Scientology is based around a thing called
The Bridge;
this is more properly known as the
Scientology® Classification Gradation
and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates. Below is a representation of it...
The Bridge consists of two sides. On the left is the
Training side (showing your ride up the greasy-pole of auditor (read: brainwasher)
training), and on the right is your Processing (read: brainwashing).
THE BRIDGE
TO TOTAL FREEDOM
SCIENTOLOGY CLASSIFICATION GRADATION AND AWARENESS CHART
OF LEVELS AND CERTIFICATES
TRAINING PROCESSING
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New OT XV
New OT XIV
New OT XIII
New OT XII
Future
New OT XI
Operating
New OT X
Character
New OT IX
Orders of Magnitude
New OT VIII
Class XII (Validated) Truth Revealed
CLASS XII New OT VII
Auditor Solo NED for OTs
Class XI (Validated) New OT VI
Hubbard Solo NOTs Course
CLASS XI
Auditor New OT V
NED for OTs (NOTs)
Class X (Validated)
New OT IV
CLASS X OT Drug Rundown
Auditor
OT III
Class IX (Validated) "The Wall of Fire"
CLASS IX OT II
Auditor
New OT I
Class VIII (Validated)
Eligibility for Issue of
CLASS VIII AUDITOR OT Levels Check
Hubbard Specialist of
Standard Tech New Hubbard Solo Auditor
Course Part Two
Class VII (Validated)
OT Prepearations
CLASS VII AUDITOR
Hubbard Graduate Auditor New Hubbard Solo Auditor
Course Part One
Class VI (Validated)
Sunshine Rundown
CLASS VI AUDITOR
Hubbard Senior Scientologist CLEAR
(Saint Hill Special Briefing Course
(SHSBC - Levels A - P)) Clearing Course
Class VA Graduate (Validated) Grade VI Release
Whole Track Release
CLASS VA GRADUATE AUDITOR
Hubbard Expanded Dianetics Grade VA
Specialist Power Plus Release
Class V (Validated) Grade V
Power Release
CLASS V AUDITOR
Hubbard New Era Dianetics Auditor NEW ERA DIANETICS (NED)
Class IV (Validated) Grade IV Expanded
Ability Release
CLASS IV AUDITOR
Hubbard Advanced Auditor Grade III Expanded
Freedom Release
CLASS III AUDITOR
Hubbard Professional Auditor Grade II Expanded
Relief Release
CLASS II AUDITOR
Hubbard Certified Auditor Grade I Expanded
Problems Release
CLASS I AUDITOR
Hubbard Trained Scientologist Grade 0 Expanded
Communication Release
CLASS 0 AUDITOR
Hubbard Recognised Scientologist ARC Straightwire
Recall Release
Hubbard Professional Upper
Indoc TR Course Graduate Scientology Drug Rundown
New Hubbard Professional TRs and Objectives
TR Course Graduate
Purification Rundown
Hubbard Graduate of
Study Tech
Hubbard Method One Co-
Audit Course Graduate
We know what auditors do (or you will know), so I’ll cover the Processing
side.
This starts with the Purification Rundown or Purif
($2,000). According to Scientology buffs this is a nice, cleansing
process, intended to remove drugs from the body that have been stored up
over your life-time. Ordinarily I’d agree with this, but with the Purif
you take mega-overdoses of vitamins and minerals while being subjected
to extremely vigorous running exercise and sweating in a sauna for hours
every day. In this you’re meant to sweat out all these drugs. However there
is no scientfic evidence to back up Scientology’s claims about the effectiveness
or benefits of the Purif. And… let me ask you… how happy would you feel
taking overdoses of vitamins and minerals without your GP’s approval?
(As JerboaKolinowski kindly pointed out to me: exhaustion is a very common "brainwashing" technique - used in the army and in army "boot camps" for giving "tough love" to problem kids in the states, amongst others. It's often coupled with sleep deprivation and under-feeding. It's thought to make one more receptive to new ideas. )
There are some miscellaneous courses here, like the Hubbard
Key to Life TM Course and the Hubbard Life Orientation
TM
Course, but, really, next are the Grades. These are, as Lance
S. Buckley puts it, the… hahaha… "preliminary steps to the true enlightenment
and understanding of Body Thetans on the OT Levels."
They’re meant to make you go clear eventually, but what happened to good
old Dianetics? In order, they are meant to help you
do this….
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Grade 0 communicate, using hypnosis in which you are placed
back in incidents to experience them all over again (just like Dn.)
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Grade I you learn the "Ability to recognize the source of
problems and make them vanish" [Grade Chart]. What if Scientology is your
problem?
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Grade II Overts and Witholds On this grade
you basically have to tell all. Everything you’ve ever done...strangely
enough many ex-members have reported that the Scientologists like to get
their hands on anything of an overtly sexual nature. If you then leave,
although they’re not meant to, they might then use this to blackmail
you
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Grade III Upsets
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Grade IV Service facsimiles On this grade
you learn to get rid of "Service facsimiles" (conditioned behaviour).
See Handbook for Preclears (ISBN 87-7336-053-8).
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New Era Dianetics here you get Dianetic auditing on
the "whole track", that is auditing on all your past lives (hey!
reincarnation's an OK idea). You’re meant to go clear if you get rid
of your reactive bank (the sum of the memories of pain and unconsciousness
a person has).
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If you don’t go clear well, poor you. You’ll have to do Grades V, VI,
and VII. In Grade V, you become aware of yourself as
a source of power. After all "this is America! You should be able to buy
spiritual freedom!" [Lance]. Grade VI, you clear up verbal locks in your
bank (revise M/Us or Mis-Understood Words first).
After all of this you should be
Clear, or a completely wonderful person... But the fun's not over yet!
It's on to the
OT Levels, or
Scientology's Advanced Secrets for you...