Please see Postulate Mechanics: Dianetics Theory
Scientology provides the following definitions associated with BODY THETAN (BT).
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Scientology Technical Dictionary
Please see The Definition of THETAN.
Let’s examine the definitions for BODY THETAN given in the OT materials:
“BT 1. By BODY THETAN is meant a thetan who is stuck to another thetan or body but is not in control. BTs stick to pictures, other BTs and clusters. A BT can go into a valence of anything – BTs can be being anything at all.”
A BT is an anomaly that exists at the deep level of beingness. A BT is, therefore, perceived as something like a thetan that is stuck to the body. The BT exists at such a deep level, that it influences all thinking and behavior. It underlies all facsimiles that are addressed on Scientology Grades.
“BT 2. Body thetans are just thetans. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a body or admires daisies. He is in fact a sort of cleared being. He cannot fail to eventually, if not at once, regain many abilities. Many have been asleep for the last 75 million years.”
A BT is an “individuality” that simply doesn’t fit with rest of the elements of a particular beingness. It may fit with some other package of beingness. This may actually happen.
“BT 3. Huge amounts of charge have already been removed from the case and the body thetans by Clearing and OT 1 and OT 2 to say nothing of engrams and lower grades.”
… “IMPLANT, 1. a painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial purpose or false concepts in a malicious attempt to control and suppress him.”
… “IMPLANT, 2. an electronic means of overwhelming the thetan with a significance.”
… “IMPLANT, 3. an unwilling and unknowing receipt of a thought. An intentional installation of fixed ideas, contra-survival to the thetan.”
BTs exist so deep in the psyche that they are said to be “implanted.” BTs do not surface until huge amount of charge in facsimiles and other layers submerging them has been resolved.
“BT 4. The pc cognites he is not running his own incident but a body thetan. This requires only TR 4 as it is only an origin.”
BTs are anomalies embedded in the viewpoint that distort the view of all incidents and other content on the time track. One only needs to discover and acknowledge these anomalies.
“BT 5. BTs are sometimes not very bright and perceive poorly.”
BTs themselves are difficult to view because they are distorting the view itself.
“BT 6. If a Pre-OT can put his attention on a BT and blow it off, without even working too hard at it, BTs, with their attention must be sort of blindly in-drawn.”
BTs appears to be lodged deeply but quite loosely in the mental matrix, as they resolve easily when attention is finally put on them.
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Subject Clearing
Hubbard says, ”One’s body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body. One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small. Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck.” Essentially, a body thetan (BT) is a thetan stripped of all its capabilities and reduced to its most pathetic state.
According to Subject Clearing, BTs are misconceptions or postulated anomalies that have become part of a person’s beingness. Examples of BTs are “blind spots” like fixed ideas, false beliefs, biases, and prejudices. A specific blind spot could be a hidden consideration that one is superior to others. Such blind spots distort the person’s viewpoint and he can see neither the present nor the past as it is.
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