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mrswilson asked this question on 5/10/2000:
What's Xenu? Please only ACTUAL ANSWERS, NOT JUST FLAKEY "AVOID
THE SUBJECT" WORDS...!!!!! Thanks!
honorarykid gave this response on 5/10/2000:
Xenu is a fictional character invented by the founder of Scientology, L.
Ron Hubbard. The Xenu character plays an important role in the upper
level training of Scientologists who are seeking to become Operating
Thetans (OTs).
First, a little background. According to the Church of Scientology (CoS),
OTs are individuals who have advanced in their Scientology
coursework, to the point where they have learned to master vast,
magical mental powers. An OT, according to the CoS can manipulate
matter, energy, space and time through sheer force of will. He or she
is free to travel about the universe at will, leaving the body behind,
temporarily or permanently. OTs believe they can move objects via
telekinesis, and that they can travel through time. OTs are God-like in
their abilities, according to the CoS.
To become OT, Scientologists must first attain "Clear" status. At that
point, they begin training to become OT.
To become fully OT, they must pass through what Hubbard called "the
wall of fire" which is taught at level OT 3 (level 3 out of 8).
The wall of fire is where Scientologists finally learn the "real" causes of
all their earthly and spiritual problems. They learn that what they were
told about engrams as they studied Dianetics, was not actually true.
They learn that the real causes of our problems are that our bodies
are infested with body thetans (BTs), which are said to be the
confused, disembodied spirits of hundreds or thousands of other
people.
Of course, to become a fully functioning OT, one must audit out these
BTs, send them packing, as it were. And for that, you need to buy BT
removal auditing services from the CoS.
These BT spirits that Scientology says are stuck to human meat
bodies, became disembodied, confused, and stuck, allegedly because
of Xenu.
Some 75 million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of the local Galactic
Federation (which, as everyone knows, encompasses the planet Earth,
called Teegeeack back then).
Xenu was an evil ruler, according to Hubbard. Xenu also had an
overpopulation problem in the many planets of his political realm. So
he rounded up the excess population, froze the people in glycol,
transported them to Teegeeack in rocket ships that looked like the
commercial DC-8 jetliners flying back when Hubbard wrote level.
Curiously, Hubbard does not say how many years it took these rockets
to cross interstellar space, nor how they carried enough fuel to
accererate and deccelerate. He completely finessed those issues.
Anyway, Xenu then placed the frozen people into volcanic craters on
Earth (Hubbard specifically mentioned Hawaii and Las Palmas
volcanoes, which geologists will tell you did not exist 75 million years
ago) and then detonated nuclear bombs over their heads, killing their
meat bodies, vaporizing them completely, and freeing the spirit
beings that were within.
If all that were not bad enough, Xenu then allegedly trapped all the
now free floating Thetans with electronic ribbon traps. Since these free
floating Thetans were OTs, they could astrally travel back to their
home planets before the DC-8s got back, and since Xenu didn't want
them back, he diabolically designed a plan to confuse them (us) and
make them (us) too stupid to want to go back to the Federation.
Hubbard says that Xenu's plan called for us to be brainwashed and
implanted with false memories. He did this by forcing us to watch
movies, in the manner that the young droogie was brainwashed by the
authorities in the book "A Clockwork Orange."
Be assured that I'm not kidding here. This is really what the "Wall of
Fire" teaches. Please bear with me, we're nearing the end.
A quick side bar: Hubbard alleges that the entire religion of
Christianity comes about due to one of these implanted false
memories, which Hubbard called "R6." In R6, the ribbon trapped
thetans were shown films of crucifixions. Hubbard taught that the
effects of the R6 implant on today's society is to make us feel
irrationally sympathetic to Christ's crucifixion, and this sympathy
makes us predisposed to become Christians.
Hubbard clearly implies that Xenu's brainwashing of people to be
sympathetic toward a crucified Chirst is really just a manupulation and
control process. Hubbard is saying that in being a Christian, one is not
free of Xenu's devious plans to keep Thetans subjegated. Scientology
believes that only Scientology can help all the poor, brainwashed,
deluded, trapped Christians become great, powerful, free OT
Scientologists.
For the record, I am not a Christian. If
I were, this teaching would really offend. But even as a secular person,
I am offended by the lies told in Scientology's marketing hype, which
claim that Scientology is fully compatible with Christianity. Scientology,
at the upper levels, is decidedly hostile toward Christianity, and in fact,
to all other organized religions as well.
Also, keep in mind that these bizarre Xenu and implant teachings are
taught ONLY to those at the upper levels. They are not generally
known by lower level adherants. I've seen Scientologists who have not
yet advanced to the OT3 level deny that Scientology would ever teach
stuff this goofy sounding.
But I begin to digress. To finish up the story of Xenu, according to
Hubbard, some good people ("loyal officers," as Hubbard called
them), within the Galactic Federation, finally realized that Xenu was a
bad dude. They mounted a coup d'etat, deposed him, stripped him of
his position and threw him into an electronic mountain prison,
somewhere in our Galaxy, where he remains to this day.
Luckily for us, Hubbard came along in the 1950s and "discovered"
what really happened. He "discovered" the "fact" that we all have been
implanted by Xenu with R6, R2, and other false brainwashing
implants. Hubbard then selflessly designed a program, Scientology,
which will free us (for only a 'small' fee) from these delusions.
(BTW, this is the largely the same answer I provided to the question
"Who is Xenu" posed by an AskMe.com participant about a month
ago. I have made a few small changes to my original answer)
Further facts
about this criminal empire may be found at
Operation Clambake and FACTNet.
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Subject: Xenu
Answered by: honorarykid
Asked By: mrswilson
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