scientology?

Question

i'm a little confused, so if anybody could sum it up that would be great. i know this guy who is a part of it, but when he tries to explain it to me i guess i'm just not getting it.

Answer 1

It just so happens that I've done a bit of study on this matter and have written a fairly comprehensive summary:

Scientology, which questionably calls itself a new "religion", is the brainchild of science fiction writer & occult enthusiast L. Ron Hubbard. The organization claims to be able to help rid members of any & all mental constraints including but not limited to emotional scarring (from this & "past" lives) due to "engrams" (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind), psychological disorders & chemical imbalances (the solution is to convince members that these things don't actually exist) & drug dependence (including legally prescribed psychopharmaceuticals which counteract the effects of psychological disorders Scientologists believe to be nonexistent).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics#Scientific_evaluations
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812852,00.html

The official Scientology organization is composed of a number of “levels”. One begins as a “preclear” & works their way up. One must purchase virtually every service crucial to advancement directly from the "church" & at staggering prices. "Auditing", for example, is purchased in 12½ hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions. Visit this link to see how $380,000 is a conservative estimate for the total cost of moving all the way up the Scientology hierarchal ladder: http://www.xenu.net/archive/prices.html
These are the total costs for auditing alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#Costs
Here’s an explanation of what “auditing” is: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061224182319AA2nnd6

At level OT III (Operating Thetan 3), some very strange & fiercely guarded secrets are imparted upon worthy members who have paid enough money to advance to such a level (and no, this isn't a joke): the evil alien ruler Xenu killed millions of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by kidnapping them, bringing them to earth in golden DC-8 “space-planes” & blowing them up inside volcanoes with hydrogen bombs. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed & released; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (who passed them all the way down to us) & cause many of our mental & physical ills to this day. Auditing is said to “clear” us of these Body Thetans as well as the “mental implants” they supposedly impose on our minds. http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.html http://xenu.net/archive/leaflet/Xenu-Letter.pdf

Scientology has taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional during everyday life. They don’t recognize legitimate conditions like autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc, and the “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (often with harmful & deadly results). Suspiciously, it was discovered upon Hubbard’s 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. http://www.clambake.org/archive/ronthenut/16.gif
(visit this link to read about the uses of hydroxyzine: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/v/vistaril.html )

To be blunt, Scientology is a cult. It employs semi-legitimate psychotherapy & self-help methods to keep people loyal & convinced of its merit while it simultaneously sucks them dry financially & attempts to keep them far away from ANYONE, even friends & family, who would dissuade them from remaining in such a harmful situation. It’s a particularly greedy as well as manipulative & dangerous cult that takes its anti-psychiatry fanaticism to deadly limits. See this link for more information: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

Answer 2

Scientology is a religion created by the man, L. Ron Hubbard. When you go to the Church of Scientology, the first thing you do is take a personality test. Then you take some
courses like Dianetics or the Happiness Rundown. Then you go and do your Purification Rundown which involves taking massive doses of vitamins, then jogging and sitting in a sauna for 5-8 hours. Then you start to go "up the bridge". After being "audited" enough eventually you become "Clear". Then you move up to Operating Theatan where you learn the secrets of the universe.

Answer 3

Scientology is the most misunderstood religion on this planet. You will not get what is being told to you because its procession is so unique. People tend to be afraid of things they don't understand and you get allot of false data as well.

Scientology is processing to bringing about a greater human ability. Per Dianectic's principle everyone has a reactive mind that brings about human aberrations. Through a process called auditing you are able to rid yourself of this reactive subconscious memory bank reaching a state of clear.

As you go up the Bridge you are moving into higher abilities that will bring about a greater ability to survive on this planet. What is even more interesting is you are able to come in contact with your own spirit and have certainty you are more that just a body. Every person I have spoken with that has reach the start of clear is absolutely certain the have lived many lives and will incarnate again.

I believe clears because they go through a very intensive training to rid their minds of all, I mean all, lies and transgression they have committed in this world. A clear has no investment in lying because it would mean more ethical processing and who would want to return back to that state of being.

Of course it is more complicated than this but you will have a hard time understanding the principle behind Scientology until you go through auditing. It is expensive but it is very worth it. It totally blew me away when I experienced auditing and no one could have explained it me. It is be experienced first hand to have common ground to talk intelligently talk about Scientology.

As you learn about the truth of the world it will become clear to you that alliens presence is all other this world. If you think this is crazy try reading Zecharia Sitchin's book on the Sumerian culture and what all the megalithic sites on this planet are. Real life is stranger than fiction and truth is all around us when you are educated to see it. The more personal research I do the more I realize this world is not what we think. A limited belief system will blind you to the obvious truth and that is just the way it is.

Answer 4

Here's a simple description, but it's like asking to sum up the entire Encyclopedia Britanica. (!)

Scientology is basically a body of knowledge about the nature of the human spirit and it's relationship to the physical universe.
But it is mostly about the application of this knowledge to life and living and to free the human spirit.

Here's another longer description:

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 in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual as pasrt of his life. It does not conflict.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is also not a messianic religion. This means there is no worship of messiahs in Scientology. There are no “beliefs” as such because a truth should be according to ones own observation and experience.
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.

Hope this helps to give you some idea.

Answer 5

They have a pretty good viewpoint on psychology. The subconscious mind is referred to as reactive mind, a "reflex organ" that reacts to everything. The 1st goal in scientology is to become "clear", devoid of automatic reactions due to past trauma.
Nothing wrong with that imo. The rest is heavy....
Each must make up his own mind.

Answer 6

A (very) brief summation of scientology: Suckers pay money to a religious foundation created by a science fiction writer. Incidentally, LRH stated that the best way to make lots of money is to start your own religion.

Answer 7

Okay, short version.

Aliens were enslaved by Xenu. The captured aliens were destroyed in volcanoes and their spirits were forced to wander the Earth. While on the Earth they were "brain washed" into believing a lot of ridiculous things. These confused spirits now known as Thetan attach themselves to our bodies and make us depressed.

Yeah it sound ridiculous, and it is.. Just like Christianity sounds ridiculous.. They are both Cults.

Answer 8

http://www.xenu.net/
contains all the information you need.

It's an evil cult designed to make money and nothing else . Its effects on believers are destructive.

Read "the road to xenu" - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu/ - an account of a girl who escaped scientology after 12 years!

The cult's core belief - no, I am not kidding here! - in the words of the founder:

"The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 5,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".

His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants.

When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development.

One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.

In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.

One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.

One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.

Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck."

Answer 9

they believe that the earth was inhabited by aliens from outer space and they all died in a big volcanic explosion and now people "sin" because these evil alien spirits have attached themselves to our souls.

after i heard that i just stopped listening. i don't get it either.

also know that it's a religion made up by L. Ron Hubbard (who blatently said once that he was going to make up a religion just to see if anyone would follow it) and that the basis for this religion was a sci-fi story that he once wrote.

Answer 10

Scientology is totally made up BS. Laugh at him.