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To achieve connection with God and ultimate freedom adherents engage in the practice of auditing and training. While the central beliefs have experienced little modification, the "technology" and the steps to traverse the "bridge" have changed. These alterations are a financial boon to the organization.
The Church of Scientology International (CSI) acts as the main organizing and guiding body for other churches and groups. The CSI "also provides the broad planning and direction needed to support the Church's international growth" (What is, 2010). The CSI also engages is staff training on the "technology" of scientology. Another organ of the church, the Religious Technology Center (RTC) is the final arbiter in doctrinal matter and is the legal custodian of all church trademarks (Church of Scientology, 2010). The religious structure of the church has many hidden dimensions and remains highly elusive to outsiders (Nikos and Castillo, 2010).
Individuals who leave the organization are often subject to harsh punitive action accomplished through the policy of fair game. Fair game is a practice that involves the targeting of individuals who are deemed heretics for financial, psychological, and political ruin (Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology, 2010). The church employs it wealth and power to destroy the individual, there are occasions when information revealed during the auditing process is used...
The high levels of secrecy and mystery that shrouds the organization is a lure for many individuals but it prevents true examination of the deep tenets of the faith. The doctrinal precepts promise freedom from the strictures of life, past and present. This freedom has a price and often that price is independence of thought and action. The desires of men have usurped the hope of Scientology.
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