Bridge To Total Freedom
collection of materials containing descriptions of the Bridge
1997, Free Zone Scientology

- BRIDGE TO A BETTER LIFE
- STATES OF BEING
- THE PURPOSE OF SCIENTOLOGY
- DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION
- SCIENTOLOGY EXPANDED GRADES
- EXPANDED ARC STRAIGHTWIRE
- EXPANDED GRADE 0: COMMUNICATION RELEASE
- EXPANDED GRADE I: PROBLEMS RELEASE
- EXPANDED GRADE II: RELIEF RELEASE
- EXPANDED GRADE III: FREEDOM RELEASE
- EXPANDED GRADE IV: ABILITY RELEASE
- NEW ERA DIANETICS (NED) AUDITING
- STATE OF CLEAR
- CLEAR CERTAINTY PROGRAM
- SUNSHINE RUNDOWN
- EXPANDED DIANETICS
- ALTERNATE ROUTE TO CLEAR
- GRADE V AND GRADE VA: POWER AND POWER PLUS
- HUBBARD SOLO AUDITOR COURSE, PART ONE
- OT PREPARATION AUDITING
- HUBBARD SOLO AUDITOR COURSE, PART TWO
- OT ELIGIBILITY
- GRADE VI: FULL TRACK RELEASE
- CLEARING COURSE
- FROM THE STATE OF CLEAR TO ETERNITY
- DEFINITION OF OT
- THE OPERATING THETAN
- THE STATE OF THETAN
- OT SCALE
- OTHER BEING
- FROM CLEAR TO OT
- OT
- NEW OT I
- OT II
- OT III – THE WALL OF FIRE
- OT III
- NEW OT IV
- LIVING LIGHTNING
- NEW OT V
- THE SAINT HILL SPECIAL BRIEFING COURSE
- CLASS VIII COURSE
- ORIGINAL CLASS VIII COURSE
- TODAY’S CLASS VIII COURSE
- CONFIDENTIAL OT MATERIALS – CLASS VIII ONLY
- RESULTS

BRIDGE TO A BETTER LIFE
The belief that Man is capable of improving the condition of himself and those around him is a traditional one. This concept began to lose its clear outlines after nineteenth-century psychology proclaimed quite the opposite—that we remain forever as we were born. Moreover, psychology advanced a new—and entirely false—postulate: that Man is nothing more than an animal and therefore incapable of increasing his abilities, improving his conduct, or raising his level of intelligence.
For this reason, it is now rather difficult for Man to grasp the older and far truer concept—that Man is a spirit, a THETAN, and that he can aspire to and attain higher STATES OF BEING.
Nevertheless, improvement is a reality. Many higher STATES OF BEING are attainable by Man, and now they can be reached through SCIENTOLOGY. L. Ron Hubbard clearly described these states and then explained how they may be attained, arranging them on a chart which graphically displays each step of the route.
Life improves gradually—step by step. It improves a little, then a bit more, then still more. It does not happen all at once. One can hardly expect that all possible improvements will occur in an instant, as if struck by some magical injection that cures everything—unless, of course, one subscribes to the notion that there is nothing to be done in this lifetime. In SCIENTOLOGY, it is the individual himself who improves—his awareness and ability as a THETAN—not his body, not his cars, nor other auxiliary MEST mechanisms that surround him.
If one is dealing with a seriously ill person, his mind will be so preoccupied with that condition that he is unlikely to think of anything beyond recovery. If, in that state, someone were to suggest that he return to work or play football for his company team next week, it is doubtful he would even listen. Should his pain subside and he gain the desire to sit up and look around, that would be a considerable improvement; after which he might take pleasure in thinking of walking downstairs and going for a stroll. Yet if, at some point along this gradual improvement, he were asked to recall all the strain of his work or his athletic efforts, it would be too steep a gain in too short a time.
In the same way, spiritual advancement occurs by steps, and one cannot demand that an individual instantly, in a single leap, ascend to the highest levels. The chart devised by Mr. Hubbard not only represents the attainable improvements but also the correct sequence that prevents a regression caused by too broad a step. This orderly progression—one gain at a time—as laid out by Mr. Hubbard, enables a person to advance at a sufficiently rapid pace toward a truly elevated STATE OF BEING.
The chart that displays these steps of improvement is called the Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates. It is divided into two halves. The left side shows the steps of TRAINING undertaken by a person in SCIENTOLOGY; the right side shows the steps of ODITING.
Classification refers to TRAINING in SCIENTOLOGY and to the fact that before a person is awarded a Class of a particular level as an Auditor—and before he is permitted to proceed to the next Class—certain actions must be completed and certain skills attained.
Gradation refers to the gradual improvements which occur through SCIENTOLOGY ODITING. It is the slope of the road—the gradient steps. We have all encountered gentle slopes, steep climbs, or even sheer walls—but these are not gradients. The desirable route is the gentle, steady ascent upward. As one progresses in SCIENTOLOGY, a person’s AWARENESS increases. AWARENESS is raised through both ODITING and TRAINING, which are equally necessary for this advance. The Levels of Awareness are listed in the center of the Chart—they correspond precisely to the individual’s progress in ODITING and TRAINING.

STATES OF BEING
Man is so thoroughly a MAN in appearance that, in most of his philosophies and sciences, he has overlooked the fact that Man is capable of attaining more than one state.
Indeed, until we came along and changed their thinking, all nineteenth-century psychologists maintained that Man was unchangeable and incapable of alteration. They described only one state—the mortal Man.
If you think about it even briefly, you will see that even as a Man there exists more than one State of Being. He is rich or poor, well or ill, old or young, married or single. If Man can change his state of existence as a Man, could he not become something different from Man? Not merely a boy, girl, or woman?
There are two—or more—lower (and more unpleasant) States of Being.
Quite often, Man’s chronic state becomes that of an animal. Not only in psychiatric institutions but also in life itself you can find such changes. In fact, since 1870 psychologists have been asserting that Man is an animal.
Man can also become a thing. This condition too may be observed in institutions.
But all these are lower states. Are there higher, more desirable states of existence?
That is precisely what is described and fully attained in SCIENTOLOGY. We are not trying to make the insane sane. We are trying to make Man a higher being.
There are many States of Being that lie beyond the human level. Earlier philosophies touched upon this subject. What is new in SCIENTOLOGY is the fact that one being can achieve several different States of Being within a single lifetime.
This concept is so unfamiliar that it is little wonder that Scientologists are sometimes misunderstood and mistaken for healers or psychiatrists.
In truth, mankind as a whole has never before seriously considered this. The idea that he, personally, in this lifetime, could become something higher and greater than just a Man is an entirely new concept. He has heard of dying and of his soul thereafter going to hell or to heaven, and he has regarded such prospects variously—as good, dull, or frightening.
But when Johnny Smith hears that he can become a higher being, that is something entirely new to him.
Some sages in the Himalayas worked in this direction. Gautama Siddhartha (the Buddha) spoke of it. It is said that for this heavenly conclusion some fifteen or twenty years of arduous effort were required.
In fact, above Homo sapiens there exist many clearly defined States of Being.
A sick man might consider that the best possible state would be that of a healthy man—or that of a dead man—and although these may be desirable to him, they are still States of Man.
Throughout his religions Man has long sought to devise a route across the chasm that lies between his present state and higher levels of awareness. Unfortunately, a vast number of these attempts to bridge that chasm have ended somewhere in the abyss separating those two conditions.
Using this metaphor, the Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates actually represents that Bridge which spans the gap, bringing Man to higher levels. This is the dream Man has envisioned for at least the last ten thousand years, and it is now attainable—if one follows the steps laid out on the Chart. It is an exact route containing standard procedures which, when correctly applied, produce uniformly predictable results. That Bridge has now been completely built, and one may travel it with full confidence.
Look at the Chart of Levels. Every person is located at one of these levels of awareness. The purpose of SCIENTOLOGY is to help the individual raise his awareness higher and higher and higher. The rise of awareness is always accompanied by an increase in ability, intelligence, and potential for survival.
As improvement occurs, the individual naturally begins to perceive his next step. For example, a person in “Non-Existence” (-34 on the Scale of Awareness) improves and begins to perceive “Disconnection.” In other words, “Disconnection” (-33 on the Scale) is an advance compared with having no existence at all. By realizing an actual disconnection from life, the person has at least reached the point where he now wishes to correct that condition. The same is true for each level of awareness. A person who realizes that he is “Introverted” (-11) may then—and only then—realize that he feels “Numbness” (-10 on the Scale) and is therefore unable to obtain a reaction from life. Moving upward on this scale, one successively becomes aware of each next higher level.
The Chart, therefore, is a map of what an individual can become aware of. It is, however, very important to note that the Chart concerns the person’s own awareness—not the conclusions someone else may reach by observing his behavior. Thus we find once again that the individual himself is what matters, for it is to him that the efforts toward improvement are directed.
At the level of “Need of Change” (-4), the person becomes aware that he requires change in life, and at that point he has already reached a fairly high level of awareness. Many people never attain even this level and therefore remain stuck in unpleasant circumstances—they must find ways to reconcile themselves to what they cannot change. SCIENTOLOGY is for those who sincerely desire change, who seek to become better and to gain greater abilities.
As one progresses along the Bridge, he becomes a trained Auditor, gaining knowledge of how to help others—he does not merely receive ODITING. He attains the State of CLEAR and advances to higher levels of Auditor training and higher levels of awareness as a spiritual being—a THETAN. The levels of awareness correspond to the various methods and activities that bring about and result in further advances along the route.
As can be seen from the Chart, to traverse it fully one must move along both of its sides—through ODITING and TRAINING. One must come to know the Axioms of Existence through TRAINING in SCIENTOLOGY if he wishes to attain higher awareness in life. If he desires to understand himself completely and his relationship to life, he must experience through ODITING how those Axioms relate to him. Attempting to ascend only one side of the Bridge is like trying to climb a mountain by hopping on one leg. He who advances step by step along both sides of the Chart will inevitably reach the summit.
The Chart is an individual guide—from one’s first awareness of what SCIENTOLOGY is, to any higher state. Never before has Man had such a map. This is the Bridge to TOTAL FREEDOM. This is the route. It possesses an exact and standard system of steps. By following it, you become free.
“That in which we have made breakthroughs in SCIENTOLOGY, and that in which we have made progress, lies along the line of Man’s long-sought goals—those things he has considered good and desirable in the field of philosophy, we have brought into practical technology. Today in SCIENTOLOGY we have reached the point where mankind should have been for the past five thousand years. You are in a very fortunate position—you do not have to develop the technology of ODITING….”
— L. Ron Hubbard

THE PURPOSE OF SCIENTOLOGY
The purpose of SCIENTOLOGY is to enable Man to live a better life, by his own definition of it, together with his fellows.
Although such a statement may appear simple and unpretentious, the scope it embraces is vast—it includes the dream of every religion: the attainment and restoration of the full, inherent abilities of Man—abilities long hidden yet native to him—which make him an aware cause over Matter, Energy, Space, Time, Form, Thought and Life (MEST and beyond).
But long before that ultimate state is reached, SCIENTOLOGY can bring about tremendous changes. Personal relationships can be repaired or revitalized. One’s individual goals can be realized and happiness restored. Where once there was doubt and inadequacy, there will be certainty and self-confidence. Where there was misery and chaos, there will be joy and light.
Those who have seen SCIENTOLOGY in action cannot deny the results of its application nor fail to confirm the truth of its effectiveness. For SCIENTOLOGY teaches that Man is his own immortal soul—a THETAN. In SCIENTOLOGY, this mystery has been resolved and a simple answer found.

DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION
DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION is a very important step within our technical structure, although it is not a SCIENTOLOGY Grade. DIANETIC CASE COMPLETION brings freedom from physical pain and unwanted (mis-)emotions that stem from the mind. The Dianetic Result is a happy and healthy human being.
Although DIANETICS is not a prerequisite for the SCIENTOLOGY Grades and may be applied at any level, its place on the upward route of the Bridge—as shown on the Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart—lies directly below SCIENTOLOGY Grade 0.
When an individual has experienced DIANETICS and has gained improvements from it, he also achieves a direct understanding of the human mind and thus reaches a state of excellent readiness to receive SCIENTOLOGY and realize its full potential, as described below.

THE SCIENTOLOGY EXPANDED GRADES
When beginning ODITING, people are often too burdened with problems to confront the Reactive Mind directly and deal with its core. A person is worried about upcoming payments. He suffers from tension and stress at work. His child needs dental care. His family is on the verge of breaking apart. His income is decreasing day by day, amid rising inflation and taxes—and so on and so forth.
The pressures of everyday life completely occupy his attention, and thus he needs an increase of ability simply to cope with this pressure—let alone to overcome it and become free from it.
The Scientology Expanded Grades are a series of ODITING processes aimed at improving certain abilities of the individual, bringing him into a more favorable position with regard to survival.
L. Ron Hubbard discovered that there are definite barriers which stand in the way of successful living. When a person restores the corresponding abilities, he begins to survive normally in that area of life. When those abilities are missing, he does not survive well and must expend great effort merely to get along.
The Expanded Grades consist of six separate Grades and include approximately 150 different processes through which a person is audited. Each Grade was developed by Mr. Hubbard to restore or strengthen specific abilities necessary for success in life.
When a particular process is taken to its desired result, the person’s awareness in that area increases, and he becomes more capable regarding it. Running additional processes on the same subject restores further abilities in that field. When all processes of a Grade have been completed and the individual has experienced a recovery of abilities in the area addressed by that Grade, he moves on to the next Grade—another field of ability.
In this way, the Expanded Grades bring about a gradual recovery of an individual’s abilities—abilities which may have been buried so deeply that the person had come to believe all his failures were simply the “natural consequences” of life itself. In fact, such failures are not natural at all. Through the ODITING of the Scientology Expanded Grades, Man’s true potentials and characteristics become evident and flower to their full extent.

The Six Expanded Grades are as follows:
Expanded ARC Straightwire
“ARC” refers to the components of understanding—AFFINITY, REALITY, and COMMUNICATION. “Straightwire” is another term for “direct memory.” It is called that because, in the ODITING processes of this Grade, the auditor directs the preclear’s memory—stringing a line, as it were, like a telephone wire, between the preclear and the standard memory bank in his mind.
The concept of ARC is one of the most important factors in all life. If a person can establish ARC with something, he can achieve a true understanding of it. As the subject of Scientology is the individual himself, it follows that the first of the Grades deals with restoring the preclear’s direct and immediate understanding of himself. This is achieved through running the ARC Straightwire processes.
ARC Straightwire explores the abilities of a person’s memory and mind. If a person could raise his ARC toward himself, he would realize that he might, in fact, be his own best friend. A person who genuinely likes himself—this is the most vital cornerstone in the foundation of the Bridge to Total Freedom.

EXPANDED GRADE 0: COMMUNICATION RELEASE
The ability to communicate is one of the fundamental abilities of a living being. Too often in the course of life, this ability begins to fade. As a result, many people become shy and withdrawn. Some experience a nervous stomach spasm at the mere thought of addressing a group. Others are unable to converse on certain subjects or feel extreme discomfort communicating with the opposite sex or with people of another age group. The number of ways in which a suppressed ability to communicate can manifest itself is practically limitless.
The processes of this Grade address the individual’s ability to communicate and, by his own estimation, free him from any blockages in this area—thus restoring his ability to communicate with anyone on any subject. And although this state might seem impossible to some, in fact many thousands of people have attained exactly this result on Expanded Grade 0. Along with the ability to communicate comes the joy of free and harmonious association with others.
We instinctively admire a great actor, artist, or musician, and society in general looks upon them as being somehow above the ordinary. They truly are extraordinary—they form a stratum above the common man. The fact that they were born with such talent and did not have to achieve it through ODITING does not make them any less higher beings. One who is truly able to communicate with others is a higher being—capable of creating new worlds.
Through ODITING, a person can be brought to this state—the state of the ability to communicate.

ABILITIES GAINED
FLOW 1: Ability to communicate freely with anyone on any subject. Enjoys originating a communication flow.
FLOW 2: Willingness to receive communication freely from others on any subject.
FLOW 3: Allows others to communicate freely with others on any subject.

EXPANDED GRADE I: PROBLEMS RELEASE
This Grade addresses the problems a person encounters in life. One can become so enmeshed in unwanted circumstances that any chance of attaining happiness no longer seems real. Problems with personal relationships, finances, family, work, purposes and ambitions, and so forth can consume an enormous amount of time.
It is particularly characteristic of civilized Man that he becomes utterly bogged down in PROBLEMS—and the more he “solves” them, the more deeply he becomes enmeshed. Rare indeed is the being who can perceive the true source of problems and, by doing so, cause them to vanish—and when such a being is met, he is not easily understood.
L. Ron Hubbard discovered the exact mechanism inherent in all problems without exception. Every problem, regardless of its complexity or magnitude, has at its root the opposition of two intentions. All problems in a person’s life arise from opposing intentions. This mechanism renders a person indecisive, troubles him, and leads to “stuck” conditions and unresolved difficulties in his life.
The processes of Expanded Grade I bring the preclear to the ability to recognize the true source of problems—at which point they “vanish” and cease to be problems. When a person can do this—cause problems to vanish simply by viewing them—he is no longer merely Man. Such beings are extremely rare. Masters of problem destruction are legendary. Man solves problems—but a being in a higher state looks at them, and they disappear.
These are remarkable manifestations—phenomena with which Man, before Scientology, had never dealt and which he had never studied. Through ODITING, a person can be brought to this ability. This is the Grade I RELEASE.

ABILITIES GAINED
FLOW 1: Ability to recognize the source of problems and cause them to disappear.
FLOW 2: Feels free regarding any problems others may have with him and is able to recognize their source.
FLOW 3: Feels free regarding any problems others may have with others or because of others, and can recognize their source.

EXPANDED GRADE II: RELEASE OF RELIEF
People struggle to cope with the hostility and suffering of life. Being subjected to the wounds of the “fangs and claws of cruel fortune,” they respond in kind, only to discover they are caught in a trap with no apparent escape.
This trap consists of a person’s own transgressions against the precepts of family, society, and humanity. Throughout life, a person agrees to follow certain rules of conduct—precepts that help him harmoniously integrate his own survival with that of others. When a person inadvertently breaks these agreed-upon rules, or intentionally transgresses them with what he considers a “good reason,” suffering begins.
Upon committing a transgression, the individual feels he must alleviate the consequences of his actions for others, leading him to withdraw or alter his feelings toward those he has harmed. This is the mechanism through which people generate misery, grief, and animosity toward one another. It is the source of a guilty conscience, desire for revenge, and, in fact, all suffering and hostility encountered in life.
Humankind never knew how to achieve relief from this, except in the rare phenomena of miracle-workers whom he revered as saints. The secret is that a person binds himself to what he avoids. The ability to easily relieve oneself and others of life’s hostility and suffering is an art Man has previously only seen in healers.
The Expanded Grade II processes give the individual the ability to dismantle this mechanism for himself. A complete review of this aspect of one’s past, conducted in the calm, analytical setting of an ODITING session, produces tremendous relief.
The processes of Expanded Grade II erase these hostilities and sufferings from the person’s life and free him from the consequences of past actions that have pinned him to his history.
ABILITIES GAINED
FLOW 1: Ability to be a cause without fear of harming others.
FLOW 2: Willingness to allow others to be a cause over himself.
FLOW 3: Willingness to allow others to be a cause over others without feeling the need to intervene.

EXPANDED GRADE III: RELEASE OF FREEDOM
A person is chained to disturbances that occurred in the past. He never understood why he faced such disturbances or misunderstanding from family, others, or situations.
Most people remain trapped in the troubles that happened to them previously. Their lives are sorrowful.
Freedom from past disturbances and the ability to face the future is a nearly unknown state for Man. Yet it is attainable through ODITING.
People may unconsciously leave a great deal of attention on incidents where there was significant agitation—sometimes for many years after the events have ended. The processes of Grade III identify specific incidents associated with troubling change and work with them.
ABILITIES GAINED
FLOW 1: Ability to face the future. Ability to experience sudden change without distress.
FLOW 2: Allows others to possess the reality they have and choose their future at their discretion; also capable of initiating change in another’s life without adverse consequences.
FLOW 3: Prepared for change and interaction among others.

EXPANDED GRADE IV: RELEASE OF ABILITIES
The next barrier in restoring abilities is addressed in Grade IV. A person’s abilities tend to become individually specialized. He invests so much intention in one action that he becomes clumsy in others. Exiting this fixed state and gaining the ability to do something new is achieved in Grade IV RELEASE—this frees a person’s potential.
The mechanism by which one falls into this trap is based on concepts of right and wrong. Every individual has an innate drive to be right. The personality strives to be right and resists being wrong, regardless of the meanings attached to these concepts. In the cycle of agitation, misfortunes, and failures, these concepts can become seriously confused. The result is behavior patterns that do not reflect the best interests of survival because they are fixed and repeat again and again in an aberrated effort to be right.
The processes of Grade IV give the preclear the ability to re-examine his own relationship to all life and free himself from thought and action patterns that may appear to promote survival but in reality lead anywhere but toward it. When a person reaches this realization, it produces remarkable changes in life and incredible enhancement in the ability to choose, act, and enjoy new activity.
Many events occurring over years of life suppress a person’s abilities. Even those that pass almost unnoticed still affect current life. ODITING allows a person to restore these abilities and even increase them beyond previously imagined limits. In two to three months of regular ODITING, a person can make significant progress in restoring his natural abilities and experience how beautiful life can be once these barriers are removed. The improvements gained in the Scientology Expanded Grades literally bring a person into new states of existence.

NEW ERA DIANETIC (NED) AUDITING
A person possessing abilities in any area can produce, act, function, and manage activity in that area. A skilled acrobat, for example, performs stunts with expertise. A competent cook prepares exquisite meals. And a person who has gained the abilities achieved on the Scientology Expanded Grades is now able simply to live! Consequently, he exercises greater control over his life, maintains a better mood, and enjoys increased personal power.
He has also approached the ability to RELEASE himself from the reactive mind and its contents. This is impossible when a person is heavily distracted by his environment or unable to overcome life’s obstacles—obstacles that the Expanded Grades address.
Initially, one can make contact with engrams and erase them using the methods described in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, leading to improvements greater than ever before. These methods work consistently, but L. Ron Hubbard continued his research seeking technology that would allow the work to be faster and simpler.
Advancements such as the development of the E-Meter made auditing a faster and more precise process, with contributions also coming from the development of the Scientology Expanded Grades. Building on the core principles of Dianetics, Mr. Hubbard conducted further research and developed advanced Dianetic procedures. That these later improvements were built upon the original axioms and procedures of Dianetics, as outlined in his originally published materials, is irrefutable evidence of the accuracy of his initial theories.
To illustrate the effectiveness of Mr. Hubbard’s new methods: to achieve the highest possible results using the 1950 methods, preclears required approximately 2,000 hours of auditing. With modern Dianetics and Scientology methods, this time is reduced roughly tenfold.
New Era Dianetics (NED) is the technology containing the ultimate improvements in auditing made by L. Ron Hubbard. He developed it following discoveries made in 1978. Using NED, preclears achieve their Dianetic processing objectives much faster than anyone could have believed possible with earlier Dianetics.
The reactive mind lashes the individual, imposing thoughtless, irrational dictates from its contents, resulting in anxiety, fears, unpleasant emotions and sensations, strange pains, and a host of other undesirable effects. RELEASING the person from this unquestioned influence elevates him to a new level of self-determination.
A person may have suffered from emotional shock, such as the loss of a loved one. NED auditing works with these losses, and while it cannot replace the lost person, it can free the individual from the spiritual trauma associated with that loss.
Many people in life are hindered by what they consider personal faults or inability. NED methods can erase the sources of such disturbances, greatly clarifying a person’s perception of himself and clearing related emotions.
New Era Dianetic auditing consists of at least eleven programs—series of auditing steps designed to work on a specific aspect of the case—and actions aimed at the engrams contained in the reactive mind. Various psychosomatic pains, feelings, emotions, sensations, and similar phenomena usually originate from these reactive mind engrams. Through applying the NED auditing procedures, the preclear erases his engrams and nullifies the harmful energy contained within them.
The NED procedures are precise. Completion of New Era Dianetics creates a healthy, happy person with renewed physical and restored innate mental health.

THE STATE OF CLEAR
Clearing is the erasure of the reactive mind. All the griefs and traumas a person experiences are recorded in the reactive mind.
There is a specific path leading away from reactivity, aberration, and the identification of everything with everything. This path leads to increased abilities, overall competence, and other remarkable improvements that can be precisely measured and experienced. Along this path are certain fundamental milestones that must be completed, as presented on the BRIDGE through the Expanded Grades and New Era Dianetic (NED) auditing.
The goal of progressing along this path is the erasure of the reactive mind. When this occurs, a person reaches the state of CLEAR. It is impossible to attain this higher state by skipping the lower grades.
A CLEAR is a person who no longer has his own reactive mind. He has permanently destroyed it. In the absence of the reactive mind’s “stimulus-response” mechanism—which can cause pain, unwanted sensations, and negative emotions—a CLEAR is able to act rather than react.
A CLEAR possesses a very high degree of personal integrity and honesty and is the living embodiment of the principle that a person is fundamentally good. His basic being returns, and the abilities of his essential personality fully unfold. He is freed from all fears, anxieties, and irrational thoughts that were held by pain in the reactive mind—in short, he regains himself. Without a reactive mind, it is much easier for a person to be himself.
Until a person has been cleared of this, no matter how capable he may have become through earlier auditing, he will inevitably, by the laws of the universe, sooner or later be pulled back into the reactive mind. This is why clearing is absolutely essential. CLEAR is the complete erasure of the reactive mind, a stable state not subject to decay.
Every individual is different, and each person requires his own type and amount of auditing to erase the reactive mind. This state is achieved in personal auditing in two different places. The first is New Era Dianetics (NED). If a person does not become CLEAR through NED, he continues through other procedures and attains it on the CLEAR Course, a special auditing procedure. No other grades or auditing services bring about the state of CLEAR.
The state of CLEAR never existed before. No matter how capable a person was, or what powers or abilities he possessed, the reactive mind was in place, unexposed, and ultimately it would drag the person down again.
The full brilliance of the state of CLEAR has no comparable description in any literature, culture, religion, or the like. People had long aspired to it, but it was impossible until L. Ron Hubbard conducted his research.
But now this state truly exists, it is attainable, and many thousands of Scientologists worldwide have become CLEAR, with their numbers growing every day.

The CLEAR Certainty Program
The full brilliance of CLEAR is incomparable—you become so after entire epochs of subservience to the insidious reactive mind. As a CLEAR, you regain the ability to fully be yourself and act freely by your own definition.
The CLEAR CERTAINTY PROGRAM (CCP) is a highly precise program developed by Ron to verify and fully restore the state of CLEAR. It is an exact step that must be taken by anyone who may have become CLEAR through NED but has not confirmed this state in a formal auditing session.
"The state of CLEAR, when actually attained but not verified or certified, can be subject to tremendous invalidation. It is also affected by the assessments of others and even the preclear himself. All of this is clarified in the CLEAR CERTAINTY PROGRAM, so that when the state of CLEAR truly exists, it can then be successfully restored." — L. Ron Hubbard
Whether you are stalled on your BRIDGE progress or advancing smoothly, technical specialists provide 100% standard application of processes to quickly move you through the CLEAR Certainty Program,
Precisely establishing, without evaluation or invalidation, whether the state of CLEAR has been attained,
Ensuring the full stability of the state for those who have become CLEAR,
Clearly communicating to those who have not yet become CLEAR that it has not been achieved, confirming victories already obtained by the case.
The preclear is then assigned the next correct step in auditing so that he can quickly progress to the state of CLEAR.
Auditing through the CLEAR Certainty Program fully handles all accumulated charge, assessments, invalidation, misunderstood words, and misconceptions associated with the subject of CLEAR.
The CLEAR Certainty Program is a cornerstone of the foundation of the BRIDGE to full OT, and calling it a miracle would not be an exaggeration.
By reestablishing stability and unlimited potential, you are now fully prepared to advance rapidly on the path to full OT.
"After certification to the state of CLEAR, I felt my space constantly expanding, and I was fully EXTERIORIZED. I suddenly sensed that the universes around me were organizing and that perfect order was being established in my space. The flows along the lines came directly to me and from me, and in infinite space, I was the center of everything. It was and remains a fantastic feeling—the sense of being the source of universes and the creator of order."

THE SOLAR SHINE PROGRAM
After certification to the state of CLEAR, your next step on the BRIDGE is the Solar Shine Program. This brilliant auditing step will amaze you with its simplicity—and the surge of THETA and life force with which you will move into a higher state of existence, experiencing brighter awareness than ever before.
This program is performed SOLO—by the pre-OT himself. It contains simple instructions, and for many, it will be their first SOLO step on the BRIDGE, bringing new awareness and freedom. This step is undertaken by all newly certified CLEARs, whether they have completed the CLEAR Certainty Program or the CLEAR Course.

ADVANCED DIANETICS
Advanced Dianetics is a variation of Dianetics that applies New Era Dianetic (NED) technology in a specialized manner to achieve specific results. Some individuals require specially tailored Dianetic technology to address their unique needs—which is provided in Advanced Dianetics. While NED has very broad application, Advanced Dianetics is specifically adapted to the preclear’s requirements.
Advanced Dianetics is not the same as NED and requires special training and skills.
Some preclears have a long history of drug use. Others have suffered harmful psychiatric treatments or have unresolved psychosomatic problems. Such individuals may benefit from the specially prepared technology contained in Advanced Dianetics, which consists of more than a dozen distinct auditing programs designed to work with and address issues such as:
Difficulties in the preclear’s environment (MEST conditions),
Experiences of severe emotional stress,
Moments from the past that they cannot let go of,
Areas of serious personal difficulty arising from aggressive DYNAMICS.
An important tool in Advanced Dianetics is the Oxford Personality Assessment (OSA). The profile graph is used to apply various Advanced Dianetic procedures to correct specific personality features. The OSA helps identify deeply hidden nests of aberration, which are then addressed using precise auditing methods.
Advanced Dianetics technology handles the more difficult aberrations located in the reactive mind. Not every preclear requires Advanced Dianetics, but it often produces impressive results for those who undergo this auditing.

ALTERNATE ROUTE TO CLEAR
For those who have become CLEAR through NED auditing, the next step after the Solar Shine Program is OT preparation auditing and the New Hubbard Solo Auditor Course, Part One.

CLEAR!
CLEAR Course
RELEASE Grade VI
OT Eligibility Check
Solo Auditor Course, Part Two
OT Preparation Auditing
Solo Auditor Course, Part One
Grade VA RELEASE Energy Plus
Grade V Energy

For those who have not become CLEAR through New Era Dianetics, the next step is an incredibly powerful and striking route—a portion of it completed via SOLO auditing, overcoming the final barriers on the way to CLEAR.
With each step of the Alternate Route to CLEAR, you will progress closer and closer to the state that humanity has long sought—and that is now available through L. Ron Hubbard’s technology: the state of CLEAR.

GRADE V AND GRADE VA: ENERGY AND ENERGY PLUS
Learn to handle your own released ENERGY! First released by Ron in May 1965, now legendary, the Energy Processes identify and address the factors that bind the THETAN to the bank and limit their ability to control energy.
Both of these levels must be delivered at a Saint Hill Organization by a Class VII auditor—specifically trained in the exact application of Grades V and VA technology. These unprecedented processes work on the obstructions within the bank, which must be addressed before a person begins Solo auditing on the CLEAR Course to achieve the state of CLEAR. You will experience a RELEASE of long-standing blockages, feeling the restoration of your true energy and power as a THETAN.
If you did not become CLEAR through NED, come to the Advanced Organization and Saint Hill to receive the Energy Processes—your next step!

A person is rarely able to handle ENERGY. They either withdraw from it or misuse it. When they possess it, they often apply it incorrectly.
The ability to own and handle ENERGY is achieved at Grade V RELEASE, expanding and stabilizing at Grade VA.
Above ENERGY, most of your auditing is performed SOLO. You learn to audit yourself at Grade VI—on the Solo Auditor Course at Saint Hill—then conduct your own auditing and become Grade VI RELEASE (Full Track RELEASE).
“Due to the nature of OT auditing, a person must learn to audit themselves, as the OT levels move too fast for anyone else to audit them.” — L. Ron Hubbard

HUBBARD SOLO AUDITOR COURSE, PART ONE
Once you have become CLEAR, it is time to restore your familiarity with the OT realm. The OT has no reactive bank and is able to be cause over MEST and thought and act completely independently of the body.
Beginning the Advanced Courses, you will continue to SOLO, and this, without exaggeration, will be the most thrilling adventure you have experienced so far on the road to spiritual freedom. Your future accomplishments as an OT depend on your ability to SOLO audit.
To help you acquire the vital knowledge and skill to fully handle this, Ron developed precise technical theory and standard exercises necessary to make you a Solo Auditor of the highest possible quality, able to flawlessly work with your preclear—yourself—in any SOLO session. And with incredible experiences! On this course, you gain everything necessary to confidently SOLO audit and attain the ability to audit yourself through:

OT PREPARATION AUDITING
To be fully prepared for the impressive victories you will experience at OT levels, you must have an excellent case condition. This gives you the ability to advance at maximum speed. Before beginning Part Two of the Solo Auditor Course, your SOLO CASE-SUPERVISOR assigns you to remove any case defects or missed charges.
A precise, refined program is developed by our highest-class technical staff based on Ron’s exact instructions. Pre-OTs respond enthusiastically to the incredible, life-changing victories at this level, often stating that OT Preparation Auditing already allowed them to handle what they expected to confront only at the OT levels!

HUBBARD SOLO AUDITOR COURSE, PART TWO
The second part of SOLO is delivered at the Advanced Organization and Saint Hill. Our top-level Solo Auditor Course team provides you with actual knowledge of how to SOLO audit.
By perfecting your training in this technology, you prepare to conduct SOLO auditing. Through the processes you complete as part of Solo Two, you gain the ability to advance yourself up the Grade Chart. You will become a confident and skilled Solo Auditor.
When you graduate and receive your Solo Wings (Solo Auditor Badge), you will be ready to take charge of your own case and continue your SOLO flight up the OT levels.
“This level simply amazed me. I had so many insights about what it means to be cause. I am cause and I experience so much pleasure in session, at home, at work, achieving my goals. Planning my life. My whole viewpoint has changed so much I cannot believe it. I strongly advise you to start Solo Two as soon as possible. It’s a miracle.”
“On Solo Two, I handled decades of destructions, and all auditing I did myself. My effectiveness and ARC increased tremendously. After Solo Two, I most of all loved myself. Life became a game.”
“I can audit! Now I understand why LRH wanted us to go SOLO. You can gain so much momentum (in terms) that another person would have a hard time keeping up. My space is calm and immense. I feel as if I am walking two meters ahead of my body. SOLO auditing makes you cause over your case. It’s wonderful.”

OT READINESS
OT Levels Readiness is a specialized auditing action, possessing laser-like precision, designed to locate and eliminate the final possible barriers preventing you from achieving the full range of gains on the OT levels.
This action produces extraordinary victories, clearing the way for smooth and rapid progress through the OT levels. Upon completion of this step, you are prepared to receive your invitation to begin the New OT I.
“The OT Readiness level I completed opened the door to increasing my awareness and my responsibility across the DYNAMICS. I became able to reach and expand the scope of my activities simply through knowing the goal I intended to realize, and to appreciate how this restored my integrity as a THETAN. It was an invaluable cycle.”
“OT Preparations are conducted to ensure a person’s case is in good condition, in order to derive the greatest benefit from the Advanced Courses.” — L. Ron Hubbard

GRADE VI: FULL TRACK RELEASE
A person has little or no awareness of their “time track.” This is a sequential recording of the moments of their life, extending back as far as they have lived. Their past constitutes their full track.
There are three conditions regarding it: at first, the person is unaware that they possess it; then they come to appreciation regarding what they have discovered about their past; and finally, they discern exactly what brought them into specific circumstances.
Some portions of the full track often appear during lower-level auditing. However, at this higher level, it can be addressed fully and handled completely.
The state at this level is difficult to describe, as it vastly surpasses ordinary experiences, and there are no comparable descriptions in human literature.
This confidential level provides freedom from dramatizations and restores the ability to act according to one’s own definition.
The course includes a remarkable theoretical section, in which Ron reveals the fundamental anatomy of the entire reactive mind and the exact CAUSE of why the human race reacts so oddly to life. You will also view two confidential filmed lectures that Ron delivered specifically for this level.
Upon completion of the theoretical section, you SOLO audit through the Grade VI Processes, achieving extraordinary gains! Completing Grade VI prepares you for the final push on your exciting journey to CLEAR—the CLEAR Course.