Is Scientology Based On A Fictional Book?

Answer 1

Yes, a human being is a spiritual being that has a body.

Close your eyes, touch your leg. Do you feel it. That is a fact. Who is feeling it. You. That is a fact.

Improved Answer:

I would say, Yes, it is based on facts.

Now having said that, we both know there is such a thing as having faith and the First Amendment, when one is pretty much free to say most anything about what another might cherish as a fact. There are at least three types of lies, according to Mark Twain, I believe. 'There are White Lies, Damn Fool Lies and Statistics.'

My experience has been that on Wikipedia and other sites that many have felt free to restate as facts most any 'lie' that ever was printed, anywhere. They seem to be quite unabashed about it too. One 'Scientific Study' by Hiakawa, admitted within the study that he had not read Dianetics, knew of no one that had used it and that his information came from a dinner party where it was discussed. This at one time was a 'scientific study' presented on 'Dianetics' at Wikapedia. Hiakawa then went on to say how all Science Fiction writers do the same thing as the author... I objected. I also, objected to one where a student, studying to become a teacher presented his ideas and now this idea is one of two such studies published and listed on 'Pub Med', according to Wikipedia. I objected, but about 10 others shouted me down with a flourish. That was a 'fact' they chose to cherish. I believe it is still there. The other 'scientific' study was one by one doctor, and one person in Dianetics, could someone recall something specific when drugged and unconscious? (36 words from Newton's Three Laws was supposedly used.) Hint: was the drugged person ever told anything? Well, I objected to that and got shouted down as again. Another cherished 'fact' that made no sense at all. So I decided to located some real testing facts.

An IQ test was run on 88 students after they had read Dianetics and applied it on each other for about 40 hours each. These were new people to Dianetics straight off the street in Sept of 1950 with no previous knowledge of Dianetics. Could such a person read the book and get a change in IQ? IQ tests were run before and after. The testing was certified by 3 psychologists, licensed and professionals in such work. The test series confirmed an IQ gain of 10 points on the average for the 88 students. The study was published in the front pages of the next few issues of the next Dianetics book out, Science of Survival.

Now the shouting down on Wiki began again with a new twist. This test was not scientific enough to refute the two articles in Pub Med. I asked one person what would be enough? He explained, it needed controls, it needed blind studies, it needed this and needed that on and on. So I just added up how many people would have to be involved compared to the actual 88 involved. He was proposing that what was needed to meet modern testing protocol was 184,000,000 test subjects. Of these only 88 would have been the actual test subjects, the rest would have to be tricked into believing they were actually participating somehow. I laughed at him. But again, he had some cherished idea he was working with, I don't think it had much to do with any facts.

So, that study was and is factual. You might look it up and read it to see for yourself.

On Wiki they also provided me with a link to site that was about some 'Nomes' a magazine of the early 1950s edited by some kid in England I believe. You could perform the exact same test as Dianetics did 1950, yourself. But what is the point? In Scientology, each student is encouraged to personally observe how each new idea presented works. Find out how it works and how it does not work. He has the chance to see others use it and that it works or does not work as the case may be. On course if one can not produce the results expected, he is expected to restudy the material until he can personally observe this, personally do this and can get the results expected. You need to decide what you want to accept as 'facts'.

So to summarize, any fact presented here can be shouted down or changed by a 'supervisor' or crafty hacker or simply locked even if it is false. So why not get a book from your local library and read it. Observe for yourself. Test it yourself. Look at what others can actually do. Learn it well enough that you can do it yourself.

Answer 2

Scientology is a religion that was founded by L. Ron Hubbard. As far as I know, he did write fictional books as well as non-fiction books but Scientology is not associated with fantasy.