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| '''Thetan''' is a term coined by author ] and used within the ] religion. The word is roughly synonymous with ] or ]. More exactly, "the person himself -- not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. The thetan is most familiar to one and all as ''you''." <ref>, The Church of Scientology International</ref> Author ] was the founder of the ] and the originator of most of its terms. | |||
| Scientology doctrine states that a human being is a thetan, operating or using a human body. |
Scientology doctrine states that a human being is a thetan (spirit), operating or using a human body. In this sense every human is an ] because every human being is a thetan who is operating a human body. Scientology defines the idea of one's spiritual existence further, stating, "Thetan (spirit) is described in Scientology as having no mass, no wave-length, no energy and no time or location in space except by consideration or postulate. The spirit is not a thing. It is the creator of things."<ref>''Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary'' by L. Ron Hubbard, ISBN 0884040372</ref> | ||
| The term and concept were introduced by Scientology founder ], who adopted the ] ] (Θ) to represent "the source of life and life itself". <ref>Hubbard, ''Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary''. Bridge Publications, June 1975. ISBN 0884040372</ref>. Hubbard first spoke of "Theta-beings" - which he later called "thetans" - in a lecture series of March 1952 <ref>Jon Atack, ''A Piece of Blue Sky'', . Lyle Stuart, 1990. ISBN 081840499X</ref> and attributed the coining of the word to his wife ] <ref>Hubbard, ''The Auditor 21, p.1</ref>. | |||
| Hubbard was somewhat inconsistent about the physical properties of a thetan. He defined it as "having no mass, no wave-length, no energy and no time or location in space except by consideration or postulate. The spirit is not a thing. It is the creator of things." <ref>Hubbard, ''Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary''. Bridge Publications, June 1975. ISBN 0884040372</ref> However, in a lecture series later published as a book, he claimed that a thetan had a small but measurable amount of mass: | |||
| :"From some experiments conducted about fifteen or twenty years ago--a thetan weighed about 1.5 ounces! Who made these experiments? Well, a doctor made these experiments. He weighed people before and after death, retaining any mass. He weighed the person, bed and all, and he found that the weight dropped at the moment of death about 1.5 ounces and some of them 2 ounces. (Those were heavy thetans.)" <ref>Hubbard, ''The Phoenix Lectures'', p. 147. Bridge Publications, 1982.</ref> | |||
| This appears to be a garbled reference to the the work of Dr. ], who in the early ]s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the ] departed the body upon ]. MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material and measurable. He claimed to have measured a loss of mass amounting to three-fourths of an ounce (21.3 grams) on the death of the patient. These experiments are widely considered to have had little if any ] merit. . | |||
| == Operating Thetan == | == Operating Thetan == | ||
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| According to Scientology doctrine, a |
According to Scientology doctrine, a spirit can exist whether operating a human body or not. Scientology advertises that they can rehabilitate the human spirit to achieve this degree of freedom, if one undergoes a number of courses. If an individual can operate with or without a body then the term "operating thetan" would apply as it does when an individual is operating a body. The Operating Thetan levels are the upper level courses in Scientology. | ||
| The Church defines "operating thetan" as "knowing and willing cause over ], ], and ], ], ] and ] (])." | The Church defines "operating thetan" as "knowing and willing cause over ], ], and ], ], ] and ] (])." | ||
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| The Church of Scientology makes claims that an individual can exist with or without a body. Scientology claims that people with proper Scientology training can "exteriorize with full perceptics" after completing OT levels, but this claim has yet to be validated by any research. | The Church of Scientology makes claims that an individual can exist with or without a body. Scientology claims that people with proper Scientology training can "exteriorize with full perceptics" after completing OT levels, but this claim has yet to be validated by any research. | ||
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| There is also a type of thetan that Hubbard termed the "]". Hubbard claimed that this type of thetan was stuck in, on, or near a persons body due to a nuclear explosion that blew up millions of space aliens in volcanos ~75 million years ago, referred to as the ] incident. However, these type of thetans are considered bad, and the Church requires further courses for people if they want to remove the thousands of disembodied souls of space aliens from their body. This was revealed in Hubbard's own handwriting in Operating Thetan III course materials. | |||
| == Notes == | == Notes == | ||
Revision as of 19:07, 6 March 2006
Template:ScientologySeries Thetan is a term coined by author L. Ron Hubbard and used within the Scientology religion. The word is roughly synonymous with spirit or soul. More exactly, "the person himself -- not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. The thetan is most familiar to one and all as you." Author L. Ron Hubbard was the founder of the Church of Scientology and the originator of most of its terms.
Scientology doctrine states that a human being is a thetan (spirit), operating or using a human body. In this sense every human is an operating thetan because every human being is a thetan who is operating a human body. Scientology defines the idea of one's spiritual existence further, stating, "Thetan (spirit) is described in Scientology as having no mass, no wave-length, no energy and no time or location in space except by consideration or postulate. The spirit is not a thing. It is the creator of things."
Operating Thetan
According to Scientology doctrine, a spirit can exist whether operating a human body or not. Scientology advertises that they can rehabilitate the human spirit to achieve this degree of freedom, if one undergoes a number of courses. If an individual can operate with or without a body then the term "operating thetan" would apply as it does when an individual is operating a body. The Operating Thetan levels are the upper level courses in Scientology.
The Church defines "operating thetan" as "knowing and willing cause over life, thought, and matter, energy, space and time (MEST)."
The Church of Scientology makes claims that an individual can exist with or without a body. Scientology claims that people with proper Scientology training can "exteriorize with full perceptics" after completing OT levels, but this claim has yet to be validated by any research.
See also
Notes
- Scientology Glossary of Terms, The Church of Scientology International
- Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary by L. Ron Hubbard, ISBN 0884040372