For an apparent direct quote it turns up noting on Google but another reference without attribution:
https://www.google.com/#q="Dependency+on+other+mental+or+philosophical+procedures+than+Scientology"
If the quote is accurate, I'd also say: Define "Dependency".
I think there is a distinct difference between "practice" and dependency.
Drinking a beer whenever one feels like it is not the same as "dependency" on alcohol. IMO.
Also IMO it is a blaring disadvantage for Scientology to be having this kind of anti-spiritual, extremely vague and ill defined anti-meditation and "other spiritual practices" talk being loosely promulgated as if it is something "everybody knows".
NOBODY putting this forward so far, in the Church here, has been able to support this "no meditation" rule with anything but conjecture. I have no problem however locating numerous references to the contrary.
IMO, this apparently spurious rule or rumor or whatever it is, would certainly, by itself, tend to alienate whole continents and enormously large bodies of people from Scientology.
Who with any kind of current or former religious background whatsoever would not be offended by it ?
How can you give anyone "freedom" or "self-determinism" and say they have to have their very thoughts monitored continually so as not to be caught at the "High Crime" of
thinking.
Until someone PROVES with some actual iron clad reference that "meditation" is forbidden to Scientologists, I will assume that it is an unfounded rumor started by some so-called "suppressive" or otherwise uninformed opinion and nothing more.
If anybody objects to my voicing that opinion and I get some kind of Ethics action taken on
me, so be it. I'd welcome it. I'd like to get the issue settled once and for all. Right now it seems it went into a kind of limbo.