Is there a Scientology creation story?

Question

Hey I'm doing a religion project and I need some more information on Scientology, we're supposed to find a creation story about it, what they believe in, their gods, and what happens at a gathering (like church Sunday at a Scientology church).

Answer 1

Actually, the book that the Scientologist user referenced, "History of Man", indicates that humans "evolved from clams". This is what L. Ron Hubbard asserts, not me. According to Hubbard, the hinges of the clam "later become the hinges of the human jaw" and the clam's method of reproducing using spores is said to be responsible for toothache. In one of the most famous passages of the book, Hubbard advised that:



Should you desire to confirm this, describe to some uninitiated person the death of a clam without saying what you are describing. "Can you imagine a clam sitting on the beach, opening and closing its shell very rapidly?" (Make a motion with your thumb and forefinger of a rapid opening and closing). The victim may grip his jaws with his hand and feel quite upset. He may even have to have a few teeth pulled: At the very least he will argue as to whether or not the shell stays open at the end or closed. And he will, with no hint of the death aspect of it, talk about the "poor clam" and he will feel quite sad emotionally.



He goes on to warn the reader that "your discussion of these incidents with the uninitiated in Scientology can cause havoc. Should you describe the "clam" to someone, you may restimulate it in him to the extent of causing severe jaw pain. One such victim, after hearing about a clam death, could not use his jaws for three days."



Now, as for "Xenu":



At level OT III (Operating Thetan Level 3), some very strange & fiercely guarded secrets are imparted upon worthy members who have paid enough money to advance to such a level (and no, this isn't a joke): The evil alien ruler Xenu killed millions of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by kidnapping them, bringing them to earth in golden DC-8 “space-planes”, stacking them around volcanoes & blowing them up by dropping “h-bombs” into the volcanoes. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed & released; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (and according to Scientology’s belief in Thetan immortality, they also attached to us during “past lives”) & cause many of our mental & physical ills to this day. Auditing is said to “clear” us of these Body Thetans as well as the “mental implants” they supposedly impose on our minds.

http://www.spaink.net/cos/essays/atack_ot3.html

http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.html

http://xenu.net/archive/leaflet/Xenu-Letter.pdf

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/OTIII/

Answer 2

Scientology Creation Story

Answer 3

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Is there a Scientology creation story?

Hey I'm doing a religion project and I need some more information on Scientology, we're supposed to find a creation story about it, what they believe in, their gods, and what happens at a gathering (like church Sunday at a Scientology church).

Answer 4

When Was Scientology Created

Answer 5

Basically, Scn posits the idea that people, as spiritual beings, originated elsewhere, long before there was a planet earth that had any animals on it. Earth is considered to be a prison planet, an Australia or US colony of the intergalactic congress, so to speak. The real creation story is that people always existed as spiritual beings and that bodies are transitory, they are not the actual person. That, at one point, there was no physical universe at all, yet consciousness existed.

Answer 6

If you are really looking for facts about the Scientology religion and not a lot of internet /media generated disinformation and complete rubbish ( like the Xenu thing, for example ) I recommend the book "What is Scientology"

this is a comprehensive encyclopedia that will answer all your questions. We do not have a "Creation Story" in the same way that Bible based religions do. Like Buddhism doesn't have this kind of story either.



Here’s a factual description for you (From an actual Scientologist):



Scientology is a new religion. It is an applied religious philosophy. By “applied” is meant that it is for use in life and living. You actually use it in your day to day life to change and improve existing conditions. It is a practical religion.

All religions if you study them have a basic philosophy, but they also have certain dogma, rituals and observances and a certain faith or belief is required. There is nothing wrong with this , but Scientology is not that kind of religion. It acknowledges the principle of God or the Supreme Being but does not try to define or describe this principle, leaving it up to the individual.

It is also not a messianic religion. This means there is no worship of prophets or messiahs or gods. It is not belief or faith based. In Scientology a truth is true for you according to your own observation and experience .

The dictionary definition that applies:



Religion: The spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognises the existence of superhuman power or powers.



The most basic principle of Scientology is that YOU are your own immortal soul, that this is not a thing you have but what YOU actually are.

Scientology believes or considers that Man is basically good. This is different from many religions that promote that he his natively evil or bad unless “made” good.



The whole purpose of Scientology knowledge application and procedure is to increase an individual’s understanding and awareness of himself as a spiritual being and to rehabilitate his native abilities and potential.

When you do this there sphere and zones of his positive influence increases and moves outward into his life , his family and friends, his groups and Mankind of which he is part .



How this result is achieved is the “technology” of Scientology, which was developed by L Ron Hubbard from discoveries he made after extensive research into the field of the mind and the human spirit.

Some of this knowledge was already existing in the sacred lore of ancient texts like the Veda or Vedic Hymns going back 10,000 years. New and additional discoveries were made about the nature of the human spirit and fully recorded and codified .

Scientology’s closest spiritual ties with any other religion are with Orthodox (Hinayana ) Buddhism with which it shares an historical lineage. But even here the relationship is based mainly on friendship and the recognition of the being as a spirit rather than any organizational ties.



L.Ron Hubbard published 18 basic books from 1950 to 1955 to fully communicate the basic principles of Scientology, the path of his research and the technology that he developed from this.

He completed all his research before his death in 1986 and left all his materials and copyrights to the Church of Scientology’s Religious Technology Centre along with most of his personal estate when he died.



The Church of Scientology is currently established iand operating internationally in over 160 countries world wide. However it is still a new religion, less than 55 years old.

The true story of Scientology as a religion goes like this:

1. A philosopher developes a philosophy about life and death.

2. People find it interesting.

3. People find it works.

4. People pass it along to others.

5. It grows.



This is just an overview.

L.Ron Hubbard explained fully the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 3,000 tape recorded public lectures. So it’s not possible to fully answer your question on this forum, but I hope this helps.

Answer 7

Scientology is a cult started by Sci-Fi writer L. Ron Hubbard, who was at one time a disciple of Aleister Crowley. They use a process called "auditing" on their followers, which is really just a mild form of hypnosis.

Answer 8

Xenu some alien, kidnapped a bunch of other aliens he didn't like and flew them to earth in spaceships shaped like DC-8 aircraft and froze them, then threw them into the volcanos of Hawaii but they escaped and attached to early man (I don't know how scientology explains them) It's some story, you should google it. Or watch the South Park episode. Or send them ten million dollars (I'm not kidding).

Answer 9

If you mean creation of our bodies, you can find data on that in the basic text called "History of Man".



For us as spiritual beings, what that means and our relation to god as the creator is up to each individual.



My personal belief is that the bible stating that God made man in his own image applies to us as spiritual entities and not bodies. We do not have spiritual beings. We ARE spiritual beings.



I'm afraid you're not going to find any proof of anything in Wiki as the true data on Scientology. The actual source of data is in the basic texts that are in every library. You'd be better off going to the source, rather than the internet. You know how the media alters things to create controversy.

Answer 10

Yes, Xenu is serious, but it costs a lot of money to learn about him.



Or you can get your own inflatable Xenus by the dozen! Line those up outside your local Scientology org.

Answer 11

They believe that we are all immortals. And we created bodies for our immortal spirits to play with (to put it simply). However as we went down into history our spirits forgot that they were immortal. They we being held down by... engrams I think. So you have to pay some guy to get rid of those through a electric machine. The more you do this, the less engrams you have, you have to go through higher levels of this and have to pay more cash to do so.





This is a cash cult. I doubt even the creator believes it is real.

Poor Tom Cruise

Answer 12

That is an interesting question I hope you find some reasonable answers

Answer 13

Creation in accordance to Scientology:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=DxjvJMjzlgg



Scientology is a religious applied philosophy.



Scientology states that man is a Spiritual being and to represent this life force it selected the Greek symbol for though: “Theta”.



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ncBcbVtEwUc



SANITY

A sane man plans for the future.

A neurotic worries about the present.

An insane is stuck in the past.



KNOWLEDGE

A sane man Differentiates, he values each datum by itself.

A neurotic Associates irreverent data, two datum’s are never alike, each datum should be weighted by itself. All criminals justify their crimes by using logic or associating irreverent data. Two apples might look alike but the true observer knows that each apple is unique in form and color. Full knowingness is Differentiation, Logic is a step down.

The insane identifies, it believes that this equals that. Nurse = Vietcong, Bed = bunker, cup = grenade



THE MIND

THE ANALYTICAL MIND

The analytical mind is clear; it doesn’t have any hidden influences and is fully accessible by the Thetan. This is the mind that Theta uses to store memory and make decisions.



THE REACTIVE MIND

The reactive mind is collection of bad mental image picture that include pain, unconsciousness and command value. The reactive mind is the hidden influence that aberrates reason. The reactive mind is the cause for all human aberration, insanity or evil purpose.



AUDITING

Scientology’s approach to solve human aberration: Auditing.

- “Communication is the Universal Solvent.”

- “All problems of the mind are created by the mind.”

- “The mind can solve all the problems of the mind”



Auditing is a verbal therapy that uses questions to help the individual address what is bothering him. So the person by his own volition can solve his own problems. The big difference between Auditing and Psychoanalysis is that the Psychoanalyst evaluates for the person and tells him what to think. In Auditing you just ask and listen and let the person make his own mind about things.



There are no suggestions involved in Auditing, all conclusion are done by you by your own intelligence. Auditors are bound the Auditor’s Code to never evaluate for the preclear (preclear is a person receiving Scientology processing). Never get in a relationship with the preclear. All information released during auditing is protected by law and not even the police can gain access to that information. Enforcing this code of conduct is the Scientology Ethics Officer and Scientology law. Any violation to the Auditors code is considered a high crime in Scientology and will result removal of any Auditing Certificates and/or expulsion from the church. I have seen this happen and is a very serious matter.



Any friend or family member can audit you for free. Or you can take the courses and get your Auditing with other students. Taking Scientology courses is no more expensive than taking courses at your community college. Scientology also offers correspondence courses for a little as $30.00.



Professional auditing is also offered by highly trained specialists. An auditing team is composed of the Auditor, Ethics Officer, Quality Assurance (the person that tells the Auditor what to do), Corrections (the people that constantly train the Auditor on how to do the process) and the rest of the administration of a Church of Scientology. These are not one on one services, these are a whole team working to better you. It is expensive because is expensive to create, train and maintain the team.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=kwK1byq0ndQ



How Scientology evolved?



Scientology evolved from Dianetics when it was discovered that man is a spiritual being. Scientology differs from Dianetics in that Dianetics deals with the mind and the rehabilitation of mental image pictures and Scientology deals with the rehabilitation of the human spirit itself.



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=FhrlHU0W9UI



We don’t ask for your faith in Scientology. There is no faith needed, when you can observe and experience it working by your self.



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XUXR0XgmDNg



“Self confidence alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you. Let's make the best possible you." L Ron Hubbard

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dziK04-9qqQ



Cult status?

All great religions have been misunderstood, persecuted and attacked. Jesus was sentenced to death by a lynching crowd; his only crime: to teach Love and forgiveness. Christians were KILLED for centuries for their beliefs and they were accused of performing cannibalistic rituals (didn’t they ate and drink the body of Jesus?).



Scientology is a worldwide religion that claims 10 millions of members. It has centers in almost every mayor capital in the world: Washington, London, Berlin, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Sydney, Tel Aviv Israel and Moscow to name a few. And for a church that is barely 40 years old this is great. Scientology is not a small sect based in a small town in Texas isolated from the rest of the world. Scientology thrives in the center of mayor cities, its member are community leaders, doctors, teachers and workers from all sectors of society. The fact most Scientologists have a college education says a lot.



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0AbwtQ7Bc



Scientologists are involved in all kinds of community improvement programs. The “drug free marshals” promote a drug free life style: http://www.drugfreemarshals.org/ The Scientology volunteer minister have helped in every mayor disaster area in the last 5 years: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=VC9_epA-SpI The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project has helped over 800 9/11 rescue workers to live healthier lives: http://www.nypost.com/seven/06122007/news/columnists/cruisess_clinic_ok_columnists_steve_dunleavy.htm The way to happiness foundation promotes integrity, ethics and morals. Narconon is the biggest drug rehabilitation network word wide and runs the biggest drug rehabilitation center in the U.S. Criminon work with government agencies to rehabilitate inmates. Applied Scholastics promotes the use of smart study and educational techniques on a failed national educational system. Scientology is committed to solve all mayor social problems including lack of morals, illiteracy, drugs and criminality.



So those failed institutions that created these problems in the first place are calling foul and calling Scientology a cult. Who cares they are dying dinosaurs that failed to better society. Just a bunch of fakes with their “man is a soulless biological machine” ideology. To think that this is what passes for Social Sciences in today’s colleges is just mind boggling. Even they admit it in their own texts that Social Sciences are not a precise science. So if it is not a precise Science it is an ideology. America has been indoctrinated into this soulless false believe system not more scientific than other religion.



The truth is that you are a spiritual being not an animal. Man is a highly moral and sane spiritual being that has been driven into madness by force, drugs and electro shock. The good news is that now Scientology brings the tools to bring man back into sanity and anyone, even you can do it. Of courses this will put the mental health industry and big Pharma out of job. That’s exactly what they fear.