A body thetan or BT is a concept in Scientology of a disembodied thetan (being) that is stuck in, on, or near a human body. All human bodies are said to...

and lives in the body." "A thetan is not a thing, a thetan is the creator of things." A thetan is "the person himself—not his body or his name, the physical...

beforehand. In summary, the objective of these levels is to remove "body thetans" which are "confused, disembodied souls from other planets who have attached...

spiritual being (thetan) that is resident in a physical body. The thetan has had innumerable past lives, some of which, preceding the thetan's arrival on Earth...

fictional animal from Star Trek In Scientology, targs are an older word for Body Thetan Targe, a type of shield Târg, a medieval Romanian periodic fair or a...

cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said...

title in the British honours system abbreviated "Bt" or formerly "Bt." Body thetan, a concept in the Scientology belief system Brian Taylor (Australian...

weaving it into his origins of human history. In his writings, wherein thetans (roughly comparable to the concept of a human soul) were reincarnated periodically...

acting on a human body is a thetan, the being himself. The body will remain at rest (since it is a mest object) until acted upon by the thetan that is supposed...

study the Operating Thetan levels, which are described in Scientology materials as states where the ability to operate outside the body via "exteriorization"...

form of "body thetans." Scientology teachings identify this event as "Incident II." Scientologists learn from OT III that by removing body thetans, they...

physical body is possessed by thetans called body thetans. To be spiritually free, a person would have to audit out all those other thetans in the body and...

screen during the Thetan's appearances, effectively censoring most of the show's last act. In other parts of the United States, the Thetan footage was tape-delayed...

and Time", which includes your body. Scientologists believe that thetans can exteriorize; leave their body. The thetan is considered an immortal being...

as his own and stated that Hubbard's description of exteriorizing the body thetan is extremely similar if not identical to the descriptions of astral projection...

and act during their time on earth. Scientology's term for the soul is "thetan", derived from the Greek word theta, symbolizing thought. Scientologists...

OT VIII or OT 8 (Operating Thetan Level 8) is the highest current auditing level in Scientology. OT VIII is known as "Truth Revealed" and was first released...

highest available level within the Church of Scientology, called "Operating Thetan Level VIII", or OT VIII. Lewis starred in Scientology training films and...

Clear Body, Clear Mind is a Scientology book compiled from L. Ron Hubbard material from the 1960s, which was published posthumously in 1990 by Bridge Publications...

But the second body is not under YOUR direct control. — L. Ron Hubbard These incidents are described in the material for Operating Thetan level III and...

acronym of "Matter, Energy, Space and Time"), which thetans (souls) temporarily operating "meat bodies" are meant to transcend and conquer. New recruits...

is a noncorporeal, semi-divine "thetan," which runs contrary to the Greek Orthodox view that the individual is both body and soul and, while created in...

end her addiction. By 2007, Alley attained the level of OT VII (Operating Thetan Level 7), and by 2018, she was New OT VIII. In January 2008, Alley said...

1952, auditing techniques "began to focus on the goal of exteriorizing the thetan" with the goal of providing complete spiritual awareness. The "preclear"...

needed] The book proposes that the human body houses two separate entities. The most important is a thetan, said by Hubbard to be the true self of a...

conclusive in that a thetan "mocking up" (creating) mental image pictures and thrusting them into the body can increase the body mass and by casting them...

soul could temporarily leave their body through astral projection, Hubbard taught a thetan could journey outside the body by "going exterior". Hubbard also...

celebrity Scientologist during the 1970s having attained the level of Operating Thetan through Scientology auditing. It is purported that the attainment of the...

treatments Odic force of Carl Reichenbach Rupert Sheldrake Scientific skepticism Thetan Vitalism Vril Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed...

Scientology doctrine, exteriorization refers to the separation of the thetan (soul) from the body, a phenomenon which Hubbard asserts can be achieved through Scientology...