Again another "religion" (!?) that manipulates within society people with the goal of creating power by making money or installing members in high positions in companies to get them hooked to their system and to create a sort of addiction by which they feel superior to other people! Don?t forget the founder was a science fiction writer!
i am not to familiar with Scientology but i do know some of the things they claim make me a little Leary.. they dint believe in anti depressive drugs but hello if i didn't take mine i would be a basket case.. and about the part of aliens.. i didn't know they believed in them.. but i do and i know from first hand about them and no.. I'm not nuts.. Fox
I don't know much about Scientology, a Teacher of GOD once said that they Started-out Right, then got off of the track. To me, it looks like they try to Scientifically Explain the BIBLE, which is Great. I really don't know or heard anything about their thoughts on Alien's.
But that would be interesting to know what the believe about them.
It's really,really out there ... I'm an odd cat myself ...but I mean out there ... I can talk comparative religion, speculative metaphysics and philosophy ... but I don't wanna even bother on this one ...Lil
From what I understand its not really God-based, more sci-fie based nonsense, aliens and all. I can't help seeing that from their cult-following, seems to be a lot of wealthy, vain people, who don't seem to have much in the spirituality department. Mostly seems pretty much "outer layer only" type of thing, nothing deep or thought inspiring.
The Church of Scientology was a cult created by L Ron Hubbard from the 1950's after he released a book called "Dianetics". This was a book which reported to overhaul mental health & the way medical practitioners look at and heal the body. Needless to say the book didn't do this, and its methods don't work any more than a placebo would if at all. It is constantly referred to as a pseudo-science and sometimes just pure quackery!
I believe that it is a cult and it uses mind/social control techniques to gain, keep & manipulate its members into doing whatever 'the group' wants them to. The also outright lie to new members to get them to join the group, before telling them the more weird stuff of Scientology.
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 psychosomatic 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 further about the beliefs of scientology here at Wikipedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/scientology
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/xenu
Or indeed at their own website: http://www.scientology.org (notice how you won't find OTIII described on their website!)
OTIII seems like fiction doesn't it? Thats because Hubbard was a science fiction writer, and dianetic & scientology is no different - it is a work of science fiction, not science.
The one study done said it did not benefit people.
http://www.clambake.org/archive/fischer/
Here is a small article on the techniques used:
http://www.clambake.org/archive/techniques/
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
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/apobs/
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/isd/isd.htm
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu/xenu.html
What is Scientology, or at least the part of aliens???
