Summary Of Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health

The church of Scientology has been the subject of controversy since its inception. Its methods and beliefs have attracted the attention of scholars from around the world. The church has been under government investigation and has endured a countless amount of lawsuits (Reitman 14). It is also a hot topic by the media with several endorsements by some of the most recognized Hollywood celebrities. However, the main topic of debate regarding the Church of Scientology is its status as a religion. Some members claim that the church has helped them overcome their struggles and that they are happier people, while others condemn it as a dangerous cult (Sweeney). The church of Scientology is a religious group whose purpose is to retain their

Scientologists do not believe that people are inherently bad; we are all just seeking to survive and have been marred by contact with the physical universe. At the core of a Scientologist's beliefs are the eight dynamics. They outline the stages of life and one's tendencies as they grow older and become influenced by outside forces. The first dynamic is simply to survive as an individual, and the last is the urge toward Infinity. What's "Infinity" you ask? It's not God, per say, well... unless you want it to be. Before you understand Infinity, you have to understand yourself. The three part of man are the physical body, the mind, and the thetan, or soul. The thetan is on a journey, and your body simply the room it's renting for the duration of its stay in your life. Your thetan has resided in all of your past bodies, and during those lives has accumulated hurt from traumatic experiences and poor choices you made. Through Scientology, you can confront these transgressions, take responsibility for them, and experience truth again. This truth is Infinity. It might be a Supreme Being, or it might be the key to all available knowledge. Hubbard was never really clear about that, but he probably knew what he was doing, so why ask questions? In Scientology, you don't have to accept anything on faith alone. You are able to define your beliefs through your experiences, auditing,

“Maybe it’s an insanity test, Haggis thought- if you believe it, you’re automatically kicked out. He considered that possibility, but when he read it again, he decided ‘This is madness’.” Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (copyright 2013 ) takes an inside look at Scientology, with interviews and accounts from former Scientologists such as Paul Haggis and Mark Rathbun, important church officials such as David Miscavige and Tom Cruise, and the founder: Ron L. Hubbard. Scientology is a religion which claims to lead one’s spirit on a path to eventual enlightenment and understanding of one’s spiritual nature.Going Clear details the horrors and unveils the mysteries surrounding this church. Going Clear is separated into three parts: Part One- which divulges the story of the founder L. Ron Hubbard, and the organization he creates, Part Two- Hollywood- which deals with the important celebrity connections and how important the celebrities are to the church, and Part Three- The Prison of Belief : an exposé on the harsh conditions many members face, the bullying and corruption within the organization, and the sense of helplessness and entrapment one feels when trying to leave the church. The author makes an very effective argument and achieves his goal of exposing the corruption within the church by providing first-hand accounts and legal records, contrasting views and official statements from the church, various rhetorical strategies as

The book I read this month was Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright. This is a nonfiction book that dives deep into Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard. It investigate the role Scientology plays in Hollywood by showing how through Scientology people are able to gain more opportunities in Hollywood. The book gives a biography about L. Ron Hubbard and makes the connection that he created Scientology because of his upbringing and things that happened later on in his life.

Scientology is a new religion that was created in 1954 by L. Ron Hubbard. According to Dictionary.com it says Scientology is a nondenominational movement founded in the United States to accent self knowledge and have the chance to come to your full spiritual potential (dictionary.com). Scientology is also kind of like a class you can take. Online they have courses that you can take like the hubbard dianetics, scientology life improvements, purification, and many more. L. Ron Hubbard was born on March thirteenth, nineteen eleven in Nebraska. His first spiralling thought that got him wondering about scientology was when an american naval officer showed him the theories of psychoanalysis (scientology missions of belleair, L. Ron Hubbard). The

Religious intolerance and Scientology The world can be a dangerous place. It can be even more dangerous if someone proves to be different, or seen as unusual in any way. Scientology may be arguably one of the strangest religions in the world. Because of this, Scientology has experienced intolerance since it was first founded in 1954.

Scientology, founded in 1950 (Hubbard. What is. 3), "is an applied religious philosophy" (Hubbard. What is. 4), which is a branch of psychology (Fundamentals. 7). Developed by Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Scientology was created "from discoveries resulting from

Even with the fact that it is a modern religion, Scientology takes many of its beliefs from older religious ideologies. "Mixing ideas from Buddhist and Hindu religious philosophy, science fiction, and 20th-century Western concepts in psychology and science" (Scientology), the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, devised a whole new religion. This religion promotes the belief that all human beings are actually immortal spirits who are unable to find their personal identity because they are misled by their struggle to escape the universe's tendency to exploit their need for feeling joy.

It’s not unknown that The Church of Scientology has been a contentious subject of conversation for decades. The controversial religion was originally discovered by a gentleman named L. Ron Hubbard in 1954 through the establishment of ideas in which he believed would act as an antidote to mental health concerns called Dianetics. After an unsuccessful attempt resulting in bankruptcy, Hubbard branched his ideas into the basis of a new found religion called Scientology ("The Beliefs and Teachings of Scientology”). To Hubbard’s advantage, Scientology expeditiously accelerated in growth, becoming one of the fastest expanding religions in the 20th century. Scientology pledged a “light at the end of the tunnel” to those wandering through dark times, and created a pathway to a faultless understanding of one’s true spiritual fulfillment through a system of self-knowledge in relation to one’s own life, community, and mankind. Due to the Scientology’s controversial beliefs, abnormal practices, and aberrant church-member relationships, the religion poses as a superlative model of church rebelling against society’s social norms.

The Church of Scientology, founded in 1954, tested the limits of defining a religion. L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer, founded the Church insisting that “The ultimate goal of Scientology is true spiritual enlightenment and freedom for all” (The Church of Scientology). His works seduced audiences by talking about the ability to achieve a perfect world. A world with the elimination of drugs, crime and angst. These ideals have attracted famous people like John Travolta and Tom Cruise. Scientology serves as a segway to this perfect free world. Hana Whitfield, a former Scientologist, claimed that Hubbard’s goal included “creating a religion where he could get income, but the government would not take it away

The term Thetan is used a lot in Scientology it is was they say instead of spirit. They believe that the spirit is separate from the body, and even the mind for the mind is part of the body. The brain is not intelligent, but rather is like a switch board that just directs signals through it. This leads into life after death, and from what I researched the only thing that they really talked about is that Thetan (spirit) will continue after the body has died. So it seems that the spirit will either continue on just as a spirit or can become part of another body later on (reincarnation). All the research I have found on Scientology has come directly from their website, but I still had some more questions that wanted to learn that I could not find

Scientology is a religious system based on the seeking of self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment through graded courses of study and training. (Google) Scientology was founded in 1954, by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. A man who wrote and published Dianetics, aka the bible of Scientology.The church’s beliefs and practices are based off of Dianetics, and the teachings of Rodn L. Hubbard. Scientologists say they believe that through religious training such as auditing and spending time at the church they will reach a state of clear, as well as recall past lives. (Wright “Going”) Auditing is when church members specifically know as auditors, to first listen and give counsel to members of the church, second help the members be rid of body thetans

I believe the word religion itself is almost tied to the word tradition, and invokes the idea of historic, ancient because of how far major religions can trace their creation. Scientology itself came into existence or founded in December of 1953 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. I found it interesting just how much power Scientology seems to wield even though it is considered a minority religion. The body of scientology itself is majority Caucasian although I was unable to find a statistic that gave each individual ethnicity percentage. In my search for this data though I actually found what you could call a humble brag on Scientology’s part. Now, they claim these are statistical facts but I advise any who read this to take it with a grain of salt.

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, better known as L. Ron Hubbard, author and founder of the Church of Scientology. Scientology a religion based off of a fiction piece of work, Dianetics. Dianetics describes a program of self improvement and spiritual awakening and continues to be the Scientology bible. The church currently has over seven hundred churches, missions and groups, and Dianetics still sells over four hundred thousand copies a year. The religion Scientology has millions of members world wide, even though controversial, the movement continues to influence people around the world even after Hubbard's death. At one time Hubbard was one of the most influential people in the world.

The beginnings of the Dianetics movement mainly focused on “Hubbard’s understanding of the human mind and the cause of suffering in this lifetime” (Urban 139), According to Hubbard, human minds have two main parts: the reactive mind, which records all pain and emotional trauma, and the analytical mind, which is thought of as a computer. Hubbard claims that “throughout life, individuals have negative experiences of pain and unconsciousness that become burned in the reactive mind in the form of what Hubbard called ‘engrams’ or negative memory traces, which cause us both physical and psychological problems” (Urban 139). Hubbard created a form of therapy called “auditing” to remove these engrams. Auditing involves “a trained counselor who works with an individual to help identify the painful memory traces or engrams that have been burned into the reactive mind. Through auditing, the individual can relive these experiences…and then clear them from the reactive mind” (Urban 139). After the engrams have been removed, “the individual experiences a state of optimal psychological, emotional, and physical well-being called ‘Clear’” (Urban 139). By going through auditing, the individual achieves freedom from painful memories.