SCIENTOLOGY RELIGIOUS TRAINING

The Bridge to Total Freedom is a spiritual path consisting of the two complementary religious practices of auditing and training. Participation in both is essential for the attainment of a complete understanding of all life — all eight dynamics.

While auditing enables the individual to inspect and overcome spiritual encumbrances and rise through a series of ascending levels of spiritual awareness, training consists of the intensive study of the tenets of the religion.

Study of the Axioms and fundamental truths contained in Scientology Scripture leads to a complete understanding of man’s spiritual nature — the relationship between thetan, mind and body; the relationship between theta and MEST; and the precise means by which a thetan becomes entrapped in the physical universe.

There is no part of life that Scientology training fails to address — from the seemingly mundane to the highest truths of existence. Studying these truths invariably answers many questions the individual has had about himself, his fellows, and the universe in which he finds himself. Training is thus a path of personal revelation and an indispensable part of an individual’s personal progress up the Bridge.

But training is also the route by which Scientology ministers acquire the knowledge and skill to conduct auditing. The Scripture studied in training is organized into courses that align with the specific levels of spiritual awareness through which auditing progresses. As the minister completes each level in training, he acquires the knowledge and exact skills required to conduct auditing up to that level.

And as Scientologists become more spiritually aware, they translate this awareness into direct action to help others. Training enables the Scientologist to do that in the most valuable way possible — auditing others to help them achieve their own total spiritual freedom.

Training materials contain all of Mr. Hubbard’s books and other written materials, tape-recorded lectures and technical training films that are necessary to impart a complete understanding of Scientology theory and technique.

Mr. Hubbard stressed that the disciplines of Scientology are just as important as its Scripture, and thus training places great emphasis on mastery of the skills of auditing.

HOW SCIENTOLOGY TRAINING IS CONDUCTED

Scientology training allows each individual to progress at his own rate. Each course is organized around a checksheet — a list laying out the books and scriptures to be studied, the practical exercises to be completed, and the sequence in which these steps are to be done.

There are no teachers in a Scientology course room. Instead, students make their own progress through their checksheets, assisted by a Course Supervisor. The Supervisor does not lecture, or give his own rendition of Scripture. However unintentional, such interpretations would inevitably include alterations from the original. Instead, the Supervisor assists the student to apply the study principles developed by L. Ron Hubbard, so that he overcomes any misunderstanding and grasps the meaning directly from the Scripture.