Alteration of orders and tech is worse than non-compliance.

Alter-is is a covert avoidance of an order. Although it is apparently often brought about by non-comprehension, the non-comprehension itself and failure to mention it. is an avoidance of orders.

Very degraded beings alter-is. Degraded ones refuse to comply without mentioning it. Beings in fair condition try to comply but remark their troubles to get help when needed. Competent higher toned beings understand orders and comply if possible but mainly do their jobs without needing lots of special orders.

Degraded beings find any instruction painful as they have been painfully indoctrinated with violent measures in the past. They therefore alter-is any order or don’t comply.

A Scientology org must be at CAUSE over the environment and public.

Thus in auditing pcs or in org, where you find alter-is (covert non-compliance) and non-compliance, given sensible and correct tech or instructions, you are dealing with a degraded low level being and should act accordingly.

Whenever it has gotten into trouble it has slipped to effect.

One uses very simple low level processes on a degraded being, gently.

It is only the negligence or alter-is or non-compliance on the part of certain persons on staff or in the professional employ of org (such as attorneys, accountants) that gets the org in trouble.

In admin, orgs and especially the Tech Div where a staff member alter-ises, or fails to comply you are also dealing with a degraded being but one who is too much a pc to be a staff member. He cannot be at cause and staff members must be at cause. So he or she should not be on staff.

Such beings are uniformly degraded beings. They are at best pcs. They are not truly staff members or effective professionals.

This is a primary senior datum regulating all handling of pcs and staff members.

The more degraded beings you employ or retain as professionals to "fill a post" or "need a lawyer" or for any other reason, the more the org will be at effect.

A degraded being is not a suppressive as he can have case gain. But he is so PTS that he works for suppressives only. He is sort of a super-continual PTS beyond the reach really of a simple S & D and handled only at Sect 3 OT Course.

These are the people who get you and your org in trouble.

Degraded beings, taking a cue from SP associates, instinctively resent, hate and seek to obstruct any person in charge of anything or any Big Being.

Their characteristic is alter-is of tech, alter-is of policy, and non-compliance with Tech, Policy and orders.

Anyone issuing sensible orders is the first one resented by a degraded being.

Where these characteristics are spotted in a person hired on staff the person is only qualified to be a pc and MUST NOT BE RETAINED ON STAFF or as a professional contact.

A degraded being lies to his seniors, avoids orders covertly by alter-is. fails to comply, supplies only complex ideas that can’t ever work (obstructive) and is a general area of enturbulence, often mild seeming or even “cooperative” often even flattering, sometimes merely dull but consistently alter-ising or non-complying.

This is a different thing than a suppressive. A suppressive is seeking to destroy knowingly and gets no case gain.

This datum appeared during higher level research and is highly revelatory of earlier unexplained phenomena - the pc who changes commands or doesn’t do them, the worker who can’t get it straight or who is always on a tea break.

"Degraded being" is a harsh term but a true one. It means a person who is at effect to such a degree that he or she avoids orders or instructions in any possible covert or overt way because orders of any kind are confused with painful indoctrinations in the past.

In an area where suppression has been very heavy for long periods people become degraded beings. However, they must have been so before already due to track incidents.

This person cannot be at cause without attaining OT Level 3. Therefore they prevent the org from being at cause as they cannot be at cause themselves and will not let the org or anything else be at cause including executives.

Some thetans are bigger than others. None are truly equal. But the degraded being is not necessarily a natively bad thetan. He is simply so PTS and has been for so long that it requires our highest level tech to finally undo it after he has scaled up all our grades.

Persons who alter-is tech or refuse to comply with proper legal orders constitute a class of pcs we can process gently and happily but MUST NOT employ.

Degraded beings are about 18 to 1 over Big Beings in the human race (minimum ratio). So those who keep things going are few. And those who will make it without the steam of the few in our orgs behind them are zero. At the same time, we can’t have a world full of them and still make it. So we have no choice.

Further an org that goes mad on "process the whole staff" continually regardless of duties has a degraded being complex. ("Us poor equal thetans".)

And we can handle them even when they cannot serve at higher levels.

In such an org the degraded beings outnumber the Big Being staff members. Such an org is not at cause over the environment but is a sort of mutual aid society or a self treating mental ward where the inmates use Scn to treat each other but are but dimly aware of the outer environment.

This is really OT data but we need it at lower levels to get the job done.

In a staff member we expect lots of auditing and case gain. But we do not expect him to be on staff yet only capable of being a pc (as he alter-ises and non-complies).

We are completely happy to service such. We refuse utterly to use them on staff.

A staff member must be capable of being, with the org, cause over his environment.

It is policy that an executive may not retain on his staff or in his division or in the org any repeatedly alter-ising or non-complying staff member but must see the person dismissed, gently but firmly and put in a pc status only.

Personnel Officers hiring persons who have little ability to be cause over their own life environment are in violation of this policy.

We can process and bring up to stature such beings. But they are pcs entirely and cannot do other than bring an org down to the effect level and so get it into often severe trouble. They are the source (next above suppressives) of all org executives' overwork and woe.

The cash-bills ratio of an org is a very good index of the proportion of degraded beings on its staff or even in charge of things there.

An effective remedy for WW on such an org is to send someone to examine alter-is and non-compliance in that org and dismiss all staff so inclined. The org, even with 2 who are Big Beings left in it, will do better!

This policy letter is based on new tech data concerning thetans. When complied with it will increase the effectiveness of orgs many times over.

Our problem is to lift up people. We cannot do so if we are internally held down.

If our orgs are not maintained at cause then we fail the millions for the sake of being stupid about a few. Remember, we have not abandoned anyone by refusing him or her staff status.