You've been put through something called "auditing".
If you're being audited, you have an auditor (they do the auditing) and you have an "e-meter" (electro-psychometer). You hold onto two tin cans which are connected to the "e-meter" and you tell the auditor all about the bad things you're feeling. The "e-meter" measures your electrical output when you answer and the fluctuations of the measurements cause a small needle on the machine to bounce. The person auditing you supposedly interprets the bounces of this needle in order to determine if you're properly "clearing" yourself of your negative emotions.
There are several problems with the e-meter. The E-meter has no device to control the constancy of current. The instrument is subject to polarization. It is not a quantitative instrument due to uncontrollable variations in skin contact and current. The machine does NOT even detect whether or not a human is using it - it registers "definite emotional anxiety reactions" while hooked up to a tomato.
It was ordered by a judge that the e-meter be labeled with this warning:
"The E-Meter is not medically or scientifically useful for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease. It is not medically or scientifically capable of improving the health or bodily functions of anyone."
Auditing, for members of Scientology, is also exorbitantly expensive. What you went through was free so that they could convince you to join and start paying. Auditing for members is purchased in 12½ hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 and $9,000 for advanced sessions.
To answer your second question, Scientology is a CULT. Not a religion, a dangerous, greedy, brainwashing cult. Here are several questions regarding Scientology I've answered in the past:
An overview of Scientology (in my own words):
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070313131432AAwusjZ
Is Scientology a cult? Yes, & this is why:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070222202928AAC0iiu
Scientology in relation to God, Jesus and Christianity:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070324130735AAGhdiD
This is how they sell their cult to others:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061206112715AAJa34H
This shows how dangerous the cult really is: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070223101800AARKR3f
2007-04-01 11:56:50
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answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7
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Funnily enough, it's a bit of both. They claim they are a legit religion, yet every step of the way you are asked for pay more and more money to come to "enlightenment" (finding out about xenu and all that). What they really are is a money making machine. There are documented cases of people having lost everything they had, even dying, because of the 'church of scientology'. They're very much against conventional psychiatry, yet their founder was in the care of a psychiatrist for years. If you want to learn more, and be thankful you didn't fall for it, go see the Operation Clambake website, www.xenu.net. It's a comprehensive resource written by people who escaped from this cult.
Oh, and anyone here claiming to be a scientologist is not one. The church puts special filtering software into their computers so they wouldn't be able to access a site like this. It's true - read about at that website I gave you.
2007-04-01 18:48:44
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answered by ReeRee 6
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Scientology is a business, not a religion.
When a religion gets out of control, people get killed.
When a business gets out of control, people get sued.
Scientology will sue anybody. They're a business.
When some a s s h a t gets upset that "Battlefield Earth" isn't on the video store shelves anymore and tries to take out a Blockbuster Video with a satchel full of C-4 and a copy of Dianetics, screaming, "Hubbard Akbar!" then I'll start calling it a religion.
2007-04-01 18:45:41
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answered by Guernica 3
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It's insanity, but makes it even clearer how desperate some people are for direction or a sense of belonging.
2007-04-01 18:39:37
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answered by thatsit4theother1 3
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Well if it made you curious and interested enough to make you ask this questions...we all need to have a certain drive to keep us going... whether it is what destiny has in hand for us or whether it's some silly thing we choose to believe cause it's just cool....I hope your life is filled with curiosity and desire to wakeup every morning with a drive to learn...feel...and live....and if you need to believe silly little things to keep you going......I am all for it...and don't ruin someones helper...don't snob things that make people feel good...maybe they aren't so bad after all...be smart enough to appreciate their power..regardless of what kind of power it really is.
2007-04-01 18:47:13
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answered by Melina A 2
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Some people are completely taken in by this crazy "alien" called God and all this stupid transubstantiation stuff.
2007-04-01 18:42:33
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answered by Anonymous
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haha yeah the videos are so funny. And you have to pay like 200 dollars for the first book too. Fucck that!
2007-04-01 18:42:45
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answered by bob888 3
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I think its a cult
2007-04-01 19:21:06
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answered by Krayden 6
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THIS IS SCIENTOLOGY
Scientology is a path to find your own personal truth. These are the principles:
1. What is true for you is what you yourself observe to be true. (Because of this rule you can believe in anything you want: Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad or Dharma. Your own believes are your own business. It is a high crime in Scientology for anyone to tell you what to think or believe. You are expected to question anything in Scientology.)
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 an 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 depressed? 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 Scientologists 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 religious status: Religious scholars agree that Scientology is a bona-fide religion. In this link there are 28 religious studies papers about Scientology: http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/index.html Also see this link: http://www.bonafidescientology.org/Append/09/index.htm
9. 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. All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone. There aren’t any pathological tests that can determine if a person is insane.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology&hl=en
Psychiatry has never proven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. In the following video two college professors explain that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTqjSfMPKA&mode=related&search=
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 excuses 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.
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.
10. Scientology is a force for good in society. Scientologist fights Psychiatric abuses, http://www.cchr.org/ dangerous and harmful drugs, 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 that’s that '70s Show is a Scientologist.
11. 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 its 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 help others. Scientology isn't about you going clear but taking responsibility across all your dynamics (self, family, group, humanity, life, ect). In fact I haven’t given a penny to the church of Scientology in years, once I took a course on the church of Scientology that cost me $300- including books and materials and that was over ten years ago.
12. Anti-Scientology propaganda is a waste of time because Scientology works and good news spread by word of mouth. Of course there is people that can't stand others getting better. What would happen to the Psychiatrists if there is no more insanity? What would happen to cops if no one broke the law? What would happen to Soldiers if there were no more wars? The goal of Scientology is a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war. You are welcome to help us achieve this goal.
For more questions see my blog:
http://www.myspace.com/129727315
References
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/story/80/story_8057_1.html
2007-04-01 19:11:14
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answered by Anonymous
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"out there" is putting it mildly.
id say outright retarded is more like it.
2007-04-01 18:39:59
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answered by hotdawgsoup 3
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