Blog: OT Abilities - 2011-03-13

OT Abilities March 13, 2011, Jefferson Hawkins, Leaving Scientology

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Interesting subject. One I've been meaning to write about for a while. A subject that I'm sure will elicit strong opinions.

The promise of OT Abilities was one which first attracted me to Scientology. I avidly read the "OT Phenomena" stories from OTs in Advance Magazine. Then in the 1970s, I became the Editor of Advance Magazine, and eagerly collected and published these stories. In some ways I was the perfect candidate for Editor – I was not yet OT myself and held an eager fascination for the subject. My sense of awe and anticipation translated itself into the magazine and helped to create a sense of mystery and wonder surrounding the OT Levels.

And the stories certainly were amazing. Stories about communicating over long distances through the mind (telepathy), remote viewing (extrasensory perception or clairvoyance), influencing matter, energy, space and time as a spirit (telekinesis or psychokinesis), supernatural healing, predicting future events (precognition), remembering past lives, dealing with ghosts and haunting, and more. Exciting, heady stuff. Exhilarating and empowering.