Scientology

The Church of Scientology and Christianity

1. Introduction to Scientology
• Founded by Science Fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1962
• Scientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life
• In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and experiencing results

2. The Nature of Man
• Man is an immortal, spiritual being. His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime. His capabilities are unlimited
• Man consists of three parts. The first of these is the spirit, called the thetan, which is the individual himself.
• The second is the mind. The thetan uses his mind as a communication and control system between himself and his environment.
• The third of these parts is the body. The body is not the person
• The thetan has lived through many past lives and will continue to live beyond the death of the body.
• Through the Scientology process of "auditing," people can free themselves of traumatic incidents, ethical transgressions and bad decisions which are said to collectively restrict the person from reaching the state of "Clear" and "Operating Thetan." Each state is said to represent the recovery of native spiritual abilities and to confer mental and physical benefits.
• A person is basically good, but becomes "aberrated" by moments of pain and unconsciousness.
• Psychiatry and psychology are destructive and abusive practices

3. The Dynamics of Existence
• The basic command followed by all life, "Survive!" is subdivided into eight dynamics (dynamic meaning urge, drive or impulse). All activities in one’s varied life can be inspected, understood and harmonized with all others to increase survival.
• 8th Dynamic INFINITY, also commonly called God, the Supreme Being or Creator.
• 7th Dynamic SPIRITUAL dynamic — anything spiritual with or without identity, life source.
• 6th Dynamic PHYSICAL UNIVERSE with its four components of matter, energy, space and time.
• 5th Dynamic LIFE FORMS including all plant and animal life.
• 4th Dynamic MANKIND as a species.
• 3rd Dynamic GROUP SURVIVAL whether friends, a club, company, nation or race.
• 2nd Dynamic FAMILY and children and all other creativity.
• 1st Dynamic SELF — the individual, including his body, mind and immediate possessions.
• Through Scientology, a person realizes that his life and influence extend far beyond himself. By understanding each of these dynamics and their relationship, one to the other, he is able to do so, and thus increase survival on all of these dynamics

4. ARC, KRC and the Tone Scale
• The Scientology symbol contains two triangles which Hubbard called the "ARC triangle" and the "KRC triangle", respectively. The points of the lower triangle are said to represent Affinity (emotional responses), Reality (an agreement on what is real) and Communication. Improving one aspect of the triangle increases the level of the other two. The points of the upper triangle represent Knowledge, Responsibility and Control
• These two environments may not actually agree. Therefore, a therapy which asks man to adapt to the environment rather than adapt the environment to man is a slave philosophy and is unworkable simply because it is not true
• The tone scale places human moods and behaviors a scale from -40 ("Total Failure") to +40 ("Serenity of Being")
• Communication is the solution so a person will climb from the bottom to the top by improving his ability to communicate

5. The Auditing Session and the Bridge to Total Freedom
• Scientology practices are structured in sequential levels because rehabilitation takes place on a "gradient", that is, easier steps are taken first and only then greater complexities are handled
• In auditing, the member discloses specific traumatic incidents, prior ethical transgressions and bad decisions to his assistant
• Members are helped across this bridge by the help of an assistant who asks them many questions and assigns readings
• Most auditing requires an E-meter, a device that measures minute changes in electrical resistance through the body when a person holds electrodes, and a small current is passed through them; Scientology states that it helps locate an area of concern.
• Scientologists follow The Way to Happiness, which defines morals as "a code of good conduct laid down out of the experience of the race to serve as a uniform yardstick for the conduct of individuals and groups"
• An action must contain construction which outweighs the destruction it contains in order to be considered good. "Good is any action which brings the greatest construction to the greatest number of dynamics while bringing the least destruction

6. The States of Existence
• Exteriorization as it is known in Scientology is to "be three feet back of your head"
• In 1952, Hubbard reported he was able to stand as a unit of life independently of the physical body
• One being can attain several different states of existence in just one lifetime. Some savants amongst the Himalayas have worked in this direction, and Buddha spoke of it. Fifteen or twenty years of hard work were said to result in a nebulous conclusion. With Scientology, there are no such uncertainties. These higher states can be attained through Dianetics and Scientology auditing

7. Past Lives and Extraterrestrial Beings
• The cause of "aberrations" in a human mind was an accumulation of pain and unconscious memories of traumatic incidents, some of which predated the life of the human. He extended this view further in Scientology, declaring that "thetans" have existed for tens of trillions of years, during which time, they have been exposed to a vast number of traumatic incidents, and have made a great many decisions that influence their present state.
• Some past traumas may have been deliberately inflicted in the form of "implants" used by extraterrestrial dictatorships such as Helatrobus to brainwash and control the population. Hubbard's lectures and writings include a wide variety of accounts of complex extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described by Hubbard as "space opera."
• Xenu, an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy," 75 million years ago brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living and continue to do this today. These clustered spirits are called" Body Thetans," and advanced-level Scientologists place considerable emphasis on isolating these alien souls and neutralizing their ill effects
• One can move through the levels of existence: Communication, Problems, Relief, Freedom, Ability, Power, Clear, Operating Thetan
• "Operating" in this context means "able to act and handle things" and a "thetan" is the spiritual being that is the basic self. An Operating Thetan then is an individual who could operate totally independently of his body whether or not he had one or didn't have one. He's now himself and is not dependent on the universe around him

8. The Aims of Scientology
• A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights

9. Scientology and Christianity



Books by L. Ron Hubbard

Fiction
Buckskin Brigades (1937), ISBN 0-88404-280-4
Final Blackout (1940), ISBN 0-88404-340-1
Fear (1951), ISBN 0-88404-599-4
Typewriter in the Sky (1951), ISBN 0-88404-933-7
Ole Doc Methuselah (1953), ISBN 0-88404-653-2
Battlefield Earth (1982), ISBN 0-312-06978-2
Mission Earth (1985-87), 10 vols.

Scientology and Dianetics
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, New York 1950, ISBN 0-88404-416-5
Child Dianetics. Dianetic Processing for Children, Wichita, Kansas 1951, ISBN 0-88404-421-1
Scientology 8-8008, Phoenix, Arizona 1952, ISBN 0-88404-428-9
Dianetics 55!, Phoenix, Arizona 1954, ISBN 0-88404-417-3
Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science Phoenix, Arizona 1955, ISBN 1-4031-0538-3
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, Washington, DC 1956, ISBN 0-88404-503-X
The Problems of Work, Washington, DC 1956, ISBN 0-88404-377-0
Have You Lived Before This Life, East Grinstead, Sussex 1960, ISBN 0-88404-447-5
Scientology: A New Slant on Life, East Grinstead, Sussex 1965, ISBN 1-57318-037-8
The Volunteer Minister's Handbook Los Angeles 1976, ISBN 0-88404-039-9
Research and Discovery Series, a chronological series collecting Hubbard's lectures. Vol 1, Copenhagen 1980, ISBN 0-88404-073-9
The Way to Happiness, Los Angeles 1981, ISBN 0-88404-411-4



Famous Scientologists
L. Ron Hubbard - best-selling science fiction author; founder of Scientology
John Travolta - actor
Chick Corea - influential American jazz pianist and composer
Brandy (Norwood) - R&B singer, actress
Tom Cruise - actor, movie star
Nancy Cartwright - voiceover artist best known as voice of "Bart Simpson" on The Simpsons
Jason Beghe - actor
Xavier Deluc - actor
Jason Dohring - actor
Michael Fairman - actor
Geoffrey Lewis - actor
Christopher Masterson - actor
Danny Masterson - actor
Haywood Nelson - actor
Eduardo Palomo - actor
Jeff Pomerantz - actor
Patrick Renna - actor
Giovanni Ribisi - (a.k.a. Vonni Ribisi) actor
Michael D. Roberts - actor
Bodhi Elfman - actor
Jason Lee - actor and professional skateboarder
Kirstie Alley - actress
Mimi Rogers - actress (2nd generation)
Anne Archer - actress
Jennifer Aspen - actress
Catherine Bell - actress
Erika Christensen - actress
Jenna Elfman - actress
Katie Holmes - actress
Kimberley Kates - actress
Juliette Lewis - actress
Priscilla Presley - actress
Leah Remini - actress
Marissa Ribisi - actress
Michelle Stafford - actress
Karen Black - actress
Kelly Preston - actress
Kate Ceberano - actress and musician
Judy Norton-Taylor - actress and musician
Lisa Marie Presley - singer; daughter of Elvis Presley
Billy Sheehan - rock and fusion bass player
David Campbell - musician
Dave Davies - musician
Isaac Hayes - musician
Nicky Hopkins - musician
Mark Isham - musician
David Pomeranz - musician
Rob Thomas - musician
Patrick Warren - musician
Edgar Winter - musician
Beck - singer (a.k.a. Beck Hansen)
Carina Ricco - singer, actress, composer
Gloria Rusch-Novello - singer, writer, composer
Karen Nelson Bell - producer, director and musician
Robert Zoller - author
Floyd Mutrux - screenwriter, director, producer
Terry Jastrow - TV producer and director
Peter Medak - film director
Carl W. Rohrig - (a.k.a. Pablo Roehrig) painter
Franca Cerveni - radio and television announcer
James T. Sorensen - photographer
Keith Code - motorcycle racing instructor
Megan Shields - physician and author of health books, incl. Arthritis: The Doctor's Cure, etc.
Chaka Khan - singer
Sonny Bono - singer ("Sonny and Cher"), U.S. Representative
Mary Bono - widow of Sonny Bono; U.S. Representative
Heber Jentzsch - President of the Church of Scientology
Ernest Lehman - screenwriter of The Sound of Music
Greta Van Susteren - host of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren new show on FOX TV
Werner Erhard - former Scientologist who founded est
David Miscavige - important Church of Scientology religious leader; chairman of the board for Religious Technology Center
Jim Johnson - owner and founder of Mr. Jim's Pizza chain
Lee Purcell - actress, Big Wednesday, etc.
Michael Wiserman - Predator 2, etc.
Gary Imhoff - actor; Thumbelina, etc.
Manu Tupou - actor and acting teacher; Hawaii
Dror Soref - director; The Seventh Coin, etc.
Amanda Ambrose - singer, vocal teacher
Milton Ketselas - one of Hollywood's most successful acting teachers, who heads the Beverly Hills Playhouse
Jim Rogers - celebrity producer, manager (ex-husband of Mimi Rogers)
Linda Blair - actress best known for The Exorcist
Arnaud Boetsch - tennis player
Darius Brubeck - musician, member of "Brubeck Band"
Sharon Case - actress
Glenn Zottola - trumpeter
Andrew Loog Oldham - writer
Dick Zimmerman - celebrity photographer
Jeffrey Tambor - actor
Eddie Deezen - actor
Corin Nemec - actor
Anita Mally - actress, screenwriter
Julia Migenes - opera singer
Lightfield Lewis - actor, director
Charles Lakes - Olympic gymnast
Laura Prepon - actress
Helga Wagner - jewelry designer; dated Prince Charles and Sen. Ted Kennedy
Deborah Rennard - actress
Sofia Milos - actress
Placido Domingo, Jr. - singer
Robert F. Lyons - actor and drama teacher
Carolyn Judd - ad writer and producer
Paul Haggis - screenwriter, story editor, TV producer
Josele Garza - racing car driver from Mexico
Lenny Macaluso - musician, songwriter, producer
Phillipe de Henning - racing driver, fashion designer
Milton Katselas - acting teacher, director
Maxine Nightingale - singer
Mario Feninger - composer and concert pianist
Jeffrey Scott - script writer, grandson of Moe Howard
Pamela Roberts - actress, clothes designer
Elena Roggero - Italian singer, songwriter
Karen Nelson-Bell - producer
Lamia Khashoggi - wife of wealthy and famous Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi
Noelle North - dancer, voice-over actress
Misha Segal - composer
Andrik Schapers - singer from Netherlands
Cass Warner - writer
Jason Lee - actor ("Chasing Amy")
Michelle Stafford - actress ("The Young and the Restless")
Denice Duff - actress ("The Young and the Restless")
Lynsey Bartilson - actress ("Grounded for Life")
Tom Fair - (a.k.a. Tom Feher) lyrcist for the 60s rock group the Left Banke
Moon Martin - rock star; "Bad Case of Lovin' You"
Clive Clerk - actor, singer
Jim McMullin - actor
Michael Wiseman - child actor ("Predator 2")
Ludwig Fisher - actor and artist
Ryan Paris - singer, musician
Michael Schnitzler - violinist
Peter Winsnes - actor
Eric Sherman - director
Peter Schless - composer, synthetisist and producer
Diana Venegas - beauty queen; Miss Venezuela; lace-gowns boutique in Beverly Hills
Jackson Sousa - Hollywood celebrity trainer
Michael Sellers - concert pianist
Susie Coelho - actress
Hans Gunter Arenz - race car driver
Fermin Sanchez - race car driver
Kit Carson - motorcycle racer
Al DiMeola - jazz musician
Janet Greeson - owner of Diet Centers
Willie B. Wilson - oil billionaire
Tony Morales - drummer with the Rippingtons
Hossam Ramzy - North African percussion ensemble leader, played with Peter Gabriel
Amanda Rice - (formerly "Raven") stripper; previously Kiefer Sutherland's girlfriend


Current Status in Scientology Is Unknown:
Bernadette Peters - actress
Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
Nicole Kidman - actress
Neil Gaiman - science fiction and comic book writer
Shirley MacLaine - actress (may have never been a member)
Harry Kipper - (a.k.a. Martin von Haselberg) performance artist, husband of singer Bette Midler
Amy Heckerling - director
Gottfried Helnwein - graphic artist
Wings Hauser - actor
Melanie - folk singer
Gloria Swanson - actress
Eden Vanning - violinist
Helena Rojo - Mexican singer
Sasha Malinin - Russian pop star
Helaine Lembeck - actress
Kim Yates - softcore "adult film" actress
Tony Jacklin - pro golfer


Past Adherents not Currently in Scientology:
Oliver Stone - film director
J.D. Salinger - popular, acclaimed novelist for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
Brad Pitt - actor
William S. Burroughs - author and Beat Generation icon
Christopher Reeve - actor who played "Superman"
Van Morrison - influential singer, songwriter, musician (lapsed)
Soleil Moon Frye - actress best known as "Punky Brewster"
Sharon Stone - actress
Peggy Lipton - actress
Mikhail Baryshnikov - ballet dancer
Patrick Swayze - actor
Kate Capshaw - actress, Steven Spielberg's wife
Rock Hudson - actor, movie star
Emilio Estevez - actor
John Brodie - football player
Don Simpson - producer, Top Gun, etc.
Candice Bergen - actress, star of TV series Murphy Brown, Boston Public, etc. (may have not actually been a member)
Leonard Cohen - songwriter, poet
Stanley Clarke - jazz bassist
Darby Crash - punk rocker
Ricky Martin - singer
Olivia D'Abo - actress
Cathy Lee Crosby - actress
Gloria Gaynor - singer and "disco queen"
Howard Wilkins - founder of Pizza Hut
Diana Canova - singer, actress
Raven de la Croix - stripper, psychic, actress
Gabor Szabo - jazz guitarist and composer (died 1982)
A.E. van Vogt - science fiction writer
Ingo Swann - writer, psychic, painter
Barbara Carrera - actress
Frank Stallone - actor, singer, songwriter; brother of Sylvester Stallone
Michael Garson - musician who toured with David Bowie
Michael Edwards - male model, former boyfriend of Priscilla Presley
Peter Lupus - actor (Mission Impossible TV series)
Al Jarreau - singer
Wendon Swift - Hollywood author, manager
Bobby Lipton - actor
Dini Petty - talk show host
Demi Moore - actress
Kalle Pohl - comedian
Bert Salzman - producer; won Academy Award in 1975 for a short film and thanked L. Ron Hubbard in speech
Bernhard Paul - clown, manager of "Circus Roncalli"
Harold Puthoff - mathematician, physicist, ESP researcher
The Incredible String Band - musicians, band
Lee Konitz - jazz musician
Stephen Boyd - actor
Joan Prather - actress
Leif Garrett - pop star
Carlos Palomino - athlete
Bruce Penhall - actor
Lou Rawls - soul music, jazz, and blues singer
John Dalmas - science fiction writer
Michael Lembeck - actor, director
Mickey McMeel - Three Dog Knight drummer
Cynthia Sikes - actress
Gordon Lightfoot - singer, composer, lyricist
Dale Haddon - actress, model
Chick Vennera - actor
Joan DiVito Vennera - actor
Flo Allen - major Hollywood agent
Hunter Carson - actor
Penny Perry - casting director
Ed Love -
Steven Boyd -
Lisa Blount - actress
Aldous Huxley - writer
Josh Dohnen - agent
Anne Francis - actress
Eileen Brennan - actress
Horst Buchholtz - actor
Tom Skeritt - actor
Nan Herst Bowers - celebrity, publicist
John Longenecker - Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
Kathleen Brown - ran for governor of California (not clear if she was official member)
Maude Adams - actress, model
Charles Manson - infamous serial killer