Scientology's Views On The Body
Hubbard called the physical world MEST (an acronym for Matter, Energy, Space and Time), which thetans (souls) temporarily operating "meat bodies" are meant to transcend and conquer. New recruits to the church are often classified as "raw meat" or "raw public". Scientologists refer to their bodies as "meat bodies".
Scientology is geared towards attaining "cause over MEST", attaining awareness that our bodies are undesirable physical objects that are only holding us back, and attaining the ability to abandon one's body via "exteriorization" and ultimately by becoming an Operating Thetan Clear and a Cleared Theta Clear.
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