Veda
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That might not resonate with Scientologirl, who is at the beginning the "Bridge" and sees many actually existing levels before her.It's not hate it's frustration. We're flashing our headlights at you yelling out the window as you speed by us going miles down the dead-end road we just came back from.
Careful... the bridge is out.
It's true that Hubbard misled Scientologists when he told them there were many more unreleased OT levels, finalized and written up, and ready to go. (Miscavige, to his displeasure, discovered this in 1987, and it's been a giant "withhold" from the membership ever since.)
However, Scientologirl is an Independent Scientologist (who is actually a Reformed Scientologist but doesn't know it yet) and, unlike CofS members, she has old OT 4, 5, 6, and 7 on her Grade Chart, with old OT 5, 6, and 7 being more-or-less fun recycled Rosicrucianism.
Then she has the Advanced Org of the Great Plains' version of Bill Robertson's Excalibur and, if she wants it, over thirty additional OT levels from Ron's Orgs. (Where's she'd have the opportunity to run Bill Robertson's "case.")
So there's plenty of Bridge.
The question is, a bridge to what?
The nature of subject changes after it becomes confidential. Most Scientologists think the really good stuff is the confidential part. In reality, the opposite is the true.
After the subject becomes confidential one is, in corporate Scientology, mostly, running Hubbard "case," not one's own.
A person looking at a Scientology Grade Chart will naturally assume, "If it was good at the lower part, then the higher part must be even better, and the highest part must be really terrific."
What really happens is that, beyond a certain point, Scientology begins to take over the person.
The idea is to use Scientology in a beneficial manner and, then, having wins, eventually separate from the total package of Scientology - the total package includes the belief that one must always do the next level.
Link to Those who "quit fast" thread.
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Hubbard, in 1963, described what was to soon become his own "upper levels" while criticizing psychiatry:
"Psychiatry is authoritarian and tells the person what's wrong with him, often introducing a new lie. Scientology finds out what's wrong with the person from the person."
IMO, it's a good idea to not to let anyone (including Hubbard through his materials), especially while "in session," tell you the contents of your own mind or space. That's a violation of the spirit of the Auditors Code.
Studying wisdom is always a good idea, but not being told what only you can truly know, such as what's in your space or in your mind.
Volney Mathison, in 1954, spotted Hubbard M.O. of using "enemy tactics" on his own membership.
"First he [as their 'greatest friend'] denounces and exposes... then he uses the very power he as denounced."
This leaves his followers with their guards down and defenseless.
"First he [as their 'greatest friend'] denounces and exposes... then he uses the very power he as denounced."
This leaves his followers with their guards down and defenseless.