POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE

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1. the PTS guy is fairly obvious. He's here, he's way up today and he's way down tomorrow and he gets a beautiful session and then be gets terribly ill. That's the history of his life. If you look into his folder, you will look at a folder summary and you will see that every two or three sessions is a repair. He can't stay on a program. He goes a little distance up the Grade Chart then has to be patched up. It looks like Coney Island-hence rollercoaster. (ESTO 3, 7203CO2 SO I)

2. the main cause of being a potential trouble source is being connected with persons (such as marital or familial ties) of known antagonism to Sen. (OODs 4 Jun 71)

3. those who are connected with the destructively anti-social outside the org. (HCO PL 30 Aug 70)

4. the mechanism of PTS is environmental menace that keeps something continually keyed in. This can be a constant recurring somatic or continual, recurring pressure or a mass. The menace in the environment is not imaginary in such extreme cases. The action can be taken to key it out. But if the environmental menace is actual and persists it will just key in again. This gives recurring pressure unrelieved by usual processing. (HCOB 5 Dec 68)

5. a person or preclear who "roller coasters," 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)

6. somebody who is connected with an SP who is invalidating him, his beingness, his processing, his life. (SH Spec 63, 6506C08)

7. means the case is going to go up and fall down. He's a trouble source because he's going to get upset. He's a trouble source because he's going to make trouble. And he's trouble for the auditor and he's trouble for us and he's trouble for himself. (SH Spec 68, 6510C14)

8. it means someone connected to a person or group opposed to Scn. It is a technical thing. It results in illness and roller-coaster and is the cause of illness and roller-coaster. (HCOB 17 Apr 72)