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Welcome. We're glad to have you today for
our Sunday school hour as we continue our study on
Scientology. Last week we talked about it
being the grift of salvation, of course, the word grift meaning
swindling, fraud. And we saw last week how that
certainly would be the case, how you could spend thousands upon
hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to go clear and how there
would not be any help. In fact, not only would you end
up being bankrupt, but it ended up sending you straight to hell.
And so we saw that last week and we'll be giving you some little
bit of a review here in just a moment.
But then also this week, I like the title of this week, it's
Scientology's Bridge to Nowhere. Because part of the bridge is
your way of being able to understand eternal values, your
way of understanding that you are a thetan.
The fact that you understand that you will live many, many
multiple lifetimes and how you want to go clear to be able to
understand how you can achieve what you want to achieve in this
life and the next lives that are to follow.
But that bridge is 1. Obviously, that leads to
nowhere. So just as review last week we
saw from our last, you know what, it really helps if I turn
the clicker on. All right, there we go.
Probably should do that before the class starts, but that's OK,
We're good. We saw that the founder of
Scientology was 1. L Ron Hubbard.
We talked about him last week, how he was a science fiction
writer. We saw that he was the most
interesting man in the world from that 10 minute video that
we saw last week. But we also saw that almost
everything in that video was a fabrication and outright lie and
exaggeration at best. But certainly there are many
outright lies, including the fact of his many exploits as a
younger person lying with stolen valor of his military career,
and then also just about the very founding of Dianetics
itself that it was something that was more of a self help.
But then when things went South and lawsuits started to pile up,
it became a religion. Why?
Because he was able to shield himself from a lot of different
laws and regulations by claiming First Amendment privilege.
As Scientology was a religion, We saw Dianetics was the sacred
texts of Scientology. We talked last week about that
volcano that's in front of the Dianetics books.
That that is the volcano that's being set off by an H bomb by no
other than Xenu in Eon's past and here in world history.
And again, his science fiction background, he was a fairly
prolific science fiction writer of a lot of the pulps back in
the 30s and into the 40s. And that idea really permeates a
lot of what goes into Scientology.
And that picture there represents that teaching of Xenu
from eons past here on Earth. But then the current leader of
Scientology is 1. David Miskevich.
He took over after L Ron Hubbard passed in the mid 80s.
He took over at a very young age, and since that time, he has
been the leader, only two leaders of Scientology for
around 75 years. Again, depending on how you
reckon the years, whether it started when Scientology was
officially called Scientology or going back to the beginning of
Dianetics, which would be over 75 years ago.
But yet David Miscavige is the leader today.
And again, there's a lot that you can link together,
particularly since Miscavige has been the leader, although there
were some of this issues during L Ron Hubbard's times as well.
You can see a lot of connections between organized crime and
Scientology. Not that there is a direct
connection between the mob and Scientology, but yet the very
resources that are used, the very methods that are used by
organized crime, you can find here at David Miscavige would be
the head of the group today. Then we saw some of the terms
that were unique to Scientology last week of the reactive mind.
Remember that you have some repressed memories, not just
from this life, but the lives that you have had previously
that have to be brought out. And those are N grams.
Those are the very, the very thoughts that come from those
areas that are rattling around within your reactive mind.
The the theaton. We'll see today how that works
with the bridge and how the OT levels that are there, the
operating theaton levels that help you to be able to find your
true self that you really can't understand now because of all
the jumbled mess of N grams that are going around down your
reactive mind. Well, how do you figure out what
those end grams are? The auditing process that we saw
just a little bit of it last week and we'll see a little bit
of it here this morning as well. But grabbing those cans and
we'll show you that picture right there of someone that is
in the auditing process. You have an auditor who has been
certified. They have gone through a special
portion of the bridge program to be able to become an auditor.
And then you have what's called the pre clear on the other side.
That would be the gentleman on the left who is holding the cans
and he is the pre clear, meaning he is wanting to go clear, but
yet he has to work through the reactive mind.
He has to work through those N grams first.
How do they do that? Again, the E meter and I watched
some very interesting videos on the E meter this week.
It's really a lot of smoke and mirrors to be quite honest with
you. I know that's a big surprise
everyone here, but the idea was that the E meter can help you
find these N grams and be able to bring them to the surface.
And it was. It's an interesting parlor
trick, if I'm to be honest with you.
One of the videos I watched this week was from 60 Minutes
Australia. And 60 Minutes Australia did
some very extensive undercover work on the Church of
Scientology over the last several years.
And there was a gentleman who had who used to be part of
Scientology very high up, but has left and has been very
involved. Mike Rinder with Leah Remini
about uncovering a lot of the issues of Scientology.
And he had the reporter hold those cans.
And he says, now I'm going to pinch you.
He says, now watch what happens when I pinch you.
And so he pinched her on the arm.
And about a second or two later, the E meter went up.
The idea, wow, there's some pain that's taking place.
And so he says, all right, well, that's what we would expect it
to be, wouldn't it? He says, now, let's just take a
minute and take a deep breath. And he says, now I want you just
to think about me pinching you. I want you to think about what I
just did to you a few moments ago.
And not the same level of the E meter going up, but the E meter
definitely went up to a certain degree.
It's just measuring simple electrical impulses.
And those auditors are then taking those things and then
being able to use them. Interestingly enough, the
auditors often times, depending on how high you go up into
Scientology, will take your confessions and then weaponize
them against you. They'll take all of these
different things that you say that you've been involved with
or done, and they will use those either as leverage against you
to keep you in Scientology, to keep you quiet about
Scientology, or they'll use that information out right with other
people to be able to keep you in line.
And so the E meter, as we see right here, is really nothing
more than smoke and mirrors. It's measuring some level of
electrical impulse in your body. But there is no type of
spiritual discernment that is taking place here at all.
In fact, what it's doing is it's really hiding the facts of what
the truth is in your life. And then finally, we looked at
last week very quickly of the issue of going clear, that once
you go clear that you are someone who has eliminated the
reactive mind once and for all. Those N grams have now been put
to the side. The reactive mind is quiet and
you can finally be your true self.
We saw that shortly after Dianetics was written, that L
Ron Hubbard said that the first clear was Sonia Bianchi in 1950.
But then 16 years later he changed the definition of what
it was to be clear. And the first clear was then a
South African man named John McMaster.
And if you'll remember, I'd mentioned at the end of the
lesson last week that three years later that he was no
longer in Scientology. So it obviously did not do
exactly what he thought it would do.
Advancement through this process takes thousands upon thousands
upon thousands of dollars up to hundreds of thousands of
dollars. That's why we call it the grift
of salvation. Interestingly enough, when you
take your first lesson on the bridge, it'll cost you $15.
Why is that? Well, because they want to get
you in while the getting's good and they want to make sure that
you can get in on the ground level.
But then as you go further, they dangle out this idea of eternal
life. They dangle out this idea of
having your soul to be preserved, the thetan to be
preserved. And they really make the pitch
to you. Well, what number of what amount
of money would not be enough for you to be able to, I mean, if
you're being dangled out to you, we, we say eternal life, we
think of heaven. Eternal life to them is his idea
of having consciousness of your previous lives and moving into
the next life with that consciousness as well.
If they're telling you, you can obtain this, I mean, you would
do whatever you could to be able to spend.
And they will do that and dangle that out and people will pay to
the hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes well over 1/4
of a million, up to a half, $1,000,000 of people are able to
do it. That's why Hollywood loves
Scientology, one of many reasons they have the pockets to be able
to do some of those things of which Scientology sells to them.
Well, that gets us to where we are this week.
And again, we're talking about the bridge to nowhere, but the
program of Scientology is the bridge to total freedom.
Now, as you see on the picture right here, it's a little bit
pixelated and you might wonder why it is, you might think past.
Were you not able to find a clear picture of this?
Is it kind of because it's hidden and it's not something
that's out there? And I would say to you, these
are easy to find online, but at the same time, they're not
proliferated throughout the Internet.
But yet the reason that it is kind of pixelated like it is, is
that is a much smaller photo of what the bridge would to total
freedom would actually look like at a Scientology center at a
Church of Scientology, because it's usually blown up several
feet far beyond what you see here.
And the reason you can tell, look at all the writing on here.
Look at all the steps. Now, if we're to tell someone
about salvation, in fact, we talked on Friday at our soul
winning conference about how easy it is to explain to someone
how they can receive eternal life and forgiveness of sins
through Christ their Lord. But yet here is the bridge to
total freedom. Can you see a little bit of a
difference between how easy it is to understand salvation?
In fact, the Bible says childlike faith is necessitated
for us to be able to understand salvation and this bridge to
total freedom. When you look at it and say,
wow, what do I need to do? How do I need to get there?
You'd like to learn more about the Bridge to total freedom from
the lips of L Ron Hubbard. There is an excellent video.
When I say excellent, I say excellent as it is the
explanation from his own lips. Not excellent because it's true,
but there's about a 35 minute lecture that you can find online
very easily. Just type in on YouTube.
L Ron Hubbard the bridge to total freedom and it should be
the first search to be able to pop up.
I watched a great deal of that last week, again in reference to
this today, and I thought it was too long for us to be able to
present here this morning. But I certainly would tell you
to look at it because again, the more you hear L Ron Hubbard in
his own voice, the more you recognize and realize this is
crazy. And I'm not saying that lightly,
but this is absolute crazy doctrine coming from the mind of
a sci-fi writer. That's what we're looking at
here. It was like someone watched Star
Trek and they said I watched three seasons of Captain Kirk
and Spock and let's make a religion out of it.
That's basically what Scientology is, and there's not
even any humor. And what I'm trying to tell you
right now, I'm not trying to make a joke.
I'm not trying to make light of it.
This is what Scientology is, that someone would literally
give their life to be able to live like a Vulcan, that someone
would give their life to live like a Jedi.
This is what you're seeing when you look at the bridge to total
freedom. And when you look at Scientology
now, the bridge to total freedom, as you can see, there
is entered into two different columns.
On the left column is the training column and the right
column is the processing column. Everyone will start on the right
side. Why?
Because they have to be able to process their own engrams.
They have to be able to process their own recessed mind before
they are able to go and become the auditor.
That other person you saw that was sitting in that room on that
photo we saw just a few moments ago?
Processing refers to auditing sessions where a person works
one-on-one with an auditor using the specific procedures as well
as the E meter holding on to those cans.
This is what they do. Now, the bridge is sequential,
meaning this. You can't just jump around and
pick whatever you want. You start from the bottom of the
bridge and you have to work your way up.
This is why you will find it in every Church of Scientology, in
every location you'll find it. It will be as big as the wall.
Why? Because you were to go to it and
you were to see where you are and to see where you're going.
And again, if you're starting on this bottom level over here,
you're paying 50, $15 a course, it's very reasonable for you to
get involved. Why?
Because you know, that worm on the hook is usually pretty
cheap, isn't it? But once it sets you, you
realize it's too late. That is the worm, that is the
hook, if you will, those $15 courses.
Now this is broken up into, first of all, the processing
column, the lower bridge. The lower bridge is the lower
end of the bridge and it's the introductory services.
Many of them are as low as $15 or in the low hundreds of
dollars. They are designed to introduce a
person to the system and demonstrate immediate personal
benefit. A lot of what's spoken of in the
lower bridge is really more what I would call mental work, of the
idea of trying to help someone, to have more self-confidence,
trying to help someone, one to be able to go into a situation,
to be able to handle themselves in a certain way.
There's certain things of it that are true.
There is basic truths involved, but the idea is always this.
The answer is inside of you. You just need to be more
confident. You need to repress those
engrams that are inside of you. Once you find them, you
eliminate them. You will become more confident.
They often are described the early stages as stabilizing and
improving life in measurable ways.
Like a lot of cults, the first few steps seem fairly
reasonable. They seem like they are not
something that is going to take you into the far depths of what
Scientology will end up taking you.
But this lower bridge can take you any amount of time, but it
can take you up to several years.
There is no way to know how long it is to get to that middle
section of the right column. You might not be able to read
much on that because again, it is fairly blurry because of the
size of what this should be. But you could probably see the
word clear right near the center on the right center side.
And that is where you to achieve that clear status.
It can take you quite a bit of time, but you will eventually
get to the state of clear or often just called going clear.
This is the first major milestone on the bridge.
According to the system, a clear no longer has their reactive
mind. Their N grams no longer
unconsciously influence the person's behavior.
The clear is now rational, self determined and free from hidden
mental distortions. That's why they would say any
kind of mental, mental illness, quote UN quote, under the large
umbrella of what they would consider mental illness.
You really just need to go clear.
That's really all it is. And that's why you might have
remembered a interview that Tom Cruise gave many years ago with
Matt Lauer on the Today Show where there was a really a
contentious argument between them about the issue of any type
of medication that deals with the mind.
Because in his mind, in a Scientologist mind, listen, your
problems are all in your own mind, and you really have to
just get those engrams out and get the reactive mind to be what
it needs to be so that you can reach the state of clear.
But reaching clear requires extensive auditing, extensive
financial investment. It's not a minor step.
You will find, however, and again, you can't go under the
Church of scientology.com, I think it's just scientology.org,
I believe is their main website. But you can't just go on there
and find a price sheet, OK? That's not the way that this
works. You think it's hard to find
prices at a hospital. It's even harder to find prices
to be able to tell you what Scientology is going to charge
you to get through this. But many of the estimates that I
have saw to is that to go clear could be anywhere from $20,000
to $50,000 or more. You say?
Well, why do you say or more? Because really they will keep
charging you and charging you and charging you until you're
able to get those engrams out. And who knows how long that can
take, that you get to the place where that E meter doesn't keep
moving the way that it used to. When you get to the place that
your body has now been basically trained to not have those
electrical impulses. And it could be $50,000 or more
to reach the state of clear. Now beyond that are the OT
levels. These are the operating feet and
levels. Beyond clear are the operating
feet and levels, usually called the OT levels, they are in
ascending order. So you have OT one, OT 2 all the
way to OT 7. Now, L Ron Hubbard at one point
said that there were levels above OT 7.
However, he has only written to had only written to seven and
there have been no more that have been released today.
But the idea even dangled in front of Scientology is this.
You think you reached the top, but someday there might be more.
You think you've reached the end and someday there could be more.
Could we put this word this way, revelation that will be given so
that you will have to go back to the well even more.
And by the way, if you just drop $500,000 to be able to get to OT
7, to go on to their main ship, the headwinds and to get that
final session and then you find out, oh, I'm not done, which may
happen someday, how much more you have to spend?
If you're already down a half $1,000,000, you could see what a
mess this is. Now, the concept behind the OT
levels is that the individual regained spiritual abilities
that were supposedly lost over immense eons of time.
Each level introduces new auditing process processes and
at higher stages, confidential teachings.
You're going to learn things about Scientology that nobody
else knows. And again, by the time you get
to OC 7, you are only given that in a very secure location on the
headwinds as it travels around the world.
The Scientology special ship that is run by the Sea Org that
we mentioned last week, that sea organization, the goal of the OT
levels is increasing spiritual autonomy and ability.
The idea is that the individual becomes increasingly the cause
over the life instead of the effect over it.
Meaning this you should be able to get to the place where you
affect life and life doesn't affect you.
That's a scary level of thought process that a Scientologist
could think that they. Tom Cruise just believes by the
own sheer will of his mind that he can affect reality itself.
Again, I think that's one of the reasons why he is so willing to
be able to climb up buildings, to be able to drive a motorcycle
over a Cliff, things that normally stunt men would do.
But he pushes the boundaries. He. 5 fighter jets.
Why is that? Because in his mind, he is in
control of reality. Reality is not in control of
him. And So what comes across as
confidence is really a man who has been deluded by teachings
that have trained him that he is reality.
Reality doesn't have any control on him.
That's just wild. That is absolutely wild to
think. That is what someone could
think. But this is what he's been
taught by the bridge all the way up to OT 7.
But we also have the training column that's on the left side
and the training column are those who want to become
auditors, whether they are professional auditors or whether
they are auditors of a volunteer nature.
If you are in the left-handed column, the training column, you
do a lot more book work. You will remember last week in
the video you saw, there's a big room where people were poring
over the writings of L Ron Hubbard.
They were going through the pages.
They were writing stuff down. These are likely people that are
in the training column and they are training to become auditors
again, whether professional or on a volunteer level.
It has been said that David Miskevich, even before he was a
teenager, became an auditor in the Church of Scientology
because he was such a prodigy of Scientology and that he likely
could have been the youngest auditor ever that Scientology
ever produced. Could you imagine being a 4050
year old Scientologist? You're paying 20 or $30,000.
You grab the cans and who walks in the other side to control the
meter? A 12 year old boy?
Some religion? And you're paying thousands of
dollars for this. You're thinking this is, this is
crazy again. Well, it, it is.
That's exactly what it is. And so there's the psychological
part of the bridge, though what is psychological about this is
several. This is not just a doctrinal
system, but it's also a motivational structure.
It shows you how you can progress.
It gives you a clear problem. It gives you a clear path.
It gives you measurable milestones.
It celebrates achievement publicly.
When you go clear, everyone knows you go clear.
It is a big achievement. It is something that is
celebrated amongst those who are your peers.
The chart reinforces a sense of upward movement.
Each completed level produces momentum towards the next and
you get to the place where the idea of sunken costs do get
involved. Maybe you're getting higher up
and you think, should I really even be continuing this?
But the idea of sunken costs is I've put so much money into this
already, I can't stop. It's like the gambler who's
lost, you know, thousands of dollars, but he knows the next
roll the dice will get him. On the plus side, this is what
Scientology does to you. Listen, the next the next level,
I'm going to get what I finally been looking for.
And all it's going to get you is a bigger credit card bill.
That's all it will get you. So we see of this finally, the
concept of total freedom is an absolute.
It's the complete removal of any type of spiritual location or
limitation. Rather, total freedom remains
the ultimate promise, even if it is not fully realized in the
present. If you can't get it in this
life, well, you just keep working and you might get it in
the next life as you come back as your next physical outward
manifestation of your theaton, which again is your soul.
All right. Well, we looked at those.
The training column there includes training and doctrine,
ethics, auditing procedures, and organizational structure.
But I want us to look at the 8 dynamics.
And so if the bridge to total freedom is the program, then the
8 dynamics of Scientology is the principles.
So the bridge is the program, the dynamics are the principles
that make up the program. It's important for us to
understand the two. The great deal of Scientology is
based on the building blocks of these 8 dynamics.
The 8 dynamics are survival drives that govern existence.
L Ron Hubbard and the great basis of a lot of his writings,
particularly Dianetics, is that the one motivational thought of
mankind is survival. And everything that man does is
about surviving. And So what we're going to do
here in just a moment is we're going to watch two different
videos. I've actually put them together
to watch back-to-back 1. I believe if I have loaded this
correctly, should be L Ron Hubbard in his own words for a
few moments. You might say, well this doesn't
make any sense and my answer would be right it, it's not
going to make a lot of sense. It sounds very intelligent.
But by the time you get to the end, there's a lot of
intelligent sounding words put together.
But then when you put them together and you see them for a
whole, you realize there's really nothing here.
And then the second part is a greater explanation of these 8
dynamics of which we'll be talking about and reviewing in
just a few moments. So if we could, let's roll that
footage. People ask me these questions.
How did you ever think about Dianetics?
Well, it doesn't seem to me that it required much more than the
cultural question itself. It has been with man now for
perhaps 50,000 years. What makes man tick?
Why does man act as man does act?
These questions are found in the oldest literature we have.
One looks back into the days of more modern times, let us say
ancient Greece, and he finds there in ancient Greece a school
which is attempting to answer the problems of the mind.
The Ascalippian school man had already become very conversant
with the problems of man by the time Greece was.
Greece. The Ascalepians, for instance,
were trying to cure insanity with convulsive shock.
They used a drug called hellebore and it produced much
the same results as the electric shock which is being used today.
The various methods employed, the efforts employed to cure
insanity, of course, form only a small part of man's efforts.
Man isn't wholly concentrated upon insanity in Dianetics.
We certainly aren't concentrated upon insanity or neurosis or
even psychosomatic illnesses. We're trying to do something
about the activities of the normal man, something about
conditions which in the world today are considered to be
normal conditions. Dianetics is mainly leveled at
the solution of the problems of man's activities, not just at
the problems of his psychotic and psychosomatically I'll
brother, in Dianetics what we do know doesn't have variables.
Therefore we can call it quite legitimately a science, but out
in advance of it is a tremendous field as yet utterly unexplored.
A philosophy, philosophy 1 might say, is the great unknown of
knowledge. Dianetics came straight out of
the realm of philosophy, actually, since none of these
facts could have been possibly have been integrated.
None of them could have been if we had not had a central pivot
on which to hang them. And that central pivot was the
word survive. It seemed incredible to people
that man could only be surviving.
Until one begins to realize the utter abundance necessary for
survival. It isn't enough, you know, to
raise one bushel of wheat per month.
If one is only going to consume 1 bushel of wheat, one has to
raise enough bushels of wheat to take care of all emergencies,
and if he raises enough, then he survives.
But raising enough wheat and having a great enough abundance
would in itself be a pleasure. We find out that survival then
proceeds into pleasure, that infinite survival as a an
Organism, a personality, a spirit.
However it is that he survives through his children that is a
pleasure and the attaining of that goal is a pleasure.
The act of trying to attain that goal is a pleasure.
On the other side of non survival we have pain, pain, the
warning light that says don't go in this direction any further
because there lies death. In other words, the rightest one
could be was infinite survival for himself, for his children,
for his group, and for all mankind.
It works out into a simplicity. What is your primary goal in
life? In other words, what's driving
you? What's the basic motivation
behind all of your actions and decisions?
The. Work you did on the stairway is
fantastic. Well, whatever else you may be
trying to do, ultimately you're trying to survive now.
It's not a new thought that man is surviving.
So Alex and I just told me you had a math test today.
How'd you do? But in Scientology it was
discovered that man, like every other living thing, is motivated
only by survival. That is the goal of life.
So everything you do and every choice you make is driven by
this urge you have to survive. But you're not trying to just
merely survive. Go all.
The way back up the. Loop.
You want to live long and live well.
Popcorn. So there are degrees of
survival. Your urge to survive could be
represented by an arrow that thrusts up toward the highest
potential level of survival. We call this urge towards
survival a dynamic. If you were to look at it
through a magnifying glass, you'd see that this one thrust
subdivides into 8 thrusts, 8 urges to survive.
We call these the 8 dynamics. They represent all the different
compartments in your life that you're surviving for.
For example, the first dynamic is the urge to survive as
oneself. It's the effort to survive as an
individual, to be an individual, to attain the highest level of
survival for the longest possible time for self.
Here we have individuality expressed fully.
The second dynamic is the urge to survive through a future
generation. It has two compartments, sex and
the family unit, including the rearing of children.
The third dynamic is the urge to survive as part of a group.
Any group, temporary or permanent, political or social,
is part of the third dynamic and each one is 1/3 dynamic.
The 4th dynamic is the urge to survive through man as a
species. Whereas one race would be
considered a third dynamic, all the races of man together would
be considered the 4th dynamic. The 5th dynamic is the urge to
survive for any and every form of life.
This would include all living things, whether animal or
vegetable. The 6th dynamic is the urge to
promote the survival of the physical universe.
It's the drive of the individual to enhance the survival of all
matter, energy, space and time, which are the component parts of
the physical universe. The 7th dynamic can be called
the spiritual dynamic. This is separate from the
physical universe and is the source of life itself.
The 8th dynamic is the urge toward existence as Infinity.
This is also identified as the Supreme Being.
This can be called the Infinity or God dynamic.
These 8 dynamics embrace all the goals of survival that you have
and all the things that you survive for, and you're trying
to survive one way or another on all these dynamics at once.
You may be surviving well in some the finalized storyboard
for that scene. These are great check in with me
at the end of the day. Go Team.
But perhaps not so well in others.
But if you're not surviving as well in one or more areas of
your life, then you're ultimately not surviving well in
general, because they're all connected.
Now. Any problem or situation you
encounter in life will affect one or more of these dynamics.
Yet, as you know, not all decisions or solutions are
simple. There's a natural struggle
between your dynamics. For example, a job opportunity
in another city that would improve your income but uproot
your wife and children has implications across several of
your dynamics. The better your decisions are,
the better you survive. So how can you determine the
right course of action to take? What constitutes a right
decision? Well, in Scientology, you'll
learn a method to determine precisely what the best decision
or solution is for any problem or situation you encounter in
life. With this tool, you'll know how
to confidently make the correct decision every time.
I'll call them first thing in the morning and let them know.
Sounds good. The more you understand these
dynamics and their relationship to each other, the more you can
increase your survival and participation on all of them.
Hi, sorry about my dog. For the 8 dynamics are the parts
of your life. Yeah, that's right.
What? What is the common thread there?
From the psycho Babble of L Ron Hubbard, which again was an
eloquent pile of nothing, to the 8 dynamics that tell you that
it's all about survival. It really gets to that very end
part that there is a method to be able to help you to
understand what to be able to do in your life.
And the answer is always this. You.
But how can you find that answer within you?
You need auditing. You need the E meter.
You need the bridge to total freedom.
This is the only way. Which means you need Scientology
and you need money. That's really what it comes down
to. And so in looking at all of
those things, I'd like to summarize just here very quickly
why Scientology is spiritually dangerous.
And I understand that it seems very far removed from us,
doesn't it? It certainly does.
I, I don't know that I've ever met someone who's a practicing
Scientologist before. I've seen much of it online.
We've obviously seen much of it in Hollywood.
We've also seen much of the negative effects of it that have
been publicly brought to the surface, like I mentioned last
week, whether it's books, documentaries, news articles,
those type of things. But why is Scientology so
dangerous? Again, it all comes back to
this. The answer is inside of you.
But yet we see that the Bible tells us though that that we're
to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not unto our
own understanding in all our ways.
Acknowledge Him and he shall direct thy paths.
See Psalm 119 says what thy word is a lamp unto our feet and a
light unto our path. Over and over we are told that
when we are involved we end up messing up the way we should go.
But yet when the Lord is the one who leads and the Lord's word is
the one who leads us, then we can truly understand not only
what salvation is, but understand how we're to live in
this day-to-day life as well. Scientology offers false hope.
It promises freedom without repentance.
It involves replacement, redemption.
Only Christ can free the Sinner. John 836 If the Son therefore
shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
It does not come through the bridge to nowhere.
It offers a false God. Again, the real answer is you.
Romans 718 But this is what the word of God says.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good
thing, for to will is present with me.
But how to perform that which is good?
I find not. It promises, or rather it has
false prophets. L Ron Hubbard, David Miscavige
are liars, they're hucksters, and they are abusers.
For instance, L Ron Hubbard's son Ronald Dewolf publicly
accused his father Hubbard of widespread dishonesty and
described Scientology as a business rather than religion.
So what was the response of Scientology?
To scrub Ronald Dewolf from the history books and act as if he
never even existed in the 1st 1st place as a son of L Ron
Hubbard. There are numerous former high
level executives and Seorg members that have accused
Miscavage of physical beatings, humiliation, verbal abuse, and
as I mentioned last week, confining those members who they
considered to be going rogue. Those members who they
considered to be those who are causing trouble within
Scientology, placing them into a place that is called the whole
where they received physical abuse.
They were not fed properly. What I have seen is that people
would be treated better in the county jail than they would be
in this area. That's why I am very confident
in saying that Scientology has more to do with organized crime
than it does with the idea of religion because it is all about
control. Multiple lawsuits named
Miscavige personally and allege human trafficking, human
trafficking, forced labor, child abuse, sexual abuse, cover ups
and coercion of minors into the Sea Org.
The Sea Org members can typically start at a very young
age, even before teenage age. And they are signing billion
year contracts. Yes, I said that right.
A billion year contract. I got to, I got to finish.
I'm sorry. But yeah, it's, well, you know,
it's it's exciting, but why is it a billion years?
Because you're going to as a theatin, you're just going to
continue on and on and on. And so as a minor, you're
signing a contract for a billion years.
And you say, well, who's going to honor that?
Well, no court is going to honor that.
However, they are going to hold you to it.
And if you don't, they are going to make your life miserable for
what you signed when you were nine years old.
I mean, absolutely incredible, but it's not just about the
false prophets as those two men, but it's also about the false
prophets PROFITS, meaning this, it's all about money.
This is a pyramid scheme. It puts money in the pockets of
those at the top and bankrupting everyone else.
If you look at how David Miskevich lives, if you look at
how Tom Cruise is basically just gifted things, large amounts of
money by the Church of Scientology, a man who doesn't
need money from anybody. But yet continues to receive and
receive from Scientology. It's absolutely awful.
Acts 8, verse 20. Peter said thy money perish with
thee because thou has bought or thou has thought that the gift
of God may be purchased with money.
And we understand that is not the case.
I'll recommend to you once again very quickly if you'd like to
read on this topic. It's an excellent book that I
read last year from cover to cover, going Clear by Lawrence
Wright. Leah Remini again also has
several documentaries. Again, I can't recommend them
for language. However, I can tell you that the
content inside it is very enlightening.
And again, all you have to do is to go online and Google Tampa
Bay Times or Saint Pete Times and Scientology and you'll find
a host of articles that will keep you very, very busy in
reading and understanding. What Scientology is all about.
Well, it took a little bit longer than I thought it would.
I was trying to do this in one week.
But at the same time, being able to hear those things with your
own voice is something you with your own ears is what you need
to hear. Because certainly who would
believe such a thing could even be possible?
And why would anyone stay? Well, you stay because again,
the idea of the sunken cost, you're in too deep.
You just got to keep going. But the problem is if they don't
get out, they're going to end up spending an eternity in the lake
of fire. And so it's important for us to
understand and to be able to, if we ever come in contact with
Scientologists, to be able to present them what the true
gospel is. Thank you for.
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