"The mystery of this universe... has been, as far as its track is concerned, completely occluded. No one has ever been able to make any breakthrough and come off with it and know what happened... I finally was able to make a breakthrough which brought people through the zone safely."
     - L. Ron Hubbard in "Advance!" Issue 93

"OT III was written in 1968 when Hubbard's flagship Apollo was berthed at Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. Part of the legend of OT III is that the research was so dangerous - 'booby-trapped' - that Hubbard suffered a variety of injuries in the process. As he himself wrote in his notes on OT III, 'I [took the plunge] and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years.' In fact, it appears that the injuries sustained by Hubbard were actually caused by his falling off his motorbike on a mountain road. He suffered a broken arm and broken ribs, but refused to let a doctor treat him. "
     - Chris Owen, Bodies in Pawn

In 1967, L. Ron Hubbard was travelling on his schooner the Enchanter when he had become ill and put ashore in a hotel in Paloma, Spain.
"When I went in to his room there were drugs of all kinds everywhere. He seemed to be taking about sixty thousand different pills. I was appalled, particularly after listening to all his tirades against drugs and the medical profession. There was something very wrong with him, but I didn't know what it was except that he was in a state of deep depression; he told me he didn't have any more gains and he wanted to die. That's what he said: 'I want to die'."
     - Virginia Downsborough (a Scientologist accompanying Hubbard)

"It was important for Hubbard to be discovered in this dramatically debilitated condition at this time, for it would soon be announced that he had completed 'a research accomplishment of immense magnitude' described, somewhat inscrutably, as the 'Wall of Fire'. This was the OT3 (Operating Thetan Section Three) material, in which were contained 'the secrets of a disaster which resulted in the decay of life as we know it in this sector of the galaxy'. Hubard, it was said, was the 'first person in millions of years' to map a precise route through the 'Wall of Fire'. Having done so, his OT power has been increased to such an extent that he was a grave risk of accidental injury to his body; indeed, he had broken his back, a knee and an arm during the course of his research."
"Virginia Downsborough did not observe any broken limbs, but recognized that Ron needed nursing."
     - Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah (quoting from "Ron's Journal '67")

Hubbard reportedly slept a great deal and refused to get out of bed for three weeks until he recovered.

(2) "Body Thetans"

Only those Scientologists have gone through hundreds of hours of Scientology procedures called auditing are eligible to receive the doctrine of OT III. According to prices as of Spring '94 it would cost a newly joined Scientologist approximately $90,000 to complete all levels available up and including OT III. (Additional OT levels beyond OT III could cost an additional $55,000 - not including other special Scientology processes that may be required.)
The OT III documents, as with all the upper level material, are considered highly confidential and only those who have completed the elevated level of OT II and paid for OT III in full are allowed to see it. The vast majority of people who pass through Scientology have no access at all to this material. Indeed, those taking the OT III course are required keep their briefing notes and folders in a locked briefcase which is chained to their wrist when they are transporting them.

"...In the upper level of training known as Operating Thetan III, or 'The Wall of Fire'... the Scientologist first is taught that many of his problems are caused by other souls attached to his soul. These souls are detached and sent on their way through the course training. The goal of OT III is to rid the individual of hundreds of 'Body Thetans', or other souls attached to the main dominant individual. No one is even allowed to see OTIII material until he has completed the previous courses leading up to OTIII. This material is carefully guarded and treated as a great important mystery to be imparted only to those proven worthy."
     - Jeff Jacobsen, "The Hubbard is Bare"

The OTIII works are registered with the United States Copyright Office under registration number TXu 290 496. This copyright is owned by the Religious Technology Center of the Church of Scientology.

"OT III deals with body thetans ('bts') and clustered body thetans ('clusters'). In essence, OT III deals with 'the incident' which Hubbard claims to have been the most engramic incident responsible for the current state of man."
     - Andre Tabayoyon

"The Scientologist spends days or years dealing with 'body thetans' (I have known two people who 'audited' this procedure almost every day for eleven years). Scientology materials of different dates assert that at the end of OT 3 the individual will be 'stably exterior' (from his body - out of his head, it might be rephrased), free from 'overwhelm' (i.e., nothing will ever overwhelm him emotionally again), and have total recall of his entire round of incarnations from four quadrillion years ago to the present. Secret materials seen only by those selling the course give the 'end phenomenon' as a 'big win' urging that the person be put onto the next course - where they pay by the hour - quickly. Anyone who encounters this material without having undertaken Scientology courses up to OT 2 will supposedly die from pneumonia."
     - Jon Atack, OT 3 - Scientology's 'Secret' Course Rewritten for Beginners

(3) Hubbard's Notes on OTIII in His Own Handwriting (October 28, 1968)

Thumbnail image Transcription or display of the full-size image of the page is forbidden in Canada by the Religious Technology Center.

Synopsis Hubbard describes "how 'Teegeeack' (Earth) came to be populated 75 million years ago by 'thetans' (souls) when the evil ruler Xenu of the Galactic Federation cast them into volcanos and blew them up with a hydrogen bomb to solve his local overpopulation problems."      - Jim Lippard and Jeff Jacobsen, "Scientology v. the Internet"

Note: this was just a single page from a 20 page handwritten manuscript. Even short quotations, however are forbidden in Canada by the Religious Technology Center, although normally this would have permissable under the fair dealing provision of the Copyright Act.

You can read the censored page above, legal commentary and much more on OT III at David S. Touretzky's website, Carnegie Mellion University, USA.:

(4) Hubbard's OT III Screenplay

"One amusing thing is that Hubbard himself was going to sell these secret scriptures out from under the Church. He wrote a one hundred and forty page screenplay, Revolt In The Stars, telling the EXACT SAME STORY that is sold off for fantastic sums of money in OT III..."
     - David Gerard, "Revolt In The Stars (No News Is Xenu's)"

In late 1977, Hubbard was hidding out in the small town of Sparks, Nevada.
"For a man whose activities were under intense investigation by the FBI, Hubbard seemed remarkably insouciant. Most mornings he took a long walk, then spent the rest of the day writing film scripts. He had an idea for a feature film called Revolt In The Stars, a dramatization of high-level Scientology training about events which happened seventy-five million years ago when an evil ruler by the name of Xenu massacred the populations of seventy-six planets, transported their frozen spirits back to earth and exploded them in volcanoes."
     - Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah pp. 352-353

Spawn of Xenu?

Revolt In The Stars is registered with the United States Copyright Office under registration number Txu 4-150. This copyright is owned by the L. Ron Hubbard Library.

"'Revolt' was shopped around Hollywood in late 1979 but never made it to the screen. Undaunted, Hubbard turned his imagination to a book he titled 'Man, the Endangered Species' later to be called 'Battlefield Earth [1984].)' Also around this time, a young actor named John Travolta began his journey into the uppermost levels of Scientology, learning about the secret agenda of the aliens, the implanters and the psychiatrists."
     - Richard Leibyn, "Out on the 'Battlefield'", Washington Post, November 28, 1999

Click here to download the complete transcript of Revolt in the Stars.

Before the advent of Dianetics, Hubbard also purportedly penned an incredible work called Excalibur that he said would change the course of mankind.

(5) Revolt In The Stars

As Xenu presides over the 2054th Congress of the Confederation, the Archbishop begins his invocation.

"The Archbishop stood, tall and solemn, bathed in the sound of the choir behind him. As the hymn finished, the Archbishop raised his palms upward. His droning, sonorous voice spread through the hall: 'All blessings to Almighty God upon the Galactic Confederation, upon its 21 stars, upon its 76 green planets, upon its trillions of population, this Congress, and upon the Loyal Officers, loyal to the people, to the Confederation and to God. May peace and prosperity continue as it has for ages past.'"
     - L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars

Xenu, however, is confronted by Rawl, "the Loyal Officer in charge of Earth" and "Speaker of the Congress", who sharply opposes certain of Xenu's orders as tyrannical. Rawl's criticisms read like a litany of Hubbard's own battles with the government.

"'Over the past two hundred years or so,' said Rawl, 'certain political ideas and innovations have been put forward from time to time. And each time they have been defeated. But now, beginning eight years ago, we find they have become executive orders!' Xenu continued to keep a grip on himself. He was very sure of his own ground. Rawl glanced at the folder he held. 'These ideas are: personal income tax, credit records, fingerprinting all citizens, identity cards, passports.'"
     - L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars

When his dictatorial edicts are overturned by the Congress, Xenu conspires with renegades to regain power. He outlines his plans of revenge to their Chief.

"With a nasty, irritating screech, the third chart was unfurled. Xenu struck the last stack of papers. .'Phase Three: The removal of all minority and unwanted populations in the Galaxy to the planet Earth and their extermination.' A slow smile crossed his face. 'I think you will find this solves all problems of overpopulation, crime and finance in the Galaxy as well as preventing our being deposed'."
     - L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars

In the OT III materials, "the overpopulation solution was to disembody all the spirits ('mass murder') with the use of glycol (alcohol and sugar) injected into the spinal cord causing an immediate freezing up of the body and the unconsciousness of the being (soon to become a bt or cluster). The frozen bodies were then collected and transported to earth (called Teegach by Hubbard) in space ships resembling Boeing 707 jetliners.The bodies were piled up, as in the Nazi massacres, on the top of various mountain sites around the then earth. Inside these mountains were 17 strategically placed enormous atomic bombs -bigger than any built this century.
"After the citizens who had been selected to be part of the solution were placed on the mountains, the hydrogen bombs were ignited from a remote space station (lunar moon) by the officers of Xenu who ruled the space confederacy."
     - Andre Tabayoyon

Listen to the original recording where Hubbard describes how the aliens were frozen and transported to earth. (Requires RealPlayer.)

"Simultaneously, the planted charges erupted. Atomic blasts ballooned from the craters of Loa, Vesuvius, Shasta, Washington, Fujiyama, Etna, and many, many others. Arching higher and higher, up and outwards, towering clouds mushroomed, shot through with flashes of flame, waste and fission. Great winds raced tumultuously across the face of Earth, spreading tales of destruction. Debris-studded, and sickly yellow, the atomic clouds followed close on the heels of the winds. Their bow-shaped fronts encroached inexorably upon forest, city and mankind, they delivered their gifts of death and radiation. A skyscraper, tall and arrow-straight, bent over to form a question mark to the very idea of humanity before crumbling into the screaming city below. People standing, racked by the hurricanes, on a street looked up horrified at a descending atomic cloud. Making a futile attempt at escape, they were dropped in their tracks, exterminated like so many pestilent flies. Molten lava poured, chaotic, down volcanic slopes, obliterating all trace of the people that had been huddled there. A mountainous tidal wave engulfed a once thriving seaport, leaving only a few of the taller building tops showing over the swirling waters. A second wave formed, preparing to finish what the first had left undone.

"Areas of rioting vegetation and forest became barren plains, inhabited only now by the screaming winds. The fair jewel, Earth, had been brutally murdered."
     - L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars

In the OT III materials, Hubbard named the mountain sites where the bodies were piled up. Did they exist 75 million years ago?

"I have tried to be unbiased, informative and accurate, but don't care if the above table should prove incorrect in places since the evidence overwhelmingly supports a conclusion that the OT3 statement describes a non-existent geographic scenario for 75 million years ago."
     - Peter Forde, "A Scientific scrutiny of OT3"

After a decisive defeat by forces loyal to the Confederation, Xenu and his renegades are "sentenced to be exhibited on every planet to the populations of each planet and then imprisoned in a mountain sustained for eons by life-supports." Hubbard describes the scene on Mount Xenu on Planet Tawn before the entrance is sealed and the prisoners plunged into pitch blackness.

"Cables and wires lay in heaps on the copper sheathed floor. Several white-coated doctors and their attendants worked busily around a semicircle of hospital-style tables on which the prisoners, strapped down, were lying. Xenu was staring dully upwards as one doctor fastened tubes to his wrists and another fastened them to his ankles. The first doctor, having finished the wrists, began to put two prongs around Xenu's throat. Wetting his dry, cracked lips, Xenu looked up at the doctor, some terror showing in his glazed eyes. 'These devices keep one alive forever?'

'Don't talk,' snapped the doctor. A guard stepped forward. 'Don't talk to the prisoner!' Despairing, Xenu rolled his eyes. 'How long is forever?' No one answered, no one knew."
     - L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars

(6) A Recurring Cycle of Madness

As described in the OTIII document, "Xenu's plan involved setting up electronic traps in Teegeeack's atmosphere which were designed to trap the souls or spirits of the dead space aliens. When the 13.5 trillion spirits were being blown around on the nuclear winds, the electronic traps worked like a charm and captured all the souls in the electronic, sticky fly-paper like traps.
"The spirits of the aliens were then taken to huge multiplex cinemas that Xenu had previously instructed his forces to build on Teegeeack. In these movie theaters the spirits had to spend many days watching special 3-D movies, the purpose of which was twofold: 1) to implant into these spirits a false reality, i.e. the reality that WOGS (Hubbard's derisory term for anyone not a Scientologists) know on Earth today; and, 2) to control these spirits for all eternity so that they could never cause trouble for Xenu in this sector of the Galaxy. During these films, many false pictures and stories were implanted into these spirits, which resulted in the spirits believing in all the things that control mankind on Earth today, including religion. The concept of religion, including God, Christ, Mohammed, Moses etc., were all an implanted false reality that to this very minute are used to control WOGS on Earth.
"When the films ended and the souls left the cinema, they started to stick together in clusters of a few thousand..."
     - Bob Minton, "Demystifying Scientology's Fundamental Reality -- The BT's"

"The clusters were then dispersed over planet earth through the medium of ice. The ice then melted and the first stage of implant command became activated. This is known as 'Survival' in Dianetics.
"The bts or clusters then seek a human body. When the bt or cluster occupies the body it will either begin running or operating the body or the engramic commands earlier received in the implants take place. This will occur over and over again in what is known as the life cycle - each time resetting the implant and restarting its effect with a death or end of cycle.' This technology can be used for tailor made psychosis, neurosis and general madness. Indeed, implant technology of this sort can be used for many purposes. Using implant technology, Hubbard teaches how you can cause someone to do whatever you want them to do, starting at the prenatal stage."
     - Andre Tabayoyon

How does the US prevent its current system of government from degenerating into a police state? Through his hero, Rawl, Hubbard repeats his refrain against the government and organized psychiatry.

"...Congress has got to reform the school system so they stop teaching kids they are animals. Then it has to get the police to realize they are responsible for public safety, not just nabbing people they don't like. Congress will have to pass a bill abolishing the whole evil fraud of psychiatry. Congress has to eradicate the executive branch as it is and organize one with far less power."
     - L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars

Uncensored OT III Material

Bodies in Pawn - Clams, Marcabs and Galactic Invader Forces Humorous and entertaining history of Hubbard's bizarre sci-fi theology (UK/Denmark) B-org Materials Censored by Scientology Access complete "Upper Levels" documents by e-mail (Netherlands) Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz Articles and links about the on-going fight against Scientology censorship (US) The Fishman Affidavit - OT III Extended quotes from Hubbard with explanatory notes by Karin Spaink (Netherlands) Scientology Secrets - The "Upper Levels" Legally approved summary plus private access to forbidden documents (Netherlands)