Scientology, a Church that in the past 62 years, has attracted... criticism, to say
the least. Many theists especially have it out for Scientology, claiming how utterly
ridiculous it is, without exactly thinking about their own religions themselves. But
very few who criticise Scientology really know what it teaches.
But to Find out what scientology teaches, we need to first learn a little about the
Prophet.
On March 13, 1911, in Tilden Nebraska, a boy was born by the name of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
to parents Ledora May, and Harry Ross Hubbard, a former Us Navy officer. But in 1913, the
family moved to Kalispell Montana, until eventually settling in Helena. But in 1917, Hubbard's
father Harry re- enlisted in the Navy, and in 1921 was posted to USS Oklahoma. The Family
then moved to San Diego where the ship’s homeport was. And Later that Year Hubbard
was sent to the US accounts school In Washington D.C. where he achieved the status of Eagle
scout at the age of only 13. Hubbard went on to move back between, Guam, Helena and
Seattle, D.C. and eventually enrolled in George Washington University.
Hubbard spent two years there before dropping out, with atrocious results, earning six D’s
and four F’s, but managed to achieve a B in Short story writing. And in 1934 he began
writing fiction. and then later transitioned into pulp fiction, and ultimately, Science
fiction. After marrying, having children, being denied from the Us navy and air force,
and fraudulently getting elected to the NY Explorers’ Club, he joined the naval reserves.
Once having talked himself into a short lived intelligence post in Melbourne Australia,
the US Naval Attaché in Melbourne reports: “By assuming unauthorized authority and
attempting to perform duties for which he has no qualifications, he became the source
of much trouble. […] This officer is not satisfactory for independent duty assignment.
He is garrulous and tries to give impressions of his importance. He also seems to think
he has unusual ability in most lines. These characteristics indicate that he will require
close supervision for satisfactory performance of any intelligence duty.” And was sent
back to the USA immediately.
After many more years of mediocrity in the Navy, and writing science fiction on the side,
Hubbard published the book Dianetics: The modern science of Mental health. The basis
for scientology.
Dianetics is a system that aims to relieve psychosomatic disorder by cleansing the mind
of harmful mental images. It is considered an alternative to Psychiatry, which scientologist
oppose. And Hubbard has proposed that here are three parts of the mind, the conscious
"analytical mind," the subconscious "reactive mind," and the somatic mind. The goal of Dianetics
is to remove the "reactive mind," which Scientologists believe prevents people from becoming more
ethical, more aware, happier and saner. This procedure is called auditing. Auditing
is a process where questions are asked by the Dianetic auditor to help a person locate
and deal with painful experiences of the past, which Scientologists believe to be the content
of the "reactive mind." But dianetics has achieved no acceptance in the scientific community
and is widely considered a pseudoscience. But Hubbard claimed he didn’t care about
scientific support because what he was explaining wasn't a science, it was a religion.
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So how is scientology set up?
Scientology is built around the idea of becoming Clear, essentially a state of enlightenment,
And the way to get there is to go through Operating Thetan levels, or OT’s. And OT’s
are a series of levels to reach the state of cleared theta clear. On the FAQ page of
scientology.org, an operating thetan explanation is defined as ‘a spiritual state of being
above Clear. By Operating is meant “able to act and handle things” and by Thetan
is meant “the spiritual being that is the basic self.” An Operating Thetan, then,
is one who can handle things without having to use a body of physical means.
Basically, one is oneself, can handle things and exist without physical support or assistance.
It doesn’t mean one becomes God. It means one becomes wholly oneself.
Basic levels of Scientology help a person deal with his personal relationships and day-to-day
problems, to free his attention to address higher aspects of existence. At the level
of Operating Thetan, one deals with his own immortality as a spiritual being.
Like any other spiritual level in Scientology, the state of OT is attained by proceeding
through a series of gradient steps, each one slightly more advanced than the last and each
with its own ability gained. The precise sequence is firmly established and variations from
that sequence are unproductive. Thus, it would be fruitless to try to move somebody onto
the OT levels before he is ready for them. One might as well demand that a baby run before
learning to crawl and learning to walk. Similarly, in Scientology individuals can only receive
the benefits of the counseling that brings one to OT after completion of more basic steps.’
So, there are 8 OT levels, each teaching a new dogma or doctrine. But each OT can take
years to complete or pass, because Ot’s have set amounts of time needed for completion.
And to satisfy this time, you must take extensive courses on them. But it also costs a lot of
MONEY. For Instance, to complete just the first Operating Thetan level costs $2,750
to upgrade’ and more money for counseling. And the third costs, 8,910 dollars, again,
just to upgrade. With the estimated cost for reaching the Clear state, is 120-250,000 dollars.
But, to introduce scientology slowly into the minds of potential victims, the first
two Ot’s just use the process of auditing to get people to feel good about themselves,
and to begin to trust this religion. Just like therapy, these people gain confidence,
trust and respect. But then They begin to introduce the concepts of scientology like
the importance of MEST, which stand for Matter, energy space and time. And this is significant
because a fully realized clear is said to be "A thetan who is completely rehabilitated
and can do everything a thetan should do, such as move matter, energy, space, and time
and control others from a distance, or create his own universe; a person who is able to
create his own universe or, living in the MEST universe is able to create illusions
perceivable by others at will, to handle MEST universe objects without mechanical means
and to have and feel no need of bodies or even the MEST universe to keep himself and
his friends interested in existence". In The State Of Clear a Clear is defined as "a being
who no longer has his own reactive mind, and therefore suffers none of the ill effects
the reactive mind can cause." This is what is taught to new church members, and after
their devotion to the church is shown, they reach OT level 3, referred to as the FIRE
WALL. OT level 3 is so unusual and sci-fi like, that Church dogma regards OT III as
a dangerous process which can lead to pneumonia, to lack of sleep or even to death if not run
correctly. Therefore church members are scared away from research or other investigative
means. And as well as exposing it. But Because of what Operating Thetan level
3 teaches, is why you have heard so much about the absurdity of scientology.
So what does scientology teach?
Operating Thetans level three teaches that 75 million years ago there was a galactic
federation of planets which included the earth, but the federation was overpopulated. The
head of the Galactic federation was a man named Xenu, and he proposed a solution to
the overpopulation issue. His idea was to send out agents to round up aliens and freeze
them. Then, to fly them to earth ( then known as (teegeack) on galactic cruisers and drop
them around volcanoes, and to finally terminate them, drop H-bombs in the volcanoes to destroy
them.
But that really only took care of the physical problem – Xenu didn’t just want the bodies
gone, he wanted to make sure the ‘thetans’ or spirits, of those people didn’t come
back and reincarnate on his colony. So when the souls started leaving the bodies, he captured
the souls and forced them into a huge implant station that was kind of like a movie theatre.
There, he made them watch movies that ‘implanted’ them with false pictures of Christ, and other
historical events that Hubbard says didn’t actually happen. And are all just brainwashed
fictional accounts. The souls were so screwed up from this implanting
that they roamed aimlessly around Earth for millions of years. And when human beings started
evolving, the thetans started entering their bodies and inhabiting them, which means we
ARE ALL thetans, and thus these thetans are called ‘body thetans’. And body thetans,
says Hubbard, are the source of all human misery .But eventually, some of the good guys
of the galactic federation beat Xenu, and trapped him between france and Spain. And
earth was left by the Galactic Federation to fend for ourselves. But that’s just the
theory portion of OT3. The practical portion of OT3 involves getting rid of these body
thetans. Scientologists use the Emeter to locate body thetans that are stuck to your
body, and talk to them, auditing them until they release hold from you.
Why do scientologists deny these things?
Well, Scientologists are told to never reveal information from the Church, and the Church
has filed countless lawsuits against people who have broken their billion year contract,
as well as people who have tried to expose them. Because head scientologists know that
if people really knew how absurd their teachings were, they wouldn’t get any new victims,
and most importantly any more money. So they coerce celebrities into joining to get their
message out their, treating them like gods, and if they consider leaving, they threaten
to publicly reveal information that was recorded during auditing sessions, and other means
of counseling. This happened to Jason Beghe, who claimed to have spent over 1 million dollars
on the church. And they deny the claims of their teachings as just some false rumor that
was conjured up as an attempt to bring down the truth of the church. And they then make
you to look like the fool by simply believing they believe these things. Once they do this,
the line between rumor and fact blurs as far as scientology is concerned. But the ones
who do know the truth, actively stand up against it. Scientology is not considered a religion
in many countries, and even a cult in others, Germany considers scientology to have totalitarian
tendencies, and keeps a close eye on the church, as well, france flat out calls it a fraud.
Scientologists oppose things like psychiatry, modern medicine, homosexuality, marriage outside
of the church, Criticism, researching scientology, the media, heresy, logic, and reason. It is
a cult, it is dangerous, and it is a scam.
But here's one more message for all you Christians who are laughing at it’s absurdity.