by Caspar de Nada

Scientology, the corporate organized religion as well as many independent offshoots, pretend to offer a bridge leading from one level of life and consciousness to a higher plateau, which is referred to as OT (Operating Thetan) or Total Freedom.

Hubbard, the founder of the religion, however never finished his project and left behind a ‘bridge’ ending in mid air (OT 8 out of supposedly at least 15 or 18 levels).

Either his followers continue the research to reach the other end or the subject of Hubbardian Scientology will just end there and be replaced by a farther reaching technology which would reach the other side of the chasm.

In the eighties a letter to David Mayo was published which gave the research assignment to Mayo for the next twenty years. Presumably Hubbard had in mind to return in about that amount of time. David Mayo was sued and persecuted and finally gave up, Captain Bill Robertson later picked it up and developed a great number of additional OT levels but also didn’t complete the project.

This does not mean that all is lost as the Scientology Bridge never was the only bridge in existence and it would be wise for the inspired scientology researchers to study the vedic scriptures and the experiences of the Tibetan Buddhists and others of the Sanatana Dharma tradition. That plus the modern western technology may yield a new actual bridge to complete spiritual freedom.

In April 1965 Hubbard wrote that the state of Clear was at level VI, Theta Clear at level IX and Operating Thetan at level XVIII. The route to OT he thought did already exist in the route he outlined in the book ‘The Creation of Human Ability’ as Route 1. In later years this was apparently forgotten and Hubbard never referred back to these grades or levels.

Scientology turned–not in its first decade, but later–into a closed system or exclusive religion like other founded religions as Judaism or Christianity.

In the early years it was a fresh breath and a novel and promising approach where East and Western Technology would meet and create something that would surpass any existing paths. In those early years scientology was still an open system with the inquisitive spirit of science. In February 1965, the date of the publication of the ‘Keeping Scientology Working’ policy, Hubbard claimed sole authorship of the subject and made it deadly serious. Any deviation from Hubbard’s standard was deemed a high crime. Certainly after his death in 1986 technology was forever fixed in red-on-white bulletins written and/or signed by Hubbard and scientology effectively became a closed system.

As a closed system it demanded a sharper break with the natural community, similar to other founded religions such as Christianity .  For example, Jesus also demanded that his followers leave behind all loyalties to family in order to participate in the new community.

 “ If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26

In the Scientology communities, it was usually ordered by the leadership and was called disconnection.

Since the 1980s many members left the Church or were disconnected due to raising questions or having ‘new ideas and formed a ‘Free Zone’ of independent groups which were more liberal. A majority though still held onto the same rigid rules of only Hubbard brand standard technology is valid and cannot be improved.

A possible solution

Some of us who were greatly inspired by the dream of a bridge to complete spiritual freedom, would not give up. None of the potential other bridges such a Yoga, Buddhism or Sanatana Dharma or more modernly the Course in Miracles used anything even vaguely resembling the technology of auditing which we considered the jewel of modern spiritual technology.

Shortly after Hubbard passed, a former close aide of his by the name of Geoffrey Filbert published a book with the title ‘Excalibur Revisited, Akashic Applications of Scientology’ in which he described a full bridge which he claimed would reach the other end. However we are not informed of anybody who could or did actually cross that bridge, which is unfortunate. There were rumors that a Class XII by the name of Pierre Ethier in collaboration with other highly trained ex-scientologists have been working on higher levels and a more complete bridge but little is known about their success or failure. An auditor in Austria, Ralph Hilton also did report some progress on further levels of this type of bridge. Some OT VIIIs I know have been working on extending OT II in the sense of doing a full run of all the sections. There is a lot more going on, but none of it in a coordinated fashion.

Open Scientology

If one defines scientology as a science of knowing how to know, this should be of general interest and not the guarded precinct of a special group. As I have stated above the scientology movement started off as a more or less scientific endeavor and ended up as a more or less closed belief system.

What I am basically proposing is for those who are interested in working with a science of consciousness or knowing how to know in any practical sense, to embrace ‘Open Scientology’.

This means getting rid of the holy cows, such as oximoronically ‘keeping a science working’ and opening the investigation into the areas that were left hanging such as actual GPMs and such or look into the possible validity of something like ‘super static’. By looking into is meant, investigating in a philosophical, scientific, religious and in particular practical sense.

Open Scientology does not invalidate Hubbardian Scientology but is itself and would acknowledge being inspired by Dr. A. Nordenholz as well as L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbardian Scientology is what it is. But x-scientologists who wish to go further on the road to truth would never be content with an incomplete bridge.

Hubbard, I remember the quote but not the lecture, said: “There is no short stop on the road to truth. That is the only track that you have to go all the way on. Once you have put your feet upon that road, you have to walk to its end.”

I think you will be able to think of other good reasons for an open scientology. I have given some more on my blog.

For God’s sake let’s get together and build a better bridge!

Caspar de Nada, December 2017