What is Scientology anyways?? Is Tom crazy???

Answer 1

Scientology is a religion. It's religion is based somewhat on the theory that all living beings on Earth came from another planet and we have evolved as humans we are now... amongst other animals.
The origin of the church was in Hollywood, that's why you hear of all the celebrities. I've actually seen it. It's huge! I'm not sure on how it has spread so rapidly in the last few years.... Most of their beliefs and 'rituals' are peaceful and cleansing. But they do have some rather perculiar beliefs which I'm sure you've heard of in the news. Eating their babies placenta, however, is just a crazy Tom Cruise thing.... All the things he does makes Scientology look even weirder than it is to begin with.
And yes it was started by a Science Fiction writer, hence the 'alien' theory....

Answer 2

The story of Xenu (not "Xeno") is a "fable," yes, but that doesn't mean it's not what's being taught at the highest levels of Scientology (the vast majority of Scientologists reportedly haven't gotten far enough in their studies to learn it yet), as documented in court records that are available to the public.

What makes the Church of Scientology a cult isn't that they believe in Xenu or anything else L. Ron Hubbard made up, but their behaviors towards critics and towards Scientologists who wish to leave the religion. As a friend of mine, a former cult member herself, says, "I don't care if your church worshipes asparagus -- but if I decide to leave your asparagus-worshiping church, you'd better let me."

For more details of some of the controversy surrounding the CoS, including their history of trying to silence critics, see the articles below. Good luck.

Answer 3

First I want to clarify that the story of Xeno is just a fable and no Scientologist believe it to be true. In fact most Scientologist I have meet haven't even heard the story. Scientology isn't a faith system but a series of proceses that a person uses to find his own truth.Scientology is much like Buddhism but instead of meditation they use auditing with the same goal and faster results. Here are some of the principles.

1. What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.
This is a common believe with Buddhism in the Kalama Sutta, the Buddha teaches the danger in fashioning one's beliefs merely on the following grounds: on hearsay, on tradition, because many others say it is so, on the authority of ancient scriptures, on the word of a supernatural being, or out of trust in one's teachers, elders, or priests. Instead one maintains an open mind and thoroughly investigates one's own experience of life.

2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body. This is a common believe with many religions.

3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowlege and experiance. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes this pictures are acompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suposed that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situacions. This is what we call in Scientology an aberation (a conclusion that is impose to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram; A pain memory that affects your judgement and free will.

4. A spirit is capable of considerations and ideas and this ideas are solely based on uglyness and beautyfullness. The spirit reject ugly things and intends on making everything beautyfull. Do you like your car, you house, your job, your friends? Are you friends nice with you? Can you improve things in your life? All these are ideas based on uglyness and beautyfullness. This is why the spirits rejects the ugly memories and by rejecting the ugly memories (not confronting them) he is unknowingly affected by them.

5. You can discharge the energy in this pictures true communication. This is Auditing, the Auditor directs your attention to this pictures regardless of how ugly they are and you confront the picture and discharge the energy of the picture true the communication line. Is like if you have battery, in order to discharge the battery you need to discharged against something. If you try to discharge it against your self is just going to chock you.

Scientology is a very interesting religion that takes years of study to master. I just mentioned a few fundamentals. Scientology is so advance and so different that people can't understand it. People think that they know everything there is to know about life. And when they see Scientology they jump to conclusions when in reality they don't have a clue what are they talking about. The reality is that man attacks what he can't understand. That's why Scientology gets so much bad press. Scientologist see all these bad press with pity. They understand that people are acting out of ignorance and using their reactive mind. Is like watching a bunch of cows in a stampede going towards a Cliff. They are going in that direction because the cow in front is going that way, What they don't know is that the cow in front is blind. Scientologist are the few blessed ones that can see the truth and get out of the stampede.

Answer 4

Never trust a religion founded by a man who wrote terrible science fiction

Answer 5

1. A cult
2. Yes