What is Scientology?

Question

Who is L. Ron Hubbard?
How did the Church of Scientology begin ?
It teaches that human beings are immortal spirits called thetans and practices a ritual known as auditing, the purpose of which is to free the thetan from past painful experiences, making possible increased spiritual awareness and abilities. A device called an E - meter is used to guide individuals during auditing and help them to locate precise areas of spiritual difficulty.
Is It Brain-Washing?
Scientology: Church now claims more than 8 million members!
YOU should avoid psychiatric treatment, which is against church teachings. Why is this?
OT materials and New OT materials that are delivered to Scientologists who have attained the status of "clear". Does any one know what this is?
Could there be a science of enlightenment?

Answer 1

Brain Washing, pure and simple.

Answer 2

Scientology means knowing how to know. It is a way to improve your ability as a Spiritual Being. See link.
http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/pg04.htm

The Church of Scientology bean by be incorporated and registered as a church and religion in the US. See link.
http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/pg03.htm

No it isn't brainwashing, quite the opposite. A person becomes more aware and more able with the use and application of Scientology. See link.
http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/pg66.htm

You should avoid psychiatry due to the fact they have killed, harmed and lied so many times. Not all psychiatrists are evil, well at least I hope they all aren't. See link.
http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/5166

No not unless you have studied and attested to that level. Materials further up the Grade Chart are not easily understood unless you have done all the preparation and groundwork first. Do you send a person to university to study science or engineering without first making sure they can read, understand the fundamentals and are able to pay for their course. Of course you don't. The same goes in Scientology. See link.
http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/pg12.htm

Certainly there could be a science of enlightenment. It would contain a scientifically provable state of enlightenment.

Answer 3

All the answers to your questions are in the sources below.

It's a well-known theological fact that anyone who leaves any religion (called an "apostate") always lies. In other words, any apostate will lie about the religion they've left, presumably to justify what they've done. So any testimony from ex-members of any religion is suspect. (This doesn't just apply to Scientology, it's any religion at all.)

Which basically means all this rubbish you see on the Web is just that: rubbish.

The only way you can really learn what Scientology is about is to read a book written by the founder and see what you think. Only you can decide.

Answer 4

Scientology is a cult.
L. Ron Hubbard was a third rate pulp science fiction writer and con man.
Scientology began when Hubbard and a couple of his close friends decided they could make a bunch of money off selling their "religion" to gullible fools. They made everything up. They don't want you to go to psychologists or psychiatrists because then you would realize Scientology was a bunch of cr@p.

Answer 5

Here is the truth on it http://www.scientology.org/ and here you read what Scientology does for the world http://www.scientology.org/en_US/world/index.html
Hope this is clearing things up for you. But also can you go to the bookstore and ask for the book What is Scientology and get your answers from there.

Answer 6

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."

Answer 7

Do a Google search and research the matter
I thought I had some information on my computer I guess I forgot to save it however I didn't sorry about that I am sure you will find some if you Google it : )

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 8

I am not in the moon to give a scientific and error-free answer.

Simple Answer: They follow an author who was on some intense drugs.

Answer 9

first of all: how many questions do you want answers to????

to make a long fictional story short, scientology is a cult made by rich people such as tom cruise.

Answer 10

All I know is that it's something to do with Tom Cruise, a science fiction author, and an evil alien overlord.