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[1] In Scientology it is believed that it is the thetan, not the central nervous system, which commands the body. [2] Thetan has been described as: A "thetan is an immortal spiritual being; the human soul." [3] "The being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body." [1] "A thetan is not a thing, a thetan is the creator of ...
A DC-8 aircraft in 2004. Hubbard described Xenu's spacecraft as looking exactly like DC-8s without "fans" (meaning the jet engines, or turbofans). [20]The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology" doctrines taught only to advanced members who have undergone many hours of auditing and reached the state of Clear followed by Operating Thetan levels 1 ...
In Scientology, Operating Thetan (OT) is a state of complete spiritual freedom in which one is a "willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time". [ 1 ] : 279 The Church of Scientology offers eight "levels" of OT, each level costing thousands of US dollars. [ 2 ]
A thetan is the person himself, not his body or his name or the physical universe, his mind or anything else. It is that which is aware of being aware; the identity which IS the individual. One does not have a thetan, something one keeps somewhere apart from oneself; he is a thetan.
The Operating Thetan texts are kept secret from most followers; they are revealed only after adherents have typically given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Scientology organization. [14] Despite its efforts to maintain the secrecy of the texts, they are freely available on various websites, including at the media organization WikiLeaks .
L. Ron Hubbard died from a stroke on January 24, 1986, the church announced to the media. [12] [13] He had not been seen publicly since May 1980. [14]Several weeks later, his death was announced to parishioners by David Miscavige, who stated that Hubbard had completed all of his research into the OT I-VIII levels, but researching the remaining levels (IX-XV) can only be done "outside the body ...
The terms "The Bridge to Total Freedom" and "Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart" are synonymous with each other, with the Bridge being used more to express the concept of the steps and the chart name being used more to refer to the diagram on the wall. [13] [14] The word Classification refers to the large left column, "Training ...
There are several Scientology auditing "processes" which are believed to help a body thetan restore free will. Upon reaching OT III, the individual finds body thetans by locating any sensation of pressure or mass in their body. This is addressed telepathically as a "cluster," and taken through the cluster-making incident of 75 million years ago ...