Sunday, May 5, 2013

Scientology Statistics - OT VI, VII, VIII completion lists from 1982 to 2012


I have been a Scientologist for about 15 years. When I began having doubts about the church in the late nineties, I looked at its statistics in order to evaluate its condition. That is not easy as the statistics are not in the public domain.

But that is possible to count the attestations of upper levels published in the Source and Freewinds magazines. In my opinion, the OT6, OT7 and OT8 levels are the main product of the church, thus the statistics about these levels are a good indicator of the condition of the church.

Graph


Raw data


Year
Source Magazine
Freewinds
OT VI
OT VII
OT VIII
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
238
missing
missing
missing
208
306
207
628
327
261
148
129
101
112
154
49
85
99
43
39
204
196
234
231
196
176
156
301
180
162
125
0
0
0
missing
181
207
329
540
258
124
23
31
81
41
16
0
0
0
0
4
111
118
185
155
180
143
151
216
140
161
175
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
774
272
102
4
13
31
43
23
0
0
0
0
13
79
139
166
123
172
120
153
200
95
134
202
Total
5419
3625
2858


According to the Source magazine issued in August 2012, there are nearly 6000 OT VI.
As there are missing data for 1983, 1984 and 1985, the figure of 5419 is coherent.

There are some missing data. This can be checked with the Solo Nots newsletter volume 1 issue 5 issued in 1997 that is listing 3280 OT6 completions, when the table above gives 2992 OT6 completions from 1982 to 1997. This means that there were probably about 288 OT6 completions in 1983 and 1984.

Analysis

The condition for the last 10 years is Emergency.
As that is a persistent condition, the condition is eventually Danger.

There were no OT7 attestations from 1997 to 2000. That is a consequence of the Golden Age of Tech. People who were on the level had to restart from the beginning by doing the Solo Nots certainty course.

Many an OT7 had to do this level twice, so the number of individual OT7 is less than 3625.

The release of the Golden Age of Tech was followed by a collapse.
The release of the Golden Age of Knowledge did not change the main trends.
In the last 3 years, the OT6 attestations collapsed gradually from 301 to 125.
This should theoretically be followed by a collapse of OT7 attestations in the years to come.

If scientologists were aware of these figures, they would know that something has to be radically changed in the church.

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