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Aaron Smith-Levin

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

You know, a thetan in Scientology, a thetan has no position in space or time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

A thetan does not actually exist in the physical universe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

it might choose to locate itself in the physical universe, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And then forget that it made that decision and then sort of get caught and trapped in the physical universe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

But that once the thing is restored to its native powers, everything you see here in the physical universe is just a thing playing a game.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Like, literally, we are in a simulation right now of some thetan.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So, like, physics doesn't have to make sense when we're talking about it this way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Like, technically, you're a thetan, I'm a thetan, we're here, but this could also all just be another thetan's game.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So, thetan's all the way down.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Correct.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Scientology has this concept of the dynamics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

L. Ron Hubbard breaks life into eight different dynamics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And the dynamic meaning a thrust towards survival, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So he would say, you know, the first dynamic is you yourself.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Second dynamic is your family.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Third dynamic is any other group that you're a part of other than your family.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Fourth dynamic is all humankind.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

The fifth dynamic is plant and animal life, all non-human life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Sixth dynamic is the physical world.