In Scientology what is the ultimate goal on earth? This interview describes the process of awakening. Ultimate goals are tough, because if you are down in the valley you can only see so far. Different religions...
Ultimate goals are tough, because if you are down in the valley you can only see so far. Different religions have this metaphor about the mountain peak. You climb up on the mountain peak and you can see a lot farther, but how do you know that's the highest you can be until you get up there?
We believe in Scientology that you can continue to improve and get rid of your baggage and come to greater understanding. Just because you start over in a new body, doesn't mean you're really starting over from scratch.
I personally have to look at it not as one huge thing but as many small things. If you practice Scientology and you receive auditing and you audit others, and you study this philosophy, you have a lot of those, "Ah-ha" moments. To me what happens is you look at life from a different viewpoint. For example, you have come kind of realization about who people are and what they are really like. And there is something basically holy or very special. You look at people in a different way. It colors everything you do, and it may seem like a small thing that is hard to articulate to someone else. It changes the way you behave, your attitude. You have sort of one of those deep realizations about something, and it colors the way you look at people, and then, it affects a whole lot of things.
I'm different in a lot of ways. I have a different idea of myself like I'm perfectly willing to be introverted about whether my hair looks right for a picture. I don't associate myself with my body. The idea of myself isn't really limited to one body and all its imperfections, you know. I feel the before and after of this life, in terms of the way I look at existence.
When I first found Scientology I was a student. I was kind of, sort of a Christian. I mean, I believed in God. I really didn't believe that when you died that was it, but I wasn't certain that was the case. There's just a whole bunch of that input around you; especially, when you're getting a secondary education. You get this big lecture about how Social Sciences builds on Biology, builds on Chemistry, builds on Physics. It's all very depressing. People around me were depressed, and it was just so, and it wasn't even like I agreed with it. One of the early things that happened to me when I was practicing Scientology I had to realize, it wasn't like somebody says to you, "You've lived before and you will live again, so have faith, believe," and you go, "O.k." That's not how it works. Scientology, different practices can help you examine that, look at it for yourself. What is you versus the body? You come to your own realizations.
I came to one, and I can't even tell you how I got there. I said, "Oh, yeah that's right. That is true. When the body is gone, I am not gone I continue." I just realized it, remembered it. It was like this huge weight lifted off my shoulders.
