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Understanding Scientology, by Margery
Wakefield
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Chapter 7
## OT -- Through the Wall of Fire and Beyond
Take our own bodies. I believe they are composed of myriads
and myriads of infinitesimally small individuals, each in itself a unit
of life, and that these units work in squads or swarms, as I prefer to
call them -- and these infinitesimally small units live forever. When we
die these swarms of units, like a swarm of bees, so to speak, betake
themselves elsewhere, and go on functioning in some other form or
environment.
-- Thomas Edison (1)
Hitler was involved in the same black magic and the same
occult practices that my father was. The identical ones. Brainwashing is
nothing compared to it. The proper term would be "soul cracking." It's
like cracking open the soul, which then opens various doors to the power
that exists, the satanic and demonic powers.
(You take drugs) in order to reach that state where you can, quite
literally, like a psychic hammer, break their soul, and pull the power
through. He (Hubbard) designed his Scientology Operating Thetan
techniques to do the same thing.
It takes a couple of hundred hours of auditing and megathousands of
dollars for the privilege of having your head turned into a glass Humpty
Dumpty -- shattered into a million pieces. It may sound like incredible
gibberish, but it made my father a fortune.
-- L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., in Penthouse Magazine
An advertisement for the OT levels in a Scientology magazine shows a
dove flying high above a NASA-like view of the earth. The ad reads:
As you progress in Scientology, you start moving up and out of the
traps of this planet and this universe.
For the first time in man's long and black history, a being can find
freedom and knowledge within one lifetime.
The key is to keep moving on The Bridge.
At the upper levels of Scientology, you'll learn the secrets of this
sector of the universe, and the factors that have trapped beings for
countless eons. Learn the technology that will make it impossible for
you ever to be trapped again. (2)
The concept of "OT" is an important part of the cosmology of
Scientology, as it is the promises made for the OT levels that motivate
many of the members of Scientology to remain in the organization and
work their way up "The Bridge."
The concept of "OT" is similar in many ways to that of the
"Ubermensch," the term used by Hitler to signify the superior Aryan man,
the superman. In Scientology cosmology, eons ago, at the beginning of
this universe, we existed as thetans, but possessing the superior
psychic powers which were native to us as thetans. Over the centuries,
as we became involved
in the physical universe (called the MEST universe by Scientologists,
after the acronym for matter, energy, space and time -- the elements,
according to Hubbard, of the physical universe), we gradually lost our
superhuman abilities as we became involved with physical bodies, and
were subjected to the crippling electronic incidents known in
Scientology as "implants."
In the beginning, according to Scientology, thetans together created
the physical universe, but as time went on they became trapped within
their own creation. Over the ages, as they took on various physical
forms, they gradually lost awareness of their identity as thetans. The
superhuman gods of ages past deteriorated into the degraded mortals of
the present.
Enter Scientology. For the first time in recorded history, Hubbard
promised his followers, a way had been found to restore to human beings
both the awareness of their true identity as thetans and the
once-possessed superhuman abilities, known in Scientology as "OT
abilities," OT being a Scientology acronym for "operating thetan."
It is, however, only after the reactive mind has been erased in the
"Clear" that it is possible to rehabilitate the thetan, and to restore
these ancient powers. This auditing takes place on the "OT levels," the
mysterious and secret upper levels of Scientology.
The OT levels, and the "OTs" who are on them, are highly regarded by
Scientologists still on the lower grades. The awe inspired by "OTs" in
Scientology is somewhat like the respect given to PhDs in a university
setting, but with an added aura of religious reverence.
On the OT levels, Hubbard promises, one learns the long lost secrets
"of this sector of the universe," secrets of our past now available for
the first time in millions of years. By understanding these secrets, and
by doing the auditing on these upper levels, one can at last achieve
freedom from the physical universe in which we have been trapped for so
long.
The materials on these levels are a matter of extreme secrecy within
Scientology. Over the years, the material from most of these levels has
been made public, with the exception of the highest level to be released
so far -- OT VIII. At present, this level is administered in a floating