What is Operating Thetan or OT?
Operating Thetan, or “OT,” means a spiritual being, or thetan, who is able to operate with full awareness, memory and ability, independent of the physical universe. This is a goal sought by men for thousands of years. This state is reached above the level of Clear. Basic levels of Scientology help a person deal with his personal relationships and day-to-day problems, to free his attention to address higher aspects of existence. At the level of Operating Thetan, one deals with his own immortality as a spiritual being. Like any other spiritual level in Scientology, the state of OT is attained by proceeding through a series of gradient steps, each one slightly more advanced than the last. The precise sequence is firmly established and variations from that sequence are unproductive. Thus, it would be fruitless to try to move somebody onto the OT levels before he is ready for them. One may as well demand that a baby run before first learning to crawl and learning to walk. Similarly, in Scie
