What are the main beliefs of scientology?

Question

Can anybody tell me what scientology is about? What do scientologists believe?

Answer 1

Scotty's answer is the true marketing slogan of the scientologists, but the history of the group shows quite another story. Scientology is a cult. Nothing more.

It is authoritative....just ask Lisa MacPherson........Oh Wait! You can't because she's dead! She died of severe dehydration while in Introspective Rundown, which is nothing more than a forced isolation. Sounds more like prison than church.

Cyrus, what you propose is going directly to the source of the propaganda. Thats like asking a serial killer whether he is a nice guy. If you want to understand anything wouldn't you want to read ALL of the arguments for and against and then make an educated guess?

Answer 2

Firstly, people can believe what they want to believe, but going directly to the source is best. I recommend reading the book DIANETICS (and then read THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THOUGHT). Dianetics is the first published book by L. Ron Hubbard about the mind, prior to Scientology starting. What are the main beliefs? I think only a Scientologist could tell you because several others around seem only to want to ridicule people's beliefs and faith. That's not the road to peace in this world.

We believe in achieving freedom. That freedom is gained through greater knowledge. Scientology comes from the Latin SCIENTA - KNOWLEDGE and Greek -OLOGY, STUDY OF. Therefore study of knowledge or wisdom. We believe that man is basically good and that through wrong decisions over time, man has erred and gotten into evil actions, but at the foundation, all people are good. Through Scientology counseling people take away those things that they have done wrong or things happened to them (that were unpleasant/painful). These things hold them back and the end result of them gone is the person is more himself.

We believe that with knowledge comes responsibility and only when you don't live up to it, does your ability to handle life decrease. Thus, rehabilitating a person's responsibility in life, helps their ability to handle things.

Thus you will find many Scientologists working in the community against drugs, promoting literacy, helping criminals reform, holding human rights forums and events, etc.

There are many more beliefs, but basically our beliefs align with our aims: a world without insanity, criminality and without war.

If you have any more questions, happy to talk directly or what have you. You can check the sources below too.

Answer 3

Scientologists don't exactly "believe" in anything as its not a dogmatic religion -- it is something to do as opposed to something to believe in.

Scientology is about the individual man or woman. Its goal is to bring an individual to a sufficient understanding of himself and his life and free him to improve conditions in the way that he sees fit.

The Scientology religious philosophy contains a precise system of axioms, laws and techniques, exhaustively researched and documented as workable. As such, it provides the individual with the ability to dramatically improve conditions, not only in his own life but in the world around him.

In a word, Scientology works.

And this is why millions of people the world over use its principles in their daily lives, why a growing number of people find such relevance in Scientology for themselves, their families, their organizations, their nations and this entire civilization.

All Scientologists are drug-free, and spearhead effective actions in countries around the world to get others off drugs. Scientologists have helped millions of underprivileged children to dramatically improve their reading level, vocabulary and comprehension, and the record of Scientology’s fight for human rights is unparalleled. Scientology’s commitment to social betterment activities also includes rehabilitating criminals and teaching people right from wrong.

The aims of Scientology are a civilization without war, without insanity and without criminals, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights and where man is free to rise to greater heights.

Scientology is not authoritarian. There is no enforced belief. Rather, a maxim in Scientology is that only those things which one finds true for himself are true. In Scientology one learns to think for himself – it is a voyage of self-discovery.

And in response to chaddukes who's making the unsubstantiated allegation that Scientology is responsible for Lisa McPherson's death. Her death was a tragedy, but not one that was caused by any negligence on the part of Scientology. All charges against Scientology were dropped and an extensive medical investigation revealed that her cause of death was a pulmonary embolism caused by the accident she was in a couple of weeks earlier. Lisa McPherson lived and died as a Scientologist and if she was alive today she would still be a Scientologist. It's a shame that bigots are using Lisa's tragic death to further an anti-Scientology agenda when Lisa herself was a devoted Scientologist. You can read the true story of Lisa McPherson's death here http://www.theta.btinternet.co.uk/kills.htm

Answer 4

This is actually Scientologist doctrine.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GLnsBv6UQ-o

Also check out this stuff:

http://skepdic.com/dianetic.html
http://skepdic.com/emeter.html

Answer 5

That aliens exist and psychology and medication is bad. That's what Tom Cruise said what a crazy ************!!

Answer 6

I think its that we have either decended from aliens or were put here by aliens, to see how we'd cope...