Standard Technology vs Non Standard Technology
"People have following the route mixed up with "the right to have their own ideas." Anyone is certainly entitled to have opinions and ideas and cognitions-so long as these do not bar the route out for self and others."
Policy Letter Safeguarding Technology
LRH went to great pains to keep the philosophy and technology of its application pure and various policy letters and bulletins were issued to that effect. Policies such as the KSW series starting with the first being reissued a few times and then more policies added in an effort to hammer home the point.
He noted the propensity of people to alter-is the technology; apply 'quickie' and other changes even after he had researched and developed the route out and while he was on the lines.
He noted that in the final analysis such alter-is originates from misunderstood or not understood words and concepts. And so the Student hat was born.
While he was around the alter-is could be caught and kept at bay with vigilance and continual iterating the standard tech line. Extra effort in the form of Class VIIIs was also introduced in an effort to keep the standard tech line in.
Now that he is no longer here, the responsibility level has dropped, not just within the church but also outside of it.
Otherisms, alter-is of the original technology is justified by, 'any auditing is better than no auditing', and 'we should be free to practice what we like' and other such justifications for not following standard tech. It has also been said that when one has finished the levels, up to and including OT VIII, that is a license to practice some other ism. It seems to have escaped such people that the past track is full of false and sorrowful practices none of which were designed to free people but simply to enslave them. Dramatizing such practices is very likely to undo all the case gain an individual has had moving up the bridge.
"Scientology is a workable system. It white tapes the road out of the labyrinth. If there were no white tapes marking the right tunnels, Man would just go on wandering around and around the way he has for eons, darting off on wrong roads, going in circles, ending up in the sticky dark, alone."
Policy Letter Safeguarding Technology
Although we have a bridge up to OT VIII (and there is talk that there are other levels beyond OT VIII) that is not the end. Absolutes are unobtainable and the amount of case gain still available is probably vast beyond measure.
But how do we access such case gain with no route to guide us?
Part of the answer is in flows. Most of the bridge is 1st dynamic and the flow is towards the pc. Either with negative gain (removing that which not wanted) or positive gain (exercises to improve the abilities of the being).
Applying standard tech to others expands ones space. Applying standard tech to other dynamics expands ones space.
Those that are standard in their application and brook no alter-is or going off into fancy byways are to be commended. They are actually setting people free.
And the more people set free the more expanded our space will become. Islands of sanity can join up to become bigger islands of sanity and eventually a continent of sanity.
And a continent of sanity and an expanded space is case gain for all of us on the third and fourth dynamics.
~oo00oo~
