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classroom aboard a Scientology ship sailing the Caribbean. Because of
elaborate security measures taken on board this ship, the contents of
this level remain a secret to those outside Scientology.
Below is a chart of the OT levels, the promises made for each level,
and the price for each, quoted from a recent Scientology magazine.
## THE OT LEVELS
OT VIII
Ability to be at cause
knowingly and at will over thought, life, form, matter, energy, space
and time, subjective and objective
$8000
OT VII
Rehabilitation of intention;
ability to project intention
$5,100
OT VI
Ability to operate freely as
a thetan exterior and to act pan-determinedly; extends the influence
of the thetan to the universe of others
$9,600
OTV
Re-familiarizes a thetan
exterior with the physical universe; freedom from fixated introversion
into matter, energy, space, time
$9,300
per 12.5 hrs
OT IV
Certainty of
self as a being
$8,100
per 12.5 hrs
OT III
Return of full self
determinism; freedom from overwhelm
$8,910
OT II
Ability to confront Whole
Track
$5,225
OT I
Extroverts a being and brings
about an awareness of himself as a thetan in relation to others and
the physical universe
$2,750
Prices taken from Source Magazine (a
Scientology magazine), Issue 77, November 1991
The cost of enlightenment is not cheap in Scientology. The constant
need for large sums of money in Scientology motivates many members to
start their own businesses in an attempt to raise the funds needed to
"go OT." Others may join the organization, committing themselves for the
next billion years to the service of Scientology, in order to receive
the free auditing given to staff members.
The route to immortality begins with OT I, a short level done soon
after the person is Clear. This level consists of just one command. The
Scientologist is instructed to go to a place where there are a lot of
people, such as a park or a mall, and there to "Spot a person"
repeatedly until a "cognition" occurs. At one time this level was
offered for three hundred dollars; now the price has jumped by a factor
of nine.
Once the person has the requisite cognition, which is usually some
kind of awareness of himself "as a thetan" as separate from all other
thetans, he is ready to progress to OT Level II.
On Level II, an idea is introduced that existed as early as the
Dianetics book in 1950, but which now becomes central, and this is the
idea of "entities." In Dianetics, Hubbard
referred to the idea of "circuits," or "demon circuits," the existence
of disparate entities attached to a person. This belief comes into its
own on the OT levels. Although on the Clearing Course, the person has
(theoretically) audited out his own reactive mind, on OT II he now has
to deal with the reactive minds of those beings, or demons, attached to
him. It is done in much the same way it was done on the Solo and
Clearing courses.
On OT II, Hubbard gives a series of tables of "GPMs," or implants,
which must now be audited. The first list is:
- Electrical GPM
- Tocky GPM
- Big Being GPM
- House GPM
- Psycho GPM
- Banky GPM
- Forerunner GPM
- The Arrow
- Double Rod
- Woman
- White Black Sphere
- Hot Cold
- Laughter-Calm
- Dance Mob
- Basic-Basic GPM
- Basic GPM
- The Command GPM
- Lower LP GPM
- LP GPM
- Body GPM
- Lower Bank, etc. (3)
The student is given an explanation for each of these "incidents."
The instructions for auditing them is the same as on the Clearing
Course. Each of these items is read aloud to oneself, and the E-meter
reads marked down until the item no longer reads.
The explanation for the "Electrical GPM" states that "it has an
electrical shock ... to convince a thetan he should think of himself as
an electrical being." The date of this implant is given by Hubbard as
"210,000,866th." Various commands are given to audit, including:
- Create (shock)
- Create no (shock)
- Destroy (shock)
- Destroy no (shock)
- Love (shock)
- Love no (shock), etc. (4)
The "Laughter-Calm" GPM, or implant, is described as having taken
place 19,670 trillion years ago.
This takes place in a cave. It is 7-1/8ths of a second in duration.
It has screams of laughter, very wild, and calm....
It is a pole with a split in it. Laughter comes from the rear half
and calm from the front half simultaneously. Then they reverse. It gives
one a sensation of total disagreement. The trick is to conceive of both
at the same time. This tends to knock one out.... (5)
The "Dance Mob" GPM is given as occurring 18,992 trillion years ago.
The duration is 7/8ths of a second. There is a pole that pulls one
in. One is caught on the pole. The actual incident is in connecting with
this thing and trying to get off it.
The dancing comes after the actual incident, and consists of a mob
dancing around one, chanting various
things. In running this, get the phrases that are chanted.... (6)
The third OT level, OT III, known in Scientology as the "Wall of
Fire," is the level to which Scientologists look forward most eagerly,