Ron Hubbard wrote in 20 May I have found that to be uniquely true. That has been the doggonedest thing that I have not found elsewhere. If you apply something in the manner it is supposed to be applied, it works every time. It is fascinating but I have actually found that to be the fact.
Ron Hubbard wrote this in an article called Personal Integrity in February and I quote in part:. Nothing in Dianetics and Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation. That is all. One of the other things I like about Scientology is there are all sorts of secular outside of religious applications of it. Some are so common and in your face that they whiz right over the heads of most people. An excellent example is the study technology.
One of the barriers to study is the misunderstood word. A phenomenon of going past a misunderstood word in what you are studying is that it will cause the following area to go blank. Utterly simple. Look up the word in a dictionary and clear it up. There is a whole technology of study in Scientology behind this. This is one such example of simple secular application of an aspect of Scientology. Scientology is something I do rather than something I believe in. There is a huge difference in how I approach Scientology than how I had approached other religions and it works for me beautifully.
Navy officer who circled the globe with his family, according to Scientology expert J. Photos: L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology. Ron Hubbard published a series of articles and then a book on what he described as a new approach to mental health. In , Hubbard founded the Church of Scientology. Hide Caption. Hubbard and his children in December They are testing a device called an E-meter, which Scientologists say measures the body's electric flow as an auditor asks a series of questions that they say reveals sources of trauma.
Hubbard works in his greenhouse in December Hubbard in the south of France in May Hubbard talks with reporters in his office in Many groups and individuals have challenged Scientology's legitimacy as a religion. Scientologists have faced opposition from the medical community over the religion's claims about mental health, from the scientific community over its claims about its E-meters and from other religious groups about its status as a religion.
Hubbard poses for a portrait in New York in January He died in The entrance to the Los Angeles headquarters of the church in March Confetti rains down as actor Tom Cruise, left, embraces David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology, at the opening of a new church in Madrid in September Cruise is one of the world's most prominent Scientologists.
Miscavige speaks during the inauguration of the Madrid church in September Scientology made headlines in June when Cruise got into a heated debate with "Today" host Matt Lauer over psychiatric drugs. The Church of Scientology's website says that "the effects of medical and psychiatric drugs, whether painkillers, tranquilizers or 'antidepressants,' are as disastrous" as illicit drugs.
A volunteer from the Church of Scientology touches an injured woman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the devastating earthquake there in January In November , Miscavige dedicates the massive Clearwater building as the church's new spiritual headquarters. After serving in World War II, Hubbard published a series of articles and then a book on a what he described as a new approach to mental health, which he called Dianetics.
His book by the same name quickly became a best-seller. While Scientology shares much in common with other religions as regards basic religious concepts and a mandate to improve society, the most valuable asset Scientology offers is an actual technology for achieving greater spiritual awareness. Moreover, while many religions promise salvation in the hereafter, Scientology offers certainty of eternal salvation now.
Then, too, Scientology makes it possible for any religion to attain its goals and is therefore a religion of religions. Get to Know the Real You. Your first step to find out more can be as simple as a free Personality Test. Related Sites. Ron Hubbard. What is Scientology? HOME L. Scientologists home How to Stay Well. Is Scientology like hypnotism, meditation, psychotherapy or other mental therapies? But good taste, as art critic Dave Hickey says, is just the residue of someone else's privilege.
Catholicism has its Gothic cathedrals, Judaism its timeless Torah scrolls. Scientology is new, but it has played an impressive game of catch-up. In its drive to be a major world religion, it will inevitably go through a period when its absurdities and missteps are glaringly apparent. But someday it will be old and prosaic, and there may still be Scientologists. And when some embezzle, lie and steal - as they surely will - they'll seem no worse than Christians, Jews and Muslims who have done the same.
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