Definitions

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  • noun Scientology A soul or spirit or being.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek θῆτα (thēta, "theta"), which is used in Scientology to represent the source of life.

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Examples

  • However, the thetan is responsible for the creation of MEST.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Cruise ‘is Christ’ of Scientology 2007

  • If I suggested to you that a human is an immortal alien spiritual being, termed a thetan, that is trapped on planet Earth in a physical body, I have no doubt that you would denigrate it, yet it is as plausible as your ideas; I have no problems in hammering your ideas, because the idea of god is an unproven, baseless fantasy.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • South Park is pretty much right EXCEPT they kept saying the word thetan wrong.

    Articles 2009

  • South Park is pretty much right EXCEPT they kept saying the word thetan wrong.

    Articles 2009

  • The actual details of how that rebirth occurs are not fully understood by church outsiders, but some core beliefs of Scientology are that every human being is really an immortal spiritual being known as a thetan and that the “meat bodies” we inhabit are merely vessels we shed upon death.

    Scientology service to mourn Isaac Hayes 2008

  • The actual details of how that rebirth occurs are not fully understood by church outsiders, but some core beliefs of Scientology are that every human being is really an immortal spiritual being known as a thetan and that the “meat bodies” we inhabit are merely vessels we shed upon death.

    The Afterlife for Scientologists | Disinformation 2008

  • As I've oft said, if you're calling thetan auditing in Scientology "crazy", then you've also got to explain transubstantiation in Catholicism, reformed Egyptian tablets in Mormonism, 83% of the Old Testament, and your lucky Atlanta Braves towel.

    i'm with 2008

  • "As I've oft said, if you're calling thetan auditing in Scientology" crazy ", then you've also got to explain transubstantiation in Catholicism, reformed Egyptian tablets in Mormonism, 83% of the Old Testament, and your lucky Atlanta Braves towel."

    i'm with 2008

  • As I've oft said, if you're calling thetan auditing in Scientology "crazy", then you've also got to explain transubstantiation in Catholicism, reformed Egyptian tablets in Mormonism, 83% of the Old Testament, and your lucky Atlanta Braves towel.

    looking homely, angel 2008

  • Notice that I've used my username thetan; this is so that the tags will be preserved.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

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