G.) Scientology
The desire to have a clean world without internal as well as external contamination, including wars, crimes, psychological disorders and many diseases, tension, and stress are the major goals of Scientology and Dianetics.
To express it with one sentence from L. R. Hubbard's Aphorisms: "The sun never sets on Scientology and it is the most vital movement on Earth.
We will succeed and with every turn of the Earth we will move further."
However, the final goal of Scientology is to fill the world with an absolute spiritual freedom.
This will enable man to develop the intelligence and other capabilities of the body and mind. Each Scientologist strives to be purely clean, to have a creative activity, to have great power of thoughts with an energy, and also an IQ higher than 135.
The method goes through several stages that can be adopted in special Scientology courses.
The beginner must first get rid of negative engram, and thus, he first participates in an awareness level and then he progresses through other stages up to the eighth level, the OT (operating thetan).
During these courses, the enrichment of positive experiences takes place, which is called facsimile, and the negative engrams are reduced.
Everything takes place on a hypothetical time track that records all the experiences of an individual.
On the so-called track of mankind, all happenings from the beginning of the universe until today are recorded.
With the help of an educated auditor, the audited individual goes back on a time track to the past and tries to capture and identify the particularly negative engrams.
It is a specific dianetic investigation through a dianetic method supplemented by the usage of an electric meter, which is a physical device measuring resistance, which enables the capturing of individual negative experiences and that deactivates their negative emotional charges, or pushes them from memory recording.
This process is called the auditing command, and all basic ethical principles must be secured in its application, primarily the moral code or the code of dignity, then the auditor's code and the code of Scientology containing a total of 15 items that are modifications of the medical oath of Hippocrates: Don`t leave anybody in need or in danger of life - your honor is more valuable than life itself - your integrity is more valuable than your body - be faithful to yourself and your convictions, your goals, etc.
A No. 1 priority is to respect the integrity of ARC (Affinity, Reality, Communication, or the relations, realities, and communication (leading to mutual understanding.)
This teaching has been the subject of exceptional criticism among experts from the beginning until this day. They criticize the methods as well as the way of influence and the entire concept of Scientology and Dianetics.
However, while major critics are the supporters of classical and conservative medicine and psychology, among the defenders and supporters are more and more researchers from other areas, especially supporters of so-called alternative medicine, Eastern philosophical and religious sciences, and methods of teaching and cleansing the body and soul.
The experiences of L. Ron Hubbard are presented as negative arguments: he was accused of financial intrigues, suspected of spying activity, and accused of three marriages. However, the only thing that can be objectively confirmed was his expulsion from Great Britain at the end of the sixties.
On the other hand, the thorough investigation that Hubbard underwent in the USA freed him, and the churches of Scientology were again recognized as religious, charitable societies and as such they were exempted from paying taxes (1993).
Among the major arguments are the results of his activity and considerably strong theories and methodologies of Dianetics and principles of the Church of Scientology.
Simplicity of the formulations enables an easier understanding even for less educated people: e.g., that Dianetics is a way to expand knowledge which sooner or later leads to the spiritual freedom of man.
They are rather theories of religious and philosophical belief more so than a scientific and philosophical explanation: e.g., the notion that man is essentially good and is trying to make it through his life is very clearly presented but not justified in detail.
If we consider that in the 70s and 80s, Scientology and Dianetics experienced certain progressive developments and many positive changes, as we may find out when we compare them with the former publication of "Dianetics", we can state that this is an exceptionally successful movement of the New Age that has found its place in post-modern society worldwide.
This teaching means a new civilization without war, disease and crime.
It is a community of spiritually free people with a high level of ethical and social responsibility meeting the needs of the current post-modern society - it is a society of conscientious, capable, and happy people.
This goal can be accomplished through activities based on technology and the Dianetics method of L. Ron Hubbard: e.g.,
The World Institute of Scientology Enterprise (WISE)What are the prospects of the Church of Scientology among other movements of the New Age and what is the future of this church in the world?
Association for Better Living and Education, International (ABLE)
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)
Narconon (Non-Narcosis).Let us try to define the role and position of the church of Scientology among other religious movements and churches and let us try to make comparable religious evaluation of the Scientology at the end of the 20th century.
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