Scientology, which questionably calls itself a new "religion", is the brainchild of science fiction writer & occult enthusiast L. Ron Hubbard. The organization, by means of Hubbard’s self created psychotherapy technique called “Dianetics”, 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_evaluation_and_criticisms
Dianetics review: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2005/06/28/dianetics/index.html
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”, stacking them around volcanoes & blowing them up by dropping “h-bombs” into the volcanoes. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed & released; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (and according to Scientology’s belief in Thetan immortality, they also attached to us during “past lives”) & 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://www.spaink.net/cos/essays/atack_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. It doesn’t recognize legitimate conditions like autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or ANY neurological disorder / chemical imbalance at all, and the “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from members (often with harmful & deadly results). The “Church” blames the psychiatry for the Holocaust, as well as school shootings and even September 11th. It’s been suggested that Hubbard’s vehement opposition was born of the psychiatric community’s rejection of his “tech” as a valid treatment method, but it’s also possible that Hubbard chose psychiatry as a scapegoat. Organizations like Scientology are notorious for villainizing a specific out-group as it fosters cohesion within the organization.
http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/usa-scientology.htm
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3137&IssueNum=136
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index_np.html?pn=1
http://perkinstragedy.org
L. Ron Hubbard, the man behind the creation of Scientology, was & still is a controversial figure. Biographies and lists of personal accomplishments differ greatly between Scientology and non-Scientology publications as the “church” tends to exaggerate and outright lie about his early life, his education, his travels, his achievements etc, preferring to paint a distorted, flattering picture. Several books and articles present facts which flatly contradict these church-published accounts (links to free online copies of these books are provided below), showing conclusively that he was NOT the brilliant, accomplished figure revered by Scientologists. During his autopsy, the sedative 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. It had also been said by many who knew Hubbard personally that at the end of his life he was “a psychopathic insane person screaming about BT's [Body Thetans]….”
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/Bare%20Faced%20Messiah.pdf
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/contents.htm
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt
http://skull.piratehaven.org/~atman/factnet/lrhbare.txt
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 these links for more information: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
http://www.factnet.org/Books/SocialControl/scs.html#toc http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/funkydonny.html
2007-07-22 22:04:58
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answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7
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The best way to find out about Scientology is to read some books on it.
We have just re-released 18 basics books with all the data they were suppose to have. Now they are actually readable.
Go and get a copy Scientology: A New Slant on Life and read it for yourself. Did I say buy a book, yes I did.
Find out for yourself, read it, apply it to your life and decide if you can use it.
2007-07-23 03:25:36
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answered by michaeljripley 3
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Its total BS. The founder was some wingnut fraud conman in the fifties and sixties. Then ambitious creepy people took over. They subject you to a personality test. The result always indicates that the answer is scientology. Then you have to pay a lot of money for more and more "audits" which are progressive training sessions. You devote more and more of your life to them. They demand that you don't read any outside material. They feed you more and more outrageous lies untill finally after you have given them all your money they tell you about how earth is controlled by alien beings. That's the basic breakdown. For more info go to www.xenu.net
2007-07-22 15:51:21
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answered by Anonymous
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I looked into it back when Tom Cruise had his little episode on Oprah. Basically it's a recently invented religion/cult created by sci-fi author L.Ron Hubbard back 40 or so years ago. They rely heavily on secrecy. There's multiple layers each layer learns more about the religion. There's also a very public face (the celebs) that are treated differently than your mainstream members. In the end they believe aliens will come for them eventually. Ever seen a really crappy movie called Battlefield Earth? It was based on one of Hubbard's novels and the beliefs of the religon are comingled in it. So basicaly it's a big fat cult and if your thinking of joining DON'T.
2007-07-22 16:04:48
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answered by dixie8026 3
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WOULD YOU ASK A NAZI WHAT JUDAISM IS ?
WOULD YOU ACCEPT THEIR ANSWER AS FACT WITHOUT ASKING A JEW ABOUT JUDAISM ?
NAZIS HAVE SUPPOSED DOCUMENTS TOO, BUT MOST GOVT'S OF THE WORLD KNOW WHO THE NAZIS ARE AND VIEW THE FACTS DESPITE THEIR LIES.
WHY BELIEVE CHRISIAN HATING ATHIESTS ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY ?
THINK FOR YOURSELF
HERE ARE THE FACTS, NOT FROM US - FROM THE PEOPLE AND GOVT'S OF THE WORLD ABOUT THESE CRIMINALS THAT LIE ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY
http://religiousfreedomwatch.org
OH, AND HERE ARE THE FACTS FROM US, TRY REAL HARD TO FIND SOMETHING WEIRD AND CULTY, SHOULD BE FUN.....
http://www.volunteerministers.org
OK, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, MORE FACTS FROM THE PEOPLE OF EARTH ( ok, and provided by us, but c'mon...who else is gonna stand up to the onslaught of BS out there..... the ATHEIST religion haters, the NAZIS ?
http://www.scientologytoday.org
2007-07-23 03:58:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Way back in the '50's, a person named L. Ron Hubbard was trying to make money, somehow and someway. He said, throwing his arms into the air, "If I want to make a pile of money, I should start my own religion." And he did. A religion replete with pseudo-psychological mumbo-jumbo, with the goal of making money through books and pamphlets. ABLE is now one of its outlets for feel good help. It touts sucess in showing kids how to learn another and better way. Hubbard died in the 70's, but their magazine implies that he still lives, giving the hapless reader nuggets of "wisdom." What crap!
2007-07-22 15:54:42
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answered by Atheists for Lunch Bunch 4
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Something about alien spirits inhabiting the bodies of humans on Earth, if I'm not mistaken.
Hmm. Sounds like something cooked up by a third-rate science fiction writer...
2007-07-22 15:51:35
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answered by Anonymous
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http://www.xenu.net/ is a comprehensive resource for scientology information.
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."
2007-07-22 15:49:24
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answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6
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Man writes Sci-Fi novel, crazy people make a religion based off of it.
2007-07-22 15:49:34
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answered by Anonymous
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yawnzzzzzzzz
2007-07-22 15:49:25
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answered by Anonymous
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