Scientology Régis Dericquebourg Professor, Sociology of Religion University of Lille III Lille, France III. HOW DO SCIENTOLOGISTS VALIDATE THEIR CREEDS?   III.V. THE MEANING OF LIFE      Members claim to have found a meaning for their lives. One of them described himself as a sailor drifting on the ocean under a cloudy sky with no compass and no landmarks to guide him when he found a map and all the navigational equipment he needed. Scientologists think they have found the meaning of life and the way to go forward. One of them, who gave up studying medicine, admits that he could not see the point of all the effort he was making, because the comfortable, middle-class existence he was heading for seemed to be inconsistent with what he felt was the meaning of life, meaning he said he had found in Scientology.

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