Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals
Scientology provides the following definitions associated with OPERATING THETAN.
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Scientology Technical Dictionary
“OPERATING THETAN, 1. a thetan exterior who can have but doesn’t have to have a body in order to control or operate thought, life, matter, energy, space and time.”
… “THETAN EXTERIOR, 1. a being who knows he is a spirit with a body and not just a body.”
… “THETAN EXTERIOR, 2. he’s out but if the body were to be injured he would be back in.”
… “THETAN EXTERIOR, 3. a being not influenced by a body.”
… “THETAN EXTERIOR, 4. a thetan who is clear of the body and knows it but is not yet stable outside.”
… “EXTERIOR, the fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body.”
The person knows that his individuality does not depend on the body. His attention is no longer fixated on the body. He can operate freely without any considerations of body restricting him in any way. But this is interpreted in Scientology to mean that a person can operate without a body.
“OPERATING THETAN, 2. willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time. And that would of course be mind and that would of course be universe.“
The person has become one with nature and all life in the sense that his postulates are completely aligned with the laws of nature as per the Principle of Oneness. But this is interpreted in Scientology that the person controls the laws of the universe.
“OPERATING THETAN, 3. an individual who could operate totally independently of his body whether he had one or didn’t have one. He’s now himself, he’s not dependent on the universe around him.”
A person can become aware of the programming that is running his body and the mind and become exterior to it. But his beingness is defined by that programming and the postulates underlying it. He cannot exist without them.
“OPERATING THETAN, 4. a Clear who has been refamiliarized with his capabilities.”
As a clear, a person no longer has facsimiles. As an operating thetan, he is learning to exercise his capabilities.
“OPERATING THETAN, 5. a being at cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and life. Operating comes from “able to operate without dependency on things” and thetan is the Greek letter theta (θ), which the Greeks used to represent “thought” or perhaps “spirit” to which an “n” is added to make a new noun in the modern style used to create words in engineering.”
The postulates and considerations of an operating thetan are totally aligned with natural laws governing thought, energy and matter. He, therefore, operates without any effort. It is cooperation rather than dependency. But this is interpreted in Scientology as operating independently of the body and the laws of nature.
“OPERATING THETAN, 6. by operating thetan we mean theta clear plus ability to operate functionally against or with mest and other life forms.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 1. it is a person who operates exterior to a body without need of a body.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 2. that state wherein the preclear can remain with certainty outside his body when the body is hurt.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 3. a theta clear, then can be defined as a person who is at cause over his own reactive bank and can create and uncreate it at will. Less accurately he is a person who is willing to experience. Theta clear is stable.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 4. theta clear would mean clear of the mest body or cleared of the necessity to have a mest body.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 5. there are two types of theta clear, the theta being which is cleared of its necessity or compulsion to have a body and a theta being which is cleared all the way on the track.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 6. the basic definition of theta clear is: no further necessity for beingnesses.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 7. this is a relative not an absolute term. It means that the person, this thought unit, is clear of his body, his engrams, his facsimiles, but can handle and safely control a body.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 8. in its highest sense, means no further dependency on bodies.”
… “THETA CLEAR, 9. an individual who, as a being, is certain of his identity apart from that of the body, and who habitually operates the body from outside, or exteriorized.”
A theta clear would be a person who has resolved all anomalies among his own postulates. He is now becoming an operating thetan as he resolves anomalies with rest of the postulates of the universe. He is, therefore, able to pervade the whole universe and operate as one with the universe. Scientology interprets it as control rather than cooperation.
“OPERATING THETAN, 7 . this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free.”
The operating thetan is now learning by exercising its capabilities in the absence of facsimiles.
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Subject Clearing
Apparently, a person is an operating thetan when he operates unrestricted by the consideration of the body. This is interpreted to mean that the person can operate without a body. This is further interpreted to mean that a person is immortal. Therefore, the goal in Scientology is to achieve immortality for one’s individuality.
According to Subject Clearing, a person is an operating thetan when he no longer has any unassimilated impressions. His postulates and considerations are totally aligned with the natural laws governing thought, energy and matter. He has resolved the anomalies to do with his beingness, and he operates without effort as one with his body and the universe. He is able to pervade the whole universe and resolves anomalies actively as he comes across them. The goal in Subject Clearing is the continual resolution of anomalies to see where it takes us.
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