intentions or actions. It "just
      happened".They have no sense of correct causation and especially cannot feel any
      guilt, shame or responsibility for what happened.
 
        
        
          
            
              |  |    Ku-Klux-Klan originally came   out of the US Civil War
 (1861-65). But they soon
 developed into a very racial
 and very suppressive group
 against any civil rights,
 except their own.
 |  9. The anti-social personality supports only
      destructive groups and attacks or rages against any constructive or
      betterment group. 10. This type of personality approves only of
      destructive actions and fights against constructive or helpful actions or
      activities. People defending a good cause or creative people will often be
      like a magnet for anti-social personalities who see in their work
      something which must be covertly destroyed. The anti-social may pose
      "as a friend", but try to poison and destroy.   
        
        
          
            
              |  | Activities that destroy in the name of 'help' are supported.
 |  11. True help of others can drive the anti-social
      person up the wall. Activities which destroy in the name of 'help', on the
      other hand, are warmly supported.   
        
        
          
            
              |  | "Ownership is an idea made up to fool people"
 |  12. The anti-social personality has a bad sense of
      ownership. To him nothing is ever really owned. Ownership is an idea just
      made up to fool people.
 The Basic ReasonThe basic reason the anti-social personality behaves as he or she does is
      due to a hidden terror of others.
 Such a person sees every other individual as an enemy. They see others as
      enemies that covertly or overtly should be destroyed.
 To them good survival depends on keeping others down or keeping them
      ignorant.
 If they hear about programs seeking to make others stronger or brighter,
      the anti-social personality sees it as a personal danger and will fight
      it.
 They see it as they would be much better off if people around them were
      weak, obedient, fearful and stupid. It would be seen as an immediate
      threat to their survival if others got stronger or brighter.
   
        
        
          
            
              |  | To the anti-social 'good survival' consist of keeping
 others down, weak
 and ignorant.
 |    Such a person has no trust in others. They are
      terrified of them. They usually cover this up in clever ways and it can be
      hard to pinpoint or detect.When such a personality goes insane the world is full of
      Extra-terrestrials. The police or the Marcabians (a type of
      extra-terrestrials) have built in radio-transmitters in his and everybody
      else's heads and listen in.
 But most of such people do not show obvious signs of insanity. They can
      function in society and appear to be quite rational. They can be very
      convincing about their motives. On the surface they may appear to be solid
      citizens.
 The 12 points above are things which such a
      personality cannot detect in himself or herself. This is so true that if
      you thought you found yourself in one of the above categories you can now
      relax. Self-criticism is a luxury the anti-social cannot afford. The last
      thing he will see or admit to is his own shortcomings.  He must be
      right all the time. They see themselves as being in constant danger. If
      you proved such a person wrong, you might even cause him or her to become
      severely ill. Only the sane and well-balanced person tries to correct his
      conduct and see other people's views.
 
        
        
          
            
              |  | Through Search & Discovery the SP's on the case can be located.
 To do so and handle or disconnect
 will give the pc great relief.
 |    ReliefThe first thing in handling anything is to know about it. The second is to
      be willing and able to confront it. Using the data of the PTS tech you can
      be given a  proper search for and discovery of hard core suppressive
      persons in your past that you have known and dealt with. If you then
      recognize their bad influence and disconnect, you will experience great
      deal of relief.
 In society, if it were to recognize this personality type as a sick being,
      they could isolate them as they do with people with contagious diseases.
      This would result in a social and economic recovery for society at large.
 Things are not likely to really improve when 20% of the population is
      permitted to dominate and damage the remaining 80%.
 As democracy and majority rule is the preferred political system at his
      age, this would be a natural next step: Majority sanity should rule our
      daily lives without giving power to the few to destroy or unsettle the
      rest of society.
 
 The worst thing about this situation is, anti-socials will not allow
      others to help or effectively treat them. The sad fact is that they do not
      respond well to treatment, even when this is attempted.
 
 Suppression and Entheta
 Anti-social persons use and speak entheta. Entheta
      means "Enturbulated thought or life. This is especially destructive
      communications based on lies and confusions in an attempt to overwhelm or
      suppress a person or group. Entheta has no power in itself but feed on
      theta in a parasitic fashion.
 This is an important datum as it is often the PTS person that
      "feeds" the SP terminal. Thus by working with the PTS person you
      can find out what he is doing to fuel the situation and have him change
      that. In some instances disconnection is the only workable option. You cut
      the feed-line completely and the entheta will stop.
   
     
        
        
          
            
              |  |  Social Persons are best recognized by their products and
 effects over a period of time.
 |  The Social PersonalityMan is prone to witch hunting. The above 12 points can certainly lead to
      that. From a technical viewpoint you don't need to call the terminals you
      handle on a pc for Anti-social Personalities or Suppressive Persons. Often
      enough they are not. Yet they have to be handled with PTS tech to help the
      pc. Since a basic structure of the Bank is said to be terminals confronted
      by opposition terminals (GPM's)
      it can be hard to always sort out what is happening. In life SP's will
      dramatize being opposition terminals to the pc and try to do him in.
      "Life imitates art" you could say. Just about any story has good
      guys and bad guys in it. These types of battles have been happening for
      eons in real life and this kind of Chain of  incidents with terminals
      and opposition terminals are on the pc's Time Track as well. So a big
      factor to consider in any PTS action is the restimulation of opposition
      terminals in the pc's Bank. Usually it is a combination of the two: (1)
      actual opposition, threat or suppression in the present and (2) the
      restimulation it causes.  We have chosen to stay out of this heated
      debate of good and evil, and judging people from second hand knowledge by
      introducing the term Antagonistic
      Terminal (AT) as a technical term. An AT is simply a person or group
      that, to be correctly handled on the case,  has to be addressed with
      PTS tech. Period. We would estimate that 90% of all the PTS handlings done
      are actually on terminals, where the dominant factor is the restimulation
      or the pc's own inability to deal with opposition, antagonism, or radical
      different points of view. After all this is no easy matter and is the one
      element all conflicts have in common. By far the highest percentage of
      handlings has to do with family members. A dominant spouse or parent is
      the most common. Pc's often feel it is an overt of magnitude to call
      family members for anti-social or suppressive. Sometimes they are. In many
      cases they are not.
 A witch hunt is easy to start. All you have to do
      is to call the "people wearing black hats" for the villains and
      you can start a hunt for people in black hats.But this mechanism of witch hunting makes it very easy for anti-social
      persons to bring about chaos or a dangerous environment. The Spanish
      Inquisition, McCarthy's blacklisting of 'communists' in the 1950s in USA,
      'Ethnic cleansing' of Nazi Germany or Yugoslavia  are just a few
      examples of this. No one was safe and these things were very suppressive
      by themselves.
 But even the anti-social personality, in his
      twisted way, is quite certain that he is acting for the best. The witch
      hunter is commissioned by God. He will often see himself as the only good
      person around: "I am trying to do what is right; God's Will! It's for
      the good of everyone". The only thing that is wrong about his
      thinking is that there are dead bodies all around. He is often so thorough 
      that no one is left alive to be protected from these imagined evils. His conduct
      over a period of time - towards other people, towards his duties and
      work, and the products and effects he produces are the only
      reliable indicators to determine his social character. It is the only
      reliable method to detect whether an individual is an anti-social or a
      social personality. Their motivation for self are similar:
      self-preservation and survival. If you just listen to them you may not be
      able to hear much difference in their explanations. They simply go about
      doing things in radical different ways.As Man in his current state is neither calm nor brave; anyone can be
      nervous and be on the lookout for dangerous persons. He may think he sees
      such persons over there in the black hats and a witch hunt can begin.
 It is therefore even more important to identify the
      social personality than the anti-social personality. By doing so you avoid
      to shoot the innocent out of mere prejudice or dislike or because of some
      short misconduct or dramatization. Do a ComparisonThe social personality can best be defined by comparison with his
      opposite, the anti-social personality.
 It is very easy when you compare to see the difference. No test for
      finding anti-social persons should ever be used without checking both
      sides. As so many other things in ST it is a scale. On the same scale we
      must have the upper and lower ranges of Man's actions.
 A test that declares only anti-social personalities without also being
      able to identify the social personality would actually be a suppressive
      test. It would be like answering "Yes" or "No" to the
      question "Are you still possessed by Satan?" Anyone who answered
      it could be found guilty. That is how witch hunting is done. While this
      method  worked for the Inquisition, it does not make a valid test.
 Society functions only through the efforts and work
      of social people. These are the people that must be recognized and given
      rights and freedoms. One danger in publishing a list as the above is, that
      anti-social people somehow will be able to fit their enemies among good
      people into one or more of the categories and 'run them out of town'. As society functions, prospers and improves solely
      through the hard work of social personalities, one must know them as they,
      not the anti-social, are the worthwhile people. These are the people
      who must have rights and freedoms. Attention is given to the anti-social
      solely to protect and assist the social personalities in the society.All democratic efforts, educational and cultural programs and even the
      human race itself will fail unless one can identify and hold back the
      anti-social personalities and help and forward the social personalities in
      society. For the very word "society" implies social conduct and
      without it there is no society at all, only a dog-eats-dog barbarism.
 You will note in the characteristics of the
      anti-social personality that intelligence is not a point. They can be
      bright, stupid or average. Thus anti-socials who are very intelligent can
      rise to high positions, even heads-of-state.Ability or wish to rise above others are not a sign of being anti-social.
      When they do become important people or rise to power they can become very
      visible because of the consequences of their acts. But they can be
      unimportant people, house tyrants, wife beaters, small crooks, thieves and
      losers, spokesmen or supporters of bad causes, do 'science' to control and
      kill his fellow man or whatever. Usually, if you deal with an SP of some
      status, you will find one hard core anti-social and a crowd of imitators
      and supporters such as in a suppressive regime or organization.
 The twelve given characteristics alone is what can be used to identify the
      anti-social personality.
 
        
        
          
            
              |  | You have to do a comparison back and forth ('black and white')
 and inspect actual products,
 actions, records and personal
 history in order to determine
 the true social nature of a person.
 |  The same 12 characteristics reversed are the only
      criteria of the social personality.The identification of an anti-social personality cannot be done accurately
      unless one also at the same time reviews the positive side of his
      life.
 All persons under stress can react with moments of anti-social conduct.
      This does not make them anti-social personalities.
 The true anti-social person has a majority of anti-social characteristics.
      He has a track record of this. Positive identification takes solid
      evidence. But if you sit down with a person and there is no way he will
      reform his behavior because 'I am 100% right in doing what I am doing',
      you know that you have an individual that is beyond a momentary upset or
      lapse. This is no proof either, unless that's how it is point for point
      and rather consistently.
 The social personality has a majority of social
      characteristics.Thus one must examine the good with the bad before one can truly label the
      anti-social or the social.
 In reviewing such matters, very broad testimony and evidence are best. One
      or two isolated instances determine nothing. One should search all twelve
      social and all twelve anti-social characteristics and decide on the basis
      of actual evidence, not opinion.
 
   Social AttributesThe twelve primary characteristics of the social personality are as
      follows:
 
 1. A social personality passes communication without much alteration and
      if they change anything they tend to delete bad news or present things in
      a more positive light.
 
 
        
        
          
            
              |  | They use positive and constructive communication.
 |    2. The social personality uses specifics when describing things.
      "John Blow said..." "The News Magazine wrote..." He
      gives sources of data when important or possible.
 He may use generalities as "they" or "people" but will
      readily be specific when asked who said so. They do not use generalities
      to hide behind or to upset people.
 
        
        
          
            
              |  | The social person uses specifics (such as statistics) to make his points.
 He is more interested in making
 others feel good than being critical.
 |  
 3. The social personality is happy to pass on good news and hesitate in
      passing on bad news.
 He may not even want to pass on criticism when it doesn't matter.
 He is more interested in making others feel liked or wanted. He may err
      toward comforting and reassure people rather than use criticism. He does
      not like to hurt people's feelings. He sometimes errs in holding back bad
      news or orders when they seem critical or harsh.
 4. Treatment, reform and psychotherapy, even in a
      light form, work very well on the social personality.The anti-social may promise to reform, but nothing changes. Only the
      social personality can change or improve easily. It is often enough to
      point out unwanted conduct to a social personality. He will see the truth
      of it and turn things around. Criminal codes and violent punishment are
      not needed to regulate social personalities. Such punishment may restrain
      anti-socials, on the other hand, but are not seen to change their
      conduct except based on fear.
 
        
        
          
            
              |  | The social personality responds well to treatment
 and will recover quickly
 when given correct care.
 |    5. The associates of a social personality tend to
      be well, happy and of good morale.A truly social personality quite often produces betterment in health or
      fortune by his mere presence and influence. He never reduces the health or
      morale in his associates.
 The social personality heals well and will recover rather easily from
      illness. He accepts and responds well to proven treatment.
 
        
        
          
            
              |  |    The social person can see   the cause of things and
 correct them, if wrong,
 without a lot of fuss.
 |    6. The social personality can see the causes of
      things and select correct targets for correction. He fixes the tire that
      is flat rather than attack the passenger or kick the cat. If the TV
      doesn't work he checks if it is plugged in and in good repair. 7. Cycles of action begun are usually completed by
      the social personality, if possible. He tends to have his personal things
      in working order as he does not abandon them mid air. 8. The social personality is ashamed of his overts
      and has to overcome himself to confess them. He takes responsibility for
      his errors. 9. The social personality supports constructive
      groups and tends to protest or resist destructive groups. 10. Destructive actions are protested by the social
      personality. He assists constructive or helpful actions. 11. The social personality helps others and
      actively resists acts which harm them. 
        
        
          
            
              |  |    The social person is 'the good   cop', trying to maintain order,
 prevent destructive
 actions and theft.
 |    12. Property is property of someone to the social
      personality. He respects personal property of others. He is against misuse
      and theft.   Basic MotivationThe social personality is motivated by the greatest good. He has a natural
      sense of ethics and what is right and wrong.
 He does not feel haunted by imagined enemies but he does recognize real
      enemies when they are facing him.
 The social personality wants to survive and wants others to
      survive. Here is a major difference; the anti-social personality really
      covertly wants 'others to fail so he can survive'. His world is a
      'dog-eat-dog' kind of world where only the meanest survive.
 Basically the social personality wants others to be happy and do well. The
      anti-social, on the other hand, is very clever in doing others in and make
      them fail.
 A key point to understanding all this is not to get fixated upon a
      person's outward signs of success, but examine his basic motivations. You
      see some anti-socials amass great fortunes through suppression and crime.
      The social personality, when successful, will often be a target for the
      anti-social. He will seek out weak points or gain his confidence in order
      to make him fail.
 So there can be great benefits to accurately
      determine the social intent of people. If you can detect the social
      personality and protect his rights and allow him to work and if you can
      detect the anti-social person and restrain him, society will prosper. If
      not, society will keep suffering from insanity, criminal acts and
      senseless wars. Unless we realize and correctly apply the true
      characteristics of the two types of personalities, we will continue to
      live in an uncertainty of who our enemies are.All men have committed acts of violence or omission for which they could
      be criticized, attacked or punished. In all Mankind there is not one
      single perfect human being. And if there was one, there would be about 5
      billion different opinions about it.
 But there are those who try to do right and those who specialize in wrong.
 
 
 How a Suppressive Person Becomes One
 The above text talks about the Anti-social personality and that this type
      of personality makes up as much of 20% of the population. But what is of
      special interest is the 2.5% group of this. These are the suppressive
      persons (SPs). Since Man is basically good, how come the SP seems to fall
      outside this? The best explanation is contained in ST Level 4 where we
      covered Service Computations and Evil Purposes. Studying that gives good
      insight in the reason why. But here are some definitions and data to
      supplement that:
 
        
        
          
            
              |  |    An SP is 'solving' a present time
              problem   which hasn't in actual fact existed for ages
 in most cases. Yet he is acting upon it in
 present time to 'solve' that problem. The
 guy is totally stuck in a past incident and
 thinks it is present time
 |    Suppressive Person, 1. He's
      solving a present time problem which hasn't in actual fact existed for the
      last many trillion of years in most cases.  Yet he is acting upon it
      in present time to solve that problem. The guy is totally stuck in a past
      incident and thinks it is present time; that is the whole anatomy of
      psychosis. 2. He covertly tries to destroy or speak bad about any
      effort to help anybody. He is violently opposed to anything intended to
      make human beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive automatically
      and immediately will oppose any betterment activity, calling it evil or
      bad. 3. the person is in a mad, desperate situation of some past
      incident and is "handling it" by committing overt acts today.  So it is somebody who will overtly or covertly work
      against the auditor and the auditing. The handling of such a person is
      outside the scope of Standard Clearing Technology. The tech may hold the
      key, but it takes more resources and can cause more upsets, attacks and
      lawsuits than you are prepared for. They are considered to make up only
      about 0.5% of the general population (per above). They should not be
      accepted for auditing. The actual percentage and a truly objective,
      reliable and practical doable test has never been developed, so in many
      respects it is a two edged sword. "Handle with care", but if you
      see it, don't fool yourself. A test could possibly be developed. It would
      have to be based on production records, life history, and affiliations
      over a long period of time. To try to develop a clinical test based on
      questionnaires, mental testing, and interviews inevitably leads to witch
      hunting.   
        
        
          
            
              |  | Evil has an appeal to us. From childhood and on. We have
 these images of evil characters,
 that we usually don't act upon.
 To act it out in play is of course
 fine. It is a degree of confront.
 To get stuck in one unknowingly
 is how a person becomes an SP.
 |  From Good to EvilHow evil can take over was explained this way by R. Hubbard  in a
      lecture:
 It might interest you how a suppressive person
      becomes one. That is the guy who has enough overts to deserve more
      pay-back than you can imagine. It is the guy, who keeps doing things to do
      others in. He's the villain. Now the reason he got to be such a bad boy
      was by switching valences.  He had a bad boy over there parked in his mind;
      and he then, in some peculiar way, got into that bad boy's valence. Now he
      knows what he is - he's a bad boy. Man is basically good but he mocks-up
      evil valences and then gets inside them and gets stuck in them. He says
      the other fellow is bad. He keeps saying the other fellow is bad. He works
      on this character all the time as something not to be. And
      eventually he has got this very live character all made up in his mind.
      Then some day he becomes this other fellow. You see, a valence shift or
      personality shift happens - he becomes the whole, complete package of
      personality. And there he is. So now he is an evil fellow. He knows how he
      is supposed to act. He is supposed to act like the other fellow, the bad
      character. That's the switch-over. That's how evil comes into being.
      (Covered in SH Briefing 73, 1966).   
        
        
          
            
              |  | Dr. Frankenstein couldn't confront his Monster and it took over. If he had
 been able to confront it, he could have
 controlled it. The price of freedom is to
 be willing to fight evil and rise above it.
 |    So the key to handling evil is to be able to
      confront it in the first place.  That is what went wrong with the guy described in
      the piece above. The person who couldn't confront evil, but only mock it
      up as something not to be, eventually gave up and became it. He was
      Not-is'ing, hating and detesting it. He was holding onto this evil
      personality package in his mind as something not to be; and suddenly it
      had become so powerful so he became it. It simply took over. This is how the Reactive Mind 'works'. It warns you
      against danger on a stimulus-response level and you don't want to look at
      those terrible things. Suddenly it has become so powerful so you have no
      choice but living it. There are of course degrees of this. A complete
      switch does not happen out of the blue, just because of one incident. But
      sometimes one powerful incident suddenly does it and the pc is stuck in
      that incident. Long before it happens, the person simply withholds
      himself. But when you pull overts and withholds you are preventing
      something like this from happening down the road. You are getting the pc's
      ability to confront evil up. The 'demons' (evil valences) in his mind will
      loose power. He will regain power over them and the basic goodness of Man
      will prevail in his conduct and thinking.  Pick Your FightsThe focus of the PTS tech included in this manual is the pc and how to
      make him auditable. We are not trying to say, that you always have to
      appease enemies or evil persons. As we are touching upon the age old
      conflict between good and evil it is a very hot and opinionated subject.
      We are only saying "pick your fights" and as far as auditing is
      concerned you want to keep the pc out of hot waters and make him stronger
      first of all. This is best done on a gradient scale. Therefore the PTS
      tech as applied here is not the ultimate answer to how to deal with evil
      but simply a practical guide to get your pc audited. If your pc's ultimate
      goal is to become capable of taking on all evil in the world head on in a
      final glorious battle and win - more power to him. The PTS tech presented
      would still be a good starting point to make him strong enough to do that.
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