what is scientology?

Answer 1

Scientology is an applied religious philosophy. When I say "applied" I mean you actually use it in your life to change or improve existing conditions. This is different from a religious practice. All religions if you learn about them have a basic philosphy, but they also have certain dogma, rituals and observances, and a certain faith or belief is required. There is nothing wrong with this, but Scientology is not that kind of religion. It does not intrude on anyones faiths of beliefs particularly in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual, which is why you can be a practicing Jew,for example and still use and apply the priniciples of Scientology in your life. It does not conflict. If anything it will enhance your understanding of your chosen religious practice.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from using it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is a non denominational religion . The dictionary definition that applies:
Religion: The spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognises the existence of superhuman power or powers.

The most basic principle of Scientology is that YOU are your own immortal soul, that this is not a "thing" you HAVE but what YOU actually are.
The whole purpose of Scientology is to increase an individual's understanding and awareness of himself. And thereby his native abilities .
When you do this the sphere and zone of his positive influence increases and moves outward into his life, his family ,his friends, his groups and mankind which he is part of.

How this result is achieved is the "technology" of Scientology, which was developed by L.Ron Hubbard after his extensive research and the discoveries he made, about the human spirit. The basic religious philosophy and knowledge of Scientology is very old, going back 10,000 years at least to the Veda or Vedic Hymns from the East. The developement of the technology is new.
He completed his research before his death in 1986 and left all of his results and copyrights
to the Church of Scientology along with most of his considerable personal estate, when he died.

He published a book in 1951 to communicate the basic principles he discovered called: " Scientology The Fundementals of Thought"
There are currently over 10 million Scientologists in more than 163 countries world wide. However we are a new religion, only 53 years old.
The true story of Scientology as a religion goes like this:
1. A philosopher developes a philosophy about life and death.
2. People find it interesting.
3. People find it works.
4. People pass it along to others.
5. It grows.

This is just an overview.
L. Ron Hubbard explained fully the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 2,000 tape-recorded public lectures. So it's not possible to fully answer your question on this forum.

Answer 2

A religion based around the teaching of L Ron Hubbard and began in 1952. IT was set up as a self help philosophy . Diane tics is the device used for this self help and helps people track to there past lives and spiritual existence over many lifetimes. Scientologists main goal is to replenish bad things and rejuvenate the thetan or the soul to gain total freedom. The stress and bad things are found through auditing in which you talk to an auditor who measures the electrical impulses in your body on an e meter showing how high your stress levels are. Some think its a real religion some think its a cult either way there is a fee for auditing and this is dubious in any church although Church's ask for donations the church of Scientology demands a fee for the counselling .




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

There's a lot more on it there

Answer 3

In my own words this is Scientology. Some people think it is bull, others think it is the greatest thing around. Look a the principles and you be the judge.
Scientology isn't a faith system but a series of processes that a person uses to find his own truth.

1. What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.

2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body.

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 knowledge and experience. 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 accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets supposed 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 situations. This is what we call in Scientology an aberration (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 judgment and free will.

4. A spirit is capable of considerations and ideas and this ideas are solely based on ugliness and beauty-fullness. The spirit reject ugly things and intends on making everything beauty full. 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 ugliness and beauty fullness. 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.

6. Un ethical behavior and wrong doings are the #1 reason a spirit diminishes it power. In order to stop your self from hurting others, you hinder your own abilities and force. The rehabilitation of your own abilities and force is dependent on you taking full responsibility for your actions.

7. You are fully responsible for your condition. Blaming others for your condition will never solve that condition. It doesn't matter what that condition is, blaming other will never help. Only by fully taking ownership of you condition can you solve that condition.

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.
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1
P.S. I 'm a Technical Sergeant in the US Air Force and a Scientologist. And haven't had any negative experiances with Scientology. A lot of people think that Scientology is great, so if they think it works and they are happy with it, I say let them be, if they want to spend their money in Scientology and that makes them happy that's their problem. I really I haven't spend much in Scientology, most of my studies I have done own my own reading books. So maybe I have spent like 2k in the last 10 years, that's not that bad. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I exersise, I have a pretty happy and ethical life.

Answer 4

Scientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The Scientology religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths. Prime among these:

Man is an immortal, spiritual being. His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime. His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realized — and those capabilities can be realized. He is able to not only solve his own problems, accomplish his goals and gain lasting happiness, but also achieve new, higher states of awareness and ability.

In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and observing or experiencing results.

Through Scientology, people all over the world are achieving the long-sought goal of true spiritual release and freedom.

Answer 5

A system of beliefs centred around the idea that we are imperfect beings, plagued by the tortured souls of long dead alien spirits. To remove these "Thetans" and become "Clear" requires time, devotion, and most of all, MONEY!

For a more propagandist view of the religion (minue the "secret" history of the universe revealed to higher ups which includes Alien warfare, Evil overlords and a whole lot of nonsence about volcanoes and h-bombs) read L Ron Hubbard's book "What is Scientology?". This hefty tome is just about as detailed as any book printed on the subject, and is a surptisingly interesting read.

Answer 6

A cult that believes that an alien overlord of the universe killed off the surpluss population and dumped the souls here on earth.

I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!

Answer 7

It is the study of a pseudo-science made up by a science fiction author for tax free profit

Answer 8

Religious sect

Answer 9

They think we arrived hear by evil aliens that tossed us in a volcano and the ones who lived di this but the head alien xenu will return to kill us all moowoohahha

sounds like revelations.

Answer 10

philosophical religion which uses various psychotherapy techniques in order to bring about "spiritual and emotional release" (founded in California by L. Ron Hubbard in 1954)