The Bridge to Total Freedom

You can look at it online.

Look up the Bridge to Total Freedom.

And you'll see it goes all the way up to OT 15.

But I'm just telling you as an insider, after OT 8, they got nothing.

Now, that is one thing that they have a lot of control over, uh, you know, because what they tell them is, "This is gonna be bad for your spiritual progress.

If you read this, it's gonna hurt you," right? And the whole pur- the whole thing that they sell in Scientology is called The Bridge to Total Freedom.

So when you get to the top, you're supposed to achieve total spiritual freedom.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

And it's called The Bridge to Total Freedom.

Scientology teaches that reaching to the top of the bridge means that you're able to use the mind to do powerful things, like move things or cure cancer for yourself, according to Leah Remini.

Mm.

... and basically give Scientology, um, all of, all of her money.

The Bridge to Total Freedom.

The Bridge to Total Freedom.

And her friends found this out, and they reached out and like, "We're really worried about our friend, and we want some advice on, on how to get her to, uh, to not do this." And I'm like, "Look, this is either gonna go really well or it's gonna go really badly."

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And it exposes not only their sort of predatory activities with people who are enrolled in the courses and how they're just racking up so much wealth, but also that they have this fleet of lawyers, and they're very aggressive about targeting people who are saying anything and, a- anything negative.

And then, of course, you also have the reality that once you get to the OT levels on the Bridge to Total Freedom, so once you've gone clear, you've spent what Leah Remini says is about 40 grand to get to that point, then you get into the next stage of the upper levels of training, and at that point, it's confidential.

You are absolutely forbidden from saying anything.

So yeah, there, there's, there's all of this tension around publicity, celebrity, being very litigious, having a lot of secrecy, and then people who defect and end up telling these wild stories.

Let's continue, and you'd dig down, dig down.

But then on top of it, though, what L. Ron Hubbard started to introduce was this, what's called the bridge to total freedom.

And Scientology is really interesting because You go into a church Scientology today and you'll probably be given an introductory class.

You might be audited, but then right away you're going to be pitched that, you know, hey, if you really want your marriage to get better, if you really want to get better at public speaking, all of these things are mental problems that we can help solve for you.

And if you pay for this next class, you pay for this next package, you begin to climb up the bridge to total freedom.

And initially, L. Ron Hubbard introduced like that bridge to total freedom ended at this thing called clear, which clear was when all of those engrams were removed.

So you were supposed to have like perfect memory.

You were supposed to have like, you know, like nirvana.

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Yeah, so even though the Bridge to Total Freedom says you can go up to OT 15, actually, you can only go to OT 8.

That's right.

Yeah.