What exactly is Scientology?

Answer 1

Scientology is a path to find your own personal truth.
Scientology doctrine as a religion holds as its most important axiom “What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.” This axiom promotes individual thinkingness and independence. In fact it is a high crime in Scientology for anyone to tell anyone what to think or what to believe in. In Scientology it is YOU that do the exploring, YOU that do the observations and YOU come up with your own conclusion.
This link has 28 different religious studies papers on Scientology made by religious scholars: http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/index.html Also see this link: http://www.bonafidescientology.org/Append/09/index.htm
Scientology means “knowing how to know” and follows a tradition of 10,000 years in the study of life and the spirit. Scientology earliest ancestor is the Veda (the Veda means knowingness or sacred lore) continued with the Tao-The-king (also known as Taoism and it means “the way to solving the mystery which underlines all mysteries”) continued by the Dhyana (that means knowingness or lookingness), continued by the works of Gautama Sakyamuni also know as Gautama Buddha (a Buddha or Bodhi is one that has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means).

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

Answer 2

I actually tried to read Dianetics and could not get through the first chapter. It is a very poorly written book. You can browse through it at any bookstore and judge for yourself. I did read the book What is Scientology, which was put out by the church and then read Bare Faced Messiah, an unauthorized bio on L Ron Hubbard, along with a book written with the assistance of ex-members. I know the church has helped many people get sober and off drugs, but I did not find anything else of value for me in their teachings. I know that L Ron Hubbard didn't even call it a church until he decided he wanted it to be tax exempt. Sorry, I couldn't be more help. I would say get both sides though and then make up your mind. There are plenty of pro and anti Scientology websites on the computer.

Answer 3

The Church of Scientology (which publishes the book "Dianetics") was founded by L. Ron Hubbard. Some say that he founded the religion after making a bet with a friend in a bar... it has been called a cult by some and a new religion by others.

These sites should be helpful to you :

http://www.xenu.net/roland-intro.html
http://www.xenu.net/cb-faq.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology

Answer 4

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 - Check out http://www.lisamcpherson.org/ , a victim of the cult who was starved to death.

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 5

A cult, made even more famous, from Cruise and Travolta.
Why a cult, because its not true worship of God, its not centered on Jesus.

Keep your research going, the spirit is moving in your heart..listen to it.


But we are all given a choice on what and whom we believe.


You have fakes in the stores, name brand and the like, well faiths are like that too.

Answer 6

A religion invented by a science fiction writer (L. Ron Hubbard) as a tax dodge.

Answer 7

They are a cross between the JW's (Jahover's Weirdness )and the Mormans

I know first hand becuse I use to attend their church. So there.

Peace.

Answer 8

Exactly? A cult.

Answer 9

A belief system that was invented by L. Ron Hubbard. "If you want to get rich, start a religion." LRH,

Answer 10

I'm not sure---a cult?? Tom Cruise and John Travolta's religion?? -- Why do you ask???