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Atreyu
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Tonight on the smallest and least popular of Australia’s network television stations - SBS - the South Park episode involving Tom Cruise (in the closet… why isn’t he coming out of the closet?) was aired. Now I really wanted to watch the whole thing, but I only caught a few glimpses. I hear that SBS was the only station in the world willing to show this particular episode, but I can’t back up that claim.
Anyway, in one of the bits that I saw, there was a description of a fantastic Scientology story. I was wondering where Tray and Matt were going, when up on bottom of the screen came this big sign: “this is what Scientologists actually believe”. They left this there for the duration of the scene, until I unfortunately had to leave. Anyway, once I could get on the net, I decided to go and check out Wikipedia to see whether they actually did believe this stuff, or to see if Tray and Matt were doing a bit of a Dan Brown to us, the viewers. Lo and behold, I found the story. I thought I would cut and paste a bit of it here, and the italicised bit I found particularly amusing (not that the rest of it isn’t). You can find the article here.
**Operating Thetan levels and the Xenu incident
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The “Hidden Truth” about the nature of the universe is taught to only the most advanced Scientologists, those who have achieved the level “clear”, in a series of courses known as the Advanced Levels. The contents of these courses are held in strict confidence within Scientology. They have never been published by the Church, except for use in highly secure areas. The most advanced of all are the eight Operating Thetan levels, which require the initiate to be thoroughly prepared. The highest level, OT VIII, is only disclosed at sea, on the Scientology cruise ship Freewinds. Because Scientology is a mystery religion, the more closely guarded and esoteric teachings imparted at these higher levels may not always be entirely consistent with its entry-level teachings.
In the confidential OT levels, Hubbard describes a variety of traumas commonly experienced in past lives. He also explained how to reverse the effects of such traumas. Among these advanced teachings, one episode that is revealed to those who reach OT level III has been widely remarked upon in the press: the story of Xenu, the galactic tyrant who first kidnapped certain individuals who were deemed “excess population” and loaded these individuals into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). These space planes were said to have been copies of Douglas DC-8s, with the addition of rocket engines. He then stacked hundreds of billions of these frozen victims around Earth’s volcanoes [in South Park they said it was Hawaii’s volcanoes] 75 million years ago before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs and brainwashing them with a “three-D, super colossal motion picture” for 36 days, telling them lies of what they are and what the universe should be like and telling them that they are 3 different things: ‘Jesus, God, and The Devil.’ The traumatized thetans subsequently clustered around human bodies because they watched the motion picture together, making them think they are all the same thing, in effect acting as invisible spiritual parasites known as “body thetans” that can only be removed using advanced Scientology techniques. Xenu is allegedly imprisoned in a mountain by a force field powered by an eternal battery. He is said to be still alive today.
I suppose I shouldn’t poke fun at the beliefs of others, I just can’t understand how people could believe in stuff like this. Are there any Scientologists here? Can you explain where this belief comes from?
Anyway, in one of the bits that I saw, there was a description of a fantastic Scientology story. I was wondering where Tray and Matt were going, when up on bottom of the screen came this big sign: “this is what Scientologists actually believe”. They left this there for the duration of the scene, until I unfortunately had to leave. Anyway, once I could get on the net, I decided to go and check out Wikipedia to see whether they actually did believe this stuff, or to see if Tray and Matt were doing a bit of a Dan Brown to us, the viewers. Lo and behold, I found the story. I thought I would cut and paste a bit of it here, and the italicised bit I found particularly amusing (not that the rest of it isn’t). You can find the article here.
**Operating Thetan levels and the Xenu incident
**
The “Hidden Truth” about the nature of the universe is taught to only the most advanced Scientologists, those who have achieved the level “clear”, in a series of courses known as the Advanced Levels. The contents of these courses are held in strict confidence within Scientology. They have never been published by the Church, except for use in highly secure areas. The most advanced of all are the eight Operating Thetan levels, which require the initiate to be thoroughly prepared. The highest level, OT VIII, is only disclosed at sea, on the Scientology cruise ship Freewinds. Because Scientology is a mystery religion, the more closely guarded and esoteric teachings imparted at these higher levels may not always be entirely consistent with its entry-level teachings.
In the confidential OT levels, Hubbard describes a variety of traumas commonly experienced in past lives. He also explained how to reverse the effects of such traumas. Among these advanced teachings, one episode that is revealed to those who reach OT level III has been widely remarked upon in the press: the story of Xenu, the galactic tyrant who first kidnapped certain individuals who were deemed “excess population” and loaded these individuals into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). These space planes were said to have been copies of Douglas DC-8s, with the addition of rocket engines. He then stacked hundreds of billions of these frozen victims around Earth’s volcanoes [in South Park they said it was Hawaii’s volcanoes] 75 million years ago before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs and brainwashing them with a “three-D, super colossal motion picture” for 36 days, telling them lies of what they are and what the universe should be like and telling them that they are 3 different things: ‘Jesus, God, and The Devil.’ The traumatized thetans subsequently clustered around human bodies because they watched the motion picture together, making them think they are all the same thing, in effect acting as invisible spiritual parasites known as “body thetans” that can only be removed using advanced Scientology techniques. Xenu is allegedly imprisoned in a mountain by a force field powered by an eternal battery. He is said to be still alive today.
I suppose I shouldn’t poke fun at the beliefs of others, I just can’t understand how people could believe in stuff like this. Are there any Scientologists here? Can you explain where this belief comes from?
