AboutJet Heller Expertise As a trained auditor and an OT VIII, I can answer a wide range of questions on Scientology. However, I cannot divulge material the Church of Scientology deems confidential.
Expert: Jet Heller Date: 7/6/2008 Subject: marriage
Question Hi Jet. If you were married to a non-Scientologist who could see some benefits of Scientology but because of whatever reasons or postulates decided that it was not for her, and you wanted to progress from zero to OT 8 and beyond perhaps, what would your strategy be?
Answer Well - first of all, I would not be married to a non-Scientologist, as the "reality gulf" would be too vast.
Since a state of high understanding is a requisite for a true marriage, and since understanding, by AXIOM, is mutual, something would "have to give".
Affinity can be very well described as "recognition of similarity of purpose". If you have the goal of becoming OT, but your wife is content to play Bridge with the gals on Friday.....something would have to give.
Hopefully you never would have married such an intellectually incompatible person in the first place, but people get married for all SORTS of odd reasons that may not make sense in hindsight.
Nonetheless, this does occur in Scientology, where both spouses are nominally Scientologists, but only ONE of them makes serious Bridge progress (the other kind of Bridge). Some folks just lack the steam it takes to go up the Bridge, and since Bridge progress is entirely voluntarily, a "Scientologist" can sit at the introductory levels for decades.
Some folks just can't "git 'er DUN!".
This disparity would be unsatisfactory for me - I need to be in a high state of communication with a wife, as opposed to humoring someone. But...life is lived by lots of people, so if a guy (or gal) wants to keep a spouse around as a sort of humored "pet", then so be it.
