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Hi Curious,
Scientologists truly believe they are helping the planet, by spreading Hubbards 'tech' throughout the world. They really do want a better world, without crime, insanity, etc...
However the Churchs aim is slightly different. They want money and they want adherents. They use Scientology to do this, and dupe the people into believing that by getting more adherents and making money, they are helping the planet. Its all a big scam, it doesn't do what it says it does.
Thankfully for the rest of us, they are failing, and the numbers are dropping. There are only around 100,000 cytologistsST's00,000 tops) left in the world. http://www.clambake.org/archive/COS_members.html
Scientologists hold different beliefs depending on how long they have been inside the Church.
Scientologists believe:
o Man has a immortal soul called a the tan.
o You have a primitive reactive mind which is the source of much of man's problems, which collects "engrams" from traumatic times or when you are unconcerns.
o A lot of physical illnesses/problems are physcosomatic caused by "Engrams".
o You can 'audit' engrams out and this will solve your issues and clear up your health. They also believe it makes you a more intelligent, aware and reasoned individual.
o Reincarnation and the ability to know these past lives and get to more engrams this way.
o Paying lots of money to scientology for there tech, courses, and auditing.
o Getting more people into scientology.
If they have got to OTIII, then the belief changes slightly.
o The universe is quadrillions years old.
o Xenu the Interglatic Space Lord ruled a confederation of overpopulated planets.
o Xenu took a load of these aliens from each planet and brought them to earth.
o They were then exploded in volcanoes 75 million yrs ago.
o Their souls were then caught on ribbons and taken to implant stations, where Xenu brainwashed & confused them so they wouldn't leave the planet. This includes implanting all the world religions.
o These Alien souls called Body Thetans have attached to humans, and are infact the real cause of your problems and why you get and retain engrams...
o You audit these body thetans out by auditing there engrams and taking them back to the Xenu incidents I & II.
o People have jaw aches from when they were a clam in human evolution....hence the name of the main critical site http://www.clambake.org
You can read about this in a neutral site. wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/scientology
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/xenu
However, the Church of Scientology, the organisation is most definitely a money making scam, and a dangerous cult.
If they told you about Xenu upfront, how many people would join? This is where it crosses over to a cult:
They lie to people to gain adherents, they lie to keep them.
They lie to the media, they lie to governments.
They use hard sell techniques, and create social dependancy through social control aka mind control.
They prevent scientologists from looking at the facts about scientology
They charge through the roof for what they sell.
They aren't credited by the scientific community
They hound and harass critics.
And much much more, this is what makes it a cult, not their beliefs.
This is what one critic thinks of scientology:
" The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends.
It was started in the 1950s by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in fulfilment to his declared aim to start a religion to make money. It is an offshoot to a method of psychotherapy he concocted from various sources which he named "Dianetics". Dianetics is a form of regression therapy. It was then further expanded to appear more like a religion in order to enjoy tax benefits. He called it "Scientology".
Scientology is a confused concoction of crackpot, dangerously applied psychotherapy, oversimplified, idiotic and inapplicable rules and ideas and science-fiction drivel that is presented to its members (at the "advanced" levels) as profound spiritual truth. "
http://www.clambake.org/roland-intro.html
http://www.clambake.org
Go here to see some video clips of scientologists in action:
http://www.xenutv.com
It can cost someone upto and in some cases a lot more than $380,000 (or about ?205,000) to get to the top in scientology, and this may take decades.
http://www.clambake.org/archive/CoS_prices.html
They also hound critics trying to discredit and ruin them in any way (even if illegally), pressuring with lawyers, etc in order to stop any criticism rather than tackling the points raised by the critic. The campaign against critics is a well documented one.
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/
You can find much information out on the web, including even whole books written by ex-members:
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/
(free to read, just click on 'em)
See the controversial south park episode about tom and scientology here:
http://www.xenutv.com/cruise/sp-closet.htm
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