Editing Operating Thetan (section)

=== OT IX to OT X ===

Since 1986, Church of Scientology leader [[David Miscavige]] has dangled the hope of OT IX and X being released in the near future, pending certain conditions, which have shifted over time. It has been widely reported that Hubbard never wrote OT IX and above; therefore, those levels do not exist.<ref name="closer">{{cite web |title=New OT IX & X Are Closer Than You Think |date=October 4, 2015 |first=Mike |last=Rinder |author-link=Mike Rinder |website=mikerindersblog.org |access-date=May 24, 2023 |url=https://www.mikerindersblog.org/new-ot-ix-x-are-closer-than-you-think/}}</ref>{{r|reitman|page=153}}{{r|rinder|pages=126–127}}{{r|wright|page=Ch.5|quote=Chapter 5: Dropping the Body; Rathbun’s team found more files, but not what they wanted. Rathbun eventually came to the conclusion that there were no further OT levels—no OT IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV—it was all a bluff on [Pat] Broeker’s part, a lie that the church would have to live with, since the levels had been so publicly announced.}}