Concept of Afterlife in Scientology?

Question

Does anyone have information on the concept? Links or anything.

Answer 1

They have views copied from Indian traditions.

Answer 2

In Scientology, you learn the difference between the Body-Mind-Spirit and the fact that man is a spirit and has lived many life times before and obviously will continue to do so.
http://www.scientology.org/en_US/religion/presentation/pg008.html

This is not in fact a datum stemming from Scientology, but one from eastern religious thousands of years ago.

Mr. Fumio Sawada, the Eighth Holder of the Secrets of Yu-Itsu Shinto did a comparison of Scientology to other religions where he makes this same point.
http://www.scientologytoday.org/experts/eng/sawada01.pdf

Therein he stated: "The concept of a person having lived before is old and fully accepted by Eastern religions. Scientology theory and practice is based around this concept, that one is a spiritual being which Mr. Hubbard has called a thetan, and that one can recall his past lives, and that as a spiritual being his actions of his past determine his situation in the present. There are more than 180,000 religious bodies in Japan, and I would expect that this concept is shared by most of them in one way or another. Of course this concept dates back not only to the time of Buddha, but also to the Veda, the source of the great Indian religions."

Answer 3

The concept of the "Afterlife" is covered by the basic principle of the Scientology religion. This concept is that YOU are your own immortal soul. That this is not something you "have" like a mind or body or house or car... but what you are.
So in Scientology there is "past lives" and also "future lives"
Reincarnation is a definite system and is not part of Scientology. However it is a fact that one does not progress without addressing negative actions and experiences in one past lives.
The common definition of reincarnation has been altered from it's original meaning. The word has come to mean "to be born again in different life forms" but it's actual definition is " to be born again into the flesh or into another body".
Scientolog ascribes to this latter, original definition of reincarnation.
Past lives is not a dogma in Scientology, but generally Scientologists, during spiritual councelling, recall and experience a past life and then know for themselves that they have lived before.
Hope this helps. For more specific information recommend reading the book " Have You Lived Before this Life ? " by L.Ron Hubbard.

Answer 4

Scientologists believe that we are all eternally existing spirits called "Thetans". According to L. Ron Hubbard (the science fiction writer and prophet of Scientology), "Thetans" reside in many physical bodies over time but are infinite beings, thus never entering into any "afterlife".

http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/part14/chp50/pg1024-a.html#thetan

A Body Thetan is an alien Thetan who is 'stuck' in, on or near a human body, and all human bodies are said to be covered in these misplaced Thetans, or clusters of them. These Body Thetans are said to create confusion and implant untruths into our heads, one of which being the concept of God and Jesus.

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

Answer 5

L. Ron Hubbard (founder) taught that when you die, demons screw up your mind, so that you are reborn into a new baby body knowing nothing.
Scientology training, therefore, he said, could help you become "clear", or perfectly in control of your mind, so that when you die, the demons can't make you forget anything.
Then you would be born into a new body knowing everything you learned in your past life.
Its assumed that if you do that, you would be a sort of super-human.
The church of scientology charges thousands of dollars for these therapy sessions. Many people who have taken them are in debt to the church for life, and can't leave if they wanted to.

Answer 6

First, they believe in reincarnation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
Otherwise, they have no official doctrine on the subject:
http://www.religionfacts.com/scientology/beliefs.htm
(goto "After Life")

Answer 7

There some very sick answer here!
There is no concept of afterlife in Scientology because the spirit can't die, so there is no such thing as an afterlife. When you body ends you may chose to find a new body but you are still you.

THIS IS SCIENTOLOGY

1. What is true for you is what you yourself 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 these pictures are accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suppose 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 on Scientology an aberration (a conclusion that is imposed 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. You can discharge the energy in these pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and is the oldest of hundreds of Scientology techniques used to improve the individual.

5. The Spirit creates his own emotions. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you depress? Maybe you think that something external of you is creating your emotions. Maybe you believe that you are sad because you had a bad day or maybe you believe that you are happy because you had a great day. And this might be true. But who made the decision that you had a good or bad day? You did. You decided if life was good or bad, and adjusted your emotions to respond to your own consideration. You created your own emotion.
Some people are born with everything they want and are still unhappy. And others are born into humble means and are happy. What's the difference? The only real difference is each person's ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes in order to help a person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.

6. Scientology Ethics. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions. Un-ethical people blame others for their actions. "Wrong doings" diminish and deteriorate the freedom of the spirit because the need to justify the "wrong doing". So the spirit is enslaved into repeating the "wrong doing" in order to justify the original "wrong doing". The road to freedom lies within taking full responsibility for your personal condition and actions, past, present and future. Scientology provides the tools to help the person able to be fully responsible over his life thus rehabilitating his ability to be good and self determined.
Also Scientologist base their conduct on a non-denominational code of conduct. http://twth.org/eb/?id=16664j

7. Scientology and God. Scientology acknowledges the supreme being and promotes the individual search for closeness to God trough religion.

8. Scientology vs Psychiatry. Psychiatry believes that self awareness, feelings, love and faith is merely cellular activity. Basically they think that you are your brain and you are not in charge of your behavior but your cells are.This is a totally materialistic point of view that denies the spirit and God. Psychiatrist is a pseudo science because it is based in principles that are false. Psychiatry have never proven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. Any Neurologist will tell you there are no medical test to identify a "mental illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology&hl=en
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=cchr&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&b=1&oid=12085d1e6c58d04e&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fvideo%3Fp%3Dcchr%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8
Happiness, exhilaration, depression and psychosis are states of mind, not diseases. All what you have to do to stop being depress is change your state of mind. How you do that? By changing your ideas and considerations. Scientology provides the tools to achieve a better state of mind in accordance with your own point of view.
Also Psychiatrist excuse the most horrendous crimes as mental illnesses. This is actually creates a sense of irresponsibility in society because it tells people that they are not responsible for their actions. Second they promote that drugs are the answer for your problems. This message promotes the use of drugs to find release from life and creates the current drug addiction problem in society. Drugs will only give you temporary false release but will never solve the source of your problems.And actually drugs will keep you away from finding a true spiritual release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437051883726295326&q=psychiatry&hl=en
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology. Also the mere awareness that you are a spiritual being and not a body makes you better person.

9. Scientology is a force for good in society. Scientologist fights Psychiatry, http://www.cchr.org/ the drug companies, criminality, http://www.criminon.org and drug addiction. http://www.narconon.org Also Scientology fought and won against the FDA and the IRS. And Scientologist initiated the social reform group "Youth for Human Rights" http://www.youthforhumanrights.org and the movement "Say no to drugs and yes to life". http://www.notodrugs-yestolife.org
Scientologist are some of the more intelligent, able and successful people in this planet. Including Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Milos and Leah Remini. Even Danny Masterson from the that's That '70s Show is a Scientologist.

10. Scientology is the only church that doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services. All chapel services are 100% free (marriages, naming ceremonies, ect). Scientology earns it's money by delivering courses and auditing. Courses and auditing are optional. You do not need to take courses and auditing to be in Scientology. All you need to do to be a Scientologist is to read the books and apply Scientology to your life (like I do). But if you want auditing there are many alternative and economical ways to achieve this.
a. You can do volunteer work in your local church and get your services for free.
b. You can study to be an auditor and perform all your auditing with a fellow student. This way you can also provide free services to your friends and family. This is actually the preferred way to become clear because you learn how to helps other. Scientology isn't about you going clear but taking responsibility across all your dynamics (self, family, group, humanity, life, ect).

11. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story of "Jonah in the Whale" in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.

12. Anti-Scientology propaganda is just that, propaganda. If you wanna know about this propaganda machine see my blog: http://www.myspace.com/129727315

References
http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/index.html
http://www.bonafidescientology.org/
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.scientology.org/
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1

Answer 8

i think it's like reincarnation

Answer 9

they begin mating with aliens

Answer 10

doesn't matter cause Jesus is Lord!