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Scientology
Scientology is a religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952. Questions about Scientology can be directed here.
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When or where was the hearth of Scientology founded?
L. Ron Hubbard began his studies of the mind and spirit in 1923, resulting in a manuscript entitled "Excalibur" in 1938. It was in this unpublished work that the word Scientology first appeared to describe what Mr. Hubbard termed "the study of knowing how to know." He decided against publishing the book for the fact, "'Excalibur' did not contain any therapy of any kind but was simply a discussion of the composition of life." Consequently, "I decided to go further."
That "going further" resulted in Dianetics, a subject which was introduced into the much broader field of Scientology to provide an actual "therapy" easily applied by the man in the street. Thus, in 1947, he wrote a manuscript detailing the core discoveries of Dianetics. Although not published at the time, the manuscript was circulated among friends and colleagues, who copied it and passed it on to others. (This work was eventually published in 1951 as Dianetics: The Original Thesis.)
As copies of the manuscript continued circulating, Mr. Hubbard began receiving a flood of letters requesting further information. Indeed, he soon found himself spending all his time answering letters and decided to write a comprehensive text on the subject-Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
Published on May 9th, 1950, it sparked a storm of popular enthusiasm, and immediately hit the New York Timesbestseller list where it remained for 28 consecutive weeks. As such, it was the biggest selling book on the mind ever written, and remains so today. Contained within was the discovery of the reactive mind-the hidden source of nightmares, unreasonable fears, upsets and insecurity.
Yet L. Ron Hubbard never considered Dianetics an end to his research but, rather, a steppingstone to the discovery and isolation of a long-illusive life source. And indeed, the techniques of Dianetics provided the means by which practitioners soon began discoveringpast lives. Pressing application and research even further came the accomplishment of what is known as exteriorization-demonstrating the spirit was indeed separable from the body and mind: The Scientology religion was born.
Thereafter, L. Ron Hubbard delved ever deeper into the spiritual nature of Man, documenting his discoveries in thousands of recorded lectures, films, articles and books.
While to present those discoveries, he literally circumnavigated the globe and so Churches of Scientology opened on four continents-headquartered at his long-term residence in southern England.
Through ensuing years, L. Ron Hubbard continued advancing the subject until his passing in 1986.
His legacy comprises tens of millions of published words, recorded lectures and films, while with over 250 million copies of his books and lectures in circulation, he has inspired a movement spanning all continents and all cultures.
Are scientologists allowed to have children?
Scientology regards the family as the building block of any society and marriage as an essential component of a stable family life.
People often find that after they begin practicing Scientology, their relationships with spouses and other family members strengthen dramatically. That is because Scientology teaches an individual to communicate more freely with others, raises the capacity to love and puts one in better communication with family and friends.
Surveys have found that, after participating in Scientology services, individuals are more likely to marry or stay married and to have children than before they became Scientologists.
To learn more, read "Marriage" from The Scientology Handbook or enroll on the online course.
Do scientologists believe in Zeus?
Zeus is a mythological figure from the Greek Religion. Scientology does not contain any teaching about Zeus. A person who practice Scientology is free to chose his own personal beliefs, and Scientology does not interfere with one's personal faith. A person can believe in Zeus and still practice Scientology.
Scientology teaches you how to discover for yourself. It offers paths to knowledge and understanding that, at first, dramatically improve our abilities to handle everyday life and relationships. Later, Scientology offers a chance you expand your awareness of yourself and the universe in ways never really known to man before - certainly not in the western world.
Scientology offers the notion that people already know the answers to the world, and gives us a path to uncover and recover that knowledge for ourselves
Why is Oprah giving scientology a platform?
BECAUSE...everything deserves a platform as we are ALL equal. It's mind boggling how many people haven't caught up with the 21st century. This is a free will Universe. If you don't like what Oprah or whomever has to say...turn the station. Get it? The christian right wing will never be dominant again so you may as well get used to a World with lots of choices. Good Luck To Ya!
All you have to do is looks at the FRIENDS who hang with each other. It's no secret to see that there is a connection even with Obama and Will Smith's sudden support and decision to BE President one day, uh riiiight. Oprah's been hanging with that Travolta freak and are "best freinds", "soulmates". Realize the fraud that is happening. WWIII is an ideological war.
Most of the information that is published about "Scientology" is actually produced by a small group of entertainment media who produce weekly headlines in order to attract viewers, and is not about Scientology at all. Instead, they are based on some stories that were told by a few dismissed employees of the Church of Scientology from more than 30 years ago, then repeated again and again with many years of embellishments added to them.
The actual movement of Scientology is about personal enlightenment with the goal of achieving global peace through human understanding. L. Ron Hubbard was able to discover the underlying causes of individual "aberrations" that are the source of violent behavior, distrust, dishonest, and other features of human behavior that result in wars and other means of dominating others.
What does a scientology church usually look like?
Big and rich because all the stars are into it! I am guessing, as the religion is modern, that they are like what you would imagine. Go based in that image - MODERN.
Do scientologists believe in god?
No, they believe that we come from some other planet 50,000 years ago. They're called 'Thetans' Scientology was made up by a science fiction writer in the late 50's named L. Ron Hubbard
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Yes, they do believe in God.
http://religionfacts.com/scientology/beliefs.htm
New answer:
"In Scientology doctrine, Xenu is a galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. These events are known as "Incident II" or "The Wall of Fire," and the traumatic memories associated with them are known as the "R6 implant." The Xenu story prompted the use of the volcano as a Scientology symbol."
Another Answer
Most definitely. In Scientology, the concept of God is expressed as the Eighth Dynamic-the urge toward existence as infinity. This is also identified as the Supreme Being. As the Eighth Dynamic, the Scientology concept of God rests at the very apex of universal survival. As L. Ron Hubbard wrote in Science of Survival:
"No culture in the history of the world, save the thoroughly depraved and expiring ones, has failed to affirm the existence of a Supreme Being. It is an empirical observation that men without a strong and lasting faith in a Supreme Being are less capable, less ethical and less valuable to themselves and society....A man without an abiding faith is, by observation alone, more of a thing than a man."
Unlike religions with Judeo-Christian origins, the Church of Scientology has no set dogma concerning God that it imposes on its members. As with all its tenets, Scientology does not ask individuals to accept anything on faith alone. Rather, as one's level of spiritual awareness increases through participation in Scientology auditing and training, one attains his own certainty of every dynamic. Accordingly, only when the Seventh Dynamic (spiritual) is reached in its entirety will one discover and come to a full understanding of the Eighth Dynamic (infinity) and one's relationship to the Supreme Being.
Can a Catholic be both a Catholic and a Scientologist?
No. You need to pick one.
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No. That's like being Christian and Buddhist: Impossible. To be a Catholic, you have to believe in the teachings of the Church. The teachings and beliefs of Scientology differ extremely from Catholicism. In fact, Scientology isn't really considered a religion but rather a "philosophy".
What are voids and where are they found in the universe?
Cosmic voids are vast spaces between filaments (the largest-scale structures in the Universe), which contain very few or no galaxies. Voids typically have a diameter of 10 to 100 megaparsecs; particularly large voids, defined by the absence of rich superclusters, are sometimes called supervoids. They have less than one-tenth of the average density of matter abundance that is considered typical for the observable Universe. Cosmic voids as a topic of study in astrophysics began in the mid-1970s when redshift surveys became more popular and led two separate teams of astrophysicists in 1978 to identifying superclusters and voids in the distribution of galaxies and Abell clusters in a large region of space. The new redshift surveys revolutionized the field of astronomy by adding depth to the two-dimensional maps of cosmological structure, which were often densely packed and overlapping, allowing for the first three-dimensional mapping of the Universe. In the redshift surveys, the depth was calculated from the individual redshifts of the galaxies due to the expansion of the Universe according to Hubble's law.
Has scientology got special holy food?
No, Scientology is an applied religious philosophy, something we use.
A person can study the Scientology tools and apply them in his life to see if they work for him.
There is no believe or faith involved.
Is Scientology secretly controlling Google?
Google is being corrupted by anti Scientology groups who take advantage of Googles internal optimization algorithms to promote their own complaints and dramatizations about their own biases against Scientology and the Church of Scientology.
Google currently favors anti scientology websites and blogs, which is terribly unfair to those of us seeking legitimate information or fellowship within the Scientology community.
Is Sheriff Lee Baca a scientologist?
Baca is a Catholic. A March 24, 2010 article in the LA Times entitled "L.A.County sheriff defends himself, Muslims after attack by Indiana lawmaker" quotes him claiming he is a "weak Catholic". The article was written by Carla Hall and Raja Abdulrahim.
"L.A. County sheriff defends himself, Muslims after attack by Indiana lawmaker
Lee Baca stands by his association with a Muslim American group described by an Indiana congressman as 'radical.'March 24, 2010|By Carla Hall and Raja Abdulrahim""....Baca is Catholic. "I'm a weak Catholic; I'm not suggesting I'm doing my best at it," he said. "I respect Catholicism and I respect all faiths."
Without them, he said, "our crime would be outrageous. We would not be a civilized world."
Who was the founder of scientology?
Although frequently cited as a "Science Fiction author", a much greater part of Hubbard's life was dedicated to the development and promotion of Scientology. As an author of philosophy and of science fiction, Hubbard is recognized as the most prolific and widely translated author in history.
How many Scientologist are in each country?
Statistics regarding membership are highly unreliable. Contrary to one's own name or job, there is not official record in the US to keep track of the religious affiliation of citizens. Members of new religious movements tend to be more reserved in their religious affiliation and only share their views within a constricted circle of friend. Most of the statistics that one can find on the internet mostly rely on social media and polls, and fail to provide an accurate answer.
Another consideration is that new religious movements tend to be more localized. For example if we take the number of Scientologists in the city of Los Angeles, and the number of Scientologists in Oklahoma City we could find that the number of Scientologists in Los Angeles is 200 times higher (not an actual number, it is just to provide an example) because of the higher concentration of artists and Scientology Organizations in that area. Nationwide statistics should not be used for New Religious Movements, because they are not territory specific.
The best source of information on membership is from the religion itself. Only Scientology churches can keep track of the exact numbers. They have records of courses and services, which further allows them to separate active Scientologists from not-active Scientologists. They keep records of visits for their mailing lists. For reliable statistics by Scientology, I would suggest reading the Freedom Magazine. You can find the website online or by google typing "Freedom Magazine".
