the "higher" you go up the bridge, the lower you get

Question answered by FreeZone in Scientology

skyview1 asked this question on 7/25/2000:

Have you ever noticed that the further "up" the bridge a person goes, the worse off that individual gets? Why is it that all the significant gains are made on the lower levels? Did Mr. Hubbard run out of usable material to borrow from previous schools of thought?

Could it be that by getting a person to believe that he or she is under the hidden influence of first the "reactive mind" and later those billions of invisable attaching spirits, that the "technology" actually loosens that person's grip on reality to a point where all this upper level nonsense seems real.

Is Scientology really the "Anti-Psychology", designed not just to make money but to drive its adherants truly insane? Who really is the enemy of Mankind?

FreeZone gave this response on 7/26/2000:

I honestly haven't observed this to be the case. One of the reasons that I originally went from observing Scientology as a curious outsider to being deeply involved in it was knowing several OTs and feeling they were impressive and had something I wanted. But this was a long time ago, and the Bridge in use for the past 20 years has been fundamentally different from what those OTs did.

Some of those I originally envied have been out of the CoS for years now, and I suspect most of those I've lost track of have also quit. Of those I know well, I've seen recent confirmation of continued active CoS involvement for only 2. One of these was the sleaziest person I ever met in my 2 years at the Org I was in; the other was a man who was very sharp and one of the OTs I admired back then, but he also took advantage of my trust in him to cheat me (and for a puny few bucks that were hardly worth the trouble).

I do think that the OT levels currently in use are Hubbard's own case and, while possibly useful for some others, fundamentally messed up. Starting with technology that's dubious in the first place, CoS then insists on overrunning it for years on end. Also they run endless sec checks, another way to screw people up. I wouldn't expect folks who have gone through lots of this to be in good shape.

I haven't ever met a person who has done the current OT VII or VIII, but you do have to wonder when you see somebody like Jentzsch. At one point he must have had something - his first wife Yvonne is spoken of with immense admiration and respect by apparently everyone who ever met her. Today I see him do media appearances and the guy is barely worth wiping your shoes on, just beneath contempt. Spitting on him would be an insult to the spit.

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