What is a thetan?
A thetan can be thought of as the soul (the “I”) of a person. In a rather silly experiment that `proves’ the existance of the thetan, one is asked to mentally picture a cat. That which is looking at the cat is the thetan. Having neatly disposed of several millenia of metaphysical and philosophic speculation and writing, Hubbard eventually gets around to the kicker — a person must have his engrams and `body thetans’ ..ah, exorcised is the only word that fits, via a complicated and expensive pseudotechnology known as auditing. What’s more, the average person has some (unknown but large) number of Body Thetans that have clustered on his body. BUT WAIT.. THERE’S MORE: The story of exactly what BTs are and how they came to cluster reads like one of Darth Vader’s wet dreams!
