By Roland Rashleigh-Berry more
20 November 1998
Source:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/ff4391c079f89409
Horrible Truths for Scientologists
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Body Thetans
Scientologists have heard about "Thetans", "theta" as well as
"theta bodies" perhaps, but they won't have heard the term "Body Thetans", nor will they be able to find it in their Tech
dictionaries. This is because the information is being withheld
from them until they reach a secret level in Scientology known
as "OT III". On this level, they are told that they are full of
the Thetans (or souls) of murdered space-aliens. Roughly 2,500
of them. And they have to talk to them telepathically to make
them go away. These aliens were once part of the local galactic
confederation of 75 million years ago, ruled over by the evil
galactic overlord Xenu (sometimes said as Xemu). The galactic
confederation supposedly consisted of 22 suns with their 76
inhabited planets. That makes three or four inhabited planets
per sun. This fits in with L. Ron Hubbard's view that other
planets in our own solar system were inhabited, namely Venus
(whose government is monitored by the
Fifth Invader Force —
Venusian.ra [realaudio file]), Mars
(inhabited by the earlier Fourth Invader Force — Mars.ra [realaudio
file]) and Jupiter (by people who he said would look like
Eskimos — Jupiter.ra [realaudio
file]). These
aliens were supposedly similar in appearance to ourselves as we
are now. The average populations of these planets was 178
million or 250 million on average (both figures are quoted in
the same line on the handwritten OT III document). This was an
overpopulation problem for Xenu. To solve it he called most of
the inhabitants of these planets in for income tax inspections
where they were instead given injections of a mixture of alcohol
and glycol into their lungs to paralyze them. They were then
frozen and put on DC-8 identical space-planes and flown across
space to planet Earth (then called Teegeeack)
DC-8s.ra [realaudio file].
If the story is to be believed, then this would have happened
to about 4 trillion people. The story makes it clear that the
actual corpses of people were transported to Earth. Supposing
each DC-8 could carry 200 frozen bodies in refrigerated units at
a time and the excess population per planet was 100 million,
then 500,000 DC-8 space-plane flights would have been required
to ship these people to Earth. If the return trip were 6 weeks,
as mentioned in the "Assists" lecture in relation to the three
weeks from Coltice to Earth, and if this were all achieved in
six months, then each planet would have required 125,000 DC-8
space-planes.
When the people arrived on Earth, all 4 trillion of them were
stacked around ten or so volcanoes and then nuked. After they
were nuked their Thetans (souls) were captured in electronic
beams, boxed up and taken to cinemas. There they were shown
pictures of what life on Earth should be like and they were also
shown false pictures of God and Christ to instil a religious
fervor in them that would make them less effective and so easier
to control. The Thetans were frozen, again, in alcohol and
glycol - a supposed very effective way for capturing Thetans.
The start of these films was unusual in that the first two days
of it were taken up with a helicopter about to crash (Helicopt.ra [realaudio
file])
After watching these films, which lasted several days, these
Thetans clustered together and now inhabit our bodies.
These films supposedly set the scene for the future. The
houses, theaters, trains, boats, planes etc. of the late 1950's
were supposed to be copies of those at the time of this incident
and the same as those shown to the
body Thetans in the films.
Hence society of the 1950's was a copy of what life was like 75
million years ago. And since these images were implanted in
these body Thetans and they were required to act out these
scenes, then this was a block to further progress. In inhabiting
our bodies, we too inherit these images which then govern our
lives. Indeed, we are, in most cases, one of these same
body Thetans - it is just that we are the one in charge or the
"leader" body thetan or controller.
Scientologists are required to exorcise all these
body Thetans if they are to make spiritual progress within their
religion. Once gone then they are supposed to regain their own
powers. They talk to them telepathically to make them go away.
This whole incident, as described, is known as "R6", or
"Incident Two". In liberating these
body Thetans it is important
to get to the first time something like this happened. It is
called "getting the basic on the chain of events". This was not
the earliest incident though, since there was supposedly an
Incident 4 quadrillion years ago, called Incident One, in which
Thetans were confused by a chariot charging at them as well as a
cherub blowing a horn before blackness was dumped on them. If
these body Thetans are reminded of this then they leave the body
readily and with some noise and energy. L. Ron Hubbard described
how he readily achieved this on himself (BTs.ra [realaudio
file]).
When the body Thetans (or "BTs") leave, they are
Clear and
are able to operate as Thetans. They have become "Operating Thetans" - a high goal in Scientology. They then supposedly
decide to be flowers or butterflies.
The Cracks Appear
On the surface, the above story may seem plausible. However,
incisive thinking on these events lead to questions that
challenge the validity and accuracy of this story.
1) DC-8 space planes
Each planet would have had to manufacture about 100,000 new
DC-8 space planes for this task within, let us say, a six month
period. This would have put an enormous strain on the planet's
resources. And of course airports would have to have been
constructed for this five-fold planned increase in space
traffic. With all planets heavily overpopulated, the clearing of
buildings to make new airports would have been a very noticeable
and unpopular move which would have made the inhabitants curious
as to what the new space-planes would have been used for. Rumors
would have been rife and this would have led to civil unrest
that would have disrupted these developments.
Another minor point is of the positioning of the rockets
engines on the DC-8. If this were to the rear, then it
contradicts L. Ron Hubbard's claim that they were identical to
DC-8 passenger planes since they do not have rocket outlets at
the rear. If, instead, the rockets were placed where the jets
were, then as soon as the DC-8 had gotten beyond the atmosphere,
it would have started flying around in circles, as the rocket
engines would not have been directly in line with the center of
gravity of the space-plane.
2) Income Tax Offices
People being called in for income tax inspections would be
highly suspicious if their friends were called in, never to be
seen again. They would have suspected that something were amiss
and would have refused to go, especially after knowing that
100,000 DC-8 space planes with their corresponding airports had
been built. For this to be effective, all the visits to the tax
offices would have to have been completed in a very short time.
A week or less. Let us estimate that there were 10,000 income
tax offices on each planet. If 100 million people were to make
visits then each office would have to see at least one thousand
people per day. This would have caused people to queue and they
would have noticed that although people were seen to enter, they
were not seen to leave. This would have raised suspicion.
3) Technological Progress
Technology has progressed since the 1950's. If all life is
dictated by the films the body Thetans saw, then we would not
have developed technology beyond DC-8 planes, for example. We
now have supersonic fighter planes and supersonic passenger
aircraft as well as Stealth bombers. The technology is far in
advance of DC-8s. The same goes for the design of houses, boats,
trains, computers etc. Society on Earth and its technology does
not appear to be stuck at any time point. Technological progress
has continued unabated. This raises a question mark over these
films as to whether they were actually shown or, if so, had any
effect. In both cases, we should question the usefulness of
L. Ron Hubbard's system of dealing with
body Thetans.
4) Lack of Archaeological Evidence
There is no evidence of a 250 million population on this
planet from 75 million years ago. Indeed, as archaeologists dig
down, they find evidence of dinosaurs from this period but no
evidence of 1950's type technology. If the story were true then
the planet should be covered, down to a certain depth, with the
concrete and metal artifacts of the thriving population of this
planet of 75 million years ago. It should be possible to unearth
remains of 1950's style trains at the level where fossilized
skeletons of dinosaurs are found instead. That there exists none
of the remains of this supposed civilization suggests that
L. Ron Hubbard's view was in error.
Another niggling worry is the volcanoes where the now
body thetans were nuked with H-bombs. as listed in the secret
handwritten OT III document. Some of the listed volcanoes did
not exist 75 million years ago.
5) Easy-to-Clear Body Thetans
Body Thetans are supposedly easy to exteriorize from the
body. And as they leave, then so our own powers are supposed to
increase. If that were true, then it should be easy for us to
leave our bodies as well, since we are the "lead" thetan and are
more powerful than the rest. Even with all the
body Thetans
gone, people are not able to exteriorize. They may feel
dissociated, somewhat, after telepathically talking to 2,500
invisible space-aliens inside them, but this could be a sign of
mental fatigue or even deterioration, rather than the emergence
of a new mental ability. Also, since the
body Thetans were once
people like ourselves, you would expect their ambitions to go
beyond the inhabiting of flowers and butterflies. With you as
the "lead thetan", you would expect them to show more loyalty
and to attempt to get their leaders to exteriorize as well. If
they had been close companions for 75 million years then you
would expect the friendship and commitment to their fellows to
run deeper than to just leave to become a flower or butterfly.
Conclusion
I have just touched upon 5 points which cast doubt on the
validity of L. Ron Hubbard's supposed recounting of events of 75
million years ago as well as the veracity of the existence of
Body Thetans. I am sure there are many more avenues worthy of
exploration. I will leave it to the reader to make their own
mental investigations into this alleged chapter of Earth's
history. After two years or more of careful thought on this
subject, I have personally come to the conclusion that L. Ron
Hubbard was largely in error in this matter.
Roland Rashleigh-Berry
P.S.: If you would like to make a further study of this
subject then you might find it useful to request a copy of the
secret texts of Scientology from the Norwegian scholar,
Andreas Heldal-Lund (ahl@xenu.net) |