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What’s a Thetan...
...central tenets of the religion are that a person has an immortal and fundamentally good soul, called the thetan. The thetan survives the death of the body, traveling through multiple human lives. Scientologists also believe that a human possesses a thinking mind with “reactive” and “analytical” tendencies. The reactive mind performs behaviors irrationally and compulsively; the analytical mind is calm and controlled...
...repressed, painful memory. Dianetics promises release through a process called auditing, a kind of non-evaluative therapy. After several courses of auditing, a Scientologist can become a “clear,” a person with no psychotic reactive tendencies. (Cruise is now an “Operating Thetan 6,” six stages beyond clear...
...invented hundreds of goods and services for which members are urged to give "donations." Are you having trouble "moving swiftly up the Bridge" - that is, advancing up the stepladder of enlightenment? Then you can have your case reviewed for a mere $1,250 "donation." Want to know "why a thetan hangs on to the physical universe?" Try 52 of Hubbard's tape-recorded speeches from 1952, titled "Ron's Philadelphia Doctorate Course Lectures," for $2,525. Next: nine other series of the same sort. For the collector, gold-and-leather-bound editions of 22 of Hubbard's books (and bookends...
Scientologists in the past two years paid cash not only for the Clearwater properties but for two buildings in New York, two in Los Angeles, and others in Boston, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Miami, San Diego and Riverside, Calif. Hubbard himself, by now an Operating Thetan, is about to sell his ship and establish a new land base in Ireland, while the worldwide scourging of engrams continues...