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‘SCIENTOLOGY’ is a non-Christian ‘CULT’
Recently I
was contacted by a reporter from the Belfast Newsletter and asked for my
comments on/reaction to the increased ‘outreach’ activity in Northern Ireland
by The Church of Scientology. In particular they had been targeting
shopping centres throughout the Province where they were offering people free ‘stress
tests’. I shared some thoughts with the reporter and his article was
published on Saturday 2nd June 2007 under a heading of Scientologists
seek recruits in shopping centre ‘tests’.
In relation
to the shopping centre activity the article stated ‘Jim McGookin, manager
of the Fairhill Shopping Centre in Ballymena said the group did not use the
name “Scientology” when it booked a stall there and said he was “uncomfortable”
with the idea that they were promoting religious beliefs. But Mr Duffy [Northern
Ireland spokesman for Scientology] said the woman who took the
booking knew they were Scientologists’.
Then what
about the free ‘stress tests’ that were on offer? Mr Duffy was quoted as
saying ‘our stress tests involve people holding two cans and a small charge
is passed between them. When we ask questions about different areas of people’s
lives we can determine where they are stressed according to the movement of the
needle’. The article also stated ‘ He [Mr Duffy} has
no knowledge of the test being independently verified as effective’.
In
relation to the title of this, my own article, I have very deliberately
employed the use of the term ‘CULT’ and shortly I will show how this is
a perfectly accurate and appropriate designation when it comes to ‘SCIENTOLOGY’.
They however see the use of the term ‘CULT’ in a very different
light as was clearly evidenced in the BBC 1 ‘Panorama’ TV report on ‘Scientology’
by John Sweeny that was broadcast on 14 May 2007. On the following link you
will see excerpts from this programme culminating in the reaction by
Scientologist spokesman, Tommy Davis, to the use by Sweeney of the term ‘CULT’
when he was speaking of ‘SCIENTOLOGY’.
What
precisely is a ‘CULT’? Collins English Dictionary defines the word
‘CULT’ as follows – ‘A specific system of religious worship: A
sect devoted to such a system’. The word ‘sect’
is in
the same dictionary defined as ‘A
group of people with a common interest, doctrine etc’.
In
the Belfast Newsletter article there was a photograph showing local Northern
Ireland Scientology spokesman, ‘Willie
Duffy outside the Church of Scientology Belfast
Mission’. In
the ‘Yellow Pages’ telephone directory for
Northern Ireland, under the section headed ‘Religious Organisations’ there is an entry for ‘The Church of Scientology and Dianetics’ and the address listed
is that of the building in the centre of Belfast that was shown in the
photograph.
In
Scientology’s own publication ‘What
is Scientology? A Guidebook to the world’s fastest growing religion’
chapter 1 is headed ‘Introduction to the Scientology Religion’
and chapter
2 is headed ‘The Religious
Heritage of Scientology’. On page 48 we read ‘in 1954 Scientologists in Los Angeles established the
first Church of Scientology’. On page 168 under a sub-heading of ‘Scientology Services’ we read ‘when getting married, mourning a death or naming our
children, most feel that a ceremony is appropriate. Scientology congregations
celebrate weddings and christenings with their own formal ceremonies, hold
Sunday services and mark the passing of their fellows with funeral rites.
The Chaplain or minister conducts these functions with dignity and
order…Sunday sermons generally revolve around primary points of Scientology
philosophy…such sermons covering the basic truths of Mr
Hubbard’s philosophy…so much
of the Scientology minister’s work is aimed at helping the infirm, the estranged,
the saddened…With the tools provided by L. Ron Hubbard
he can actually better conditions’.
I
have underlined certain portions of those quotes from Scientology’s own
publication to show that quite clearly and unquestionably ‘The Church of Scientology’ fully meets the criteria
for a ‘CULT’ as outlined in the
dictionary definition statements.
The
Collins Dictionary also made reference under its definition of ‘CULT’ to ‘intense interest in and devotion to a person, idea or
activity; the person, idea etc arousing such devotion’. I highlighted in red the
name of L. Ron Hubbard and it is clear from these few brief references that he
formulated the ‘CULTIC’ ideas and activities found in Scientology and he is also
the ‘CULT’ person or figure identified
with this religion. So, for Tommy Davis to react the way he did to the use of
the term ‘CULT’ would appear to indicate
a failure on his part to fully understand what constitutes a bona-fide ‘CULT’.
Perhaps
in particular it was the use of the prefix ‘sinister’ by John Sweeney when referring to Scientology as a ‘CULT’
that caused
Tommy Davis to almost, as we say in this part of the world, ‘blow a gasket’. I
myself in the title of this article have used the prefix ‘non-Christian’ and I will now give my reasons for
using that particular designation and I will leave it to the readers to decide
whether the Panorama-prefix of ‘sinister’
is also
appropriate.
Those
of you who have read through articles on our website may have come across
articles on other ‘non-Christian
CULTS’ such
as Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses. In each case I highlighted 4 features
that are often found in ‘non-Christian
CULTS’.
The
first feature in a ‘non-Christian
CULT’ is
that of ‘An earthly head or founder’. Well, we have already learned even from the
brief Scientology quotes given that the ‘founder’ of this religious ‘CULT’ was L. Ron Hubbard.
Chapter
3 of ‘What is Scientology?’ is devoted to outlining
the life of Mr Hubbard and quite a tale is told [pages
26-47]. He was born on 13 March 1911 and as a young boy he had a ‘do and dare’ attitude and he also received
special tutoring from his highly educated mother thus cultivating a love for
Shakespeare and Greek philosophy. In his early years he was apparently
initiated into the secrets of the Blackfoot Indians with whom he had become
friendly and ‘at the age of
six he became a blood brother of the Blackfeet, an honour bestowed on few white
men’. He
was a ‘Boy Scout First Class’ and the following year ‘he became the youngest Eagle Scout ever’. He developed an interest
in Sigmund Freud’s theories and Oriental Philosophy including Buddhism. He
travelled extensively – ‘By
the age of 19…he had travelled more than a quarter of a million miles…to
China…Japan, Guam, the Philippines and other points in the Orient…Everywhere he
went he also took time to help and teach others’.
Back in the USA in 1929 he resumed his education and eventually ‘enrolled at George Washington University’ and ‘enrolled in one of the first nuclear
physics courses taught in the United States’. With such atomic power now
available to mankind he was concerned how individuals might handle this
technology and this led him to study in particular the human mind and ‘stunned he soon came to the realization
that no one knew how the mind worked’ and he concluded he ‘would have to do a lot of research’. More apparently
colourful and exciting episodes in his life are then detailed until ‘Returning to Washington DC, Ron compiled
his sixteen years of investigation into the human condition, writing the
manuscript “The Original Thesis” (today published under the
title “The Dynamics of Life”) a
paper outlining the principles he was using…He gave a copy or two to some
friends and they promptly duplicated it and sent it to their friends…In this
way, passed hand to hand, DIANETICS on its own became known the world over”. We are told that the
medical establishment ‘refused
to accept DIANETICS’ and tried to ‘suppress
its use’. In the Belfast Newsletter article
local Scientology spokesman, Willie Duffy said that ‘Scientology was initially warmly received by
psychiatric and medical associations until they began to perceive it as a
threat to their professions’. Ron Hubbard decided to market his
findings direct to the public and so on 9 May ‘DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health’ was published.
In
chapter 4 of ‘What is
Scientology?’ under
a heading of ‘A New Era for Mankind’ we read on pages 48-50 ‘Given the inherently religious nature of Mr Hubbard’s work
through these years, it was only natural that those surrounding him would come
to see themselves, not only as students of a new philosophy, but also as
students of a new religion. And so, in 1954, Scientologists in Los Angeles
established the first Church of Scientology. L Ron
Hubbard founded the subject –
early Scientologists began the church…On 1 September 1966, with Scientology
established as a worldwide religion, Mr Hubbard resigned his position as Executive
Director of the Church and stepped down from the boards of all Church
corporations in order to fully devote himself to researches into the highest
levels of spiritual awareness and ability…he returned to sea in part to
continue his work in an undistracted environment. On board ship for the next
seven years he again travelled extensively while devoting his attention to
ever-worsening problems facing society…Returning to shore in 1975 Ron continued his
travels…before finally settling in the Southern California desert community of
La Quinta near Palm Springs, his home until 1979…Having fully completed his
research and seen its broad application expand to six continents and over 60
countries around the world, improving the lives of millions of people, L. Ron Hubbard
departed this life on 24 January 1986’.
The
first feature in a ‘non-Christian
CULT’, ‘An earthly head or founder’ is fully met in the
person of L. Ron Hubbard. Before I move on to the second
feature I want to show extracts from several TV programmes that give their
‘take’ on the life of L Ron Hubbard. These programmes
included the recent ‘Panorama’ programme already
mentioned, an ITV ‘Big Story’ programme presented by
Dermot Murnaghan and a very revealing opening segment [14 minutes] of ‘Secret
Lives’ broadcast
by Channel 4 [as you will see some of the
material does for obvious reasons overlap]
It
was interesting that in the article printed in the Belfast Newsletter, the
local Scientology representative, Willie Duffy said ‘After being blinded and crippled in the Second World
War, Hubbard developed his own philosophy with which he cured himself’ – the evidence that you
have just watched in the ‘Secret
Lives’
video segment tells quite a different story.
The second feature in a ‘non-Christian CULT’ is that of having ‘An authority in addition to or in place of the Bible’. I would hope that from what you have already read and seen that you will have quickly realised that as far as The Church of Scientology is concerned, their ‘bible’ is the book ‘DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health’ which was written of course by their founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
To
substantiate that claim let me just repeat what I wrote earlier when I quoted
from page 168 of ‘What is
Scientology?’ –
‘Sunday sermons
generally revolve around primary points of Scientology philosophy…such sermons
covering the basic truths of Mr Hubbard’s philosophy’.
Earlier
we read on page 86 ‘Routine
testing by Scientology organisations of every preclear [a ‘preclear’ is
defined on page 80 as ‘A person receiving auditing
“[personal counselling”] is called a preclear from pre-Clear, a person not yet
Clear’] has made Dianetics and Scientology the most validated
practices in the field of mind and spirit.
According
to Scientology their ‘bible’ called ‘Dianetics’ can bring people to a state of ‘CLEAR’ that is summarised as follows on
page 65 ‘The Clear enjoys
living to a very full extent. He can stand up to situations, which, before he
was cleared, would have reduced him to a shambles. The ability to live well and
fully and enjoy that living is the gift of Clear’. One could almost be tempted to
write that according to Scientology ‘Dianetics are Clearly able to make people wise unto
salvation [Scientology-style]’.
We
read further on page 417 ‘Dianetics
offered a means to happiness, stability and success’.
The
second feature in a ‘non-Christian
CULT’, that
of having ‘An authority in addition
to or in place of the Bible’ is fully met in the position and prominence give to the
book ‘Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health’.
The
third feature in a ‘non-Christian
CULT’ is
that they ‘have a wrong view of the
person and work of Jesus Christ’. When it comes to Jesus Christ Scientology does not have a
lot to say. In his book ‘Truth
Under Attack’, gifted cult researcher, Dr Eryl Davies wrote on page 180 ‘Christ is unimportant in this cult [Scientology] and
there are very few references to Christ in their publications. Jesus Christ is
respected as one of the great religious teachers’.
In
their book ‘What is
Scientology?’ chapter
2 traces the history of mankind’s search to discover ‘the true nature of man’. On page 12 we read ‘Two thousand years ago Jesus of Nazareth brought new
hope to man by preaching that this life was not all men might hope for, that
man was more than only flesh and would continue to live, even after death.
Implicit in his message was the promise of salvation from suffering and a
promise of eternal peace’.
That
quote of course only gives half the story because to obtain ‘salvation from suffering and a promise of
eternal peace’ the Lord Jesus Christ preached for men to “repent and believe the gospel” [Mark 1:15] and of course the
consequences for those who died in disobedience and unbelief would be to go to “outer darkness [where] there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth” [Matthew 25:30] and where there will be “everlasting punishment” [Matthew 25:46].
Continuing
to read on page 13 it states ‘Thought
crucified, the hope that Christ brought to man did not die. Instead, his death
became symbolic of the triumph of the spirit over the material body and so
brought a new awareness of man’s true nature’.
This
quote demonstrates the total ‘blindness’ of Scientology where the death of
Christ on the cross is concerned. His death was not ‘symbolic of the triumph of the spirit over the
material body’
but His death was a redeeming sacrifice to save repentant and believing sinful
people from the divine condemnation that rested upon them because of sin, or,
as we read about Christ in Hebrews
9:26 “But now once in the end of the ages hath he appeared to put away sin by
the sacrifice of himself”.
The
Scientology quote is also totally silent on the glorious truth of the bodily
resurrection of Christ because, basically, a resurrected physical body does not
fit in with Scientology’s understanding of ‘things eternal’. The elevation of
‘the spiritual’ over ‘the physical’ is illustrated in Scientology’s definition
of what is referred to as ‘The
Seventh Dynamic’. We read on page 71 ‘The
seventh dynamic is the SPIRITUAL DYNAMIC, the urge to survive as spiritual
beings or the urge for life itself to survive. Anything spiritual, with or
without identity would come under the heading of the seventh dynamic…The
seventh dynamic is life source. This is separate from the physical universe and
is the source of life itself. Thus there is an effort for the survival of life
force’.
The
third feature in a ‘non-Christian
CULT’ in
that they ‘have a wrong view of the
person and work of Jesus Christ’ is illustrated in what few references there are by
Scientology to the Lord Jesus Christ.
The
fourth feature in a ‘non-Christian
CULT’ is
that they ‘have a wrong view of
salvation’. From a Christian standpoint ‘salvation’ is totally tied up with the issue
of what the Bible identifies as ’sin’.
The mission of the Lord Jesus Christ was
summed up in Matthew 1:21 where Joseph was told, “thou shalt call his name Jesus for he
shall save his people from their sins”.
The
problem for Scientology is that they do not hold to a biblical concept of ‘sin’ –either ‘original’ or ‘actual’.
Biblical
Christians believe God when He declares that, ever since Adam sinned in the
Garden of Eden, the heart of all people is inclined towards sinful behaviour –
we read in Jeremiah 17:9 “The
heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” There was One who knew
it perfectly, the Lord Jesus Christ and in Matthew 15:18-20 He said, “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come
forth from the heart and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man”.
On
the front page of the Belfast Telegraph of 20th July 1995 there was
this advert –
Have you read
DIANETICS
Lecture and visual demonstration
At 7.30pm in the Plaza Hotel
Belfast Friday 21st July
Connected with the Church of Scientology
I
personally attended the lecture and was one of a very small number, perhaps
about 8 in total and around 4/5 of those were Scientologists. It was very ‘clear’
from the presentation that Scientology regarded all people as being basically
good and any problems of life were caused by ‘engrams’ [mental
image pictures of past events, recorded by someone’s ‘reactive
mind’ and which need to be ‘cleared’ by a Church of Scientology ‘auditor’].
At
the end of the presentation an opportunity was given to ask questions and I
asked 5 in total. The truth is that my questions were designed more to make a
statement of Christian beliefs rather than to illicit Scientology answers.
These were my questions –
1.
Does Scientology recognise the biblical definition of SIN –
“the transgression of God’s law” [1st John 3:4]?
2.
Does Scientology recognise the biblical teaching that as
“all have sinned” [Romans 3:23] then all are subject to the penalty of sin –
“death” [Romans 6:23] and all non-Christians are under God’s condemnation [John
3:18] and are under God’s wrath [John 3:36]?
3.
Does Scientology believe that Jesus Christ was “God
manifest in the flesh” [1st Timothy 3:16]?
4.
Does Scientology believe that Jesus Christ willingly went
to the cross as a sacrificial substitute for sinners to bear the wrath of God
that was due to others because of their sin [1st Corinthians 15:1-4
& Romans 4:25]?
5.
Does Scientology accept the biblical teaching that “man
dies once and then faces judgment” Hebrews 9:27]?
The
reason I asked question 5 was that during the presentation it became ‘clear’
that Scientology was promoting belief in a form of ‘reincarnation’. On the
following Scientology website
http://www.scientology.org/en_US/religion/catechism/pg011.html
we
read the following –
Does Scientology believe in reincarnation or past lives?
Reincarnation is a
definite system and is not part of Scientology. It is a fact that unless one
begins to handle aberrations built up in past lives, he doesn’t progress .The
common definition of reincarnation has been altered from its original meaning.
The word has come to mean “to be born again in different life forms” whereas
its actual definition is “to be born again into the flesh or into another
body.” Scientology ascribes to this latter, original definition of
reincarnation. Today in Scientology, many people have certainty that they
have lived lives prior to their current one. These are referred to as past
lives, not as reincarnation. Past lives is not a dogma in Scientology, but
generally Scientologists, during their auditing, experience a past life and
then know for themselves that they have lived before. To believe one had a
physical or other existence prior to the identity of the current body is not a
new concept — but it is an exciting one. In Scientology, you are given the
tools to handle upsets and aberrations from past lives that adversely affect
you in present time, thus freeing you to live a much happier life.
On
another non-Scientology website for which this is the link
http://skepdic.com/reincarn.html
we
read the following –
L. Ron Hubbard, author of Dianetics
and the founder of Scientology, introduced his own version of reincarnation
into his new religion. According to Hubbard, past lives need auditing to get
at the root of one's "troubles." He also claims that…some
scientologists have been dogs and other animals in previous lives ("A Note
on Past Lives" in The Rediscovery of
the Human Soul). According to Hubbard, "It has only been
in Scientology that the mechanics of death have been thoroughly
understood." What happens in death is this: the Thetan (spirit) finds
itself without a body (which has died) and then it goes looking for a new body. Thetans "will hang
around people. They will see a woman who is pregnant and follow her down the
street." Then, the Thetan will slip into the newborn
"usually...two or three minutes after the delivery of a child from the
mother. A Thetan usually picks it up about the time the baby takes
its first gasp." How Hubbard knows this is never revealed.
As for the first
4 questions, the following Scientology quotes are recorded in Dr Walter
Martin’s publication – ‘The Kingdom of The Cults’. On pages 348-349 Dr Martin cites several
quotations from a ‘one page flyer’ by ‘L. Ron Hubbard’
that was titled ‘Professional Auditor’s Bulletin # 31’. These
were the relevant quotes –
‘You will find
the cross as a symbol all over the universe, and the CHRIST LEGEND as an
implant in “preclears” a million years ago’.
‘It is despicable
and utterly beneath contempt to tell a man he must repent, that he is evil’.
‘Hell is a total
myth, an invention just to make people very unhappy and is a vicious lie’.
There were 2
other very revealing Scientology quotes cited on these pages. The first from ‘L.
Ron Hubbard: Certainty Magazine, Los Angeles, CA: Publications
Organisation, Vol. 5, no. 10 n.d.’ read ‘Neither Lord Buddha nor
Jesus Christ were Ots [OperatingThetans, the
highest Scientology level] according to evidence. They were just a shade above
Clear.’
The
second quote from ‘L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology: A World Religion, Los
Angeles, CA: Publications Organisation pp 16. 35’ read ‘personal
salvation in one lifetime [is] freedom from the cycle of birth and death
[reincarnation]…Religious practice of all Faiths is the universal way to
Wisdom, Understanding and/or salvation’.
The
fourth feature in a ‘non-Christian CULT’ in that they ‘have
a wrong view of salvation’ is evident in the philosophy and
teachings found within Scientology.
Concluding Thoughts
In the light, particularly
of these last Scientology quotes, and from a biblical Christian perspective,
the eternal consequences of someone trusting in the teachings and practices
of Scientology are both sad and frightening. To reject, as Scientology
clearly does, God’s revealed truth about the divine person and redeeming work
of His incarnate Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, will bring to the ears of scientologists
when they die the chilling words from the lips of Christ as recorded in Matthew
25:41 “Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil
and his angels”.
That is the
tragic eternal misery that Scientology will lead its followers
into. But Scientology does also, in the here and now, lead to tragic temporal
consequences and to temporal misery. This is well illustrated in the
following video segments that begin with a short concluding segment from a 1987
TV programme that focussed on the family grief of relations of a young lady
called Ruth Clarke who had got involved with Scientology. The next
segment is then from an RTE TV ‘Late Late Show’ programme broadcast in 1995 and
you will hear contributions from a girl called Mary Johnston who was personally
involved in Scientology for a period of time and from a Mr P J Phelan
whose brother Tony had got involved with Scientology in America.
From these personal experiences of people and
families affected by involvement either directly or indirectly with Scientology
it is clear that control of people and their
finances is very much on the Scientology agenda.
This should come as no surprise as L. Ron Hubbard was likewise interested
in controlling people and their finances. The following segment from Channel 4
TVs ‘Secret Lives’ will illustrate this.
These
revelations about L. Ron
Hubbard have
not come from angry ex-members but from people who worked closely with him and
‘shared his dream’.
In
conclusion, we can see that, in contrast to Christianity that is built upon the
divine person and redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ,’ One who was “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners and made higher than the heavens” [Hebrews 7:26], the religion of Scientology is built upon the fanciful “philosophy and vain deceit” [Colossians
2:8] of a
‘fallen son of Adam’.
How
fallen was L. Ron Hubbard? Let me finish with
what is recorded on pages 367-368 of ‘Larson’s New Book of Cults’ – there we read ‘L. Ron Hubbard died 24 January 1986 at age
74…One of Hubbard’s survivors was his eldest son, Ronald E. DeWolf, who changed
his name to remove any associations with his father. Even before Hubbard’s death,
DeWolf referred to him as “one of the biggest con men of this century”, a black
magic practitioner who concocted his theories while under the influence of
drugs. DeWolf, now a Christian, also says his father had many mistresses and
was plagued by venereal disease’.
When
it comes to obtaining real and lasting freedom from ‘stress’ people should not ‘hold two cans as a charge is passed between them’ [as the Belfast Newsletter reported] but rather they should
reach out, by faith alone, and clasp the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ who
said “Come unto me all ye that
labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest” [Matthew 11: 28].
Cecil
Andrews – ‘Take Heed’ Ministries – 5 June 2007
APPENDIX
As
L. Ron Hubbard came up very much with a
language and vocabulary that is unique to Scientology I thought it might be helpful to set out some of these
unique words and definitions as set out in their book ‘What is Scientology’?
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WORD(S) |
Scientology Definition |
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AUDITOR |
A minister or
minister-in-training of the Church of Scientology. Auditor means one
who listens, from the Latin audire meaning “to hear or listen. An auditor
is a person trained and qualified in applying auditing to individuals
for their betterment. An auditor does not do anything to a preclear;
he works together with the preclear to help the preclear defeat
his reactive mind. |
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CLEAR |
A highly
desirable state for the individual, achieved through auditing, which
was never attainable before Dianetics. A Clear is a person who
no longer has his own reactive mind and therefore suffers none of the
ill effects that the reactive mind can cause. The Clear has no engrams
which, when restimulated throw out the correctness of his computations by
entering hidden and false data. |
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PRECLEAR |
A person who
is receiving Scientology or Dianetics auditing on his
way to becoming Clear, hence pre-Clear. Through auditing
he is finding out more about himself and life. |
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DIANETICS |
Comes from the
Greek words dia meaning “through” and nous meaning “soul”. Dianetics
is a methodology developed by L. Ron Hubbard, which can help alleviate
such ailments as unwanted sensations and emotions, irrational fears and
psychosomatic illnesses. It is most accurately described as what the soul
is doing to the body through the mind. |
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E-METER |
Short for Electropsychometer,
a specially designed instrument which helps the auditor and preclear
locate areas of spiritual distress or travail. The E-Meter is a
religious artifact and can only be used by Scientology ministers or
ministers-in-training. It does not diagnose or cure anything. It measures the
mental state or change of state of a person and thus is of benefit to the auditor
in helping the preclear locate areas to be handled. |
|
ENGRAM |
A recording
made by the reactive mind when a person is “unconscious”. An engram
is not a memory – it is a particular type of mental image picture, which
is a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every
perception present in a moment of partial or full “unconsciousness”. |
|
REACTIVE MIND |
That part of
the mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis, which is not under
a person’s volitional control, and which exerts force and the power of
command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions. |
|
THETAN |
An immortal
spiritual being, the human soul. The term soul is not used because it
has developed so many other meanings from use in other religions and
practices that it doesn’t describe precisely what was discovered in Scientology.
We use the term thetan instead from the Greek letter theta, the
traditional symbol for thought or life. One does not have a thetan,
something one keeps somewhere apart from oneself; one is a thetan. The
thetan is the person himself, not his body or his name or the physical
universe, his mind or anything else. It is that which is aware of being
aware; the identity which IS the individual. |
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OPERATING THETAN |
A state of
being above Clear in which the Clear has become refamiliarised
with his native capabilities. An Operating Thetan is knowing and
willing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time. [Cecil’s comment
– “Ye shall be as gods”] |
|
SCIENTOLOGY |
Comes from the
Latin scio which means “know” and the Greek word logos meaning
“the word or outward form by which the inward thought is expressed and made
known”. Thus, Scientology means knowing about knowing. Scientology is
an applied religious philosophy developed by L. Ron Hubbard. It is the study
and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, universes and other
life. |
UNQUESTIONABLY
‘SCIENTOLOGY’ is a non-Christian ‘CULT’