The OT III Quiz, by Dave Touretzky

source : http://www.xenu.net/archive/OTIII-scholar/

Test your knowledge of OT III by taking a quiz. Level 1 is funny and easy. Level 2 is much harder, but anyone who has truly earned their OT III certificate should pass it without trouble.


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The OT III Quiz, by Dave Touretzky

The following quiz should be easy for anyone who has been keeping up with the war between the Church of Scientology and the Internet. An answer key is included. The answers may be verified by reading the sacred scripture known as OT III, which, although allegedly copyrighted and a trade secret, is widely available on the Internet.

The answers may also be checked against the 1990 Los Angeles Times expose of Scientology which is reprinted in Scamizdat #5, and appears on various anti-Scientology web sites.

For the exact text of OT III (shhhh ! It's a secret!), look in the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology for back issues of Scamizdat or the Fishman affidavit.

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Level 1

1. The old name for Earth was :

    a. Teegeeack
    b. Ipecac
    c. Hackensack

2. The head of the galactic federation, who took drastic means to solve the overpopulation problems of 76 worlds, was named :

    a. Xenix
    b. Xenu
    c. Zima

3. Incident II, in which trillions of beings were captured, brought to Earth, and killed, occurred how long ago ?

    a. 75,000 years
    b. 75 million years
    c. 75 light years

4. What chemical mixture was injected into these beings to render them helpless before they were brought to Earth ?

    a. sodium hypochlorite and NaOH
    b. pyrethrins
    c. water and glycol

5. How were the people killed when they arrived on Earth ?

    a. Deposited in volcanos and blown up with H-bombs.
    b. Electrocuted by ribbons of pure energy.
    c. Force-fed beans and rice until they exploded.

6. Where were the now-disembodied spirits (thetans) taken for brainwashing ?

    a. a captured space station with a pretty cool bar
    b. a secret workshop at the north pole
    c. Hawaii

7. How were the thetans brainwashed ?

    a. forced to study Dianetics for 36 weeks
    b. forced to read awful science fiction novels for 36 hours
    c. forced to watch confusing movies for 36 days

8. What are body thetans ?

    a. living lingerie for the full-figured megalomaniac
    b. disembodied spirits who become attached to us and our pets
    c. intelligent lice

9. Which of these is a body thetan most likely to believe ?

    a. it is your liver
    b. it is your lover
    c. it is your lawyer

10. What medical mishap will befall a normal person who attempts to solve the OT III implant without Scientology's (trade secret) training ?

    a. pneumonia
    b. allergies
    c. stroke
     

ANSWERS

1 : a. Earth was called Teegeeack. Ipecac is an emetic : a medicine used to induce vomiting. Hackensack is a town in New Jersey.

2 : b. The ruler's name was Xenu. Xenix is a Unix-like operating system. Zima is an adult malt beverage. 3: b. Incident II occurred 75 million years ago. A mere 75'000 years ago, the Earth was pretty much the same as it is today. Light years are a measure of distance, not time.

4 : c. The beings were injected with a water and glycol mixture. Sodium hypochlorite and NaOH are the main ingredients of Liquid Plumr, a drain unclogger. Pyrethrins are the active ingredient in Raid, a household insecticide.

5 : a. Xenu deposited the bodies on 20 volcanos around the planet, and blew them up with H-bombs. Ribbons of pure energy were used to collect the thetans afterward. Beans and rice are served in the RPF, Scientology's version of a prison camp.

6 : c. The implanting was done in Hawaii (and also Las Palmas.) The space station with the cool bar is, of course, Deep Space 9. Lots of weird things are located at the norh pole, but the only known workshop there is Santa's.

7 : c. The thetans were forced by Xenu's henchmen to watch confusing movies for 36 days. Studying Dianetics and reading awful science fiction are two of the practices of the Church of Scientology. Of course, the Scientologists aren't told it's fiction.

8 : b. Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, was not known to wear lingerie. Body thetans are disembodied spirits, though in some ways they can be considered the spiritual equivalent of lice.

9 : a. Body thetans think they are parts of our bodies, such as a liver. They also sometimes think they are other body thetans.

10 : a. "Freewheeling through the implant" can supposedly cause pneumonia. Allergies were one of Hubbard's own afflictions, and a stroke is what finally killed him.

SCORING

10 points : Attest to OT III, level 1. You are a God among men. On to level 2.

9 points : Potential Sea Org material. Continue auditing.

8 points : Clam in training. You may buy another book or tape.

5-7 points: Preclear. Keep reading. And no yawning !!

2-4 points: You are in a condition of Liability. For amends, wash my car.

0-1 points: Raw meat. Would you like to take a free personality test ?

 

 OT III Quiz, Level 2 by David S. Touretzky

The previous quiz in this sequence, "OT III Quiz level 1", was a humorous look at the story of Xenu and the body thetans. The Church of Scientology no longer claims this as confidential or a trade secret. The heart of OT III, which is still supposed to be secret, is the process by which one can rid oneself of these body thetans.

Thousands of people have read the OT III document since it was first posted to the Internet, but only a few have fully mastered the secret/sacred technique it reveals. Are you one of them? Here is a chance to prove your OT III scholarship.

If necessary, you may refer to a copy of OT III (currently available at over 100 sites in the Netherlands; see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman) while taking this quiz. But anyone who has ever APPLIED this "tech" (or tried to) should be able to complete the quiz from memory. Good luck.

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Level 2

1. What is the thetan's primary error ?

    (a) Running Incident II on one entity and Incident I on another.
    (b) Trying to speak with body thetans, instead of just mentally "intending" to them.
    (c) Believing that he is "one".

2. How does a thetan get stuck ?

    (a) Encounters a collision of two thetans' pictures.
    (b) Encounters a picture of two thetans colliding.
    (c) Collides with an encounter of two thetans picturing.

3. What is a black theta body ?

    (a) A cluster of thetans radiating energy with a uniform spectrum.
    (b) A thetan with a nonzero Schwarzschild radius.
    (c) Thetans stuck to thetans plus pictures of thetans stuck to a thetan.

4. Incident II contains the following events. Indicate their correct order from 1-9 :

    (a) getting shipped to Earth (possibly via some transfer station)
    (b) getting mental implants, including a scene with "the pilot"
    (c) getting shipped to Hawaii or Las Palmas, and packaged into clusters
    (d) getting 36 days of picture implants containing God, the Devil, helicopters, trains, gorillas, space opera, etc.
    (e) getting dumped in the vicinity of a volcano
    (f) getting frozen (with a water and glycol mixture)
    (g) getting implanted with various picture sequences
    (h) getting implanted with confusing concepts known as "the 7s", "C. C.", and the OT II materials
    (i) getting captured and shot

5. Incident I contains the following events. Indicate their correct order from 1 to 8 :

    (a) enveloping blackness
    (b) a loud snap
    (c) an angel appears
    (d) waves of light (e) the angel blows a horn and approaches
    (f) a chariot appears, turning left and right
    (g) the angel retreats (fades back)
    (h) a series of very loud ("shattering") snaps

6. How do you get a BT to blow ?

    (a) Overinflate him.
    (b) Run incident II, then if necessary, run incident I.
    (c) Run incident I, then if necessary, run incident II.

7. What is the remedy for a suppressive body thetan you can't audit ?

    (a) Offer him a free personality test.
    (b) Run Grades IV and V on him.
    (c) Disconnect from him.

8. If your meter reads "Overrun on III", what should you do?

    (a) Conclude your auditing and attest to OT III.
    (b) Change to a fresh meter and recharge the one indicating an overrun.
    (c) Look for a BT who's been overrun on Incident I.

9. "Effort to stop" and "effort to withdraw" are symptoms of what ?

    (a) Coitus interruptus.
    (b) Thoughts a thetan had while experiencing incident II.
    (c) Failure to sec check a BT before running Power Processes on him.

10. Which of these is NOT a common auditing error on OT III ?

    (a) Wrong number.
    (b) Wrong incident.
    (c) Wrong volcano.
     

ANSWERS

1. (c) "Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error." [OT III, p. 77 of the Fishman Declaration.] The other items listed are also considered errors according to OT III, but they are errors committed during auditing, not errors intrinsic to being a thetan. Compare this "believed they are one" comment with the Jewish prayer known as the "Shemah", which says "Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One." In eliminating body thetans, the Scientologist makes himself "one", hence more God-like.

2. (b) "A thetan collides with another. That one makes a picture of being collided with. Other BT's get stuck to the picture" [OT III, p. 81 of the Fishman Declaration.] Of course, this explains nothing. By what process can an immortal spiritual being become "stuck to" something? And what exactly does Hubbard mean by a "picture", anyway? In Scientology's metaphysical system, one's mental imagery is apparently not purely mental.

3. (c) A black theta body is composed of stuck thetans plus pictures of stuck thetans [OT III, p. 81 of the Fishman Declaration.] Since pictures supposedly exist in the mind of the thetan, this would appear to be a category error, but remember that in Scientology pictures can have measurable "mass". So who knows ?

4. Incident II : 1i, 2f, 3a, 4e, 5b, 6g, 7h, 8d, 9c.

5. Incident I : 1b, 2d, 3f, 4c, 5e, 6h, 7g, 8a.

6. (b) "Run Incident II. If the BT does not blow off or the group break up and blow, then run Incident I on individual BT's." [OT III, p. 82 in the Fishman Declaration.] Running an incident means getting the BT to recall the incident, by communicating with it the way an auditor would communicate with a preclear.

7. (b) "A suppressive body thetan sometimes isn't auditable. The remedy is to run Grades IV or V on him." [OT III, p. 93 of the Fishman Declaration.] Grades IV and V are part of the Power Processes, the first level of the "Advanced Technology" claimed as trade secrets by the Church. The OT levels come next.

8. (c) "The only way you can get a read on `Overrun on III' is to have accidentally run Incident I out, and then later run it out again on the same thetan ..." [OT III, p. 87 of the Fishman Declaration.] Of course, the thetan was supposed to have departed after Incident I was run on it, so how could it still be hanging around to have it run again? This can happen if Incident I was not run fully and cleanly the first time, so the BT did not depart as it was supposed to. The person then finds it again (not recognizing it as the same BT) and runs Incidents on it again, causing an overrun. The solution is to recognize the overrun and audit that event, thus "getting the charge off of it" so the thetan can depart.

9. (b) "These were actions - thoughts - the thetan had during the Incident and are picked up only when the incident doesn't run well." [OT III, p. 85 of the Fishman Declaration.] The effect of this bit of doctrine is to make it impossible for someone doing the OT III course to validly decide to quit. Any attempt to abandon the exorcism process is seen as a symptom of some reactionary body thetan. Since this symptom only appears when the process wasn't "run well", expressing a desire to stop is tantamount to giving incriminating evidence that one has not been applying the tech correctly -- for which one can be punished.

10. (a) "Wrong number" is a common error when using the telephone. (Hubbard talks about how a thetan picks up a telephone in one of the Pro TR Course tapes.) Wrong incident and wrong volcano are errors associated with OT III auditing. Since the space alien could have been blown up at any one of the 20 volcanos used by Xenu and his henchmen, it's necessary to locate the correct volcano in order to run Incident II successfully on it. It's also important to run the Incidents in the correct order: first Incident II, then if necessary, Incident I. However, sometimes you have to go back afterward and run Incident II some more, as in an "Overrun on III" situation [OT III, p. 87 of the Fishman Declaration.]

SCORING :

10 points: Attest to OT III, level 2 -- and seek professional help.

5 - 9 points : you may be invited to join the ARS Central Committee.

2 - 4 points: read alt.religion.scientology for a month, and try again.

0 - 1 points: watch out ! Do you know the symptoms of pneumonia ?

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