Xenu

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Person in Xenu costume (in the background: Ufol balloon with Raelism symbol)

Xenu (sometimes also Xemu ) is according to the idea of Scientology believers a galactic ruler, whose deeds 75 million years ago are said to have a decisive influence on life on earth today. The story of Xenu is part of Scientologists' belief in extraterrestrial civilizations and interference by alien beings in events on earth.

General and classification

Xenu goes back to the literary work of L. Ron Hubbard - belonging to the genre of science fiction literature. Hubbard was the inventor and founder of Scientology and the Church of Scientology . The story of Xenu is u. a. Basis for the use of volcanoes as a symbol for Scientology and Dianetics, which began in 1968 and continues to this day . The story of Xenu is told in the Operating Thetan Level III (OT III) course , a portion of Scientology's "advanced technology" taught only to advanced members as part of the Scientology course program.

Scientology to this day avoids mentioning Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable lengths, including lawsuits for infringement of copyright and trade secrets , to keep Xenu's story secret. Sometimes she completely denies the existence of the teaching of Xenu, and sometimes attempts are made to relativize the importance of Xenu in the public image.

Summary of the story of Xenu

The story of Xenu is dealt with in detail in Hubbard's confidential talk, Assists, on October 3, 1968. Direct citations in this section are from these sources.

75 million years ago, Xenu is said to have ruled a galactic confederation that consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets now known as Sector 9 , including Earth , which was then known as Teegeeack . The planets are said to have been overpopulated, with an average of 178 billion people living on each. The Galactic Confederation civilization is said to have been comparable to ours, with people "walking around in clothes remarkably similar to the clothes they wear today" and cars, trains and ships that looked just like them "Circa 1950, 1960 on earth."

Subsequent attempt to illustrate Hubbard's lecture Assists : Xenu had the “surplus” population transported to Earth in spaceships that looked like the DC-8 for destruction.

Xenu is said to have been in danger of being deposed, and so he is said to have worked out a plan to eliminate the excess population from his domain. With the help of “defectors” he is said to have defeated the population and the “loyal officers”, a force for the good who is said to have stood in opposition to Xenu. With the help of psychiatrists , he is said to have summoned millions of people under the pretext of an "income tax inspection" to paralyze them with injections of alcohol and glycol . The kidnapped population is said to have been loaded into spaceships to be transported to Teegeeack (Earth), the intended place of destruction. These spaceships are said to have looked like the Douglas DC-8 , "except that the DC-8 had engines and propellers and the spaceship did not".

After the spaceships are said to have reached Teegeeack, the paralyzed people are said to have been unloaded and heaped at the foot of volcanoes all over the planet . Then hydrogen bombs are said to have been sunk into the volcanoes, all of which are said to have detonated at the same time. Only a few are said to have survived.

The now 'disembodied' souls of the victims, whom Hubbard calls "thetans", are said to have been blown into the air by the explosion. They are said to have been sucked in by Xenus' forces using an "electronic tape (which was also a kind of standing wave )" and in " vacuum zones" around the earth. The hundreds of billions of trapped thetans are said to have been taken to a type of cinema where they were reportedly forced to watch a "three-dimensional super-colossal movie" for 36 days. This is said to have implanted in the minds of the unfortunate thetans what Hubbard called "various misleading information" collectively referred to as "R6 implants," "related to God , the devil , science fiction , etc." This should have included all " world religions ", with Hubbard tracing the Roman Catholic Church and the image of the crucifixion back to the influence of Xenu. According to Hubbard, the interior decoration of "all modern cinemas" is also caused by an unconscious memory of Xenus implants. The two “implant stations” mentioned by Hubbard were in Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands .

Aside from planting new beliefs in the thetans, the images are said to have robbed them of their sense of identity . When the thetans left the projection areas, they are said to have started to group in swarms of a few thousand, as they would have lost the ability to differentiate themselves from one another. Each swarm of thetans is said to have gathered in one of the few bodies that are said to have survived the explosion. These became what are referred to as "body thetans" who are said to cling to and adversely affect anyone to this day, except for the Scientologists who are said to have taken the necessary steps to remove them.

The "loyal officials" are said to have overthrown Xenu and locked him in a mountain, where he is to be held captive forever by a force field that is said to draw energy from an eternal battery . Some claim Xenu was trapped on Earth in the Pyrenees , but Hubbard only mentions "one of those planets" of the Galactic Confederation. However, he mentions that the Pyrenees was the place where the last "Mars report station" was, which is probably the cause of this confusion.

Teegeeack / Erde is said to have been abandoned by the galactic confederation and to this day has remained an outcast prison planet, although it has in the meantime repeatedly suffered from enemy incursions by extraterrestrial "invader forces".

Xenus volcanoes

Xenu is said to have accumulated his surplus population around volcanoes like this one in Hawaii and blown it up with hydrogen bombs.

In OT III, Hubbard lists the places around the world where Xenus genocide is said to have taken place, apart from the two implant stations on Hawaii and La Palma. The volcanoes that Xenu is said to have blown up are said to have been in:

revelation

Despite Scientology's efforts to keep the teaching secret, the contents have leaked over the years. OT III was first published in 1972 by Robert Kaufman's book Inside Scientology , in which Kaufman detailed his experiences with OT III. In 1981 the Clearwater Sun newspaper reported about it in an article. The teaching achieved a greater degree of awareness through a court process that was brought against Scientology in 1985 by Lawrence Wollersheim - a former Scientologist. In this, internal documents describing OT III were presented as evidence. Scientology tried to keep the files under lock and key by continuously checking out the court files through a "reader". The plan failed when the Los Angeles Times reported on this practice. The text was published in detail in William Poundstone's book Bigger Secrets on the basis of said court records.

Xenu in the teaching of Scientology

Within Scientology, the Xenu story is referred to as the "Wall of Fire" or "Incident II". Hubbard attached tremendous importance to it, declaring that it contained "the secret of a catastrophe, the result of which was the decline of life as we know it in this part of the galaxy". The broad lines of the story of Xenu - that 75 million years ago a great catastrophe took place in this sector of the galaxy, which since then has had profound negative effects on everyone - are also conceded to Scientologists at lower levels. The details, however, are kept strictly confidential within Scientology.

Hubbard claimed he was the first to map a precise route through the "wall of fire", "probably the only one in 75,000,000 years who ever did it." He first announced this "breakthrough" publicly in Ron's Journal 67 (RJ67), a tape Hubbard recorded on September 20, 1967, to be mailed to all Scientology members. According to Hubbard, this "research breakthrough" came at the expense of a broken back and broken knees and arms. OT III includes a warning that the R6 Implant is "designed to kill anyone (from pneumonia, etc.) who tries to loosen it". In Ron's Journal 67 , Hubbard hints at the devastating effects of Xenus' genocide:

“And it is very true that 75 million years ago a great catastrophe occurred on this planet and the other 75 planets that made up this [galactic] confederation. It has been a desert since then, and it has been the lot of a handful of people trying to bring its technology to a level where someone can venture forward, penetrate the disaster, and undo it. We are on the way to achieve that. "

OT III also addresses Incident I , which allegedly happened four quadrillion years ago - which is over 250,000 times the age of the universe according to current scientific consensus. In Incident I , the unsuspecting thetan was subjected to a loud snapping sound, followed by a flood of light, and then a chariot followed by a trumpeting cherub . After another series of loud snapping noises, the thetan was overwhelmed by darkness. This is referred to as the "implant" that opened the door to this universe, by which it is meant that these traumatic memories are what separates the thetans from their static (natural, god-like) state.

Hubbard used the alleged existence of body thethans to explain many of the physical and mental ailments of humanity which he said prevent people from attaining their highest spiritual levels. OT III teaches the student to remove the body thetans by making them aware of their individuality: "One must purify them by dealing with Incident II and Incident I." The student is directed to find a swarm of body thetans, him and to address first the swarm and then the individual members of the flock by "telepathically" as a swarm Incident II to bring, then if necessary by the incident I . Hubbard warns that this is a tedious procedure, and OT Levels IV through VII continue the long process of dealing with their own body thetans.

Scientology is against using the Xenu story to portray Scientology as a mere science fiction fantasy.

Hubbard's statements regarding the R6 Implants have been a source of controversy and conflict between the Church of Scientology and its critics, with many critics and Christians saying that Hubbard's statements regarding R6 prove that Scientology teachings are incompatible with Christianity, although the Organization claims the opposite. In Assists , Hubbard says:

“Everyone turns out to have been crucified, so don't think it's a coincidence that this crucifixion, they found out that it worked. Someone, sometime on this planet, found around 600 BC. Any pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something, but they've been using it since then and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross turns out to be everyone. "

See also

literature

  • Joel Sappell, Robert Welkos: Scientologists Block Access To Secret Documents: 1,500 crowd into courthouse to protect materials on fundamental beliefs . In: Los Angeles Times , November 5, 1985
  • L. Ron Hubbard: The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology . Published on Wikileaks (PDF)

Web links

Commons : Xenu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L. Ron Hubbard: Dianetics - book cover on Google Books
  2. ↑ Gerald Willms: Scientology: Culture Observations Beyond Deviance . transcript, Bielefeld 2005, p. 107; Full text of OT III
  3. ^ Mark Oppenheimer: Friends, thetans, countrymen . In: The Daily Telegraph , Telegraph Media Group Limited, September 9, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2008. 
  4. ↑ John Sweeney: Scientology and Me . In: Panorama , BBC , May 14, 2007. 
  5. ↑ "Walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute"
  6. ↑ "renegades"
  7. ↑ "Loyal Officers"
  8. ↑ "income tax inspections"
  9. ↑ "Except the DC-8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't"
  10. ↑ "electronic ribbon (which also was a type of standing wave)"
  11. ↑ "three-D, super colossal motion picture"
  12. ↑ "various misleading data"
  13. ↑ "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, etcetera"
  14. ↑ "of all modern theaters"
  15. ↑ "one of these planets"
  16. ↑ "Martian report station"
  17. ^ Ron Hubbard: Scientology: A History of Man.
  18. ↑ "prison planet"
  19. ^ Robert Kaufman: Inside Scientology: How I Joined Scientology and Became Superhuman . Olympia Press, New York: 1972, ISBN 0-7004-0110-5 , OCLC 533305
  20. ↑ Richard Leiby: Sect courses resemble science fiction . In: Clearwater Sun . 68, No. 118, August 30, 1981.
  21. ↑ Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos: Scientologists Block Access To Secret Documents: 1,500 crowd into courthouse to protect materials on fundamental beliefs . In: Los Angeles Times , November 5, 1985, p. 1. Retrieved November 29, 2008. 
  22. ^ William Poundstone: Bigger Secrets: More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out . Houghton Mifflin, 1986, ISBN 0-395-38477-X , pp. 58-63.
  23. ↑ "the secrets of a disaster which resulted in the decay of life as we know it in this sector of the galaxy"
  24. ^ Ron Hubbard: Mission into Time.
  25. ↑ "probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years"
  26. ↑ "calculated to kill (by pneumonia, etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it"
  27. ^ "And it is very true that a great catastrophe occurred on this planet and in the other 75 planets which formed this [Galactic] confederacy 75 million years ago. It has since that time been a desert, and it has been the lot of just a handful to try to push its technology up to a level where someone might adventure forward, penetrate the catastrophe, and undo it. We're well on our way to making this occur. "
  28. ↑ "One has to clean them off by running Incident II and Incident I."
  29. ↑ Miller: Launching the Sea Org , chap. 16, p. 266
  30. ^ Why Christians Object to Scientology . Christianity Today, September 4, 2000
  31. ^ Scientology and other Practices . ( February 2, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ) Church of Scientology Michigan
  32. ↑ "Everyman is then shown to have been crucified so don't think that it's an accident that this crucifixion, they found out that this applied. Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 BC, found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or something, but since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ . But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. "