Scientologists...?

Question

is it true that you believe that we were created by aliens? (forgive me if I am wrong and help me correct my mistake if i am). what evidence made you reach that conclussion?

yeah, i wouldn't want to look info. on the internet, but get replies from scientologists themselves (if possible)
and... to me, the theory is not more far-fetched than the whole god theory, btw

Answer 1

Scientologist here...
No it's not true, but it seems that forums like these and other collaborative web sites like "wikipedia" take great pains to promote this idea. (Maybe they would like to believe it, who knows or cares?)
There really is no point in getting into a "denial argument."
It's a bit like answering the question: "Do you still beat your wife?" No matter what you say you are labled a "wifebeater"
I think that's the basic reason behind this kind of thing to make something appear ridiculous and turn people away from it by doing so. Probably because it has solutions to human problems that work. (Lots of vested interests would rather have the problems!)
Fortunately Scientology continues to grow and expand so it's not having the desired effect. When people find out for themselves what it is and does they make their own decision. about it.
I just keep posting the facts every time this question get's asked. Hope this helps to correct your mistake:

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. L. Ron Hubbard researched and made new discoveries about the human spirit. He developed technology from these discoveries to apply to increase spiritual awareness and ability.
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.

Answer 2

You can google up all the info you could wish for. I don't know all the details but I know that scientology started as a science fiction story involving Xenu, alien head of the Galactic Confederation and it was morphed into a bizzare system of psycho therapy and the whole thing is disguised as a church probably for tax purposes. It's a very weird cult.

Answer 3

I'm not a scientologist, but I've been made to understand that even though they do believe that, they aren't taught it until the highest learning tier and then they are charged against sharing it with people who aren't ready for it, so I'm afraid that (if that's true) the only answers you can hope for will be from ex-Scientologists and non-Scientologists.

Sorry. :(

Answer 4

That's what the Cult believed.

Let me begin with a quote,

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron." 1.Timothy 4:1-2

The Church of Scientology is a very controversial religion founded by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard

Answer 5

Tom Cruise told me so

Answer 6

Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet!

Answer 7

i would like to know the same...

Answer 8

Symbol:
The main Scientology® symbol is composed of:

The letter "S" which represents Scientology.
An upper triangle, the sides of which represent three closely interrelated factors: knowledge, responsibility and control.
A lower triangle representing affinity, reality and communication.

Another Scientology symbol is the eight-pointed cross representing the Eight Dynamics of Existence, described below. The cross also symbolizes the transition from materialism to spirituality and the crossing of that barrier.



Overview:
The Scientology religion 1 deals with the human spirit and its relationship to the universe and its Creator. It teaches that the fundamental laws of life, when applied, help people achieve a happier and more fulfilling existence, just as surely as an apple falls to the ground when dropped.

Scientology contains numerous workable methods :

To deal with life situations
To create strong interpersonal relationships, raise bright and able children and have happy and lasting marriages.

It also contains techniques to tackle the most serious social problems of our age — illiteracy, drugs, crime and immorality. Scientology is something one does: it is not just a system of beliefs one is asked to hold.

The keynote of the Scientology religion is the human spirit — its salvation and rehabilitation. It teaches that an individual is a spirit — not a body, a brain, or a fortuitous random conglomeration of genes and chemicals. It is this recognition of the nature of an individual that forms the foundation of the Scientology religion. Throughout the ages, man has traditionally viewed himself as a spiritual being. It is only in the last century that the materialistic idea that man is a mere animal similar to a monkey or rat has taken hold. Scientology teaches that this idea is patently false, unworkable, and acts as a barrier to personal understanding of life. One little suspects how much untapped potential one has to create his or her own life.

Scientology directly addresses an individual's spiritual nature with answers to the age-old questions — Who am I? What do I consist of? Where do I come from? Where am I going? This spiritual enlightenment leads to personal understanding of oneself, others and one’s relationship to the Universe.



Current status:
There are now over 7,300 Scientology groups, missions 2 and churches 3 in 163 countries around the world servicing some 10 million individuals. And 87,000 Scientology Volunteer Ministers, 4 help in their communities and in times of disaster.

Between 2001 and 2006, over 23 million copies of books and taped lectures by L. Ron Hubbard 5 have been gotten into public hands, and the rate of expansion of the Church has been 20 times greater than the whole previous 51 years combined. During 2006, new Scientology groups, missions and churches have opened at the rate of three per day. Scientology 6 is the fastest growing religion in the world, by percentage growth per year.



History:
The Scientology religion was developed by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. 5 It came from his lifelong passion to assist man to achieve a higher plane of civilization and existence. Mr. Hubbard was not only a writer, one of the leading lights of the Golden Age of science fiction in the mid-1900s, but a true Renaissance man — who was a recognized explorer with membership in the prestigious Explorer's Club, a captain of corvettes during World War II, and fully versed in 21 different professions.

Born in Tilden, Nebraska on 1911-MAR-13, L. Ron Hubbard traveled extensively during his youth. He covered some quarter of a million miles by the time he was twenty years of age, including several trips to the Orient; directed two expeditions to the Caribbean including the first mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico.

It was during his travels in Asia where he viewed so much misery and want that he asked himself "Why all this?" and "To what depths can man fall," and "What is man anyway?" He found that there was not much known about the true nature of man. He became fascinated with this line of research which he made his life's work.

In 1938, in the unpublished manuscript "Excalibur," Mr. Hubbard delineated his first major discovery. He found that the common denominator of existence is "Survival," and outlined the theory that "Life is composed of two things: the material universe and an X-factor...that can evidently organize and mobilize the material universe."

His first major work on the subject was published on 1950-MAY-09 and called Dianetics®: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 7 Dianetics is a methodology designed to help alleviate such things as unwanted sensations and emotions, irrational fears and psychosomatic illnesses (illnesses caused or aggravated by mental stress). Dianetics is defined as "what the soul is doing to the body." It is a mental therapy and was the precursor to the broader subject of Scientology.

The initial press run of Dianetics was only 6,000 copies. Mr. Hubbard had planned to head an expedition to Greece after it was published. However, with Dianetics sales exploding and the book reaching the New York Times bestseller list and staying there month after month, public demand for more information and personal assistance put an end to those plans and began a new phase in Mr. Hubbard’s life. Today Dianetics has sold over 21 million copies and is the best selling self-help book of all time.

It became obvious to Mr. Hubbard after observing many, many people using Dianetics and seeing the results, that there was something more to man than just his mind and body. In the fall of 1951, he concluded that an individual was neither his body nor his mind, but rather an immortal spiritual being. With this discovery, L. Ron Hubbard moved firmly into the field traditionally belonging to religion — the realm of the human soul.

Scientology has a wide scope. In addition to a score of books, there are today more than 15,000 pages of technical writing and more than 3,000 taped lectures that comprise its scriptures. These works represent a lifetime of research by L. Ron Hubbard to discover a workable means to set people free spiritually.

Mr. Hubbard entrusted Religious Technology Center 8 with maintaining the purity and orthodoxy of the Scientology religion as well as ensuring that the technologies of Dianetics and Scientology remain in good hands. Religious Technology Center does not manage Scientology churches. This is done by the Church of Scientology International (CSI), the senior ecclesiastical management body of the religion. CSI broadly plans and coordinates Scientology expansion by providing programs to individual organizations and groups and then helping them with the implementation of these programs. Since 1986 David Miscavige 9 has held the position of Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center.

In October 1993, David Miscavige announced that the Internal Revenue Service of the United States granted full religious recognition and tax exemption to all Scientology churches and missions. Every Scientology church in Canada is also recognized as a religion in the province in which it is located.

In 2005 Mr. Hubbard was recognized as the world's most translated author by the Guinness Book of World Record. In 2006 Guinness confirmed this and also recognized him as the world’s most published author with 1,084 works.





Beliefs:
The word "Scientology" means "the study of knowledge or truth." The Scientology religion holds that man is basically good, not evil. It teaches that it is their experiences that cause people to commit evil deeds. It is not their basic nature to do so. People can mistakenly solve their problems by thinking only of their own personal interests and overlook or ignore how their acts affect others. This creates interpersonal strife and problems. The Scientology religion also holds that individuals advance to the degree they preserve their spiritual integrity and values, and remain honest and decent — indeed, individuals deteriorate to the degree they abandon these qualities.

Some religions try to help humanity by solving people's problems for them. Scientology is different — it believes in increasing the ability and intelligence of the individual so he or she can improve his own life, overcome those factors that hold him down, and solve his or her own problems. What's more, once one has accomplished this he or she naturally starts to reach out to help his family, friends and society.

According to Scientology, the individual is not a body but a spirit. However there have been so many different concepts of the term soul through the ages that a new term was needed. The term chosen by Mr. Hubbard was "thetan" from the Greek letter theta, the traditional symbol for thought and life. The thetan is the person himself, not his body, his name, the physical universe or anything else. It is that which is aware of being aware; the identity that IS the individual.

One phenomenon of the spirit or thetan, researched by Mr. Hubbard, is exteriorization. Exteriorization is the ability of the thetan to leave the body and exist independent of the flesh. Exteriorized, the individual can see without the body's eyes, hear without the body's ears and feel without the body's hands. Man previously had little understanding of this detachment from his mind and body. With the act of exteriorization, attainable in Scientology, the individual gains the certainty that he is himself, an immortal spiritual being, and not a body.

Some basic Scientology concepts that assist a person to better understand life better are:

The Eight Dynamics of Existence: A "dynamic" is an urge, drive or impulse towards survival. With an understanding of these dynamics a person gains insight and can bring all aspects of his life into alignment. The first four dynamics were initially described by Mr. Hubbard in his texts on Dianetics in 1950. He expanded this to encompass four additional zones of existence the following year when he began research into the spiritual nature of man. These dynamic urges are best viewed as a series of concentric circles moving out from the first to the eighth: The First Dynamic is the urge to survive as oneself.
The Second is the urge to survive through family and sex and the rearing of children.
The Third is the urge to survive in groups small and large — a company, a group of friends, a city, a nation.
The Fourth is the urge to survive as mankind.
The Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth are the urges to survive through other life forms such as animals and plants, the physical universe, the spiritual universe and Infinity or Supreme Being respectively.

Scientology teaches that by simply delineating these dynamics, it clarifies and brings order into existence. One can observe these dynamics in one's own life, note which need improvement and through the use of Scientology principles bring these factors into greater harmony.

Affinity, Reality and Communication: A concept of considerable importance in the Scientology religion is the principle of affinity, reality and communication. These three factors, expressed as a triangle, are enormously important in interpersonal relations. Affinity is the degree of liking or affection or lack of it for someone or something. Reality is agreement on the solid things of life, or concepts mutually held between individuals. Communication is the interchange of ideas, perceptions or objects between two or more people.

The concept is that when one corner of the triangle goes up, the other two corners also go up. Conversely, when one corner goes down, the other corners also go down. So when one establishes good communication with someone and agreement on some subject, affinity rises. Conversely, when there is a disagreement, affinity lowers as does communication.

These three factors — affinity, reality and communication — add up to understanding. When one really understands something, he or she is in good communication with it, has affinity for it and understands what it is about.

The ARC triangle has many uses in life. By gaining skill in raising the corners of this triangle one can increase understanding and improve relationships with anyone.



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Religious Practices:
The main Scientology religious practice is spiritual counseling called "auditing." It is a unique form of personal counseling intended to help an individual look at his own existence and improve his ability. Through viewing his own existence, an individual attempts to walk an exact route to higher states of awareness.

Auditing is a precise, thoroughly codified activity with exact procedures. A Scientology counselor is known as an "auditor". Auditing is assisted by use of a specially designed meter (E-Meter or Electro-psychometer) which helps locate areas of spiritual distress or travail by measuring the mental state or change of state of the person being audited.

Auditing uses processes -– exact sets of questions asked or directions given by an auditor to help a person find out things about himself and improve his condition. There are many, many different auditing processes.

An equally important Scientology practice is education in Scientology principles. This is called Scientology training. The religion teaches that auditing lets one see how something happened, while training teaches one why. Knowledge about the laws of life are necessary to maintain the personal freedom gained through auditing. If a person truly understands life, he can handle it.

The whole purpose of auditing and training is to graduate individuals to a higher state of spiritual existence. The goal is to revive the individual as a spiritual being and free him from dependence on the material universe. The different auditing and training actions which bring about spiritual enhancement are delineated in a Scientology chart called "The Bridge to Total Freedom." The metaphor of a bridge has long been used in religious tradition to denote the route across the chasm from where we are now, to a higher plateau of existence.

Scientology programs:
The Church of Scientology® supports many programs to provide assistance to society. These range from Church-authored human rights and drug awareness crusades to wide ranging social betterment programs dealing with the scourges of mankind – drugs, crime, illiteracy, and moral decay. These last activities are provided through the Association for Better Living (ABLE) which was founded in 1988. it is an international, nonprofit, public benefit corporation dedicated to social betterment utilizing the various technologies developed by L. Ron Hubbard.



ABLE sponsored programs
Narconon: Narconon is a drug-free rehabilitation program using L. Ron Hubbard's breakthroughs in handling addiction. With 151 centers operating in 37 nations, including 47 residential facilities, Narconon runs the largest residential rehabilitation network on earth. Narconon Arrowhead International Rehabilitation and Training Center in Oklahoma,OK is the largest drug rehab and training center in the United States. Narconon centres have a documented success rate of 80% of graduates never returning to lives of addiction – the highest in the field. For more information, see http://www.narconon.org
The Way to Happiness Foundation: Since people had have largely abandoned their culture's traditional, religiously-based moral codes, L. Ron Hubbard created a non-religious code based on a rational approach to values. He published 21 precepts -- each one consisting of a rule for living -- in his booklet: "The Way to Happiness." In the fall of 2003, a new International headquarters for the Way to Happiness Foundation was established in Glendale, California, to coordinate the world-wide network. There are more than 200 Foundation chapters worldwide. The "Set a Good Example Contest" based on The Way to Happiness has reached 10 million students in 12,000 U.S. schools. · The Way to Happiness is now published in 85 languages, including Braille with over 65 million copies distributed in more than 100 nations. For more information, see http://www.thewaytohappiness.org
Criminon is a very successful program to rehabilitate criminals by using The Way to Happiness. The program is based on restoring the self-respect of an individual in trouble with the law by educating them on their responsibilities to themselves and society. It is delivered by prison extension course or by workshop. The program is offered in more than 2,500 institutions worldwide. Ten thousand inmates have successfully completed the program to date. The program is offered in Canada, the Czech Republic, Columbia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Russia, South Africa, Spain, United States, Venezuela, and other countries. For more information, see http://www.criminon.org
Applied Scholastics: Applied Scholastics utilizes the educational "study technology" of L. Ron Hubbard to effect change in the world's educational institutions. In 2003, a massive, 100-acre educator training facility was established in St. Louis, MO. In 12 months prior to 2006-MAR, 137 new schools and study groups were opened, including facilities in remote countries like Indonesia, Kazakhastan, and Slovakia. More than 75,000 teachers have been trained in study technology in 2004 and 2005. During 2005, twelve governments have adopted new educational programs utilizing study technology. For more information, see http://www.appliedscholastics.org
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises: This is an international membership organization whose members use both L. Ron Hubbard management technology and embrace the responsibilities and ethical standards of WISE membership. The goal of WISE is to return to business the values and ethical standards upon which it was founded: honesty, integrity, craftsmanship, rewards for productivity, commitment to the prosperity of entire communities and nations through the administrative works of L. Ron Hubbard. These works are the product of more than three decades of research, piloting and codification and represent a very comprehensive system of management and the first true technology of management. For more information, see http://www.wise.org
Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): This was founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and the internationally acclaimed author, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Syracuse. At that time, the victims of psychiatry were a forgotten minority group, warehoused under terrifying conditions in institutions around the world. Because of this, CCHR penned a Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights that has served as its guide for mental health reform. CCHR has been acknowledged by the Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Commission as responsible for "...many great reforms" that have protected people from psychiatric abuse. CCHR has documented thousands of individual cases that demonstrate how psychiatric drugs and often-brutal psychiatric practices can create insanity and cause violence.

CCHR has 133 chapters in 34 countries and has established itself as a powerful human rights advocacy group and each year presents its Human Rights Awards to individuals who display exemplary courage in the worldwide fight for the restoration of basic human rights in the mental health area. For more information, see http://www.cchr.org

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Church Programs:
The Church of Scientology operates:

Scientology Volunteer Ministers: The church's most embrasive effort to provide help the world over is the Church Volunteer Minister program which provides disaster relief and support. Hundreds of Scientology Volunteer Ministers assisted rescue workers on 9/11 in New York. Since then, disaster relief response has been on an international scale including: Leading salvage and rescue efforts in response to Florida and Louisiana hurricanes
Appointed an official "civil defense force" by the Italian federal government, to help manage crowd control teams in Rome for the Papal funeral.
In the aftermath of the South Asian Tsunami, close to 500 Scientology Volunteer Ministers from 11 nations helped more than a third of a million people in the regions affected.
Total assistance given since 9/11 is to more than 4.7 million people with more than 50,000 active members of the Volunteer Minister Corps on call at any time for any situation. They now out-number the combined membership of the Peace Corps, Americorps and United Nations Volunteer Organization. For more information, see http://www.volunteerministers.org

Human Rights: The Church sponsors an international human rights awareness campaign, coordinated out of Church of Scientology International in Los Angeles, CA and the Church's European Office for Public Affairs in Brussels, Belgium. The campaign is entitled "Making Human Rights a Fact." Its purpose is to popularize the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Church-produced "What are Human Rights?" guidebooks have been published in 19 languages and been distributed to 1 million people. Through the Internet, print ads, and the media, the program has reached 110 million people.For more information, see http://www.theta.com
Drug Awareness Campaigns: The Church of Scientology runs the largest international drug awareness program on the planet. Through the banners of "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life" and the "Drug-Free Marshals or Ambassadors" for youth, millions of individuals have been made aware of the harmful effects of drugs on themselves and their friends and family. These campaigns are active in 53 different countries including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 7,965,138 drug education booklets have been distributed along with 48,443,526 drug education fliers.
224,223 drug awareness billboards and posters have been installed.
Over 81,000 drug awareness events have been staged.

For more information, see http://www.notodrugs-yestolife.org




Important dates:
Scientologists celebrate many important dates in their history. The most important are:

March 13: L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday
May 9: The anniversary of the book "Dianetics," first published on that date in 1950.
September - Second Sunday: Auditor's Day, when the contributions of auditors is acknowledged.
October 7: Founding of the International Association of Scientologists. An annual meeting is held at St. Hill Manor, just outside of East Grinstead in the UK.



Books and periodicals by L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology:
L. Ron Hubbard left a legacy of over 15 million words of published non-fiction works as well as over 3,000 taped lectures. His published works have sold 230 million copies world-wide and he is the world's most translated author. The two most popular are:

L. Ron Hubbard, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health", Bridge Publications, (1985)
L. Ron Hubbard, "Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought", Bridge Publications, (1997).

Other books are: Science of Survival; Dianetics 55!; Self Analysis; A New Slant on Life; The Problems of Work; Have You Lived Before This Life?; The Phoenix Lectures; Clear Body, Clear Mind; and An Introduction to Scientology Ethics.

The Church of Scientology has published two important works about their religion:

"What is Scientology?," an encyclopedia on the basic beliefs, practices and organization of the Scientology religion.
"The Scientology Handbook"; a compilation of the works of Mr. Hubbard and specific Scientology technologies dealing with communication, integrity and honesty, marriage, children, drugs, education, etc.

Various units of the Church of Scientology publishes periodicals such as: Source, The Auditor, Advance and Freedom.