The complete route of spiritual advancement in Scientology is delineated by the Scientology Bridge. It presents the precise steps of auditing and training one must walk in order to realize one’s native potentials. Because the Bridge is laid out in a gradient fashion, the advancement is orderly and predictable. If the basic concept is an ancient one—a route across a chasm of ignorance to a higher plateau—what the Bridge presents is entirely new: not some arbitrary sequence of steps, but the most workable means for the recovery of what Mr. Hubbard described as our “immortal, imperishable self forevermore.”

An important part of the practice of Scientology is the study of the works of L. Ron Hubbard which detail the spiritual nature of Man and the basic principles of life. Yet if Scientology represents the route to Man’s highest spiritual aspirations, it also means much to his more immediate existence—to his family, career and community. That fact is critical to an understanding of Scientology philosophy and is actually what Scientology is all about: not a doctrine, but the study and handling of the human spirit in relationship to itself, to other life and the universe in which we live. In that respect, L. Ron Hubbard’s work embraces everything. “Unless there is a vast alteration in Man’s civilization as it stumbles along today,” he declared in the mid-1960s, “Man will not be here very long…” For signs of that decline, he cited political upheaval, social putrefaction, violence, racism, illiteracy and drugs. It was in response to these problems, then, that L. Ron Hubbard devoted the better part of his final years. Indeed, by the early 1970s his life may be charted directly in terms of his search for solutions to the cultural crises of the late twentieth century.

That he was ultimately successful is borne out in the truly phenomenal growth of Dianetics and Scientology: There are now more than 8,500 organizations in 165 nations utilizing the various technologies of Dianetics and Scientology. It is borne out in the mountain of accolades for L. Ron Hubbard’s work—recognitions and proclamations that would literally fill volumes from state, county, national and international bodies. It is borne out in the sheer scope of his worldwide impact: With some 200 million philosophic works regularly read in virtually every country on Earth, no philosopher in history even approaches his popularity. Then again, it is borne out in all that is contained in this site, including the inherent fact that so many of Scientology’s fundamental truths are now part of our social fabric. But most of all it is borne out in the continued fulfillment of these words from
L. Ron Hubbard:

“A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.”