Are Scientology OTs losing their powers? Or have they just given up sharing their amazing feats of supernatural ability with the editors of Scientology’s Advance! magazine?
For years, we have 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, Advance! 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!
Advance! today is only a shell of what it once was, a digital-only and mostly uninteresting publication that still features ‘OT Phenomena,’ but as our readers are well aware, today’s OT powers seem to be limited to finding choice parking spots, changing signals to green, or locating lost wristwatches.
This issue’s offerings may be the most tepid ever. Have Scientologists simply given up trying to find loose thetans in cemeteries, perform astral surgery, or stop traffic accidents with their eye-beams? Come on, give us the good stuff if you want us to fork out a million dollars, right?
Anyway, here is the new batch. Is their lameness a sure sign that Scientology’s end days are upon us?
OT PHENOMENA
Stories of Thetan Abilities At Work
Making the Connection
I’d been working on disseminating to my family members for nearly five years, but I’d never been successful. Then I started the OT Levels, and in a session on OT II, I had a realization: I have the ability to experience another person’s universe. One day I asked myself who was the most spiritual person in my family, and I thought of my cousin’s wife.
I hadn’t spoken to her in two years, but right after I thought about her, she called and said she was thinking about me. I took the opportunity to share my wins and different gains I’d had in Scientology. She responded with strong interest, and said that she wanted to try studying Scientology. She did, and has already completed three Extension Courses, which is amazing!
Because I’m on the OT Levels, for the first time — and with no force or effort — I was successful at disseminating to a family member. Now that’s OT power! — W.H.
Documenting Where to Look
Recently, an associate called me. She sounded very stressed as she explained that she had lost an important document, which she needed right away. I had never been to her home, but an image flashed in my mind of a dark-coloured tea table with the document lying on its shelf. When I asked her if she had such a table, she said no, all of her tables were white. I asked her to have a look around just to see if there might be one dark table. After a minute, she said, “Oh my God, yes. I do have a dark purple tea table.” I told her to look on the lower shelf of that table, and there it was. Her day was saved. — M.H.
You Get What You Postulate
I am auditing on Solo NOTs, and I have my own company that installs security systems. Things had been going fine, but then for a whole week I didn’t get any new jobs.
I started going through all of my actions, checking whether I had changed anything that has worked in the past to keep business coming in. But I couldn’t find anything different or unusual that I had done or not done that would cause my flow of business to just dry up like that.
Then I started reviewing my own thoughts and postulates for an explanation. As I thought about it, I realized that before this whole period started, I had put in a few terribly busy days. Right after that, I decided that I wanted to “relax for a while.”
With that realisation, I immediately changed my postulate to wanting to have a steady inflow of work. Soon my phone started ringing, and I was scheduling jobs again. — C.C.
You see what we mean. It’s a far cry from the wild abandon of the old Advance! magazines of the the 1970s and their wild covers, such as Issue 53 here.
Another thing that Advance! was known for was taking a look at “other practices,” each month surveying some far-flung spiritual tradition with Scientology’s superiority about itself firmly in place.
This time, the new issue takes a look at Tarot, and we thought you’d like to see how it ends…
Fortunately for Mankind, there is a more stable and secure way to be at cause and succeed in life rather than counting on "the luck of the draw," which is what one experiences in Tarot.
As beautiful as the decks are, there is no comparison to the knowledge and gains found in Scientology. Thanks to the Bridge to Total Freedom, the centuries of searching are over, and anyone is free to determine their own unlimited future by following LRH's carefully mapped path to OT.
Seekers of truth will discover it for themselves as they progress through the OT Levels at the Advanced Organisation.
Did you get that, OT hopeful? Put away those fortune-teller cards and get on the real path to the secrets of the universe, the imaginings of a reactionary science fiction writer born in Tilden, Nebraska!
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Yes, the quality of OT phenomena, or what us wogs call “coinki-dink,” seems to be reaching for a deeply lowered bar. It has become limbo instead of pole vault. Wogs have better OT stories than Scientologists do anymore.
I am more intrigued that there are people who are unaware of their own furniture and call acquaintances who have never been over to complain about losing important paperwork. I am glad none of my acquaintances have done that.
Or people who know the number of and initiate a call to their spouse’s cousin that everyone avoids because they either want to borrow money or talk about a cult.
“free to determine their own unlimited future by following LRH's carefully mapped path”
Which is it, now?
In the old days the OT phenom stories were comparable to this:
-“My brothers dog had cancer, I went into the dogs body, saw the cancer and told it to leave. The next day my brother called and said the Vet told him my his dogs cancer is gone.”
-“I was traveling through Las Vegas, so I stopped for a quick lunch. On a lark I put a dollar in the slot machine. Bells and whistles went off. I’d won a $100k jackpot. I had been wondering how I was going to pay for OT V. Now I’m on it!”
-“While doing OT II I had a cognition that everything is energy and energy needs to flow. I decided I’d remotely flow to my rich uncle who never liked me. A week later I got a letter from him saying he wanted to spend more time with his nieces and nephews so he was sending each of us a brand new Porsche 911 so we could drive up the mountain in a timely fashion to visit him. I can’t wait to see what I get when I’m on OT III.”
Now those are the kind of stories that used to be in the Advance magazine. I guess David Miscavige’s “make over” of Scientology doesn’t have the same bang for the buck it had 40 years ago.