State of Man Congress

If the definition of Operating Thetan is knowing and willing cause over all dynamics, then we can see at once that responsibility must go hand in hand with making an Operating Thetan. —L. Ron Hubbard

The 1950s: Beginning with Book One and continuing through each successive year—a path marked by monumental breakthrough after monumental breakthrough, milestone technology after milestone technology, towards a single goal: CLEAR.

The 1960s: A decade that began with a new and even more glorious goal: OPERATING THETAN (OT).

Eternity: When one looks back as an OT to where it began: THE STATE OF MAN CONGRESS.

Such was the magnitude of New Year’s Day when L. Ron Hubbard once again ascended the stage at Washington DC’s Shoreham Hotel. In fact, everything had been building to this moment, this event. For with each passing year came increasing momentum, none more so than 1959:

• Since the earliest days, Mr. Hubbard had been capable of clearing others. Yet with revolutionary breakthroughs in the training of auditors, they now were doing the same— individual clearing had become a reality.
• His next target was to make it faster and easier, so that even more could be cleared. In the past year that too had been accomplished, with the means for wide scale clearing of thousands at a time— through co-auditing.
• And finally, also in 1959, his establishment of an administrative headquarters to serve as a stable base for all future research and the central dissemination center to spread it everywhere— Saint Hill Manor in England.

Yet, if 1959 had already seen a storm of activity, then it became a hurricane as he ended the year with a 30-day round-the-world tour to every Central Organization: Scientology had become a global movement.

Moreover, while that global tour served to consolidate the far-flung operations of Scientology, its purpose had a far greater significance in light of where Mr. Hubbard was now headed with his discovery of the essential difference between Clear and OT. For whereas Dianetics began with the clearing of an individual, Scientology had now expanded across all dynamics. And that was the breakthrough regarding OT and its accomplishment:

“We’ve been trying to Clear people on the First Dynamic and we can Clear people on the First Dynamic, but they’re not Clear on the Second and Third, let me tell you.

“And what I’ve arrived at this Congress with was how to Clear them on the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Dynamics.”

Here, then, is technology which changed the entire thrust of Scientology and which now spans the Bridge from the lowest levels to the highest states of OT.

Then again, here is technology that spans every dynamic—from the individual to marriage, and from groups and organizations to entire nations.

In fact, here is technology so inherent in what it means to be a Scientologist, it is represented in the upper triangle of the very symbol of Scientology.

For here is the breakthrough: Responsibility.

And the watershed technology for planetary clearing across all dynamics: Overts and Withholds.

“So here we change from irresponsible to responsible, from guilt to strength, and all in the twinkling of an eye.

“This is the new beginning of Scientology.”

And therein lay the power of what L. Ron Hubbard laid bare at his most famous Congress of all time.