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TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:
The new OT Phenomena are here!
Our regular readers know that we have been highly critical of what was once one of the most popular things Scientology published, its monthly stories about what its “OT” members were able to accomplish with their hard-won super abilities: Moving things with their minds, saving people from accidents, and encountering free thetans at the cemetery.
For years, we enjoyed reading the ghost stories Scientologists pass off as evidence that they are gaining superpowers in Scientology’s “Operating Thetan” levels, which they can only get to after years of dedication and hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain.
In order to keep the pilgrims on the hook, Scientology’s Advance! magazine has been publishing the “OT Phenomena” column for decades, and former editor Jefferson Hawkins told us it was always the most popular feature in the publication. In the 1970s, when Jefferson was running it, the claims of super abilities were really something. We’ll never forget, for example, the OT supplicant who described leaving his body, traveling across the country in ethereal form to a hospital, and then participating in his friend’s surgery to help him pull through. Now that’s a creative use of occult prowess!
Sadly, more recent examples of the column have become rather tepid, with OTs claiming to have experienced the most trivial of coincidences. One tired example: The OT who thinks of a missing item and then it turns up.
Keep in mind, Scientologists are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for these meager superpowers.
Anyway, here is the new batch. Give us your own grades!
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Our regular readers know that we have been highly critical of what was once one of the most popular things Scientology published, its monthly stories about what its “OT” members were able to accomplish with their hard-won super abilities: Moving things with their minds, saving people from accidents, and encountering free thetans at the cemetery.
For years, we enjoyed reading the ghost stories Scientologists pass off as evidence that they are gaining superpowers in Scientology’s “Operating Thetan” levels, which they can only get to after years of dedication and hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain.
In order to keep the pilgrims on the hook, Scientology’s Advance! magazine has been publishing the “OT Phenomena” column for decades, and former editor Jefferson Hawkins told us it was always the most popular feature in the publication. In the 1970s, when Jefferson was running it, the claims of super abilities were really something. We’ll never forget, for example, the OT supplicant who described leaving his body, traveling across the country in ethereal form to a hospital, and then participating in his friend’s surgery to help him pull through. Now that’s a creative use of occult prowess!
Sadly, more recent examples of the column have become rather tepid, with OTs claiming to have experienced the most trivial of coincidences. One tired example: The OT who thinks of a missing item and then it turns up.
Keep in mind, Scientologists are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for these meager superpowers.
Anyway, here is the new batch. Give us your own grades!
READ MORE
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The new OT Phenomena are here!
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