Scientology and Hubbard greatly confuse
truth and
agreement. They are not the same thing (though they are in the minds of many over-indoctrinated Scientologists).
If 10 people agree that there is a white horse standing in a room (when there actually isn't), they share a DELUSION. They agree on a hallucination. They mutually concur on a fictional event or situation.
THAT is what a great deal of Scientology is - agreeing on
imaginary claims, statements, events, and situations (both mental and physical).
You can
agree all day long that it is raining outside when it is actually a clear day, and while it may be
real to you and
true for you, that it is raining, it is NOT TRUE in any objective or honest sense.
In the same way, you can agree all day long that states of OT exist, that you are such an OT, and that there are other OTs, and while this may be
true for some and
real to some, it is NOT TRUE in any objective or honest sense.
What is "real" to somebody, and what is
true, are often very very different. Hubbard mixed the two up very much in the subject of Scientology, he confused truth and reality, Hubbard did that VERY well actually, and that is why so many Scientologists have crazy ideas and notions about what is "real" to them. Hubbard, being a fiction writer, confused fiction with non-fiction, and created people who do the same thing unknowingly - the Scientologist. Their minds are often a mish-mash mixture of confusion between fiction and non-fiction.
At some point in my experience with Scientology it seemed that many of them never wanted to grow up and let go of the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. They were hooked on their fictions. So, instead they adopted Marcabs, Theta lines, whole track incidents, nasty SPs, loyal officers, enemy governments, lofty advanced mental states, and on and on and on.