Scientology is a philosophy that says it has a route that can be used to achieve a state of “being cause over life, thought, matter, energy space and time.”
This route is called “The Bridge”.
Some have been following this route with more or less succes, but when reaching the end of the Bridge, they looked at their life or the state they were in, and they decided that they were not at ALL cause over life or MEST, and therefore concluded that the Scientology philosophy was a scam.
Others never tried to follow this route themselves, but they knew other people who had been deceived and abused by an organization who claims to apply this Scientology philosophy, and therefore they as well concluded that the Scientology philosophy was a scam.
Others cannot conceive of any higher spiritual state at all, and therefore are bluntly fighting any and all ideas in that direction.
Some people in Scientology have a certain concept of OT that consist of “being total cause” or “being able to cause anything they want, in the fullest sense of the word.”
It is a concept similar as the concept of GOD that my father and mother teached me when I was young.
God was allmighty. All things stemmed from God. The good things, the bad things, it all came from God.
In other words: God was total Cause.
The problem with this concept is that if ONE person is total cause, then all others are at effect.
Theoretically it is impossible to bring two people to a state of total cause in the same universe. It would be also an undesirable state.
Anyone who wants to be total cause in this universe should better not try to achieve it with Scientology, because he will not reach his goals with it.
As a side note: people who are very fixated and determined on being cause themselves must be at the same time very, very busy in making others effect. Hmm…, let me see, in what organization have I seen that?
Then there are people who have the idea that “being cause over MEST” means that an OT should be able to do supernatural things, like for example bending forks without physically touching them.
Well, supernatural phenomena DO exist.
But according to the Scientology philosophy this universe is based on agreements.
In other words, everything around us exists because we all agree that it exists.
There is gravity because we all agree there is gravity; water is wet, because we all agree that water is wet, and so on.
Anyone who is in this universe, is agreeing with the laws of this universe, otherwise he wouldn’t be here.
Whatever one thinks of this theory, it means that according to the Scientology philosophy doing things like telekinesis would be a very, very complicated trick.
Personally I have no clue how people can do it.
Because they have to agree and disagree at the same time and that sounds very complicated.
To me it would be similar as driving with your car from A to B and at exactly the same time driving your car from B to A.
These things are NOT teached in Scientology.
There is NO essay called: HCOB How to bend forks.
There are NO (upper)levels in Scientology that have as their end product: “The ability to bend forks.”
Anyone who practices Scientology with the goal to achieve a state of “being able to do supernatural things” is sitting in the wrong plane.
A very important principle in the Scientology philosophy is the idea of “gradient scales.”
That means simply that concepts like “good and bad” and “right and wrong” have many steps in between them. Black can always be blacker and white can always be whiter and there are countless steps in between.
My personal opinion is that if a person can not think with this principle or does not want to think with this principle, then he will not be able to understand Scientology.
If I say about a person: “He is a good man”, that doesn’t mean that he is a holy saint who will never do anything wrong.
If I say about a person: “He is cause”, that doesn’t mean he is an almighty god that will never be effect.
According to Scientology philosophy “there is a gradient scale of OT.
It’s not an absolute. One is as OT as he can cause things.” (quote LRH)
This means that anyone, wether he practices Scientology or not, is to a certain degree OT.
Anyone is to a certain degree cause over Life and MEST.
But there are also factors in anyone’s life, which he is unknowingly or unwillingly the effect of.
Scientology is a way to help a person in removing those factors.
That’s all.
This route is called “The Bridge”.
Some have been following this route with more or less succes, but when reaching the end of the Bridge, they looked at their life or the state they were in, and they decided that they were not at ALL cause over life or MEST, and therefore concluded that the Scientology philosophy was a scam.
Others never tried to follow this route themselves, but they knew other people who had been deceived and abused by an organization who claims to apply this Scientology philosophy, and therefore they as well concluded that the Scientology philosophy was a scam.
Others cannot conceive of any higher spiritual state at all, and therefore are bluntly fighting any and all ideas in that direction.
Some people in Scientology have a certain concept of OT that consist of “being total cause” or “being able to cause anything they want, in the fullest sense of the word.”
It is a concept similar as the concept of GOD that my father and mother teached me when I was young.
God was allmighty. All things stemmed from God. The good things, the bad things, it all came from God.
In other words: God was total Cause.
The problem with this concept is that if ONE person is total cause, then all others are at effect.
Theoretically it is impossible to bring two people to a state of total cause in the same universe. It would be also an undesirable state.
Anyone who wants to be total cause in this universe should better not try to achieve it with Scientology, because he will not reach his goals with it.
As a side note: people who are very fixated and determined on being cause themselves must be at the same time very, very busy in making others effect. Hmm…, let me see, in what organization have I seen that?
Then there are people who have the idea that “being cause over MEST” means that an OT should be able to do supernatural things, like for example bending forks without physically touching them.
Well, supernatural phenomena DO exist.
But according to the Scientology philosophy this universe is based on agreements.
In other words, everything around us exists because we all agree that it exists.
There is gravity because we all agree there is gravity; water is wet, because we all agree that water is wet, and so on.
Anyone who is in this universe, is agreeing with the laws of this universe, otherwise he wouldn’t be here.
Whatever one thinks of this theory, it means that according to the Scientology philosophy doing things like telekinesis would be a very, very complicated trick.
Personally I have no clue how people can do it.
Because they have to agree and disagree at the same time and that sounds very complicated.
To me it would be similar as driving with your car from A to B and at exactly the same time driving your car from B to A.
These things are NOT teached in Scientology.
There is NO essay called: HCOB How to bend forks.
There are NO (upper)levels in Scientology that have as their end product: “The ability to bend forks.”
Anyone who practices Scientology with the goal to achieve a state of “being able to do supernatural things” is sitting in the wrong plane.
A very important principle in the Scientology philosophy is the idea of “gradient scales.”
That means simply that concepts like “good and bad” and “right and wrong” have many steps in between them. Black can always be blacker and white can always be whiter and there are countless steps in between.
My personal opinion is that if a person can not think with this principle or does not want to think with this principle, then he will not be able to understand Scientology.
If I say about a person: “He is a good man”, that doesn’t mean that he is a holy saint who will never do anything wrong.
If I say about a person: “He is cause”, that doesn’t mean he is an almighty god that will never be effect.
According to Scientology philosophy “there is a gradient scale of OT.
It’s not an absolute. One is as OT as he can cause things.” (quote LRH)
This means that anyone, wether he practices Scientology or not, is to a certain degree OT.
Anyone is to a certain degree cause over Life and MEST.
But there are also factors in anyone’s life, which he is unknowingly or unwillingly the effect of.
Scientology is a way to help a person in removing those factors.
That’s all.