OT Phenomena: Miss your dead parents? Scientology can help with that!

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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The new OT Phenomena are here, and they offer a glimmer of hope that this once-vaunted feature may be turning a corner!

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.

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OT Phenomena: Miss your dead parents? Scientology can help with that!

The new OT Phenomena are here, and they offer a glimmer of hope that this once-vaunted feature may be turning a corner!

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[PirateAndBum]

Seems stupid to publish such lame "OT" success stories. Who would be motivated to "go OT" by such lame results? I would think more likely they would wonder why they should bother if these were the only things they might expect.

 

[I M Dex]

Seems stupid to publish such lame "OT" success stories. Who would be motivated to "go OT" by such lame results? I would think more likely they would wonder why they should bother if these were the only things they might expect.

Perhaps because these tend to be so mundane, the implication is that the Scientologist reading these things can relate it to some less than spectacular experiences of their own, and re-frame these as evidences of their "spiritual gain", or "superiority" supposedly achieved and/or being achieved through adherence to Scientology. Like, "Wow, I pictured my slippers being under the bed and there they are, I'm really spiritually ascending, this confirms it!"
Or maybe, those "OT successes" get published because that's all these people have to show for their Scientology processing, and/or, they got nothing, so they conjure up this mundane stuff as being something it isn't.

 

[Hatshepsut]

If a big change in awareness happens, there's no more inclination to repeatedly locate oneself inside those mundane games sphere's. Clients start to escape and walk away. This may be why duty and obligation are demanded of anyone espousing to have obtained some bit of enlightenment. What they really want after their long trek, is to remain free of those same old traps.