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Aaron Smith-Levin

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Seventh dynamic is sort of like spirituality collectively, thetans, us as thetans.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Mm-hmm.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And the eighth dynamic, L. Ron Hubbard says, Scientology doesn't deal with the eighth dynamic, but we recognize that people have this idea of a supreme being.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And so Scientology says you can call the eighth dynamic the supreme being dynamic, but we call it infinity.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

just the allness of everything without having to define it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And then they sort of do a little dance and they're like, Scientology, the purpose of Scientology is to get you to the point where you have your own understandings or realizations about the nature of the eighth dynamic.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

We don't tell you what you have to believe about that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And technically speaking, that is true.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Technically speaking, that is true.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

There's no point in Scientology where they sit you down and say you're not required to revoke your belief in a supreme being.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's just that everything in Scientology is inconsistent with a belief in the supreme being.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

You can still find Scientologists who, through cognitive dissonance, will tell you they believe in a supreme being.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Mostly they're lying to you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

How is this inconsistent with a supreme being?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Sure.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

The only way you could reconcile a supreme being is if you say a single supreme being created all theta.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Like the spiritual Big Bang.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

But that's not what most people think when they talk about God.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

They're talking about a creator of... The physical universe.