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Birth

Ron Hubbard

Beliefs and doctrines

Officially, the Scientology is given like drank: A civilization without madness, criminal and war, in which able people can thrive and honest people can have rights, and in which the man is free to reach higher tops. . The Scientology is regarded as a “religious philosophy applied”. In other words it is presented in the form of a religion, while offering “solutions to the problems” of its followers. The Scientology, which is defined itself as a traditional religion, is based on the belief common to many religions according to which the man was created to work with his clean spiritual hello, and which it is only accordingly that it can include/understand fully his relation with God. The Scientology also affirms that the man is basically good but that because of his mental reagent, source of irrationality, it can be resulted in acting in a bad way. Thus, its “spiritual safety” would depend on its relation with itself, its similar and because of arriving at a “fraternity with the universe”. The Scientology affirms to give to the individual the means of solving by itself its problems, of putting “order in its own life” and also of enabling him to help the others effectively. The result obtained would appear by concrete progress aiming at removing the company from what the Scientology estimates to be its plagues (the Drogue S, the Illettrisme, the Crime, the Violence and the Intolérance). The Churches of Scientology would constitute then, according to themselves, of the central points, whose programs and activities would emanate.

The scientology even considers that the fundamental motivation of the life is survival, it being located on a graduated scale energy of died at potential immortality. This motivation is called dynamics . This dynamics or fundamental impulse separates in 8 dynamic (symbolized by the cross with 8 branches of the scientology). The man would have an impulse to survive on each one of them. The first dynamics would be the impulse to survive as an individual. The second dynamics the impulse to survive through the sex, procreation and the family. The third dynamics the impulse to survive as a group or groups. The fourth the impulse to survive as a species; in fact humanity. The fifth is the impulse to make survive the totality of forms of life: plants, animals, insects, etc the sixth is the impulse to survive as material universe (energies, the matter, the rocks, the planets belong to this impulse). the seventh dynamics is the impulse to survive as spirits (the scientology considers that the person is a " spirit; living a corps" and nor its mental is neither its body). The eighth dynamics being dynamics to be it supreme. All these dynamic is arbitrary divisions of the fundamental dynamics which includes them all.

Finality

According to the criteria of the Scientology, the life of the scientologists is supposed to improve gradually. In the same way, the scientologists affirm “to progress spiritually” gradually. Ron Hubbard affirmed to have developed a precise way of religious study, consistent in a series of progressive and paying stages, carried out in a precise sequence which would help the individual to reach a state of “very high existence”. This “rise” in scientology would make it possible the individual better and better to include/understand what the Scientology estimates to be “the spiritual nature of the man” and its relation with what this movement thinks of being “the supreme Being” (to be defined). The followers are supposed “to improve their life” thanks to the Scientology. They would be happier and would have “positive” relations and a family life more, and they would succeed better in their work. And in their turn, thanks to proselytism scientologist, they would contribute their share to the company in “improving the living conditions”.

Scientology in the world today

The scientology is a movement knowing very a strong growth. According to the statistics scientologists, several million people in the world would have already taken part in at least a training course scientologist since his creation. It has a world scale today and counts among its members of the personalities such as the actors Xavier Deluc, John Travolta and Tom Cruise, the actresses Juliette Lewis and Catherine Bell, the tennis player Arnaud Boetsch, the draftsman Frapar, the musicians Chick Corea and Isaac Hayes. It should be noted that these Very Important People profits from a share treatment within the organization which created for them Celebrity centers . Today it tries to extend in all Africa (South Africa in particular). The church is very active at the time of catastrophes sensitizing like that of the September 11th, 2001, the tsunami of 2004 or the floods of the Orleans News in 2005.

The organization

Hierarchical structure

The Scientology is strongly treated on a hierarchical basis. The followers, to pass from a Rank to another, must follow Stage S and buy documents. As example for a first contact, a series of 15 CD S (one hour conferences by CD) going back to 1956, recorded into full Cold war, the Congress of Washington on radiations and confrontation is sold currently approximately 200 Euro S.

The study of the texts

The study of the works of Ron Hubbard belongs to the life of the scientologists, whom they take part in religious services in a church of scientology or whom they continue their study of the “Writings” of the scientology in residence. They study them in all the Churches of scientology, under the monitoring of supervisors of course, and are encouraged to continue their study of the religion in residence, while following courses by correspondence for example.

Hearing

Hearing constitutes, with the eyes of the scientologists, a “technology spiritual” whose application makes it possible “to improve its own condition and its existence, like those of people of its entourage”. According to the scientologists, hearing constitutes the essential practice of the scientology. It can be exempted with groups of people at the time of a Sunday office or of other religious gatherings, or to only one person at meetings directed by a minister of scientology, the “listener”. When hearing is given individually, the listener, by repeated questions, would help the audited person to examine one particular moment of his existence. This one would become happier, more trustful, more conscious, main of its life. The listener uses a “electropsychometer” or electrometer which is supposed to be able to measure the state or the changes of spiritual state of the person. The electrometer would also make it possible the listener to help the person to locate fields of Détresse or Angoisse. When these moments localized and are examined by the audited person, those would cease having an undue influence on their life presents and the person would gain relief and autodeterminism there. Hearing is also exempted with groups at the time of offices of Sunday and of other gatherings, according to the same principle: the listener directs the activities of all the assistance. The church of scientology affirms to increase considerably the level of communication, Conscience and aptitude of all the members of the assistance. The hearing of group would make it possible to the participants to regularly profit free and from the advantages of hearing. In fact, the hearing of group is free at the time of the offices of Sunday, and perhaps paying apart from this framework.

According to some, this method would take as a starting point the Psychanalyse, by explaining to its customers why their mental images would have a character of veracity (for example the life before the birth) and that the process of “obliteration of the engrammes” would have a real effectiveness. The majority of the Psychiatrist S and the Psychanalyste S consider that this method is less effective and less healthy than a Psychanalyse. Arnaud Palisson in his Thesis of state in criminal Law .a tempted to show that the extreme character of certain exercises places the scientology in extreme cases of legality (illegal exercise of medicine, right of childhood, Labor regulation, etc). For the psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, this technique is especially a form of Hypnose ready to make enter the subject in Transe. Certain detractors support that the Church of Scientology, contrary to the Psychothérapie S, the Médecine or the catholic confession does not have deontologic rules prohibiting to him to exploit the secrecies which its followers entrusted during hearings or while filling of the questionnaires. The organization contradicts these charges and affirms to regard the communications between a Minister for the church and a parishioner as sacro-holy, this being stipulated by the " Code auditeur" who governs any meeting of audition.
According to a site antiscientologist, the financial costs imposed on a person to reach level “the OT8”, highest currently exempted, can be estimated coarsely (2005) at 400.000 euros.

Advanced levels

; “Clear” state In the Dianétique and the Scientology, the state Clair corresponds to a condition under which a person is not subjected any more to not desired influences coming from memories passed, nor with last emotions and traumatic episodes. A Claire person is thus “removed from these harmful influences” .

The founder, L. Ron Hubbard, defines the stage of “Light” as that of a person who would not have any more her clean “mental reagent” and which would not thus suffer any more of the effects that this mental reagent can cause. This stage of Light would be reached with the means of “hearing” in Dianétique and scientology.

A Light would be rational in this direction which it would form the best possible solutions starting from the data than it holds and from its own point of view. Light would not thus have any more a “engrammes”. Those, when they “are restimulés”, would make deviate the accuracy of the reasoning while making there enter of the false and hidden data. The Los Angeles Times reports that L. Ron. Hubbard wrote that 75 million years ago our Univers was organized in a galactic Confederation of 76 Planet S, directed by the galactic Almighty lord Xenu. Xenu would have made dispatch on Ground by rocket S - resembling DC-8 - the 13,5 trillions inhabitants, would have put them in Volcan S, would have exploded enormous H-bombs and would have then welded together these désincarnées heart S, which it calls of the “thétans of body”. The human ones would thus not be alone in their body but would be composed of themselves and thousands of these parasitic hearts. In addition, one needs approximately 200.000 euros to learn how to get rid of these “thétans from body”. According to an opponent being based on a testimony, the history on the origin of humanity would have been conceived at one time to which Hubbard would have consumed much drug. Naturally, the people who believe in this Cosmogonie without being followers of the scientology are very rare. It is advisable here to recall that before founding the Scientology, Hubbard was a writer of Science-fiction. The American author of science fiction and press baron Lloyd Eshbach, tells that Hubbard would have said to him: I would like to create a religion. It is where the money is . The Church of Scientology refutes this assertion and supports on its site that “a false attribution was recognized by courts of justice in Germany” .

Statute

The legal status of the Scientology differs from country to country where it is installed: it is presented depending on the States like a commercial organization, a religion, an arts center of dianetic or a simple technique of personal development. The Church of scientology would seek to be recognized like a religion and carries out demands for this direction in many countries, with various results. Some of its detractors consider that the Church of Scientology makes fire of any wood and changes statute according to legal protections that offers to him: it is a commercial organization when it can attack for violation of Copyright those which publish its confidential works, it is a religion in the countries where the Freedom of worship allows all, it becomes technical of personal Développement when it is a question of approaching the companies or in the countries which are defended against the Secte S. It also states to be an Association or Arts center of Dianétique (in Argentine, Colombia and Spain), a Collège Hubbard of personal independence (in Scotland), an Arts center of dianetic or Latin America (with the Mexico), and an Institute of philosophy applied or technology of dianetic (in Mexico).

Religion…

The Scientology is recognized officially like a Religion with whole share in several countries, in particular the South Africa, the Australia, the Spain the the United States of America, the India, the Italy, the Mexico, the New Zealand, the Portugal, the Sweden, Taiwan, the Tanzania, the Venezuela, the Zimbabwe. According to the stop, “the authorities did not act in good faith and missed owe them of neutrality and impartiality towards the religious community represented by the applicant Church”.

… or sect?

France

In France the various organizations of scientology have the statute of Association Law 1901 with nonlucrative goal. Its members want to be regarded as a Religious organization according to the law of 1905. See in this direction the stop of April 5th, 2007.

The Scientology is regarded as a Secte by the report/ratio n°2468 of the National Assembly, recorded the December 22nd 1995, which draws up an indicative list of the sects. Yves Bertrand, Managing director of the General informations at that time, and after having worked to provide the information which allowed the publication of the report/ratio, estimated that the scientology would not have a being not amalgamated with a sectarian movement. A ratio of 1999 of the MILLETS - organization criticized by the Scientology - the “absolute” class like sect and recommends its dissolution. After the change of being able in June 2002, its president Alain Vivien resigned and the MILLETS was dissolved. In November 2002 presents it interdepartmental Mission of vigilance and of fight against the sectarian drifts was instituted, always like the MILLETS, under the responsibility of the Prime Minister. A stop of the Court of Appeal of Lyon of the July 28th 1997, confirmed by a stop of the Court of appeal of the June 30th 1999, considers that, to consider the facts described of Escroquerie S or complicity of swindles examined by the Court in this species, it is vain to wonder about the point to know if the Church of Scientology constitutes a sect or a religion . In this stop the court also declares: “that insofar as a religion can be defined by the coincidence of two elements, an objective element, the existence of an even reduced community and a subjective element, a common faith, the Church of Scientology can assert the title of religion and develop with complete freedom, in the framework of the existing laws, its activities including its missionaries activities, even of proselytism”.

There exist very many opponents with the scientology throughout the world. For the francophonie, let us quote Roger Gonnet, creator of a site antiscientologist. He is regularly attacked by the Church of Scientology for various reasons (slandering on forums, absence of declarations to the CNIL) . The church of Scientology was already condemned to compensate Roger Gonnet after being déboutée, and he was also condemned on several occasions.

Germany

In 1997, regarded as a sect, the Church of Scientology worries the federal government which shows it to seek “to exert a totalitarian influence on the institutions and the company”. It was déchue by the federal government of its statute of religious community and placed under the monitoring of the State, this one judging that certain activities of the organization of the Scientology could attack the democracy and to the Human rights. Regarded as a business enterprise, any tax measure in its favor were prohibited and it was subjugated with the mode of the business enterprises.

In 1999, the Dianetic Stuttgart eV , under-organization of the Church of Scientology, is recognized by the administative Court of Stuttgart like an association with idealistic goal and not like a business enterprise.

In January 2003, the Federal office of finances granted to the nine churches Scientology an exemption on the money given to support the Church of international Scientology (the church mother based in Los Angeles). These partial tax exemptions are related to its recognition of public utility in the United States. Indeed, there exists an agreement between the two countries which make it possible to avoid double taxation. The Scientology, for, is not recognized as much like religion in Germany where it is the subject always of monitoring on behalf of the intelligence services.

The November 11th 2004, the Administrative court of Cologne rejected a recourse of the Scientology asking for the end of this monitoring. On this subject, the March 24th 2004, 3 scientologists lose a lawsuit brought against Germany in front of UNO.

The January 13rd 2007, the opening of a subsidiary company of the Church of Scientology of 6 stages on 4000m ² in Berlin causes strong reactions on behalf of the government and of the CDU, the party of the chancelière Angela Merkel, concerning the policy of the Berliner Senate with respect to the sects. The Land of Berlin is the only one of the sixteen Länder to have refused, since 2003, to supervise the intrigues of the Church of Scientology on its territory.

Microsoft was condemned in Germany to change partner for the defragmentor of Windows 2000, because this one had been developed by Executive International Software , a Californian software firm, whose owner Craig Jensen was a member of the Scientology. The risk of interception of data seemed very important for the German government.

Belgium

The Belgium regards it as a sect, i.e. a potentially dangerous organization for its members and is thus supervised closely by justice, the interior intelligence services, and by the opinion and information center on the harmful sectarian organizations (CIAOSN). A report/ratio of the Belgian Room of the representatives n° the 313/7-95/96 dated April 28th, 1997 class like belonging to the harmful sectarian movements. In March 2001, the church it called upon the intervention of the United Nations to intervene in what it regards as a “campaign of intimidation and harassing” that the Belgian authorities would make him undergo, by taking for targets its Belgian parishioners and his European office of the Human rights. Following a complaint going back to 1997, the federal Parquet announces in September 2007 the reference in front of the justice of twelve natural persons and two moral persons: the ASBL " Church of Scientology of Belgique" and the " Office of the human rights of the Church of Scientologie" .

Switzerland

In Swiss, several courts refused name to him “religion” and indicated it like exclusively commercial.

Differences and similarities with the other religions and sects

Offices of the Scientology

Every Sunday, the chaplain leads services of the worship open to all the individuals who share the hope that the man will live better and be happier in the future . The chaplain celebrates also Mariage S, Baptême S and Funérailles for his followers and the members of their family. In the applying countries a separation of the Church and the State, in the Laic states (like the France, or the Belgium), or in the countries having an official religion, these ceremonies do not have a legal value.

Methods of recruitment

The Scientology often uses methods of approach masked to recruit new followers: training courses of personal Development, music schools (school of the Rate/rhythm, Impro, Ars Nova…) or of art in more general manner, associations of school assistance, fight against drug (Narconon) etc

Another more or less masked method: your curiosity of more, combined with a lack of reference mark and critical direction.

“Services” of the Scientology

Each center or Church of Scientology, named in-house “org (- anisation)”, places at the disposal of its parish members/of many services and works considered as books in religious matter according to the followers: five hundred and thousand recorded pages, three thousand conferences, and a hundred films, all allotted to the founder of the scientology, Ron Hubbard. The provided courses and works constitute a whole of methods, supposed to make it possible to become more suited , of methods to make survive Scientology as a movement and of Mythology suitable for the Scientology (of which the texts on Xenu which would cost close to 50 000 euros, and whose versions are diffused on Internet or Usenet mainly by detractors but also by defenders of the Scientology). It should be noted that the work of Science-fiction of Ron Hubbard makes these texts on Xemu prone to the strong ones and virulent Polémique S, insofar as it is not known if they (texts on the history of Xemu, of the volcanos, projections of “body-thetans”, the “wall of fire” and famous “the intergalactic confederation” in Star Wars) represent true a Enseignement of scientology or an outline of a Romance of Science-fiction among good of others. Recently, the Church entirely republished its works because the great majority and had been made faded incomprehensible by the editors (translation, transcription errors, punctuation, page mixed, mixed chapter, paragraphs added/removed/mixed, etc…). Work on the republication of the works was started in 2000 and was universally announced on July 14th, 2007 at the time of a vent (festival or literally event) video where the new books were sold for the first time. A test would have been carried out on scientologists who read the first the republished books. The reading time of the books was reduced several days on average for the old incomprehensible books considered as difficult by the scientologists themselves to a few hours for the recently republished and retranslated books.

The rejection of a form of medicine

The Scientology recommends the abstinence of drugs and drugs psychiatric, and aspirine is disadvised before being audited. This recommendation is regarded by certain as potentially illegal: such councils are likely to be regarded as an illegal exercise of medicine. This attitude with respect to medication corresponds to a broader attitude of rejection of certain conventional scientific knowledge, which is replaced by the scientologic doctrines. A text with reading on this question is that of Paul Ariès.

The Scientology rejects categorically the Psychiatrie and regards it as being a “funeral industry”. In an exposure held with Jefferson City in January 2007, the Scientology showed the psychiatrists to sexually misuse their patients and to be responsible for the existence of the attack-suicide, of which those of September 11th, 2001. The Scientology affirms to denounce since 1952 many practices concerning the field of the mental health: Lobotomy and electric shock S in particular, but also all practices consisting in dealing with problems of simple mental origin with Psychotropic S or surgical operations with the level of the involving brain of serious disorders of behavior at those which undergo them. Its followers also assert that these continuous denunciations would have caused defense reactions on behalf of groups whose interests were concerned. The ideas of the Scientology on the matter are mainly diffused by the Commission of the citizens for the human rights (CCDH), which would be at the origin of parliamentary proposals relating to the mental health; what explains why others critical of psychiatry try to dissociate Scientology. The Church of Scientology also lays out, in Brussels, of a European Office of the public affairs and human rights. The Collective of the doctors and the citizens against the degrading treatments of psychiatry is attached to the Scientology. It is about an association not declared in prefecture of doctors scientologists. The opponents with the Scientology regard that as a war against the psychiatry and the psychology on behalf of the Scientology. According to them, the Scientology positions like a competitor of these Science S, by the development of competences and techniques of analysis of the practices of communication and care of the mental problems of the psychiatrists. They show it badly to plagiarize psychiatric techniques and to use dangerous techniques. According to the scientologists, the psychologists and especially the psychiatrists seek to regulate mental problems while attacking matter (drugs which involve chemical changes, operations, etc) .

Evolution of the followers inside the Church scientologist

The most common criticism is that the scientology made gleam with its followers the possibility of reaching a state which they will never reach, being satisfied with a perpetual progression. Many testimonys show the surprise, once passed a level, to intend itself to say that it was only one stage whereas it was to finally be the state of illumination awaited. The financial costs of the following stage are in general much higher. Once passed a certain number of stages one can find oneself in the central administration of the scientology, formerly located on a boat. There, the scientology would maintain an armed militia. There too the organizations of police force of the scientology would be centered: espionage, specialists in slandering. These scientologic organizations would often have recourse to burglings, with the flights of mail. One would find in the texts of Hubbard the orders and the justification of such acts.

The Church scientologist and entourage of their followers

The detractors are called in the jargon of the Scientology the “suppressive ones”. When a follower has a problem, the scientologists suspectent the presence of suppressive in its relations, seek to know which by hearing, and in general recommend not to meet this person more. Many stories of separations between husband and woman, parents and children, related to the scientology testify some. Of another with dimensions, independent observers could not miss observing the weakness of the arguments of these detractors. Such Marco Frenschkowsky (university German) which though opposite itself with the scientology, wrote that there were few more lucrative markets in Germany than to be a ex-scientologist and to tackle the scientology. According to him these " apostats" , after to have read a few weeks of scientology and without almost anything of this philosophy long talks (on behalf of the " publish; anti-secte" market;) who all resemble each other. A series of points of operation of the Church of Scientology are proposed by the detractors.

the Church of Scientology was several times condemned to have exploited in time or financially of former members
the Diffamation ( black Propagande according to the terms of Ron Hubbard) is set up in theory defense
One counts cases of harassing on journalists or researchers studying the Scientology (for example many documents in possession of FBI or elsewhere show that one tried to make commit suicide Paulette Cooper, author of the first critical book known on the sect.
Of suspect deaths is regularly put at the day by the press: practitioners die fault of care or by suicide, sometimes during the treatments. The doubt is reinforced by the contracts which the practitioners are brought to sign discharging the Church from Scientology of any moral wrong, physical or material that it could cause with the signatory and his family (clauses however null in comparison with the law);
Proselytism considered to be excessive;
Operation described as company to lucrative goal; existence of a world network of companies (WISE) serving the interests scientologists;
Existence of a company secretes and a centralized capacity whose simple existence itself is in extreme cases of legality;
Operating process which resembles the pyramidal Vente: the follower can partly pay the “courses” which it needs to progress while recruiting new followers.
Condemned for swindle like in the case of the one 5.000 years duration old work contracts, which can be connected with a form of Esclavage. The contracts have sometimes even a superior duration to a billion years.
Accusés to prevent its members from looking after itself using drugs and of therapy, which would have resulted in many deaths

Its partisans make the point that any valid movement in the history of humanity was strongly attacked by corrupted men in place having personal interests protect.

Office of the special businesses

The Office of the special businesses ( Office off Special Affairs or DARED) is the department of communication of the Scientologie.

It succeeds the Office of the guard, implied in 1979 in the scandal of the Even deal Snows, an attempt at infiltration of the US government for which several scientologists were condemned to custodial sentences.

According to the organization of fight against the sects, it would be the official office of propaganda scientologist and would constitute even files with an aim of practicing the dissimulation and the blackmail towards the opponents of the sect and his former members.

Nebula scientologist

One of the characteristics of the church of scientology is the extreme diversification of its activities: music, art schools or management, lobby with humane goal. Often, the names chosen by the organization resemble the names of other public agencies or deprived: for the opponents with the Scientology, these names are intended to make pass the organizations scientologists for official services or organizations to the similar and already known names of the general public, and these activities are suspected of being used as springboard for the recruitment of new followers, who engage in an activity by being unaware of the bonds between the Scientology and these organizations.

Ethical and freedom , a newspaper
the Office of the human rights ( of the church of scientology - often omitted mention and allowing a confusion with others offices of the human rights ).
Narconon , a program of fight against drug
the College International Hubbard d' Administration Diplomas of trade and administration recognized by the American state

the school of the awakening

Permanent Board of inquiry on the violation of the human rights

the Coordination of Associations and the Private individuals for the Freedom of Conscience

the French Center of the scientologists against discrimination

Hope of a future

Commission of the citizens for the human rights

the Association of the study of the new faith

Criminon

Grouping for the Improvement of the Educational Methods

Wise , ( World Institute off Scientology Enterprises ) regrouping of companies scientologists.

See too

Sect, Conditioning and mental
Dianétique
E-meter
Narconon
Clayton Ruby
Mark Bunker, critical Handling of the scientology
Xenu
LISA McPherson

External bonds

Official site
is the Scientology a religion? Bond scientologist quoting expert, university, etc
Analysis of the sect by Helder
Anti-scientology “OT III - the wall of fire”
Antisectes: suicides Suicides in the church of scientology
Prévensectes “the obscure world of the Scientology”
Press review on the Scientology Selection of articles of the written press
Xenufrance Of the thousands of pages of documents and official declarations of the sect near the authorities
File and Nouvelles concerning the Scientology on the site of the National union of defense associations of the families and the individual

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