can any one explain scientology please?

Answer 1

It is a CULT. Despite what a few fanatical members may say, it IS a cult. The church harasses & bullies anyone who they deem an "enemy" (basically anyone who has anything negative to say about the "church"). They will RUIN YOUR LIFE if you speak out against them long enough.

The founder is L. Ron Hubbard, the science FICTION writer who once told a friend that the best way to make lots of money is to start your own religion. Though being a very outspoken critic of psychiatric drugs, it was discovered upon Hubbards death that the anti-anxiety drug hydroxyzine (Vistaril) was present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric & pain medications Hubbard ingested over the years. (visit this link to read about the uses of hydoxyzine: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/v/vistaril.html )

Scientologists believe the evil alien ruler Xenu killed a lot of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by bringing them to earth & blowing them up inside volcanoes. They believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") have attached themselves to us & cause many of our mental & physical ills. Members who know about Xenu will attempt to deny it or pretend like it doesn’t matter. They are required to sign a contract binding them to silence on the matter. Lower level members don’t know about Xenu & accordingly deny everything because they honestly don’t know.

To rid ourselves of "Body Thetans" & also “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become “clear”, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind”...... & we have to pay lots & lots of money for “auditing” (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions) & to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”. The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life. They deny the reality of chemical imbalance & profound mental disturbance & accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).

Scientology is undeniably a cult. For more information on what a cult is & what their damaging effects are, please visit the link provided at the bottom of the sources. Just know that Scientology DOES qualify by meeting these 5 criteria:

(1) It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate & retain its members. (2) It forms an elitist totalitarian society. (3) Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable & has charisma. (4) It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds & recruit people. (5) Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.

Answer 2

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. It is a very practical religion.
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 lifeAnd 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, but I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Mr.Hubbard came up with a new way to treat mental illness back in the fifties, he called it dianetics. When he started to practice it on people the New Jersey police charged him with practicing medicine without a licence and he was convicted, fined and ordered to stop. He created a religion (Scientology) because religions in this country can tell people pretty much what ever they want and it is protected under the constitution.
L.Ron.Hubbard was a science fiction writer so he made up a science fiction religion. Scientology is really just a cover for dianetics, its unlikely that the leaders of the "church" really buy into the whole alien warlord places aliens in volcanoes on earth and then drops atomic bombs on them crap. It is just a way for them to sell their dianetics material without being hassled by the government.

Answer 4

Scientology is an applied religious philosophy.
applied = it's practical and get real demonstratable results
religious = it's to do with you and your spiritual nature
philosophy = a way of addressing ultimate questions of the universe

There is a book published called "What is Scientology?" which gives the full information, as the subject is broad. You should be able to find a copy in your local lending library.

The main crux is the correct definition of a "thetan". From the Greek letter theta, taken to mean "thought", a thetan is a spiritual being; a soul, a spirit. The word thetan is used because the words "soul" or "spirit" or other words, carry the baggage of other meanings from other religions & philosophies.

A thetan has no mass, energy or wavelength and has no location in space or time - it is not a physical thing. A thetan can think, perceive, and emote. He can create/un-create matter, energy, space and time - the component part of the physical universe.
It can consider that it has location in space or time, but this is just a consideration.
A thetan makes space by looking. A thetan makes energy by just putting it there.

A thetan is what you are. You don't have soul or spirit; you ARE a soul or spirit.
A thetan can degrade, by considering that it has lost its ability to do or create. Because a thetan's consideration is always senior, when it considers that it can no longer do things by consideration, it falls into a state of self-created disability.

Scientology is a practical path by which you can, bit by bit, restore / rehabilitate your own abilities as a spirit.
Results include increased IQ, increased awareness, improved ability to concentrate, more creativity, greater control over your own life, less susceptability to "haters" (anti-social people), increased sense of ethics, self-respect, trust of self and others, greater emotional stability ...
The list of results goes on and on and on.

The very fundamentals of Scientology makes it totally opposed to drug-taking, and totally opposed to enforced "treatment" - both of which are the modus operandi of psychiatry.

The thetan is in his rightful place as the boss of his own mind and body. When you take a drug, you are considering that a lump of physical universe, a chemical, is senior to your own self.
Thus, you actually will end up degrading yourself this way.

Dianetics is a seperate but related subject, dealing with the resolution of psychosomatic illness (mentally caused body problems) and thoughts and emotions which you (currently) cannot control.

Para-Scientology deals with such things as past-lives, telepathy and other spiritual abilities not generally recognised in the West.

Since the earliest days of Scientology (the early 1950s), it has been viciously attacked by certain vested interests - namely psychiatry and the pharmceutical industry.
As a tiny example, if people used Dianetics to permanently remove migrane headaches, and this was popular, where would that leave the painkiller industry? This logic extends to the entire field of "mental health".
Despite these attacks, Scientology continues to grow, and is in fact the fastest growing religion on the planet, with more people coming on board in the last 5 years, than in the previous 50.

In the UK there are organizations in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Plymouth, Brighton, and Sunderland.
Visit one of these, or read a book by L Ron Hubbard, to find out for yourself.

Answer 5

Why is it called scientology? Or as in why do people believe in it? You got me...

There is no science to Scientology.
Its a quasi-religious mythologies with a large volume of self affirming dogma sold as a series of self-help teachings and techniques designed to help you through life.

Like most religions then.

Scientology teaches us to rehabilitate the 'thetan' (roughly equivalent to the soul) through attaining a clear mind causing it to regain its native state of total freedom.

Something like souls going to heaven in those other serious religions.

The thetan is passed through infinite incarnations until it reaches this state and most have been doing so for tens of trillions of years (i.e. since before the universe was created in the big bang). They rarely reach total freedom due to ongoing interference through traumatic implants inflicted by alien beings as a means to control and manage humans. Among these teachings, one episode revealed to those who reach OT level III has been much remarked upon: the story of Xenu and his Galactic Confederacy. Xenu (sometimes Xemu) is introduced as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. The alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. Hubbard called these clustered spirits 'Body Thetans'.

Just as ridiculous as all the angels, demons and monsters in other religions then.

The real difference between the 'Church' of Scientology and other actual real churches is that the 'Church' of Scientology is run by a network of affiliated commercial corporations.
In the USA the 'Church of Scientology California' has managed (after paying 12m dollars to the IRS) to gain tax exemption, proof, they claim of the church being recognised by the US government. In other countries, though, the Church is not acknowledged as a bona fide religion or charitable organisation, but is regarded as a commercial enterprise.
Mostly people pay 'fixed donations' for classes, exercises and counselling sessions.

In other words scientist should probably start lawsuits against the 'church' of scientology for defamation of character.

Answer 6

Cult

Answer 7

Organised insanity

Answer 8

Go and ask at one of their establishments. They are the only people who can explain it to you.

Answer 9

wow, I think that you should watch a south park episode thast i've seen recently....just you to "youtube.com" and type in "south park scientology". it helped me, lol.

Answer 10

It is a cult invented by a bad sci-fi writer.