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Summary Of Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health

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In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a book that would spur the launch of a rather unorthodox religion. This book was called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It contains the basic rules that would later become Scientology. Since the founding of the religion in 1954, Scientology has grown to church numbers of 5000 in as many as 160 countries. They believe that man is inherently good, and man's spiritual enlightenment and salvation is solely dependant on himself. While they do believe in a higher power, man cannot rely on this higher power to save him, or his eternal. Scientologist believe that they are a spiritual being called a “thetan”. The thetan has lived many past lives, and the memories of one’s past lives can become problematic …show more content…

Scientologist are rather quiet on the matter. Supposedly, seventy five million years ago, an intergalactic being called Xenu was ruler over a section of the galaxy that Earth (called Teegeeack in this time) inhabited. Xenu noticed an overpopulation of the planets under his control. He devised a plan to control the populations, “with the help of psychiatrists and the media he persuaded billions of people to come in for income tax audits. They were instead injected in the lungs with alcohol and glycol to paralyze them” ("The Story Of Xenu"). All the people were put into spacecraft and transported to Earth. Xenu had the beings stacked at the base of volcanos and H-bombs lowered in the mouths of the volcanos. When the billions of paralyzed people were arranged, the bombs were detonated, killing billions of people at once. The souls of these billions of people were captured in clusters and brainwashed with videos and images of violence, sexual perversions, horrors and false gods. This was all done be Xenu to prevent the retaliation and revenge of billions of souls. In brainwashing them and implanting them in confused human bodies like a demon possession, he rendered them helpless. Xenu was soon overthrown by his Loyal Officers and held prisoner by an eternal force-field on a mountain top on earth, supposedly still there and alive …show more content…

The reactive mind acts as a barrier and holds all of the pain, emotions and images (called engrams) not readily available to the analytical mind. Think of the reactive mind as a pocket for repressed memories, holding the individual back from enlightenment (or Clear State) and freedoms. This is where dianetic auditing comes in. Auditing is similar to catholic confession; an individual who is “pre-clear” will come to auditor will ask the the individual questions and receive the answers with no judgement. This process helps bring one closer to Clear

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