OT-VII Scientologist speaks to Salon "on the condition of anonymity"

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http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/06/27/cruise/index.html

According to experts and the church's own literature, OT-VII ("OT" stands for Operating Thetan, "thetan" being the Scientology term for soul) is the penultimate tier in the church's spiritual hierarchy -- the exact details of which are fiercely guarded and forbidden to be discussed even among top members. It is where a Scientologist learns how to become free of the mortal confines of the body and is let into the last of the mysteries of the cosmology developed by the church's longtime leader, science fiction novelist and "Dianetics" author L. Ron Hubbard. This cosmology also famously holds that humans bear the noxious traces of an annihilated alien civilization that was brought to Earth by an intergalactic warlord millions of years ago.

But one Scientologist who left the church in 2003 after 30 years -- and who had reached the OT-VII level and become a member of the church's governing Sea Org -- said it was his understanding that Cruise was very near completing, if he had not already completed, the OT-VII level. The former Scientologist would speak to Salon only on the condition of anonymity. A current Scientologist who has reached the level OT-V, and who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that considering the amount of time Cruise has been in the church, an OT-VII status seems probable. And Stephen Kent, a professor of sociology at the University of Alberta who has published articles on Scientology and Hollywood, also said that Cruise's behavior strongly suggests OT-VII.

Cruise is acting as though he "feels he's more in control over his environment and can convince more people to look into the organization," Kent said. "In the high OT levels one supposedly gains the skills to master one's universe. One is removing countless entities that have been holding people back. Cruise feels that he has freed himself from thousands of errant thetans, and he seems to be in a kind of euphoria he hasn't experienced before."

Adding to all that stress is a series of very heavy theological revelations that begin with OT-III. The central creation story, according to Melton, Bartchy, Kent and the former member, is this: About 75 million years ago, a nefarious intergalactic warlord called Xenu rounded up the inhabitants of numerous planets, killed them, and brought them to Earth, then set off a chain reaction of cataclysmic volcanoes (the volcano pictured on the "Dianetics" cover was Hubbard's favorite symbol for the notion of breakthrough and self-actualization), which dispersed their thetans into the atmosphere. These thetans now fester inside the bodies of all humans. They are to be located in specific body parts and summoned out.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. So it was the computers doing all the affects in War of the Worlds...

it was Cruise moving everything with his mind ...

More Johnny Depp threads !

[madrchsod]

2. he has received the first big assed gold medal

for being the top wack job of the church.travolta doesn`t have this medal...ya he`s in with the in crowd and they are using him as their front man. more later this week

[pinniped]

3. I just got rid of some thetans about an hour ago.

Pesky little suckers.

[Spinzonner]

6. I've heard that they're closely related to Prions

and that BSE/CJD is actually a Thetanic possession

[NashVegas]

4. Oh Man - Beck!?!?

Cripes.

[Spinzonner]

5. Apparently Tom doesn't realize

that that is exactly what the Thetans want him to believe and when you let your guard down in overconfidence is when they are at their most dangerous.

Hey, it could happen ...