Let me ask this way.. When I see a Scn say they are disconnecting bc no one is going to take their eternity away from them.. What is the promise for a Scientologists eternity?
What does this life give you in the next? Wouldn't you just have to do the bridge all over again if you're "lucky enough" to even know about Scn in the next life? Are you supposed to be born next time with all this great knowledge from the last life?
To understand all of this SP nonsense, one needs to get that there are the 1) case SP, and 2) administrative SP.
Hubbard and Scientology don't make that differentiation, even though the difference is clear and obvious to any even slightly intelligent person.
Case SP:
A "suppressive" is any person or group who has acted to invalidate, crush and NOT-IS the PC. When one thinks back to having known such people, one usually can spot moments of upset, and especially attempts at trying to STOP the invalidation. In some way, on some dynamic, the SP person or group is trying to make you less. In a sense this person or group is acting to damage and destroy your impulses to live and thrive in any area of life.
As I see it, there is
some sense to this. I can find examples of people or groups who have behaved or behave like that. It might very well help any person to spot such people, recognize them for what they are, and get them out of your life. On a certain level, THAT is what Scientology SP/PTS Tech is designed to do. For example, I don't want to be good friends with a person who lies and steals, and will probably from me. So I have nothing to do with them. It is a basic survival issue. It is a sanity issue. I suppose you could call this "disconnection", but the term has many other attached meanings in Scientology. Having nothing to do with truly destructive people and groups makes sense.
The key word here is "truly" destructive people and groups. When I get to explaining the administrative SP, this will become clearer.
Next, about the case SP, Hubbard has his theory about HOW and WHY an SP becomes an SP. This also does not seemed entirely far-fetched to me. I am paraphrasing this, but it conveys the gist of it all.
When a person is under a heavy degree of suppression, with the attendant force aimed at invalidating and crushing ones very life force, a person can get "stuck" in this moment. When a person is RESISTING this force that is being levied at him or her, he or she PUSHES BACK with a great deal of resistance. In a sense the person gets locked into this moment of trying to STOP the invalidation or destruction from happening. Another aspect of this, per Scientology theory, and I am not quite so sure about this angle, is that often when a person gets beaten he or she will thereafter "assume the valence of the winner". That means that later the crushed person will assume the beingness and behaviors of the crusher. That is said to be quite automatic and not a conscious decision.
So, combining 1) getting stuck in this incredible intention to STOP the force that is being exerted against you, and 2) switching over into the "winning valence", one thereafter behaves as an SP. In a sense this ultra-concentrated force to STOP what is happening generalizes out to all life, and this person begins to STOP everything anywhere, compulsively. This person sees ALL humanity as a threat, and he or she incorrectly identifies this aim to crush him as coming from all people.
This manifests as the person now acting out these sort of behaviors, quite uncontrollably:
1. Invalidating others
2, Making others wrong
3. Can't complete cycles of action (stuck in the "stop" moment back down the track).
4. Will try to harm betterment activities
5. Alters communications
This is covered in Hubbard's essay, The
Anti-Social Personality. Now, while I think there is something to the general theory, and this is even more true if we each actually life thousands of lives spanning great periods of time, it all starts to get nutty when Hubbard enters in the "administrative SP" angle to all of this. There may very well be psychological factors that behave in ways like Hubbard described here.
Additionally, the BEST way to address such situations is to handle any out-ethics that YOU have towards the SP, so that you are less of an effect to the SP, and to get a bit stronger so that you don't succumb. But, if and when you can't HANDLE the SP, the only solution is to get away from them. This is the whole idea between "handle or disconnect".
I am talking about REAL SPs here. For example, what would you do if you lived in Nazi Germany or North Korea? You can't "handle" the oppressive environment. You can't beat them on any playing field of free communication, so what is the best solution? Get away from the oppression, and/or DESTROY the source of the oppression. "Handle or Disconnect" makes total sense in such cases.
Administrative SP:
This is where it gets really nutty. This is where the fiction really begins to take over.
PTS (Potential Trouble Source) is defined as any person or group under the influence of suppression, where suppression is defined as anybody who doesn't like Hubbard or Scientology!
It would take too long to explanation all the various ideas, and how they link together to end off with these conclusions of Hubbard's (though often he just declares that what he says is true - there is no explanation given).
Two very different ideas are mixed up and confused here. First, there could be a name for a person under the influence of active suppression (PTS Type 1, or A) or keyed-in suppression (PTS Type II), but it should NOT be "PTS".
PTS came about as a term that simply meant "any person who might cause Hubbard or Scientology trouble".
It got attached and connected to the idea of suppression, because Hubbard went onto to say that all PTS people, any person who might cause us trouble, is connected to a person who is an SP (who doesn't like us). It actually makes sense if you examine this from the viewpoint of mind control and mind controllers.
Take any ideology that aims at 100% total acceptance, without any disagreement, criticism or questioning. Call everything other than that either "other-intention" or "counter-intention" (which is how Hubbard defines the
Purpose of Ethics), and that these would only come from "suppressive persons or groups". Obviously, when it comes to thought control, ANY source of disagreement, criticism or questioning is viewed as BAD. Any sort of disagreement, criticism or questioning causes TROUBLE for the ideological organization. To allow oneself to communicate with information that might result in disagreement, criticism or questioning could
potentially cause trouble for the organization (aka "PTS"). See? Setting this all up as Hubbard did really fine tunes the tight
thought pool of ideas that exist within the inner Scientology environment. He creates mental walls. But, Hubbard HIDES all of this behind a veil of weird statements and ideas.
Hubbard wrote many of the High Crimes (suppressive acts) as ANY action that hurts Hubbard or Scientology. The false fixed idea here, that justifies that and has it make sense is, "Scientology is Mankind's only hope for the future on every dynamic, for all time and space". Without KSW, it is hard to accept and agree with all the nonsense inherent to Scientology "justice procedures". So, Hubbard defined Scientology as the only valid "betterment group". He then makes the invisible connection that "SPs detest and act to destroy all betterment activities", of course, with the unspoken assumption and assertion that Scientology is the absolute BEST example of a "betterment activity".
The
administrative SP is very simply, any person who works against Hubbard or Scientology in any way. It is defined that way. Hubbard defines ethics as the action of
spotting and removing counter-intention and other intention (to Scientology). All Scientology ethics and justice is written and designed ONLY to help Scientology and Hubbard. One has to be pretty dumb, or in severe self-denial not to see that.
While there is no actual written order by Hubbard that Scientologists disconnect from administratively declared SPs, it always plays out that way because it is a SEVERE Suppressive Act to communicate with and/or support any suppressive person or group. If you don't want to also get declared as a suppressive person, then you MUST disconnect. Technically, you do have a choice, but REALLY, if you want to stay affiliated with organized Scientology, there is no choice.
One of the flights of logic and reasoning here is that any person declared as an SP by the Church of Scientology MUST also be the Case SP sort of fellow. The way Hubbard put it all together, most obedient sheep of Scientology just accept that as true.
The minds of most Scientologists are an immense confusion of these various statements, ideas and connections. In the end, it is simple.
The Scientologists accepts and believes that Scientology is his or her ONLY hope. This is key, because
without that, his or her behavior would be very different. He or she wants to get the services, the Bridge, and to achieve spiritual freedom through Scientology. There are no such things really, but they BELIEVE there are such things and they WANT to realize this imaginary hope. So, when people get declared as SPs, and they have to disconnect, it truly IS logical. To keep the door open for their own "eternity", and to be able to avail themselves of this
Bridge to Total Stupidity, he or she will happily disconnect from everybody and anybody. It is entirely true for them when one says, "I am disconnecting to safeguard my eternity". This involves a string of assumptions that result in certain conclusions. The problem here is that most of the assumptions and statements within Scientology are BOGUS!
There is
some validity to the ideas of
Case SP, but there is NO validity to the ideas of the
Administrative SP. And, Hubbard manages to confuse and collapse all of these ideas in the minds of his fanatical followers.
