More on Scientology, Gurdjieff and Sorcery

by heathervescent

Want to know more about Scientologists? Pop on over to Rolling Stone and read their report on this "religion".

Both of Natalie's parents are Clear, she says. Her grandmother is what's called an "Operating Thetan," or "OT." So is Tom Cruise, who is near the top of Scientology's Bridge, at a level known as OT VII. OTs are Scientology's elite -- enlightened beings who are said to have total "control" over themselves and their environment. OTs can allegedly move inanimate objects with their minds, leave their bodies at will and telepathically communicate with, and control the behavior of, both animals and human beings.

Uh-huh, and are there any US Military guys in that top level, I wonder? Maybe that's where this idea came from. And this is the supposedly surprising news that one would barely expect to live through. Really, sign a disclaimer.

Scientologists must be "invited" to do OT III. Beforehand, they are put through an intensive auditing process to verify that they are ready. They sign a waiver promising never to reveal the secrets of OT III, nor to hold Scientology responsible for any trauma or damage one might endure at this stage of auditing. Finally, they are given a manila folder, which they must read in a private, locked room.

These materials, which the Church of Scientology has long struggled to keep secret, were published online by a former member in 1995 and have been widely circulated in the mainstream media, ranging from The New York Times to last year's South Park episode. They assert that 75 million years ago, an evil galactic warlord named Xenu controlled seventy-six planets in this corner of the galaxy, each of which was severely overpopulated. To solve this problem, Xenu rounded up 13.5 trillion beings and then flew them to Earth, where they were dumped into volcanoes around the globe and vaporized with bombs. This scattered their radioactive souls, or thetans, until they were caught in electronic traps set up around the atmosphere and "implanted" with a number of false ideas -- including the concepts of God, Christ and organized religion. Scientologists later learn that many of these entities attached themselves to human beings, where they remain to this day, creating not just the root of all of our emotional and physical problems but the root of all problems of the modern world.

I'd really like to think this was a novel concept, but it's not. Anyone who has studied the works of G.I. Gurdjieff or followed his "Fourth Way" will realize this concept is extremly familiar. Same as the "flyer" concept rarely spoken about in Carlos Castaneda's workshops. Gurdjieff didn't get his knowledge for free either. He spent years studying in the Orient before he came back to be a "guru". Castaneda as well, attributes his knowledge of "flyers" to don Juan and ultimatly that was the reason (he gave) for blowing open the doors on his sorcery knowledge.

Check this quote comparing Castaneda's flyers and Gurdjieff's Kundabuffers via Sustained Action.

"The sole means now for saving beings of the planet Earth would be to implant again into their essences a new organ, an organ like Kundabuffer, but this time of such properties that every one of these unfortunates during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his death as well as of the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests." (Gurdjieff, All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1950, p. 88.)

The article is really an excellent overview. Thanks to the eSkeptic for pointing me in their direction.

| 05/26/06 | Beliefs