Scientology's symbol of the Bridge to Total Freedom crosses this abyss and illustrates the idea of traveling from unknowingness to revelation. Remarkably, this Bridge is more than a mere symbol, however, for the Scientology Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart shows how a person moves step by step to higher states. It contains the idea of the different states of existence and the entirely new idea that one can progress upward on it and improve his spiritual condition. Training is a vital necessity on the journey to true spiritual freedom. There is no substitute for understanding, and an understanding of life comes from training.
Life can be a jungle.
People get hurt, lives shatter. One may be continually surrounded with travail. To confront and resolve these factors requires not only attaining higher states of existence through auditing, but also achieving a complete understanding of what is happening around one and why. Without training, one can spend much of life in mystery about why things are the way they are. It has been said that a student spends less time getting trained than he would spend just wondering why life is the way it is.