Scientology Research Paper

Scientology focuses mainly on ideas that people believe they can use to make their lives better, and call it an "applied religious philosophy." It does not have much to say about God, the afterlife or any other common religious beliefs. Scientology and its ideas are focused almost completely on humanity and how to make people better. It emphasizes the life a person has now, rather than past lives or the next life, which are common themes in many other religions (Scientology Beliefs).
The Church of Scientology considers itself to be a religion due to its focus on the human soul and the awareness of the spirit. Scientologists believe in a God or something like a god, but they do not offer a doctrine or any details to support it. L. Ron Hubbard founded Scientology and he noted the importance of the belief in a “Supreme Being” to all humanity. “God is, therefore, the Eighth Dynamic, which is also known as Infinity. Scientologists who progress to the Eighth Dynamic come to their own conclusions regarding the Supreme Being (Scientology Beliefs)”. …show more content…
The body includes the brain, which carries messages and is different from the mind. The mind is the sum of life experiences, memories, and decisions. The thetan is the soul and Hubbard felt that "soul" had come to have too many false meanings, so he used the term thetan based on the Greek letter theta. “According to the church: "A thetan is the person himself, not his body or his name or the physical universe, his mind or anything else. It is that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. One does not have a thetan, something one keeps somewhere apart from oneself; he is a thetan (Scientology