A Modern day Cult
What is Scientology?
 “KNOWING ABOUT KNOWING, or science of
knowledge” (L. Ron Hubbard – Founder).
What’s wrong with Scientology?
A. It is a CULT
B. It is a FALSE RELIGION
C. We define any religion as false whenever and
wherever it DEPARTS from the biblical God and his
plan of Salvation as understood and proclaimed by
the Historical orthodox Christian Church.
Why can’t we accept Scientology?
A. It teaches FALSE Doctrine
 Jesus Rebuked the false teachers – Matthew 23:13-30
B. We are to abstain from the APPEARANCE of Evil
 1 Thessalonians 5:22 - Avoid every kind of evil.
C. We are not to have FELLOWSHIP with Darkness
 Ephesians 5:11 - Have nothing to do with the fruitless
deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
What is this movement called
Scientology?
 It claims to be a Church and a applied religious
philosophy
 This movement was FOUNDED by L. Ron Hubbard
Who is L. Ron Hubbard?
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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
Born March 13, 1911 in Tiden, Nebraska
He was a popular Science Fiction writer of the 1930’s
At the New Jersey Science Fiction convention he
said, “Writing for a Penny a word is ridiculous. If a
man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best
way would be to start his own religion.” (Time {April
5, 1976} 57.)
The Following year in May 1950, Hubbard released
“Dianetics: A Modern Science of Mental Health.”
Who is L. Ron Hubbard?
 His first book on Scientology was published in 1951, and
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the Church of Scientology of California was incorporated
on February 18, 1954.
He was raised near Helena, Montana
His father served a career in the U.S. Navy
He was one of the youngest Eagle Scouts in the History of
the Boy Scouts of America
Married 3 times; accused of beatings, strangulation;
kidnapping of their child to Cuba; counseling his first wife
to commit suicide
 He met his second wife in a Satanists Cult lead by Jack
Parsons that practiced Black Magic and Sexual Magic
Opposition To L. Ron Hubbard
 Russell Miller – Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard
 Former Scientologists Bent Corydon – L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or
Madman?
 They show that Hubbard:
Lied about Traveling to Asia when we was in High School
Lied about being crippled; showed medical records that he was never
crippled, blinded, or wounded in WWII (let alone being pronounced
dead twice).
Question Hubbard’s Academic Degrees
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Sequoia University was shut down in 1958 because they were discovered to be
an unrecognized diploma mill located in a two-story house in Los Angeles
He attended 2 years at George Washington University for 2 years and placed on
Academic Probation for poor grades
He spent 3 months at the Princeton School of Military Government
Nothing has surfaced to confirm his “alleged” degree from Columbian College
The Church of Scientology
 The Dianetics Movement
 Dianetics means “through thought” or “Through the
Soul” – it is the science of the mind.
 Man is basically GOOD
 Man’s basic instinct is SURVIVAL – to do this one must
avoid pan and gain pleasure
What is a Thetan?
 Scientology likes the Thetan to MAN’S SPIRIT
 It is a TIMELESS entity which reincarnates in
interplanetary(between planets and the Sun) life
forms
 Once reaching earth as man, its goal is FREEDOM
from the cycle of birth and rebirth
 He must learn to GAIN CONTROL over his
environment and become an “Operating Thetan”
(OT).
What is an Operating Thetan (OT)?
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One who has control over MEST
 MEST = Matter, Energy, Space, and Time – the physical
universe
2. A Thetan Controls MEST by operating OUTSIDE of
his body (Hubbard, Technical Dictionary, 279).
3. Since the OT no longer needs his body, he can leave
it AT WILL through the act of “exteriorization,” –
planetary Projection (Hubbard, Dianetics, 115).
4. OT’s climb fifteen levels, but the highest courses are
obtainable only by a few members
Dianetics – the structure of Man’s
Mind
 ANALYTICAL MIND – This works like the perfect
computer; it never makes a mistake
 REACTIVE MIND – Totally stimulus/response basis. It
hold the mental images of past experiences called
“engrams.”
 SOMATIC MIND – place solutions into effect on the
physical level. This mind keeps the body regulated
and functioning.
Being Unconscious
 This is when the Body is awake and animated, but the
analytical mind has stopped and the reactive mind
takes over. The reactive mind takes in a detailed
recording from the sensory organs. This recording is
not a memory, but an image, like a motion picture
called an “engram.” Everything said, seen, touched,
and sensed is recorded as the “engram.” The reactive
mind stores this engram, which works to stimulate the
person to react to the stimulus.
The Problem:
 The reactive mind frequently interrupts the analytical
mind. The Analytical Mind could run the persons life
flawlessly, but the reactive mind keeps interfering with
perfection.
Example:
 “Suppose as an example of an engram and its effects on the
Spirit, Mr. A has a tonsillectomy under anesthetic. During
this operation, the surgeon, who wears glasses, comments
angrily to a clumsy nurse, ‘You don’t know what you are
going.’ Mr. A recovers. A few months later, Mr. A, a bit
tired during a hard day at the office, has an argument with
his employer (who happens to also wear glasses), who says,
‘You don’t know what you are doing.’ Mr. A suddenly feels
dizzy, stupid, and gets a pain in his throat. There is
installed a kind of conditioned semantic response that
affects the THETAN (a cyclical reincarnated entity
“discovered” by L. Ron Hubbard).”
 These engrams make a man react insanely to society: Mad,
Inefficient, and ill.
The Solution:
 Rid that reactive mind of all engrams. Once this
happens, the person is called “CLEAR.” The clear
person has no reaction to the same situation because
no engrams stimulates it.
 The goal of Dianetics is to CLEAR the individual of all
engrams of his past.
 At First, Dianetics only dealt with engrams in this
lifetime, but after more probing, Scientologists claim
that they carry engrams from past lives (reincarnation)
that also need to be cleared.
The Clear Person
 The clear person is on the evolutionary journey to the next
stage of man, a godlike being called HOMO NOVIS.
 This person can be tested for all mental disorders, emotional
disorders, compulsions, repressions, and self-generated
diseases to confirm that they are ENTIRELY without such
problems. Additional tests will show the intelligence to be
high above the current norm.
 It IMPROVES eyesight, stops ear-ringing, increases the IQ,
cures the common cold, speeds thinking computations, and
saves marriages.
 This is accomplished by Dianetics through COUNSELING. It
may take years of auditing for the pre-clear to become clear.
 This Clear, Operating Thetan, is “cleared of all wrong
answers or useless answers that keep them from living or
thinking” (Hubbard, Technical Dictionary, 75).
Dianetics Rejected  American Psychological Association – “These claims are
not supported by empirical evidence of the sort required
for the establishment of scientific generalizations.”
(Publishers Weekly {September 16, 1950}: 1124).
 Dr. Morris Fishbeck, former editor of the Journal of the
American Medical Association, said went on record by
warning people about “mind-healing cults… like Dianetics.”
(Newsweek {October 16 1950}: 59).
 Psychologists Eric Fromm – “Dianetics has to respect for
and no understanding of the complexities of personality,”
He revealed that Hubbard had saturated Dianetics in
“oversimplified truths, half-truths, and plain absurdities.”
(Paul Sann. Fads, Fallacies, and Delusions, 114).
Dianetics Rejected
 No “Clears” could be found until Feb. 1966 – Sonya
Bianca – a Physics Student from Boston
 4000 people appeared in the Shrine Auditorium in Los
Angeles to see the first “Clear.” Questions from the
Audience revealed should could not remember basic
physics formulas nor the Color of Hubbard’s necktie she
had seen moments before the show