1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,120 or contact us at mylibertybaptist.org or just 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,760 look us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,080 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,640 Welcome. We're glad to have you today for 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,840 our Sunday school hour as we continue our study on 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,360 Scientology. Last week we talked about it 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,880 being the grift of salvation, of course, the word grift meaning 11 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,840 swindling, fraud. And we saw last week how that 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,920 certainly would be the case, how you could spend thousands upon 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,960 hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to go clear and how there 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,280 would not be any help. In fact, not only would you end 15 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,640 up being bankrupt, but it ended up sending you straight to hell. 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,560 And so we saw that last week and we'll be giving you some little 17 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,600 bit of a review here in just a moment. 18 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,560 But then also this week, I like the title of this week, it's 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,680 Scientology's Bridge to Nowhere. Because part of the bridge is 20 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,720 your way of being able to understand eternal values, your 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,320 way of understanding that you are a thetan. 22 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:13,680 The fact that you understand that you will live many, many 23 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,720 multiple lifetimes and how you want to go clear to be able to 24 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,840 understand how you can achieve what you want to achieve in this 25 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,000 life and the next lives that are to follow. 26 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,120 But that bridge is 1. Obviously, that leads to 27 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,160 nowhere. So just as review last week we 28 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,040 saw from our last, you know what, it really helps if I turn 29 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:34,400 the clicker on. All right, there we go. 30 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,520 Probably should do that before the class starts, but that's OK, 31 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,240 We're good. We saw that the founder of 32 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,080 Scientology was 1. L Ron Hubbard. 33 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,000 We talked about him last week, how he was a science fiction 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,600 writer. We saw that he was the most 35 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,920 interesting man in the world from that 10 minute video that 36 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,400 we saw last week. But we also saw that almost 37 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,760 everything in that video was a fabrication and outright lie and 38 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,960 exaggeration at best. But certainly there are many 39 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,440 outright lies, including the fact of his many exploits as a 40 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,840 younger person lying with stolen valor of his military career, 41 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,360 and then also just about the very founding of Dianetics 42 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,480 itself that it was something that was more of a self help. 43 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,320 But then when things went South and lawsuits started to pile up, 44 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,360 it became a religion. Why? 45 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,640 Because he was able to shield himself from a lot of different 46 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:25,320 laws and regulations by claiming First Amendment privilege. 47 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:30,120 As Scientology was a religion, We saw Dianetics was the sacred 48 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,200 texts of Scientology. We talked last week about that 49 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,640 volcano that's in front of the Dianetics books. 50 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,000 That that is the volcano that's being set off by an H bomb by no 51 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,520 other than Xenu in Eon's past and here in world history. 52 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,240 And again, his science fiction background, he was a fairly 53 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,040 prolific science fiction writer of a lot of the pulps back in 54 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:57,560 the 30s and into the 40s. And that idea really permeates a 55 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,440 lot of what goes into Scientology. 56 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,720 And that picture there represents that teaching of Xenu 57 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,080 from eons past here on Earth. But then the current leader of 58 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,200 Scientology is 1. David Miskevich. 59 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,760 He took over after L Ron Hubbard passed in the mid 80s. 60 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,120 He took over at a very young age, and since that time, he has 61 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,040 been the leader, only two leaders of Scientology for 62 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,360 around 75 years. Again, depending on how you 63 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,960 reckon the years, whether it started when Scientology was 64 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,560 officially called Scientology or going back to the beginning of 65 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,880 Dianetics, which would be over 75 years ago. 66 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,560 But yet David Miscavige is the leader today. 67 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,880 And again, there's a lot that you can link together, 68 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,920 particularly since Miscavige has been the leader, although there 69 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,480 were some of this issues during L Ron Hubbard's times as well. 70 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,400 You can see a lot of connections between organized crime and 71 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,280 Scientology. Not that there is a direct 72 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,440 connection between the mob and Scientology, but yet the very 73 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,800 resources that are used, the very methods that are used by 74 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,320 organized crime, you can find here at David Miscavige would be 75 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,880 the head of the group today. Then we saw some of the terms 76 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,520 that were unique to Scientology last week of the reactive mind. 77 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,760 Remember that you have some repressed memories, not just 78 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,680 from this life, but the lives that you have had previously 79 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:20,200 that have to be brought out. And those are N grams. 80 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,480 Those are the very, the very thoughts that come from those 81 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,160 areas that are rattling around within your reactive mind. 82 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,840 The the theaton. We'll see today how that works 83 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:34,760 with the bridge and how the OT levels that are there, the 84 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,120 operating theaton levels that help you to be able to find your 85 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,800 true self that you really can't understand now because of all 86 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,800 the jumbled mess of N grams that are going around down your 87 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,200 reactive mind. Well, how do you figure out what 88 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,320 those end grams are? The auditing process that we saw 89 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,080 just a little bit of it last week and we'll see a little bit 90 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,960 of it here this morning as well. But grabbing those cans and 91 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,160 we'll show you that picture right there of someone that is 92 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,000 in the auditing process. You have an auditor who has been 93 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,840 certified. They have gone through a special 94 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:07,240 portion of the bridge program to be able to become an auditor. 95 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,680 And then you have what's called the pre clear on the other side. 96 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,080 That would be the gentleman on the left who is holding the cans 97 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,640 and he is the pre clear, meaning he is wanting to go clear, but 98 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,640 yet he has to work through the reactive mind. 99 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,640 He has to work through those N grams first. 100 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,680 How do they do that? Again, the E meter and I watched 101 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,680 some very interesting videos on the E meter this week. 102 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,840 It's really a lot of smoke and mirrors to be quite honest with 103 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:32,000 you. I know that's a big surprise 104 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,320 everyone here, but the idea was that the E meter can help you 105 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,320 find these N grams and be able to bring them to the surface. 106 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,320 And it was. It's an interesting parlor 107 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,720 trick, if I'm to be honest with you. 108 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:46,760 One of the videos I watched this week was from 60 Minutes 109 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,560 Australia. And 60 Minutes Australia did 110 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,960 some very extensive undercover work on the Church of 111 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,320 Scientology over the last several years. 112 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,600 And there was a gentleman who had who used to be part of 113 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,640 Scientology very high up, but has left and has been very 114 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,040 involved. Mike Rinder with Leah Remini 115 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,760 about uncovering a lot of the issues of Scientology. 116 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,400 And he had the reporter hold those cans. 117 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,720 And he says, now I'm going to pinch you. 118 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:18,440 He says, now watch what happens when I pinch you. 119 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,040 And so he pinched her on the arm. 120 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,880 And about a second or two later, the E meter went up. 121 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,000 The idea, wow, there's some pain that's taking place. 122 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,680 And so he says, all right, well, that's what we would expect it 123 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,840 to be, wouldn't it? He says, now, let's just take a 124 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:33,400 minute and take a deep breath. And he says, now I want you just 125 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,720 to think about me pinching you. I want you to think about what I 126 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,720 just did to you a few moments ago. 127 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,280 And not the same level of the E meter going up, but the E meter 128 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:45,320 definitely went up to a certain degree. 129 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,200 It's just measuring simple electrical impulses. 130 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,280 And those auditors are then taking those things and then 131 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:54,320 being able to use them. Interestingly enough, the 132 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,080 auditors often times, depending on how high you go up into 133 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,520 Scientology, will take your confessions and then weaponize 134 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,560 them against you. They'll take all of these 135 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,760 different things that you say that you've been involved with 136 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,480 or done, and they will use those either as leverage against you 137 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,600 to keep you in Scientology, to keep you quiet about 138 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,000 Scientology, or they'll use that information out right with other 139 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,720 people to be able to keep you in line. 140 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,520 And so the E meter, as we see right here, is really nothing 141 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,520 more than smoke and mirrors. It's measuring some level of 142 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,640 electrical impulse in your body. But there is no type of 143 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,720 spiritual discernment that is taking place here at all. 144 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,240 In fact, what it's doing is it's really hiding the facts of what 145 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,320 the truth is in your life. And then finally, we looked at 146 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,160 last week very quickly of the issue of going clear, that once 147 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,240 you go clear that you are someone who has eliminated the 148 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,520 reactive mind once and for all. Those N grams have now been put 149 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,080 to the side. The reactive mind is quiet and 150 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,720 you can finally be your true self. 151 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,680 We saw that shortly after Dianetics was written, that L 152 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,840 Ron Hubbard said that the first clear was Sonia Bianchi in 1950. 153 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,200 But then 16 years later he changed the definition of what 154 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,240 it was to be clear. And the first clear was then a 155 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,120 South African man named John McMaster. 156 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,320 And if you'll remember, I'd mentioned at the end of the 157 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,840 lesson last week that three years later that he was no 158 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,880 longer in Scientology. So it obviously did not do 159 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,240 exactly what he thought it would do. 160 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,080 Advancement through this process takes thousands upon thousands 161 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,880 upon thousands of dollars up to hundreds of thousands of 162 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:30,320 dollars. That's why we call it the grift 163 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,799 of salvation. Interestingly enough, when you 164 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:37,280 take your first lesson on the bridge, it'll cost you $15. 165 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:39,799 Why is that? Well, because they want to get 166 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,760 you in while the getting's good and they want to make sure that 167 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,560 you can get in on the ground level. 168 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,440 But then as you go further, they dangle out this idea of eternal 169 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,640 life. They dangle out this idea of 170 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:55,120 having your soul to be preserved, the thetan to be 171 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,960 preserved. And they really make the pitch 172 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,800 to you. Well, what number of what amount 173 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,520 of money would not be enough for you to be able to, I mean, if 174 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,200 you're being dangled out to you, we, we say eternal life, we 175 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,240 think of heaven. Eternal life to them is his idea 176 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,360 of having consciousness of your previous lives and moving into 177 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,480 the next life with that consciousness as well. 178 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,440 If they're telling you, you can obtain this, I mean, you would 179 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,760 do whatever you could to be able to spend. 180 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:26,040 And they will do that and dangle that out and people will pay to 181 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,160 the hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes well over 1/4 182 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,400 of a million, up to a half, $1,000,000 of people are able to 183 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,800 do it. That's why Hollywood loves 184 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,240 Scientology, one of many reasons they have the pockets to be able 185 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,760 to do some of those things of which Scientology sells to them. 186 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,880 Well, that gets us to where we are this week. 187 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,040 And again, we're talking about the bridge to nowhere, but the 188 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,760 program of Scientology is the bridge to total freedom. 189 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,960 Now, as you see on the picture right here, it's a little bit 190 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,440 pixelated and you might wonder why it is, you might think past. 191 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,200 Were you not able to find a clear picture of this? 192 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,040 Is it kind of because it's hidden and it's not something 193 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,680 that's out there? And I would say to you, these 194 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,760 are easy to find online, but at the same time, they're not 195 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,200 proliferated throughout the Internet. 196 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,440 But yet the reason that it is kind of pixelated like it is, is 197 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:21,000 that is a much smaller photo of what the bridge would to total 198 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,720 freedom would actually look like at a Scientology center at a 199 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,880 Church of Scientology, because it's usually blown up several 200 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:29,800 feet far beyond what you see here. 201 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,360 And the reason you can tell, look at all the writing on here. 202 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,360 Look at all the steps. Now, if we're to tell someone 203 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,320 about salvation, in fact, we talked on Friday at our soul 204 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,360 winning conference about how easy it is to explain to someone 205 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,480 how they can receive eternal life and forgiveness of sins 206 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,960 through Christ their Lord. But yet here is the bridge to 207 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,720 total freedom. Can you see a little bit of a 208 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,680 difference between how easy it is to understand salvation? 209 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,720 In fact, the Bible says childlike faith is necessitated 210 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,400 for us to be able to understand salvation and this bridge to 211 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,120 total freedom. When you look at it and say, 212 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,360 wow, what do I need to do? How do I need to get there? 213 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,040 You'd like to learn more about the Bridge to total freedom from 214 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,760 the lips of L Ron Hubbard. There is an excellent video. 215 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,400 When I say excellent, I say excellent as it is the 216 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,840 explanation from his own lips. Not excellent because it's true, 217 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,200 but there's about a 35 minute lecture that you can find online 218 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,360 very easily. Just type in on YouTube. 219 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,400 L Ron Hubbard the bridge to total freedom and it should be 220 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,400 the first search to be able to pop up. 221 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,120 I watched a great deal of that last week, again in reference to 222 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,840 this today, and I thought it was too long for us to be able to 223 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,240 present here this morning. But I certainly would tell you 224 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,760 to look at it because again, the more you hear L Ron Hubbard in 225 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,440 his own voice, the more you recognize and realize this is 226 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,320 crazy. And I'm not saying that lightly, 227 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:53,520 but this is absolute crazy doctrine coming from the mind of 228 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,520 a sci-fi writer. That's what we're looking at 229 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,880 here. It was like someone watched Star 230 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:03,640 Trek and they said I watched three seasons of Captain Kirk 231 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,840 and Spock and let's make a religion out of it. 232 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,040 That's basically what Scientology is, and there's not 233 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,040 even any humor. And what I'm trying to tell you 234 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:13,400 right now, I'm not trying to make a joke. 235 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:14,400 I'm not trying to make light of it. 236 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,560 This is what Scientology is, that someone would literally 237 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:22,280 give their life to be able to live like a Vulcan, that someone 238 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,800 would give their life to live like a Jedi. 239 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,320 This is what you're seeing when you look at the bridge to total 240 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,960 freedom. And when you look at Scientology 241 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:33,840 now, the bridge to total freedom, as you can see, there 242 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,640 is entered into two different columns. 243 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,000 On the left column is the training column and the right 244 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,440 column is the processing column. Everyone will start on the right 245 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:45,600 side. Why? 246 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,360 Because they have to be able to process their own engrams. 247 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:52,960 They have to be able to process their own recessed mind before 248 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,520 they are able to go and become the auditor. 249 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:59,000 That other person you saw that was sitting in that room on that 250 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,280 photo we saw just a few moments ago? 251 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:05,320 Processing refers to auditing sessions where a person works 252 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:10,280 one-on-one with an auditor using the specific procedures as well 253 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,400 as the E meter holding on to those cans. 254 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:16,080 This is what they do. Now, the bridge is sequential, 255 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,160 meaning this. You can't just jump around and 256 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,000 pick whatever you want. You start from the bottom of the 257 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,600 bridge and you have to work your way up. 258 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,440 This is why you will find it in every Church of Scientology, in 259 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,800 every location you'll find it. It will be as big as the wall. 260 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,080 Why? Because you were to go to it and 261 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,720 you were to see where you are and to see where you're going. 262 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,600 And again, if you're starting on this bottom level over here, 263 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,880 you're paying 50, $15 a course, it's very reasonable for you to 264 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:44,960 get involved. Why? 265 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,200 Because you know, that worm on the hook is usually pretty 266 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,960 cheap, isn't it? But once it sets you, you 267 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,240 realize it's too late. That is the worm, that is the 268 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,120 hook, if you will, those $15 courses. 269 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,320 Now this is broken up into, first of all, the processing 270 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,840 column, the lower bridge. The lower bridge is the lower 271 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,440 end of the bridge and it's the introductory services. 272 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,320 Many of them are as low as $15 or in the low hundreds of 273 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,480 dollars. They are designed to introduce a 274 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,880 person to the system and demonstrate immediate personal 275 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,360 benefit. A lot of what's spoken of in the 276 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,760 lower bridge is really more what I would call mental work, of the 277 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,920 idea of trying to help someone, to have more self-confidence, 278 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,200 trying to help someone, one to be able to go into a situation, 279 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,320 to be able to handle themselves in a certain way. 280 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,000 There's certain things of it that are true. 281 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,960 There is basic truths involved, but the idea is always this. 282 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,040 The answer is inside of you. You just need to be more 283 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,600 confident. You need to repress those 284 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,640 engrams that are inside of you. Once you find them, you 285 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,840 eliminate them. You will become more confident. 286 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,480 They often are described the early stages as stabilizing and 287 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,400 improving life in measurable ways. 288 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,440 Like a lot of cults, the first few steps seem fairly 289 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,040 reasonable. They seem like they are not 290 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,840 something that is going to take you into the far depths of what 291 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,000 Scientology will end up taking you. 292 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,560 But this lower bridge can take you any amount of time, but it 293 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:15,160 can take you up to several years. 294 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,440 There is no way to know how long it is to get to that middle 295 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,000 section of the right column. You might not be able to read 296 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,880 much on that because again, it is fairly blurry because of the 297 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,960 size of what this should be. But you could probably see the 298 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,320 word clear right near the center on the right center side. 299 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,680 And that is where you to achieve that clear status. 300 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,480 It can take you quite a bit of time, but you will eventually 301 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,640 get to the state of clear or often just called going clear. 302 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,640 This is the first major milestone on the bridge. 303 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,760 According to the system, a clear no longer has their reactive 304 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,040 mind. Their N grams no longer 305 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,040 unconsciously influence the person's behavior. 306 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,280 The clear is now rational, self determined and free from hidden 307 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,720 mental distortions. That's why they would say any 308 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,080 kind of mental, mental illness, quote UN quote, under the large 309 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,120 umbrella of what they would consider mental illness. 310 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:08,880 You really just need to go clear. 311 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,120 That's really all it is. And that's why you might have 312 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:17,080 remembered a interview that Tom Cruise gave many years ago with 313 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,000 Matt Lauer on the Today Show where there was a really a 314 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,920 contentious argument between them about the issue of any type 315 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,240 of medication that deals with the mind. 316 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:34,080 Because in his mind, in a Scientologist mind, listen, your 317 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,560 problems are all in your own mind, and you really have to 318 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,880 just get those engrams out and get the reactive mind to be what 319 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,200 it needs to be so that you can reach the state of clear. 320 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,840 But reaching clear requires extensive auditing, extensive 321 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,560 financial investment. It's not a minor step. 322 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:53,960 You will find, however, and again, you can't go under the 323 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,040 Church of scientology.com, I think it's just scientology.org, 324 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,480 I believe is their main website. But you can't just go on there 325 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,680 and find a price sheet, OK? That's not the way that this 326 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,480 works. You think it's hard to find 327 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,839 prices at a hospital. It's even harder to find prices 328 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,680 to be able to tell you what Scientology is going to charge 329 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,040 you to get through this. But many of the estimates that I 330 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:16,680 have saw to is that to go clear could be anywhere from $20,000 331 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,119 to $50,000 or more. You say? 332 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,839 Well, why do you say or more? Because really they will keep 333 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,400 charging you and charging you and charging you until you're 334 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,319 able to get those engrams out. And who knows how long that can 335 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,200 take, that you get to the place where that E meter doesn't keep 336 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,000 moving the way that it used to. When you get to the place that 337 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,680 your body has now been basically trained to not have those 338 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:42,000 electrical impulses. And it could be $50,000 or more 339 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,680 to reach the state of clear. Now beyond that are the OT 340 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:47,840 levels. These are the operating feet and 341 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,600 levels. Beyond clear are the operating 342 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,040 feet and levels, usually called the OT levels, they are in 343 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,840 ascending order. So you have OT one, OT 2 all the 344 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,680 way to OT 7. Now, L Ron Hubbard at one point 345 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,560 said that there were levels above OT 7. 346 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,280 However, he has only written to had only written to seven and 347 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,360 there have been no more that have been released today. 348 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,960 But the idea even dangled in front of Scientology is this. 349 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:13,160 You think you reached the top, but someday there might be more. 350 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,840 You think you've reached the end and someday there could be more. 351 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,160 Could we put this word this way, revelation that will be given so 352 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,520 that you will have to go back to the well even more. 353 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,760 And by the way, if you just drop $500,000 to be able to get to OT 354 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:32,680 7, to go on to their main ship, the headwinds and to get that 355 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:38,000 final session and then you find out, oh, I'm not done, which may 356 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,080 happen someday, how much more you have to spend? 357 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,080 If you're already down a half $1,000,000, you could see what a 358 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,000 mess this is. Now, the concept behind the OT 359 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,520 levels is that the individual regained spiritual abilities 360 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,280 that were supposedly lost over immense eons of time. 361 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,320 Each level introduces new auditing process processes and 362 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,680 at higher stages, confidential teachings. 363 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,760 You're going to learn things about Scientology that nobody 364 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:04,800 else knows. And again, by the time you get 365 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:09,080 to OC 7, you are only given that in a very secure location on the 366 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,760 headwinds as it travels around the world. 367 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,760 The Scientology special ship that is run by the Sea Org that 368 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,560 we mentioned last week, that sea organization, the goal of the OT 369 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,760 levels is increasing spiritual autonomy and ability. 370 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,360 The idea is that the individual becomes increasingly the cause 371 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:29,640 over the life instead of the effect over it. 372 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,480 Meaning this you should be able to get to the place where you 373 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,480 affect life and life doesn't affect you. 374 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:39,600 That's a scary level of thought process that a Scientologist 375 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,640 could think that they. Tom Cruise just believes by the 376 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,680 own sheer will of his mind that he can affect reality itself. 377 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,280 Again, I think that's one of the reasons why he is so willing to 378 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:55,000 be able to climb up buildings, to be able to drive a motorcycle 379 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,040 over a Cliff, things that normally stunt men would do. 380 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,440 But he pushes the boundaries. He. 5 fighter jets. 381 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,040 Why is that? Because in his mind, he is in 382 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,960 control of reality. Reality is not in control of 383 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,960 him. And So what comes across as 384 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,080 confidence is really a man who has been deluded by teachings 385 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,880 that have trained him that he is reality. 386 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,760 Reality doesn't have any control on him. 387 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,720 That's just wild. That is absolutely wild to 388 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,360 think. That is what someone could 389 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:22,320 think. But this is what he's been 390 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,720 taught by the bridge all the way up to OT 7. 391 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,760 But we also have the training column that's on the left side 392 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,880 and the training column are those who want to become 393 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,680 auditors, whether they are professional auditors or whether 394 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,240 they are auditors of a volunteer nature. 395 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,560 If you are in the left-handed column, the training column, you 396 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,680 do a lot more book work. You will remember last week in 397 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,720 the video you saw, there's a big room where people were poring 398 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,320 over the writings of L Ron Hubbard. 399 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:50,520 They were going through the pages. 400 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,280 They were writing stuff down. These are likely people that are 401 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,520 in the training column and they are training to become auditors 402 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,960 again, whether professional or on a volunteer level. 403 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,720 It has been said that David Miskevich, even before he was a 404 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,880 teenager, became an auditor in the Church of Scientology 405 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:10,080 because he was such a prodigy of Scientology and that he likely 406 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,440 could have been the youngest auditor ever that Scientology 407 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,960 ever produced. Could you imagine being a 4050 408 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,480 year old Scientologist? You're paying 20 or $30,000. 409 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,520 You grab the cans and who walks in the other side to control the 410 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,120 meter? A 12 year old boy? 411 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,120 Some religion? And you're paying thousands of 412 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,600 dollars for this. You're thinking this is, this is 413 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,480 crazy again. Well, it, it is. 414 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,120 That's exactly what it is. And so there's the psychological 415 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:39,280 part of the bridge, though what is psychological about this is 416 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,520 several. This is not just a doctrinal 417 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,920 system, but it's also a motivational structure. 418 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,080 It shows you how you can progress. 419 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,200 It gives you a clear problem. It gives you a clear path. 420 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,560 It gives you measurable milestones. 421 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,560 It celebrates achievement publicly. 422 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,840 When you go clear, everyone knows you go clear. 423 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:58,440 It is a big achievement. It is something that is 424 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,160 celebrated amongst those who are your peers. 425 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,280 The chart reinforces a sense of upward movement. 426 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,400 Each completed level produces momentum towards the next and 427 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,160 you get to the place where the idea of sunken costs do get 428 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,000 involved. Maybe you're getting higher up 429 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,280 and you think, should I really even be continuing this? 430 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,520 But the idea of sunken costs is I've put so much money into this 431 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,000 already, I can't stop. It's like the gambler who's 432 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,240 lost, you know, thousands of dollars, but he knows the next 433 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,040 roll the dice will get him. On the plus side, this is what 434 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,680 Scientology does to you. Listen, the next the next level, 435 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:34,840 I'm going to get what I finally been looking for. 436 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,240 And all it's going to get you is a bigger credit card bill. 437 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:42,080 That's all it will get you. So we see of this finally, the 438 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,680 concept of total freedom is an absolute. 439 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:50,040 It's the complete removal of any type of spiritual location or 440 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,440 limitation. Rather, total freedom remains 441 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,600 the ultimate promise, even if it is not fully realized in the 442 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,320 present. If you can't get it in this 443 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,800 life, well, you just keep working and you might get it in 444 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:05,240 the next life as you come back as your next physical outward 445 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,280 manifestation of your theaton, which again is your soul. 446 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,520 All right. Well, we looked at those. 447 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,760 The training column there includes training and doctrine, 448 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,280 ethics, auditing procedures, and organizational structure. 449 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,200 But I want us to look at the 8 dynamics. 450 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:26,080 And so if the bridge to total freedom is the program, then the 451 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,560 8 dynamics of Scientology is the principles. 452 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,960 So the bridge is the program, the dynamics are the principles 453 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,520 that make up the program. It's important for us to 454 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,440 understand the two. The great deal of Scientology is 455 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,080 based on the building blocks of these 8 dynamics. 456 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,600 The 8 dynamics are survival drives that govern existence. 457 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,760 L Ron Hubbard and the great basis of a lot of his writings, 458 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:54,200 particularly Dianetics, is that the one motivational thought of 459 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,480 mankind is survival. And everything that man does is 460 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,800 about surviving. And So what we're going to do 461 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,760 here in just a moment is we're going to watch two different 462 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,040 videos. I've actually put them together 463 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,160 to watch back-to-back 1. I believe if I have loaded this 464 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,640 correctly, should be L Ron Hubbard in his own words for a 465 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,480 few moments. You might say, well this doesn't 466 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,040 make any sense and my answer would be right it, it's not 467 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,280 going to make a lot of sense. It sounds very intelligent. 468 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,000 But by the time you get to the end, there's a lot of 469 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,320 intelligent sounding words put together. 470 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:28,360 But then when you put them together and you see them for a 471 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:30,200 whole, you realize there's really nothing here. 472 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,840 And then the second part is a greater explanation of these 8 473 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,520 dynamics of which we'll be talking about and reviewing in 474 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,440 just a few moments. So if we could, let's roll that 475 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:49,960 footage. People ask me these questions. 476 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,880 How did you ever think about Dianetics? 477 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:01,600 Well, it doesn't seem to me that it required much more than the 478 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:07,800 cultural question itself. It has been with man now for 479 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,920 perhaps 50,000 years. What makes man tick? 480 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,640 Why does man act as man does act? 481 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:24,720 These questions are found in the oldest literature we have. 482 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:34,520 One looks back into the days of more modern times, let us say 483 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,600 ancient Greece, and he finds there in ancient Greece a school 484 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:43,720 which is attempting to answer the problems of the mind. 485 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,600 The Ascalippian school man had already become very conversant 486 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,920 with the problems of man by the time Greece was. 487 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:56,760 Greece. The Ascalepians, for instance, 488 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,240 were trying to cure insanity with convulsive shock. 489 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:07,080 They used a drug called hellebore and it produced much 490 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,440 the same results as the electric shock which is being used today. 491 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:19,720 The various methods employed, the efforts employed to cure 492 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,560 insanity, of course, form only a small part of man's efforts. 493 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:31,680 Man isn't wholly concentrated upon insanity in Dianetics. 494 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,360 We certainly aren't concentrated upon insanity or neurosis or 495 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,720 even psychosomatic illnesses. We're trying to do something 496 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,800 about the activities of the normal man, something about 497 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,400 conditions which in the world today are considered to be 498 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:55,320 normal conditions. Dianetics is mainly leveled at 499 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:02,440 the solution of the problems of man's activities, not just at 500 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:08,800 the problems of his psychotic and psychosomatically I'll 501 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:16,440 brother, in Dianetics what we do know doesn't have variables. 502 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,720 Therefore we can call it quite legitimately a science, but out 503 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,360 in advance of it is a tremendous field as yet utterly unexplored. 504 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,160 A philosophy, philosophy 1 might say, is the great unknown of 505 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,480 knowledge. Dianetics came straight out of 506 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,200 the realm of philosophy, actually, since none of these 507 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,280 facts could have been possibly have been integrated. 508 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,880 None of them could have been if we had not had a central pivot 509 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,800 on which to hang them. And that central pivot was the 510 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,320 word survive. It seemed incredible to people 511 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,000 that man could only be surviving. 512 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,840 Until one begins to realize the utter abundance necessary for 513 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,000 survival. It isn't enough, you know, to 514 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,840 raise one bushel of wheat per month. 515 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:06,480 If one is only going to consume 1 bushel of wheat, one has to 516 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,040 raise enough bushels of wheat to take care of all emergencies, 517 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,040 and if he raises enough, then he survives. 518 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,880 But raising enough wheat and having a great enough abundance 519 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:22,160 would in itself be a pleasure. We find out that survival then 520 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,880 proceeds into pleasure, that infinite survival as a an 521 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,080 Organism, a personality, a spirit. 522 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,400 However it is that he survives through his children that is a 523 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,040 pleasure and the attaining of that goal is a pleasure. 524 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,960 The act of trying to attain that goal is a pleasure. 525 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:49,600 On the other side of non survival we have pain, pain, the 526 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:54,280 warning light that says don't go in this direction any further 527 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,960 because there lies death. In other words, the rightest one 528 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,640 could be was infinite survival for himself, for his children, 529 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,880 for his group, and for all mankind. 530 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:36,550 It works out into a simplicity. What is your primary goal in 531 00:29:36,550 --> 00:29:40,120 life? In other words, what's driving 532 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,440 you? What's the basic motivation 533 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,760 behind all of your actions and decisions? 534 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,040 The. Work you did on the stairway is 535 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,800 fantastic. Well, whatever else you may be 536 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:55,200 trying to do, ultimately you're trying to survive now. 537 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,760 It's not a new thought that man is surviving. 538 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,920 So Alex and I just told me you had a math test today. 539 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,840 How'd you do? But in Scientology it was 540 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,000 discovered that man, like every other living thing, is motivated 541 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,800 only by survival. That is the goal of life. 542 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,280 So everything you do and every choice you make is driven by 543 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,320 this urge you have to survive. But you're not trying to just 544 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,760 merely survive. Go all. 545 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:25,800 The way back up the. Loop. 546 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,720 You want to live long and live well. 547 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,600 Popcorn. So there are degrees of 548 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,400 survival. Your urge to survive could be 549 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,200 represented by an arrow that thrusts up toward the highest 550 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,880 potential level of survival. We call this urge towards 551 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,960 survival a dynamic. If you were to look at it 552 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,360 through a magnifying glass, you'd see that this one thrust 553 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,200 subdivides into 8 thrusts, 8 urges to survive. 554 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,240 We call these the 8 dynamics. They represent all the different 555 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,960 compartments in your life that you're surviving for. 556 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,720 For example, the first dynamic is the urge to survive as 557 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,640 oneself. It's the effort to survive as an 558 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:20,320 individual, to be an individual, to attain the highest level of 559 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,080 survival for the longest possible time for self. 560 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,120 Here we have individuality expressed fully. 561 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,840 The second dynamic is the urge to survive through a future 562 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:39,720 generation. It has two compartments, sex and 563 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,840 the family unit, including the rearing of children. 564 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,960 The third dynamic is the urge to survive as part of a group. 565 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:54,560 Any group, temporary or permanent, political or social, 566 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:59,280 is part of the third dynamic and each one is 1/3 dynamic. 567 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,000 The 4th dynamic is the urge to survive through man as a 568 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,800 species. Whereas one race would be 569 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,720 considered a third dynamic, all the races of man together would 570 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:19,320 be considered the 4th dynamic. The 5th dynamic is the urge to 571 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,840 survive for any and every form of life. 572 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,120 This would include all living things, whether animal or 573 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:31,960 vegetable. The 6th dynamic is the urge to 574 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,520 promote the survival of the physical universe. 575 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,560 It's the drive of the individual to enhance the survival of all 576 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:44,800 matter, energy, space and time, which are the component parts of 577 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:50,440 the physical universe. The 7th dynamic can be called 578 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,000 the spiritual dynamic. This is separate from the 579 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,160 physical universe and is the source of life itself. 580 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,880 The 8th dynamic is the urge toward existence as Infinity. 581 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,960 This is also identified as the Supreme Being. 582 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,480 This can be called the Infinity or God dynamic. 583 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,280 These 8 dynamics embrace all the goals of survival that you have 584 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,520 and all the things that you survive for, and you're trying 585 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,880 to survive one way or another on all these dynamics at once. 586 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,960 You may be surviving well in some the finalized storyboard 587 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,160 for that scene. These are great check in with me 588 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,800 at the end of the day. Go Team. 589 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,960 But perhaps not so well in others. 590 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,560 But if you're not surviving as well in one or more areas of 591 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,720 your life, then you're ultimately not surviving well in 592 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,000 general, because they're all connected. 593 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,360 Now. Any problem or situation you 594 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,840 encounter in life will affect one or more of these dynamics. 595 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,400 Yet, as you know, not all decisions or solutions are 596 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,120 simple. There's a natural struggle 597 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,719 between your dynamics. For example, a job opportunity 598 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,760 in another city that would improve your income but uproot 599 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,080 your wife and children has implications across several of 600 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,639 your dynamics. The better your decisions are, 601 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,080 the better you survive. So how can you determine the 602 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,239 right course of action to take? What constitutes a right 603 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,280 decision? Well, in Scientology, you'll 604 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,840 learn a method to determine precisely what the best decision 605 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,639 or solution is for any problem or situation you encounter in 606 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:43,199 life. With this tool, you'll know how 607 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:46,280 to confidently make the correct decision every time. 608 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,400 I'll call them first thing in the morning and let them know. 609 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,880 Sounds good. The more you understand these 610 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,400 dynamics and their relationship to each other, the more you can 611 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,760 increase your survival and participation on all of them. 612 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,640 Hi, sorry about my dog. For the 8 dynamics are the parts 613 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:11,710 of your life. Yeah, that's right. 614 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,680 What? What is the common thread there? 615 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:20,200 From the psycho Babble of L Ron Hubbard, which again was an 616 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:26,720 eloquent pile of nothing, to the 8 dynamics that tell you that 617 00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:30,120 it's all about survival. It really gets to that very end 618 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,880 part that there is a method to be able to help you to 619 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,840 understand what to be able to do in your life. 620 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,680 And the answer is always this. You. 621 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,720 But how can you find that answer within you? 622 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,280 You need auditing. You need the E meter. 623 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,880 You need the bridge to total freedom. 624 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:53,840 This is the only way. Which means you need Scientology 625 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,320 and you need money. That's really what it comes down 626 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,400 to. And so in looking at all of 627 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,200 those things, I'd like to summarize just here very quickly 628 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,080 why Scientology is spiritually dangerous. 629 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,080 And I understand that it seems very far removed from us, 630 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,480 doesn't it? It certainly does. 631 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,200 I, I don't know that I've ever met someone who's a practicing 632 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,920 Scientologist before. I've seen much of it online. 633 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,800 We've obviously seen much of it in Hollywood. 634 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,960 We've also seen much of the negative effects of it that have 635 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,840 been publicly brought to the surface, like I mentioned last 636 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,280 week, whether it's books, documentaries, news articles, 637 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,560 those type of things. But why is Scientology so 638 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,480 dangerous? Again, it all comes back to 639 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,000 this. The answer is inside of you. 640 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,360 But yet we see that the Bible tells us though that that we're 641 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,000 to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not unto our 642 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,920 own understanding in all our ways. 643 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,760 Acknowledge Him and he shall direct thy paths. 644 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,920 See Psalm 119 says what thy word is a lamp unto our feet and a 645 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,160 light unto our path. Over and over we are told that 646 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,160 when we are involved we end up messing up the way we should go. 647 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,800 But yet when the Lord is the one who leads and the Lord's word is 648 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,280 the one who leads us, then we can truly understand not only 649 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,320 what salvation is, but understand how we're to live in 650 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,800 this day-to-day life as well. Scientology offers false hope. 651 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,240 It promises freedom without repentance. 652 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,760 It involves replacement, redemption. 653 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:20,160 Only Christ can free the Sinner. John 836 If the Son therefore 654 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,240 shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 655 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:26,240 It does not come through the bridge to nowhere. 656 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,120 It offers a false God. Again, the real answer is you. 657 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,880 Romans 718 But this is what the word of God says. 658 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,480 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good 659 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,080 thing, for to will is present with me. 660 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,000 But how to perform that which is good? 661 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,160 I find not. It promises, or rather it has 662 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,400 false prophets. L Ron Hubbard, David Miscavige 663 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,080 are liars, they're hucksters, and they are abusers. 664 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,920 For instance, L Ron Hubbard's son Ronald Dewolf publicly 665 00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:00,240 accused his father Hubbard of widespread dishonesty and 666 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,240 described Scientology as a business rather than religion. 667 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,280 So what was the response of Scientology? 668 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:10,080 To scrub Ronald Dewolf from the history books and act as if he 669 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,480 never even existed in the 1st 1st place as a son of L Ron 670 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,320 Hubbard. There are numerous former high 671 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,480 level executives and Seorg members that have accused 672 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,800 Miscavage of physical beatings, humiliation, verbal abuse, and 673 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,640 as I mentioned last week, confining those members who they 674 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,640 considered to be going rogue. Those members who they 675 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,320 considered to be those who are causing trouble within 676 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,760 Scientology, placing them into a place that is called the whole 677 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,680 where they received physical abuse. 678 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,720 They were not fed properly. What I have seen is that people 679 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:45,200 would be treated better in the county jail than they would be 680 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,840 in this area. That's why I am very confident 681 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,240 in saying that Scientology has more to do with organized crime 682 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:57,040 than it does with the idea of religion because it is all about 683 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,160 control. Multiple lawsuits named 684 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,600 Miscavige personally and allege human trafficking, human 685 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,360 trafficking, forced labor, child abuse, sexual abuse, cover ups 686 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,520 and coercion of minors into the Sea Org. 687 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:12,240 The Sea Org members can typically start at a very young 688 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,800 age, even before teenage age. And they are signing billion 689 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,040 year contracts. Yes, I said that right. 690 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,640 A billion year contract. I got to, I got to finish. 691 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,840 I'm sorry. But yeah, it's, well, you know, 692 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,240 it's it's exciting, but why is it a billion years? 693 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,680 Because you're going to as a theatin, you're just going to 694 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,720 continue on and on and on. And so as a minor, you're 695 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,040 signing a contract for a billion years. 696 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,760 And you say, well, who's going to honor that? 697 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,680 Well, no court is going to honor that. 698 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,440 However, they are going to hold you to it. 699 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,720 And if you don't, they are going to make your life miserable for 700 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:45,280 what you signed when you were nine years old. 701 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,760 I mean, absolutely incredible, but it's not just about the 702 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,640 false prophets as those two men, but it's also about the false 703 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,800 prophets PROFITS, meaning this, it's all about money. 704 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,040 This is a pyramid scheme. It puts money in the pockets of 705 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,360 those at the top and bankrupting everyone else. 706 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,280 If you look at how David Miskevich lives, if you look at 707 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,560 how Tom Cruise is basically just gifted things, large amounts of 708 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,440 money by the Church of Scientology, a man who doesn't 709 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,160 need money from anybody. But yet continues to receive and 710 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,240 receive from Scientology. It's absolutely awful. 711 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,560 Acts 8, verse 20. Peter said thy money perish with 712 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,360 thee because thou has bought or thou has thought that the gift 713 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,920 of God may be purchased with money. 714 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,360 And we understand that is not the case. 715 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,520 I'll recommend to you once again very quickly if you'd like to 716 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,640 read on this topic. It's an excellent book that I 717 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,920 read last year from cover to cover, going Clear by Lawrence 718 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,080 Wright. Leah Remini again also has 719 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,240 several documentaries. Again, I can't recommend them 720 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:44,640 for language. However, I can tell you that the 721 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,960 content inside it is very enlightening. 722 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,080 And again, all you have to do is to go online and Google Tampa 723 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,760 Bay Times or Saint Pete Times and Scientology and you'll find 724 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:57,120 a host of articles that will keep you very, very busy in 725 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,880 reading and understanding. What Scientology is all about. 726 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,280 Well, it took a little bit longer than I thought it would. 727 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,040 I was trying to do this in one week. 728 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,960 But at the same time, being able to hear those things with your 729 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,200 own voice is something you with your own ears is what you need 730 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,040 to hear. Because certainly who would 731 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,960 believe such a thing could even be possible? 732 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,640 And why would anyone stay? Well, you stay because again, 733 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,480 the idea of the sunken cost, you're in too deep. 734 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,800 You just got to keep going. But the problem is if they don't 735 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,560 get out, they're going to end up spending an eternity in the lake 736 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,200 of fire. And so it's important for us to 737 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,560 understand and to be able to, if we ever come in contact with 738 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,480 Scientologists, to be able to present them what the true 739 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,080 gospel is. Thank you for. 740 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,920 Listening to the sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist 741 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,000 Church. If this message was a blessing 742 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,480 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 743 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:51,080 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 744 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,880 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 745 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,720 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 746 00:41:58,720 --> 00:41:59,920 grow in His Word.