Always keeping an open mind....
Paul, I can't refute anything. Your observations were exactly mine, too.
But I want to add here some more.
When I finished OTV, I had first huge wins. Then I went home (where we stayed beeing in East Grinstead) in the evening and had suddenly a bad crash. I felt to be totally alone, like a snail raped of its house.
I rushed back and got repairs.
Before starting this repair, I realized, that I lost something what I still needed.
So I "misused" the repairs for gaining it back. It worked! And it worked really exellent. (I could finish my work secretly, with big wins

).
I detected, that I urgently needed the aura and I needed it intact, not like a lace. It was even not this after OTV!
Then, at home, I outlined all my observations:
When I finished OTIII, my sister was just dieing and I was with her. Somehow she had difficulties to leave. She asked me to hold her. So I did. And I realized, that there were some BTs managing the heart (I had the abitlity to perceive unseeable things since long ago, not only since Scienti

. And I had some informations,too, of "such things" from a gypsy seer of my childhood). They were very anxious about leaving the heart alone, so I gave them some feeling of beeing fine and well-being. And I was amazed myself, when I felt them suddenly to be happy.
I told like in a trance to my other sister who was there too, that I think, our sister will leave us in about 15 minutes at five in the morning. This sister looked at me totally confused and so I felt myself. When our sister left her body, the bell of the church clock near the hospital, told us exactly this.
I had the opportunity to observe such BTs, we had several deaths in the family after this first.
What I think is:
1) The aura is important for human beeings. It can also be used for "travels outside the body", what I even seemed to experience as child and later. (I got this events acknowleged by far away friends. They were the goal of my visits. I myself considered them as pure dreams for a long time.)
2) the aura is also forming a protection of the body against external dangers. Destroying it can result in severe damage.
3) It is obvious to me, that there are BTs managing parts of the body. Well, we can fire them -- it is even possible, NOTs-people demonstrate this

-- But who then will catch the job of running my heart or other parts of the body without errors?
LRH pretended, that then and only then, we can be totally free. But how? When I have no more personal for running my factory, I have to work there myself. And this would be at least a fulltime job, round the clock!
LRH sufferde of paranoia and schizophrenia. It is possible, that he had observation of BTs and he felt them like demons, found a good method to get them rid and thought to be free afterwards -- no, I think he himself felt a big relief!
Is it possible, that exactly this makes so many NOTs perilously ill? Sure, there are peaole suffering on cancer, heart attacks and so on, out in "WOG-world", too.
But an OT shouldn't get ill!
And my observation is:
When an OT is getting ill with cancer, heart attack... the progeress is very fast; much faster than in others!
I observed this not only on Staff- who is undernourished, but also on public Scientologists who had money enough to keep well.
My brother-in-law, Scientologist in good standing and OTV, also died of brain cancer.