Imagine for a moment that I was selling something. This item doesn’t have an exact price, but it will cost you every dollar you earn that doesn’t go to essentials. It will also take up all of your spare time and if you can swing it, your personal time as well. In addition to the financial obligations, you will be obligated to comply with my dictates of how to live your life, how to think and the type of information you will be allowed to consume.
What if I told you the item I was selling was L. Ron Hubbard’s “Bridge to Total Freedom”?
Most normal people, when making a large purchase, will do a reasonable amount of due diligence before laying out their cash. In the case of Scientology, should we stop thinking and throw out proper due diligence just because the product being sold is spiritual freedom? Sadly, most people will spend more time researching a new car before making their purchase than they would before spending five-hundred-thousand dollars on Scientology.
Scientology, both in the official Church of Scientology and the Freezone, continues to be an ongoing phenomenon because of one crucially important, but mostly overlooked fact. The entire purpose and premise of Scientology – all the time and money that it takes – is for one single purpose: Total Freedom.
Per L. Ron Hubbard’s very own claims, “Total Freedom” consists of, as a bare minimum, the following definition for OT VIII:
“ABILITY TO BE AT CAUSE KNOWINGLY AND AT WILL OVER THOUGHT, LIFE, FORM MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE AND TIME, BOTH SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE.”
Hubbard also makes claims about supernatural abilities, such as telekinesis, clairvoyance, clairaudience, astral travel, “exterior with full perception” (a kind of out of body state with all perceptions working), time travel, and a host of other things. Listen to just the first thirty lectures of the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course where one outrageous claim is made after another. Other areas for these claims are in the OT levels themselves which are freely available online.
Scientologists themselves, whether in the Church or the Freezone, are also apt to boast about these types of abilities. But here’s the kicker. Hubbard conveniently created a policy that labels any person asking for proof a PTS (potential trouble source). Simply put a person that has something wrong with them and needs to be brought back around to a proper way of thinking.
Nobody can demonstrate OT powers as claimed. Sure, you’ll hear anecdotes about interesting situations, unusual phenomenon and coincidences but most of these things can be simply explained. Is there a spiritual dimension to life? Of course there is. Did Hubbard research, identify and codify the key to understanding it? I’m afraid not. If he did, all of his claims would be demonstrable and they would be demonstrable from one person to the next without fail.
Per KSW 1, Hubbard is very clear about the efficacy of Scientology. He really leaves no room for mistakes and is very direct about the workability and uniform results of Scientology. If the claims cannot be demonstrated, then Scientology is invalid. Anything beyond that falls into the realm of faith and people are free to believe whatever they want, however, this does not make it the truth.
Ask for a demonstration. Find an OT at your local organization, or a practitioner in the Freezone and ask them to demonstrate an objective OT ability for you. Don’t spend a dime on any service or course unless you see what you are paying for. If you are dealing with honest people that really want to help you and care about you, they shouldn’t hide behind policy or label you defective just because you have a practical need to see something before you buy it.
Hubbard never said that Scientology was a faith-based religion. However, by labeling people asking for a demonstration PTS, he has effectively turned it into one. This contradiction should not be accepted and any person hiding behind it is a charlatan at best and a greedy liar at worst.
The bottom line is the bottom line. Scientology is about making money. The intentions of people cannot be trusted when they have the opportunity to make money on another’s ignorance. When somebody denies you a demonstration, they are effectively asking you to rely on faith and are bald-facedly manipulating you for the purposes of making money.
If the Scientologist really cared about you and your spiritual welfare, if they really stood for their beliefs in making the world a better place, then their action of showing a person the claims of Scientology would align with that belief. Then the person considering Scientology would be able to make a well informed decision and properly avail themselves of the then apparent benefits of Scientology. As it stands, the neophyte must spend enormous amounts of time and money with the faith that someday the claims of Scientology will come true. It’s a fantasy world.
The fact that a person will not demonstrate the claims of Scientology makes them one of three things:
1. Deluded in their beliefs and chained to the writings of L. Ron Hubbard with no sense of critical thought and no sensitivity for the feelings of others. Basically an ignorant moron, infantile in thinking and barely passable for a normal, well grounded adult.
2. Purely evil for allowing a person to be denied the apparent salvation of Scientology by withholding an objective demonstration of the claims of Scientology. At best, psychotic and sociopathic.
3. A money grubbing, greedy huckster, a charlatan in the image of Hubbard himself, feigning love and caring and pretending to abide by a lofty moral code, but in truth a sick, driveling, petty human being with no sense of honor, and by this, totally lacking in anything decent and spiritual whatsoever.
Any Scientologist asking for money and claiming to want to help you is using your ignorance for profit. Do not give money to any person unless they demonstrate the claims of Scientology. This is a form of abuse and is not a healthy relationship and cannot ever be. If there were no money changing hands, faith would be enough and any person has the right to believe what they want. But since money is changing hands, due diligence is a must.
Ask Ray Robles, Pierre Ethier, Ralph Hilton or any Freezone practitioner or any OT in the Church of Scientology. Ask any Registrar to bring out an OT and demonstrate OT powers or walk out and never go back.
If a Scientologist wants to save the planet, that need should outweigh the puny bureaucratic need to uphold a policy. Besides, Hubbard himself wrote in another policy that you can break any rules to provide outstanding service. How is letting a person’s immortal soul go to hell (negative tone 40) providing outstanding service?
I offer an open challenge to any OT to demonstrate the claims of Scientology. I take the strong position that no one out there can do so. Therefore I brand all of those out there selling Scientology without proof of its claims the lowest forms of human, preying on the ignorance of others for your own profit.
What if I told you the item I was selling was L. Ron Hubbard’s “Bridge to Total Freedom”?
Most normal people, when making a large purchase, will do a reasonable amount of due diligence before laying out their cash. In the case of Scientology, should we stop thinking and throw out proper due diligence just because the product being sold is spiritual freedom? Sadly, most people will spend more time researching a new car before making their purchase than they would before spending five-hundred-thousand dollars on Scientology.
Scientology, both in the official Church of Scientology and the Freezone, continues to be an ongoing phenomenon because of one crucially important, but mostly overlooked fact. The entire purpose and premise of Scientology – all the time and money that it takes – is for one single purpose: Total Freedom.
Per L. Ron Hubbard’s very own claims, “Total Freedom” consists of, as a bare minimum, the following definition for OT VIII:
“ABILITY TO BE AT CAUSE KNOWINGLY AND AT WILL OVER THOUGHT, LIFE, FORM MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE AND TIME, BOTH SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE.”
Hubbard also makes claims about supernatural abilities, such as telekinesis, clairvoyance, clairaudience, astral travel, “exterior with full perception” (a kind of out of body state with all perceptions working), time travel, and a host of other things. Listen to just the first thirty lectures of the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course where one outrageous claim is made after another. Other areas for these claims are in the OT levels themselves which are freely available online.
Scientologists themselves, whether in the Church or the Freezone, are also apt to boast about these types of abilities. But here’s the kicker. Hubbard conveniently created a policy that labels any person asking for proof a PTS (potential trouble source). Simply put a person that has something wrong with them and needs to be brought back around to a proper way of thinking.
Nobody can demonstrate OT powers as claimed. Sure, you’ll hear anecdotes about interesting situations, unusual phenomenon and coincidences but most of these things can be simply explained. Is there a spiritual dimension to life? Of course there is. Did Hubbard research, identify and codify the key to understanding it? I’m afraid not. If he did, all of his claims would be demonstrable and they would be demonstrable from one person to the next without fail.
Per KSW 1, Hubbard is very clear about the efficacy of Scientology. He really leaves no room for mistakes and is very direct about the workability and uniform results of Scientology. If the claims cannot be demonstrated, then Scientology is invalid. Anything beyond that falls into the realm of faith and people are free to believe whatever they want, however, this does not make it the truth.
Ask for a demonstration. Find an OT at your local organization, or a practitioner in the Freezone and ask them to demonstrate an objective OT ability for you. Don’t spend a dime on any service or course unless you see what you are paying for. If you are dealing with honest people that really want to help you and care about you, they shouldn’t hide behind policy or label you defective just because you have a practical need to see something before you buy it.
Hubbard never said that Scientology was a faith-based religion. However, by labeling people asking for a demonstration PTS, he has effectively turned it into one. This contradiction should not be accepted and any person hiding behind it is a charlatan at best and a greedy liar at worst.
The bottom line is the bottom line. Scientology is about making money. The intentions of people cannot be trusted when they have the opportunity to make money on another’s ignorance. When somebody denies you a demonstration, they are effectively asking you to rely on faith and are bald-facedly manipulating you for the purposes of making money.
If the Scientologist really cared about you and your spiritual welfare, if they really stood for their beliefs in making the world a better place, then their action of showing a person the claims of Scientology would align with that belief. Then the person considering Scientology would be able to make a well informed decision and properly avail themselves of the then apparent benefits of Scientology. As it stands, the neophyte must spend enormous amounts of time and money with the faith that someday the claims of Scientology will come true. It’s a fantasy world.
The fact that a person will not demonstrate the claims of Scientology makes them one of three things:
1. Deluded in their beliefs and chained to the writings of L. Ron Hubbard with no sense of critical thought and no sensitivity for the feelings of others. Basically an ignorant moron, infantile in thinking and barely passable for a normal, well grounded adult.
2. Purely evil for allowing a person to be denied the apparent salvation of Scientology by withholding an objective demonstration of the claims of Scientology. At best, psychotic and sociopathic.
3. A money grubbing, greedy huckster, a charlatan in the image of Hubbard himself, feigning love and caring and pretending to abide by a lofty moral code, but in truth a sick, driveling, petty human being with no sense of honor, and by this, totally lacking in anything decent and spiritual whatsoever.
Any Scientologist asking for money and claiming to want to help you is using your ignorance for profit. Do not give money to any person unless they demonstrate the claims of Scientology. This is a form of abuse and is not a healthy relationship and cannot ever be. If there were no money changing hands, faith would be enough and any person has the right to believe what they want. But since money is changing hands, due diligence is a must.
Ask Ray Robles, Pierre Ethier, Ralph Hilton or any Freezone practitioner or any OT in the Church of Scientology. Ask any Registrar to bring out an OT and demonstrate OT powers or walk out and never go back.
If a Scientologist wants to save the planet, that need should outweigh the puny bureaucratic need to uphold a policy. Besides, Hubbard himself wrote in another policy that you can break any rules to provide outstanding service. How is letting a person’s immortal soul go to hell (negative tone 40) providing outstanding service?
I offer an open challenge to any OT to demonstrate the claims of Scientology. I take the strong position that no one out there can do so. Therefore I brand all of those out there selling Scientology without proof of its claims the lowest forms of human, preying on the ignorance of others for your own profit.
