Thetan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈθeɪ.tən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Thetan is a noun meaning (Scientology) A soul, spirit or being.
Meaning
(Scientology) A soul, spirit or being.
Example Sentences
Actually a thetan is in a very, very small amount of mass. From some experiments conducted about fifteen or twenty years ago – a thetan weighed about 1.5 ounces!
One of the things Hubbard claimed he had "discovered" was that the essence of the human being was a spiritual being. This spiritual being, which is in itself good and fully conscious, Hubbard called a "thetan." From this deeper understanding of the human essence, where he saw survival as the fundamental urge for all thetans, he also discovered that the four dynamics of Dianetics had to be expanded to eight: […]
According to Scientology doctrine, each human being is actually a thetan or spirit, an immortal, godlike expression of the life force (theta). […] In his writings, Hubbard traces the existence of this life force back trillions of years. In the beginning theta was separate from the physical universe. Theta had no energy or mass, time or location; it was simply energy. Thetans therefore existed before and are the original source of the material universe.
Word Forms
- thetans
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spirit, entity, soul, ghost, thought-form, essence.
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