The Church of Scientology
track taken from an encyclopedia of religions. 
is the religious movement founded in California in 1954 by Lafayette Ronald (Ron) Hubbard. The headquarters of this religious organization is located in the UK, Saint Hill Manor near East Grinstead in Sussex. Refer to it about 20 million Muslims [to that of Scientology], called Scientologists.
Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, United States, March 3, 1911. His father was a sailor and the young Ronald, aged 14 to 18 years, taken traveled extensively in China and India experiences performed by the monks engaged in research of the spiritual foundation of existence, while in French Polynesia had the opportunity to learn about the indigenous religions. Back in America, between 1930 and 1932 he devoted himself to studies in nuclear physics and mathematics at the University of Washington, and then, with the entry of the United States in World War II (1941), he enlisted as a naval officer. In the spring of 1942 was wounded in the hip and back, and suffered severe injuries to the optic nerves. Up to 1945 remained virtually paralyzed and nearly blind. Subsequently elaborated the principles of the discipline which he called Dianetics , and in less than two years failed to heal. In 1948 he published the first report of his findings on religion and life, followed in 1950, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health , a book that was for many years a best-seller in the U.S. .
a result of these editorial successes began to form large groups of Dianetics, and the same Ron Hubbard gave birth to the first Institute of Dianetics .
In 1951, however, after splitting by his second wife Sarah Northrup, who accused him of being a paranoid schizophrenic, Hubbard found himself having to face the harsh attack of medicine, according to which its institutions were operating in a very unscientific. Hubbard was then decided in 1954 to dissolve their institutions and instead of giving life to the Church of Scientology . Four years later, he moved to Britain in 1959 and settled in the castle of Saint Hill Manor in Sussex. Here, gradually expanded to accommodate the increasingly articulated structures of his organization, formed in 1966 an Office for Security ( Guardian Office), the "arm of the World socialriformista Scientology Church 'led by Hubbard's third wife, Mary Sue - with her daughter Diana who took a role of increasing responsibility - Was divided into six departments, responsible respectively for the services, information, public relations, legal issues, financial affairs and social coordination.
In 1968, the movement of Ron Hubbard had serious legal problems, the point that the British Parliament decreed the expulsion of its founder and his followers. Hubbard then moved to a private fleet, transformed into the new headquarters of the organization ( Sea Organization).
convictions suffered in England were added others: in 1977, Hubbard's wife was sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Washington, Jane Kember, the director of the Guardian Office the United States, could hardly escape arrest by taking them to a foreign country. Ron Hubbard in 1978 in France and three of his French followers were sentenced in absentia to a heavy fine and a prison sentence for the crime of fraud.
Only in 1980 the judicial and legal complications faded, when the British Parliament withdrew entry ban issued twelve years ago and Hubbard, after years of hiding, he could reappear in public.
Six years later, January 24, 1986, died in his ranch near Los Angeles. ;
Since then, the direction of Scientology Church has passed into the hands of Herber Jentzsch.
Scientologists believe that their association is "the most important spiritual movement of our time," blossomed like a flower from the best schools world's wisdom, the Vedism, Hinduism, Chinese traditional wisdom of Lama (Buddhism), Christianity, Greek philosophy and Arabic, the thought of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and others.
The key concept of Scientology is Dianetics (greek: give , "through" and nous, 'mind', 'intelligence') called "science of spiritual health."
According to this view, human activities are dominated by eight dynamic forces: the self, gender, group, mankind, the dynamic animal, universal, spiritual and that of 'infinite. They are represented in the "Cross of Scientology ', consisting of two superimposed crosses [very similar to that first used by Satanist Aleister Crowley, which Hubbard attended a long time and in a press conference he called" my very good friend "- PDC tape # 18, December 5, 1952].
Ron Hubbard also distinct in the nature of man, three different components: the spirit ( thetan), the body ( body) and mind (mind ). The first entity is immortal and able to be reborn and is a source for the man in the full awareness of self. Taking advantage of pure energy ( theta), the thetan creates and changes the physical universe, dominated by the principles of matter, energy, space and time shortened by MEST abbreviations.
At the moment of conception thetan would enter the human body, so leave it at the time of death. At that point the "spirit" would move in a dimension that is called "between-lives', which would then return to enter the body of a new human being.
The mind or reason has a positive and one negative. The first is the 'analytical mind ("analytical reason'), which makes the individual aware, allowing them to think in logical terms. The data collected by the consciousness is stored in a memory bank Standard and are drawn from the analytical reason to induce the man to act rationally.
If the individual possessed only this type of rational capacity there was no bias or disease . The latter has the effect of the "reactive mind" (reactive mind ), which is the negative aspect of reason. It takes action to address specific situations of shock - such as wounds or painful experiences - and leads to the arrest of self.
The subconscious mind, in these cases, records all the negative images (in the form of impressions and of sensations, ie engrams) in the Bank of reaction. The engram, in this sense, is the negative experience of a moment, captured by reason reactive and recorded, as on a magnetic tape, in the Bank's reaction. When an experience similar to that recorded repeats itself, the engram is "restimulated" and affects human behavior, determining, for example, fear. Everyone is affected by the conditioning a number of engrams varying between 200 and 300, a condition that causes a wide variety of psychosomatic illnesses, and that can lead to 'aberration (' aberration '), a term that indicates the deviations from normality and rationality, such as depression , neuroses, psychoses, and obsessions. The purpose of the Scientologist is therefore to subtract the men to these deviations, thus making humanity free from war, crime and mental illness. In this way the world will become clear ('clear', 'clean'), and you can verify the absolute spiritual freedom, with the increase in each of their intelligence and their own capacity.
To achieve this freedom and this power, the adept must pass through seven stages, to achieve many of which are required courses, a more expensive than the other. The seventh stage, that of man "lit" ( clear), however, does not mean the end of the process of spiritual liberation, it must reach the condition of operating thetan ("thetan fully operational), which will transcend the same physical universe. To achieve this condition requires further eight courses that take place at Saint Hill Manor, and which in 1986 cost about 33 million lire.
The practice of 'auditing ("hearing") is instead a particular therapeutic technique, a sort of "spiritual counseling." According to the conception of the Scientologists, every individual, consciously or unconsciously, record his experiences on a personal track of time. Positive experiences are recorded as facsimile, as negative engrams. The technique of 'auditing is to find these recordings in their own track of time.
Everyone, however, also carries with it a full track, which is recorded all that has happened since the beginning of the universe , and this second type of track can be gutted by the ' auditing. During this complex 'spiritual counseling', the auditing acts towards the 'patient' as a psychoanalyst, or as a confessor, and strives to discover the engrams. In his book 's auditor usually uses some sort of lie detector, a device known as Elektro Hubbard Meter .
With regard to ethical standards, the Scientologists pursued the attainment of a' high behavior in view of the best possible life for the individual and for humanity. "
The interpersonal relationships, in the light of these considerations, must be governed by three principles which form the ARC triangle. The letter A stands for Affinity ('affinity'), the R reality ("reality"), and C to communication ("communication"). Even within the ' auditing, the relationship between patient and auditor should be guided by the principles of this triangle. Another important combination of principles and ethical behavior is described by the KRC triangle, where K stands for knowledge ("knowledge"), R responsability for ('responsibility') and C to control ('control'). These two triangles are of great importance and not randomly appear with the letter S (which stands for Scientology ) in the symbol of Scientology.
Compliance with the ethical standards by members is investigated by special officers, establishing rewards and punishments in relation to conduct.
If a member performs acts which it deems objectionable or obnoxious is defined as a potential trouble source ('potential source of disturbance'). These are considered such as the free-loaders ("parasites"), ie those who joined after Scientology to it have distanced themselves, or those who have been in contact with a suppressive person ('suppressive person'), that is, with whoever is considered harmful to the ideals of the organization.
In the field of propaganda, Initial contacts with potential new members take place on the street (by so-called field staff members), with the free offer aimed at passers-by to participate in a particular personality test. In this regard, a local group called mission, fills out a form. The analysis of the responses is to provide information on examiner within limits community and to indicate specific 'communication courses "for a fee.
charge of these courses are the priests of Scientology, which include, first,' auditor. Above the auditors, and oversight functions in respect of the latter, there is also the supervisor case ("case supervisor"), a priest involved particularly qualified to correct any errors or uncertainties of auditor submitted to it.
At the top of the hierarchy is the guardian world-wide, which operates the Central Security Office World of Saint Hill Manor, its provisions are called orders guardian program, and have authority equal to that of the founder Ron Hubbard and his wife Mary Sue. The guidelines drawn up by the founder at the time are published by the office of communications via special "Bulletins," which generally confidential and invariably printed since its first edition in July of 1956, in red letters on white paper. Green characters have instead called Policy Letters, also drafted by the founder and disseminated by the office of communication.
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