Clearwater Sun

Volume 68, Number 118 August 30,1981

Sect courses resemble science fiction

By RICHARD LEIBY Sun staff writer

At the Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater, Scientologists are learning to leave their bodies, control other people's thoughts and communicate with plant life. They learn this by reliving a galactic holocaust carried out by space creatures millions of years ago.

So say top-secret Scientology documents spelling out the highest level of training available to church members. It is training that costs thousands of dollars and, according to church defectors who provided the documents, amounts to nothing but a swindle dreamed up by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

The goal of the training is to reach "OT"- the level of "operating thetan." At this level, Scientologists gain the power to control "thought, life, matter, energy, space and time," says Hubbard. But first they must free themselves of damaging spirits acquired when Earth was reduced to a nuclear wasteland 75 million years ago, he says.

Last week, a Pinellas Circuit Court judge committed a former Scientologist to a state mental hospital after he claimed that the thetans - or spirits-of other Scientologists had invaded his body. Francis Diamond, a former downtown Clearwater businessman, insisted thetans were real; he brought a Hubbard book to his hearing to prove it.

Diamond had received only introductory Scientology counseling and never reached the level of operating thetan. But that level is real for many church members, although details of the training are rarely publicized.

Scientology spokesman Milt Wolfe said he has reached the "OT-VII" level, one of the highest Hubbard has devised. But Wolfe refused last week to grant an interview about the OT course material obtained by the Clearwater Sun

The material includes Scientology's teachings on soul travel, telepathy and the creation of the universe. Wolfe called this material private.

"Whatever may be considered confidential by the church I'm not going to comment on," he said. "It's very bad taste for you to write about it. It's a slam against religion."

But former members say Scientology guards this material for another reason. "If they told you that stuff at the start, you'd just laugh and walk out," says a church defector, quoted in this month's Reader's Digest article on Scientology

All Scientology courses - from basic Dianetics to communications improvement are said to be aimed at helping people achieve "total freedom" from problems. At the pinnacle is the OT material.

It evokes the science fiction writing Hubbard did before he founded the religion 31 years ago.

According to the "OT-III through OT- VII" course packet, man's difficulties in attaining spiritual and mental freedom began 75 million years ago.

(* See SECT, next page)

Sect defectors call training a swindle

(from page 1A)

That was when Xemu, the evil ruler of the Galactic Confederation, concluded that the 90 - planet confederation was overpopulated.

"Finally Xemu decided to take radical measures to overcome the population problem," says the material. "The planet Earth was designated as a place for executions. Beings were captured on other planets as well as on this planet and flown to locations near 10 volcanos or more on Earth. H-bombs (far more powerful than any in existence today) were dropped on the volcanoes destroying the bodies of the beings, who as thetans attached themselves to one another in clusters.

"These clusters concluded they were one .... Since that time, all of us have had on our bodies or in our psychic spaces clusters of up to 1,000 beings acting as if they were one being, but all with different goals and purposes. This is what makes us so confused and keeps us from achieving our own purposes."

Scientology teaches that the OT-III course can disperse the thetan clusters as well as the frightening mental images that were "implanted" in the thetans after the explosion. These images included "God, the devil, spinning dancers, auto accident, trains, the Crucifixion, psychiatrist, doctors dismembering bodies and feelings of nausea sickness and spinning sensations,"

The course packet gives explicit instructions on how to "audit" these extra thetans and images out of an individual. Auditing is performed by a Scientology counselor using the Hubbard E-meter, a battery-powered device similar to a lie detector. "This is the road to returned personal power in the physical universe," Hubbard says of the OT-III course

The course cost $9,021.78 in February 1980, according to a course "donation" list circulated at the time. Prices presumably have risen since then.

A Scientologist could receive the entire OT-I to OT-VII package at a bargain rate - $26,614.42. according to the donation list.

Such advanced courses; appear to be the mainstay of the Fort Harrison's services. A Scientologist must take a battery of lower - level courses and go "clear" before he can begin OT processing,

In OT processing, he will relive the galactic holocaust-everything from " capture on,another. planet" to being "frozen in alcohol/glycol and transported in that state to Earth, aboard a space ship which resembled the DC-3s of today."

The processing also takes the student back 4 quadrillion years, when, according to Hubbard, the universe was formed. Another series of incidents - including "waves of light" and a horn-blowing cherub - are relived.

The result of the processing - of be-

(Text of photographs below)

INCIDENT ONE SEQUENCE

LOUD SNAP
WAVES OF LIGHT
CHARIOT COMES OUT TURNS LEFT THEN RIGHT
CHERUB COMES OUT
BLOW HORN
CHERUB RETREATS
SERIES OF SNAPS
BLACKNESS DUMPED ON THETAN



Data 4 quadrillion years ago
4,000,000,000,000,000 
Location not given

Run to blow and repeat for each thetan left after incident Two. 
If the Thetan does not blow, ask for an E/S
Incident One.  For this you must rely on the Thetan for
data for the time the Physical universe began for him.
This is the BASIC BASIC of when the universe was formed.
All beings in the Universe share this incident. Only this
planet has  Incident Two.

INCIDENT TWO SEQUENCE
1. CAPTURE TRANSPORTATION
3. PLACEMENT ON/IN VOLCANO (See list attached)
4. H-BOMB DROPPED ON VOLCANO
5. EXPLOSION ....
6. TERRIFIC WINDS  
7. THETANS STUCK TO OR PLACED ON ELECTR0NIC RIBBON
 AND PULLED DOWN OVER PEAK
8. BEGINNING IMPLANT (Not 36 days)
9. PILOT SAYS I'M MOCKING IT UP or
 'YOU'RE MOCKING IT UP." (Stop here don't go any
 further)

   Date 75 million years ago

   Location of Particular volcano (or if citizen of
   this planet, location on this planet)


   RUN TO BLOW/BREAK UP OF CLUSTER

Sun art by JACK FUREY

CAPTION material from the 'operating thetan' course shows eons-old incidents Scientologists relive during training that is supposed to result in superhuman powers.

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