The Religion of Scientology:
A Description

The E-Meter

Unique to the Scientology religion — and revolutionary in the field of spiritual development — is the use by auditors of the electropsychometer, or E-Meter. Auditors use the E-Meter to help isolate areas of spiritual travail or upset that exist below a person's current awareness. Once brought to light, such trouble areas can then be examined by the individual without the subjective influences that attend spiritual counseling practices of other religions.

Mr. Hubbard developed the E-Meter based on the knowledge that the mind contains mental image pictures, actual recordings of past experiences. These pictures contain energy and mass. When a person views one of these mental image pictures, or thinks a thought, the E-Meter registers with precision the changes which occur in this mental mass and energy. The E-Meter does not diagnose or cure anything; it simply measures the state or change of state of an individual and serves as a guide as to what should be addressed in an auditing session.

Dianetics announced the discovery of a previously unknown and harmful part of the mind which contains many recordings of past experiences of loss, pain and unconsciousness in the form of mental image pictures. These exist below a person's level of awareness and collectively accumulate to comprise what is called the Reactive Mind — the source of all unwanted fears, emotions, pains and psychosomatic illnesses. Step-by-step, auditing addresses the Reactive Mind until its previously unknown content is uncovered and its harmful effects over an individual are erased. When such occurs, one has achieved a new state of being that in Scientology is called Clear. One's basic and fundamental personality, his artistry, personal force and individual character, his inherent goodness and decency, are all restored.

While Clear is a new state for man, The Bridge leads him to even greater heights of spiritual freedom. Above Clear are the Operating Thetan (OT) Levels. The thetan is the immortal spiritual being, the individual himself, not his body or mind or anything else. It is not something he has, but what he is, a fact that becomes abundantly clear on these upper levels. The goal of Clear is to remove from one's existence those things which are not part of his inherent spiritual self. The goal of Operating Thetan is to overcome the travails of existence and regain the certainty and abilities of one's native spiritual beingness. At this level one knows that he is separate and apart from such material things as physical form or the physical universe.

Auditing at any level is an incomparable experience, its full description well beyond the scope of this booklet. However, imagine something that has been troubling you all of your life — some feeling or attitude or experience. Then imagine sitting with an auditor and being asked an exact question — the right question — that enables you to suddenly, instantly see the truth of this situation, the real source of it.

This is what auditing is, and the result is revelatory — tremendous relief, understanding, a sense of freedom, the ability to see everything more clearly, an increased awareness. It is almost magical. And it is essentially because of this spiritual transformation that is experienced by someone somewhere in the world every minute of every day that Scientology has grown as rapidly as it has.

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