THE BRIDGE TO TOTAL FREEDOM
SCIENTOLOGY CLASSIFICATION GRADATION AND AWARENESS CHART OF LEVELS AND CERTIFICATES
How to Use This Chart
This chart describes the route to human recovery and ultimate expansion of one’s ability and power as a spiritual being. The field of human recovery belongs to Dianetics technology. Scientology philosophy brings an individual to higher states of being and ability. The chart could be conceived as a map of the expansion of life. It shows at each level the realization of a greater potential with, at the left under Training, a new knowledge and skill in handling life, in the center of the chart under Awareness Characteristics, an expanded awareness, and at the right under Processing, the attainment of a higher state of beingness.
1. In your first reading of the chart you will probably have scanned it over in a general way and become familiar with many parts of it. Be sure, next, to read across the top of the columns to learn what each level describes. You’ll see that there are three main areas, Training, Awareness Characteristics and Processing, and all three progress upwards in increasing levels on the chart. Just as each level up to Clear requires an auditor with an added field of knowledge and skill, at each level v/e find also a preclear ready to be run on the level, having attained all the grades below.
2. Now look at the various introductory level services at the bottom of the chart under Dianetics and Scientology Introductory Services. Note that these introductory level services and activities are not mandatory, but are there to help one begin and become familiar with the fundamentals. One may take any of these routes he chooses—the Registrar at your nearest Church of Scientology can assist you in selecting the one best suited to your needs and interests.
3. Read across each complete level ot the chart, only moving up a level when you have satisfied your own understanding of each level as described. You will thereby gain a thorough grasp of the direction and magnitude of Dianetics technology and Scientology philosophy. At the band of Clear the column headings are doubled for each level so the headings correspond to the upper and lower boxes in each row.
4. The optimum route up this chart is to train as an auditor and co-audit with another up the processing side of the chart. Through training you gain a complete understanding of the mind and life and thus your gains from auditing are greater. Following completion of the Purification Rundown, co-auditing can be done up through NED Case Completion or the state of Clear in all Academies of Scientology organizations.
5. On the far left and far right of the chart, you will find described various services (training services on the left-hand side, processing on the right) that can be done at several different points on one’s way up The Bridge. For more information on these, see the Registrar at your nearest Church of Scientology.
6. Read the books of Dianetics technology and Scientology philosophy, available from every Church of Scientology or your local bookstores tor continued expansion of your knowledge and use of the subjects.
7. In your study of this chart (and in any study) be sure you do not go past words you do not understand. Use a good dictionary. There is also a Scientology Dictionary available from your Church of Scientology.
With this chart in front of you, you have already made the most important step of all—you have contacted truth and the route to freedom. It is hard for man in his present condition to grasp even that higher states of being exist. He had no literature about them, really, or any vocabulary for them.
In all of philosophy he had no glimmering at all of Dianetics technology and only a distant hope for spiritual freedom as in Scientology philosophy, but no technology at all.
Factually you’ve been traveling this universe a very long time without a map. Now you’ve got one.
Put this chart on your wall. When you’ve taken some of the steps, mark them DONE with the date. Find out your next step and mark it TO 8E DONE and WHEN. Then do it. There’s plenty of expert help in the Churches and Missions of Scientology; don’t hesitate to use it.
Keep track of your progress and keep moving.
You’ll make it. All the way.
Definitions
AUDITOR: a person trained and qualified in applying Dianetics and/or Scientology processes and procedures to individuals for their betterment; called an auditor because auditor means one who listens.
CLEAR: the name of a state achieved through auditing or an individual who has achieved this state. A Clear is a being who no longer has his own reactive mind. A Clear is an unaberrated person and is rational in that he forms the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and from his viewpoint. The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated to throw out the correctness of computation by entering hidden and false data.
DIANETICS: Dianetics spiritual healing technology. It addresses and handles the effects of the spirit on the body and can alleviate such things as unwanted sensations and emotions, injuries and psychosomatic illnesses (ones that are caused or aggravated by mental stress). Dianetics means “through the soul” (from Greek dia, “through” and nous, “soul”). It is further defined as “what the soul is doing to the body.”
OT: a being who is knowing and ‘willing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time. For thousands of years men have sought the state of complete spiritual freedom from the endless cycle of birth and death and have sought personal immortality containing full awareness, memory and ability as a spirit independent of the flesh.
In Scientology this state has been attained. We call this state “Operating Thetan.” To operate something is to be able to handle it Thetan is from the Greek letter “theta” the traditional philosopher’s symbol (from the letter in the Greek alphabet “theta” O) of thought, spirit or life. Thus it means a being who as a spirit alone can handle things.
PRECLEAR: a person who is on the road to becoming Clear, hence pre-Clear. A Clear is a being who, through Scientology and Dianetics processing, is able to form the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and from his viewpoint.
RELEASE: the term for what occurs when a person separates from his reactive mind or some part of it. The degree and relative permanence of being pulled out of the reactive mind determines the state of Release. There are a number of states or stages of Release and these are called Grades.
SCIENTOLOGY: Scientology philosophy. It is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other life. Scientology means scio, “knowing in the fullest sense of the word” and logos, “study.” In itself the word means literally knowing how to know. Scientology is a “route,” a way, rather than a dissertation or an assertive body of knowledge. Through its drills and studies one may find the truth for himself. The technology is therefore not expounded as something to believe, but something to do.
THETAN: the person himself—not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind or anything else; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. The term was coined to eliminate any possible confusion with older, invalid concepts. It comes from the Greek letter “theta” (Θ) to which an n is added to make a noun in the modem style used to create words in engineering. It is also 6n, or “theta to the nth degree,” meaning unlimited or vast.
TRs: training regimens or routines, often referred to as training drills. TRs are practical drills on the cycle of communication. Designations and abbreviations such as those found in the body of this chart are to be found in the Scientology Dictionary.1
DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY INTRODUCTORY SERVICES
Success Through Communication Route
Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course
Teaches basics of Scientology and how it can be applied to increase one’s ability to handle situations and people in life.Success Through Communication Course
Improves the ability to communicate by teaching the exact and precise skills of guiding and controlling communication for social, business and other purposes.Life Improvement Course Route
Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course
Teaches basics of Scientology and how it can be applied to increase one’s ability to handle situations and people in life.
Success Through Communication Course
Improves the ability to communicate by teaching the exact and precise skills of guiding and controlling communication for social, business and other purposes.
Life Improvement Courses
Teaches the basics of Scientology technology which can bring immediate improvement to a specific aspect of an individual’s existence such as: marriage, family, relations with others, personal integrity and many others.
Personal Efficiency Route
Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course
Teaches basics of Scientology and how it can be applied to increase one’s ability to handle situations and people in life.
Success Through Communication Course
Improves the ability to communicate by teaching the exact and precise skills of guiding and controlling communication for social, business and other purposes.Personal Efficiency Course
Addresses specific problems and aspects of life and offers both personal experience and an analysis of the “basics” of life in very real and practical terms.Scientology Introductory Auditing Route
Scientology Introductory Auditing introduces one to what auditing is and can do for someone, resulting in a personal reality that Scientology really works.
Includes:
Assists, which help the being deal with trauma, losses or upsets, or confront physical difficulties.Introductory and demonstration processes, which give someone a reality on what Scientology auditing is and can accomplish.
Group Processing, which consists of auditing procedures done on groups that improves a person’s alertness and awareness of the environment, as well as his communication.
Dianetics® (Book One™) Route
Hubbard’ Dianetics Auditor Course
Teaches the knowledge that something can be done about the reactive mind and introduces one to the personal improvement that can be achieved through the techniques given in the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.Introductory Dianetics (Book One) Auditing
Enables one to attain a certainty that something can be done about the reactive mind through the application of the auditing techniques given in the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
Hubbard Dianetics Seminar
Teaches the auditing techniques given in the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.Anatomy of the Human Mind Route
Hubbard Qualified Scientologist’ Course
Teaches basics of Scientology and how it can be applied to increase one’s ability to handle situations and people in life.Anatomy of the Human Mind Course
Teaches the key fundamentals of Dianetics and Scientology, the parts of man, the mind and the physical universe to give a basic understanding of these subjects.
Purification Route
TRs and Objectives Co-Audit Course
Teaches Scientology basics on communication and TRs. Trains a person on the auditing techniques to deliver Objective Processing, enabling one to audit these processes with another (called “co-auditing”) and gain the ability of “oriented in the present time of the physical universe.”Purification Rundown
Enables someone to attain freedom from the restimulative effects of drug residues and other toxins.The Way to Happiness Route
Happiness Rundown®
Clears up any confusions on the subject of morals and steers the person in a direction where he is certain he can live a happier life.
Prerequisites: Drug handling as determined by the Case Supervisor.
The Way to Happiness CourseTeaches the knowledge one needs to achieve a greater happiness for himself and others.
Hubbard Key to Life Course Route
Hubbard Life Orientation Course
Teaches the skills and procedures with which a person can fully straighten out his own life and become competent in the physical universe.Hubbard Key to Life Course
Teaches someone to become a literate Scientologist who can express himself easily and clearly, both verbally and in writing and can fully understand the communication he receives from others.Prerequisites: Drug handling as determined by the Case Supervisor.
DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY BEGINNING BOOKS AND EXTENSION COURSES, LECTURES AND PUBLIC FILMS
Additional training services that may be done at various points on The Bridge®
Third and Fourth Dynamic Training Courses
Courses in Scientology Third and Fourth Dynamic containing the basic laws of survival for groups and mankind.
Organization Executive Briefing Course
Flag Executive Briefing Course*
Hubbard Elementary Data Series Evaluator’s Course
Hubbard Executive Data Series Evaluator’s Course*Product: Someone who is able to competently apply the data studied in order to bring about expansion for his group or activity.
Prerequisites: As designated on the course checksheet for each course.Done at Scientology Churches.
*Available at Flag Only
OT® Hatting Courses
Courses covering different bodies of knowledge about thetan’s true potentials and capabilities. Particularly relevant to those on OT levels, but available to any Scientologist.
The Route to Infinity Course*
Secrets of the MEST Universe Course*
Whole Track Course*
The Time Track of Theta Course*
The Perception of Truth Course*
The Ability Congress Course*
The Phoenix Lectures Course*
The Power of Simplicity Course*
The Anatomy of Cause Course*
The Creation of Human Ability Course*
Universes and The War Between Theta and MEST Course*
The Solution to Entrapment Course*
State of Man Congress Course*
Exteriorization and the Phenomena of Space Course
The Doctorate Course for OTs
The Skills of a Theta Being Course*
The Dawn of Immortality Course*
Responsibility and the State of OT Course*
The First Postulate Course*
Rehabilitation of the Human Spirit Course*
The Principles of Creation Course*Product: Someone who understands and can apply the data being taught.
Prerequisites: Student Hat (or as designated on checksheet)
* Available exclusively at The Flag Ship Service Org.
OT Debug Service
A unique service that uses a series of specialist trained actions and Debug Tech to blow apart any barriers to one’s progress to full OT. Delivered only by the Flag Ship Service Org aboard the Freewinds Motor Vessel.
Technical Specialist Courses
These auditor training courses are not part of the Academy, but exist as separate courses an Academy graduate can take to round out his training and have the technology needed to resolve specific case manifestations for his preclear’s or co-audit partner’s progress up The Bridge.
Vital Information Rundown Auditor Course
Psych Treatment Repair Auditor Course
Allergy or Asthma Rundown Auditor Course
Student Booster Rundown Auditor Course
EST Repair Auditor Course
South African Rundown Auditor Course
Introspection Rundown Auditor Course
Handling Fear of People Auditor Course
PTS/SP Auditor Course
Scientology Marriage Counseling Auditor Course
Hubbard False Purpose Rundown Auditor Course
Hubbard Senior Confessional Auditor Course
Hubbard Happiness Rundown Auditor Course
Scientology Drug Rundown Auditor Course
PDH Detection and Handling Auditor Course
The Hubbard Professional Word Clearer CourseProduct: Someone who is capable of delivering the rundown or action or applying the data being taught to the expected result.
Prerequisites: As designated on the course checksheet for each action, rundown or skill.
Done at Scientology Churches.
Case Supervisor Training
C/S courses (and C/S internships) exist for the levels of Class IV, Class V, Class V Graduate, Class VA Graduate, Class VI, Class VII, and the professional auditor training levels above that. Additionally, the Purification Rundown and the False Purpose Rundown each have their own specialized C/S training.
Product: A Case Supervisor who can competently supervise the rundown or action being done to the expected results.
Prerequisites: As designated on the course checksheet for each rundown or action.
Done at Scientology Churches as designated.
Other Technical Courses
Keeping Scientology Working Course
Professional Product Debug Course
PTS/SP Course (How to Confront and Shatter Suppression)
Introduction to Scientology Ethics Course
Scientology Ethics Specialist Course
Hubbard Assists Processing Auditor Course
Hubbard Group Auditor’s Course
Hubbard Introductory & Demonstration Auditor Course
Basic Study Manual
Special Course in Human Evaluation
Children’s Communication Course
Hubbard Basic Art Course (Celebrity Centres)Product: Someone who is capable of delivering the rundown or action or applying the data being taught to the expected result.
Prerequisites: As designated on the course checksheet for each rundown, action or skill.
Scientology Minister Course
(Requisite for permanent auditor certificate)
Product: A minister of the Church of Scientology trainedf in the fundamental beliefs of the great religions, the religious nature of Scientology and his duties as a Scientology minister.
Prerequisites: Student Hat or Basic Study Manual and any certificate in Scientology. This course may be taken at the same time as an auditor’s internship.
Primary Rundown (when released)
Product: A superliterate, someone who has the ability to comfortably and quickly take data from a page and be able at once to apply it.
Prerequisites: As designated on course checksheet.
Hubbard Life Orientation® Course
Product: Someone who will be competent in the physical universe.
Prerequisites: As designated on course checksheet.
Done at Scientology Churches.
Hubbard Key to Life® Course
Product: A Scientologist who is in communication because he can express himself easily and clearly both verbally and in writing and can fully understand the communication he receives from others.
Prerequisites: Drug handling as required (as determined by the Case Supervisor.)
Done at Scientology Churches.
Additional processing services that may be done at various points on The Bridge
L12®, Flag OT Executive Rundown®
Can bring about tremendously increased personal stability, certainty and control of beingness.
L11®, New Life Rundown®
Addresses the main block or area of irrationality upon which a being introverts and which diminishes one’s power; handling this major aberration can bring a new start, a new viewpoint of sanity and rationality.
L10® Rundown
Consists of a series of 23 different actions which address the reasons one withholds oneself or restrains oneself from action; fully handling these factors can increase a person’s reach and power and free the individual into a whole new realm of ability and activity.
Can be one after Expanded Grade IV, New Era Dianetics, Clear, OT III, New OT IV, New OT VII, New OT VIII, or any individual OT level above New OT X.
Available at Flag only.
Super Power™
Twelve individual rundowns that can put a person into fantastic shape, unleashing the super power of a thetan. Can accomplish a wide range of gains, from releasing the person from out-ethics on all flows to restoring impaired or missing perceptics. Super Power can put the person into a new realm of ability.
Available at Flag when released.
Flag® Only Rundowns
The following rundowns are available at Flag only. Each addresses a specific aspect of a case which, when fully handled by a particular rundown, can result in an individual who is free from restraints in that area and who is tremendously more causative and able. See a Registrar for further information.
Profession Intensive
New Vitality Rundown
Knowledge Rundown
Case Cracker Rundown
Int by Dynamics Rundown
Dynamic Sort-Out Assessment
Fixated Person Rundown
Havingness RundownSpecial Rundowns and Actions
The following rundowns and actions address specific aspects of a case which, when fully handled by the applied techniques, can result in an individual who is free from restraints in those areas and tremendously more causative and able. See a Registrar for further information on these rundowns and actions.
Vital Information Rundown
Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts
Allergy or Asthma Rundown
Student Booster Rundown
Est Repair Rundown
South African Rundown
Introspection Rundown
Fear of People List
Suppressed Person Rundown
Scientology Marriage Counseling
Interiorization RundownDelivered at Scientology Churches and Missions.
False Purpose Rundown®
False Purpose Rundown (FPRD) cuts straight to the root of false purposes and unwanted intentions and blows them, permitting a resurgence of one’s real purposes and certainty of self, with renewed confidence in one’s ability to reach. May be given at any point on the Grade Chart, as determined by the C/S.
FPRD IS VITAL FOR THOSE STALLED ANYWHERE ON THE BRIDGE, PARTICULARLY AT THE STATE OF CLEAR, TO HANDLE NONSURVIVAL FACTORS PREVENTING THEM FROM MOVING TO FULL OT.
Delivered at Scientology Churches and Missions.
Confessionals
Raise cause level and help the individual straighten out his interpersonal relationships and achieve the maximum spiritual gain from his auditing.
Delivered at Scientology Churches and Missions.
Happiness Rundown®
Puts one on the Way to Happiness. Best done after Purification Rundown and Objectives; can also be done before or after Grades, after New Era Dianetics, before R6EW (for someone who did not go Clear on NED), after Sunshine Rundown (for those who went Clear on NED) and before any individual OT level above OT III.
Delivered at Scientology Churches and Missions.
PTS Rundown
Handles sources of suppression on a case to bring about new stability and cause level.
Delivered at Scientology Churches and Missions.
Method One® Word Clearing
Recovery of one’s education.
Therapeutic TR Course
Primarily intended for preclears who were professionally audited and have not done a TR course and are required to do TRs as part of their auditing program.
Delivered at Scientology Churches and Missions.
Co-audit Courses
The following courses exist to enable unclassified auditors to co-audit with another person.
TRs & Objectives Co-audit Course
Scientology Drug Rundown Co-audit Course
Method One Co-audit CourseDelivered at Scientology Churches and Missions
Awareness Characteristics
Total Freedom
Power on all 8 dynamics
21 Source
20 Existence
19 Conditions
18 Realization
17 Clearing
16 Purposes
15 Ability
14 Correction
13 Result
12 Production
11 Activity
10 Prediction
9 Body
8 Adjustment
7 Energy
6 Enlightenment
5 Understandings
4 Orientation
3 Perception
2 Communication
1 Recognition
-1 Help
-2 Hope
-3 Demand for Improvement
-4 Need of Change2Levels below “Need of Change from human to materiality
-5 Fear of Worsening
-6 Effect
-7 Ruin3
-8 Despair
-9 Suffering
-10 Numbness
-11 Introversion
-12 Disaster
-13 Inactuality
-14 Delusion
-15 Hysteria
-16 Shock
-17 Catatonia
-18 Oblivion
-19 Detachment
-20 Duality
-21 Secrecy
-22 Hallucination
-23 Sadism
-24 Masochism
-25 Elation
-26 Glee
-27 Fixidity
-28 Erosion
-29 Dispersal
-30 Disassociation
-31 Criminality
-32 Uncausing
-33 Disconnection
-34 Unexistence
Notes
- See also: Glossary. ↩
- Note that (-4) “Need of Change” and (-3) Demand for Improvement are awareness characteristics linked with the Introductory levels of the Bridge. ↩
- Disseminators attempt through various drills to induce the awareness characteristic of “Ruin” in their prospects. After the disseminator gets the prospect to articulate what is “ruining” his/her life, the disseminator attempts to get him to see how his “ruin” puts him at (-6) Effect, induces (-5) Fear of Worsening and so on until the prospects pays for his/her Scientology service. ↩
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