Keeping a belief system, like $cientology, not to fall apart in regard to the decades of myths debunked, of new report and documentaries of the cruelty of it's " sacred precepts" which includes mental process tech, entities exorcism tech, behavior reforming, redefining the outer world and it's nomenclature, redefining family and social roles playing, teaching total obedience to the founder, and his policies; all this, especially when practiced out of the COS group support, demands a true believer, a tremendous amount of dedication and to build a strong fortress of immunization against any exterior attempt to shake the pillars of the temple which is to hold a total ceryainty toward the cult and the bridge to total freedom (Thanks to uncle Ronnie as he already planned it in his tech dedicated to address pseudo-enemies entheta and suppressive behavior and crimes committed as degraded low tone beings..);
Otherwise , it would have already collapsed years ago ..the ego mind would have yet surrendered to the obvious pseudo- scientific pseudo-religious hack while largely available debunking facts are submitted to critical thought scrutunity.
I sometimes listen to buddhist tantric practices using mantra chanting and gongs and other music instruments all aligned on specific vibrations of the soul...It helps me to reconnect.
Now..please ask me it it's a belief, a science or a process that has been proven to work????
Will I apply this to my friends??? Will I try to convince people???
No..it's personnal...it's a personnal practice..not a truth of the universe and it doesn't have any scientific ground neither proof it does what I THINK it does to me.....Like many people, I don't need people's agreement on my beliefs or pseodo-spiritual practices...Same for yoga or christian practitioners here...( this is actually what I don' t get..this frantic obsessive needs of agreement and acknowledgement from others..)
Now if one find it's total bullshit, ridicule, a hack or whatever...I can be part of the discussion...and have fun...and get other viewpoints...as I admit that all religions, gurus, rituals, doctrine holds a lesser or greater part of bullshit...but I won't argue since I have nothing to sell and I certainly don't believe I know the Truth...otherwise I would have already make my life way easier...
(Although if I would have been suddenly enlightened and got revelations from heavens...I think I would give a try to turn myself into a peddler guru...it's very temptating to have so many fans flowing so much admiration and money uplines ..lol.....☺.)
However...spiritually "growing or maturing" might IMHO means to release us of such beliefs that are comforting and that we absoluetly want to hold all together in an attempt for the fearful ego to survive in the darkness of not knowing...
I think most of practices, like Scientology , are making people like drug addicts in their brain and this explains why they behave like junkies and absoluetly need to get other adepts into their practice..to enjoy such distorted alteted reality bubble (that we can see in all culys..) they need other people to come within, join and share the bubble..otherwise..it's not fun to be alone in one's bubble, especially the one of the truth to freedom! ( houses of cards)
We had seen it for decades each friday night..especially in listening to the wonderful OT wins and the wonders of the tech..while actually , for many cases, we were witnessing lives collapsing...family, work, finances, health, mental health....lost souls...
But...hey...like drugs... It has some good in it...