Church of Scientology

Once L.Ron Hubbard gained a sense of trust with people he took the ball and ran with it. In others, he became innovating much different from Wovoka’s legit causes to help the Paiute people; L.Ron Hubbard was after the member's pockets. The Church of Scientology made people undergo Auditing to achieve becoming clear. Auditing is expensive for what it is, as it is an Electropsychometer that is able to show the small increments in the electrical resistance of a person. An individual would hold two…

Scientology within America Scientology is a new religious movement that was founded between the years 1951 to 1952, however despite its relative newness to the religious scene it “remains one of the most controversial and poorly understood new religious movements to emerge in the last century” (Urban 91). Developed by the writer and philosopher Lafayette Hubbard, the religion itself is based upon findings over Hubbard’s personal study and development of Dianetics; or the study of metaphysical…

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, also known as L. Ron Hubbard was an author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Scientology is a religion based off of a fiction piece of work, Dianetics. Dianetics describes a program of self improvement and spiritual awakening and continues to be the Scientology bible. The church currently has over seven hundred churches, missions and groups, and Dianetics still sells over four hundred thousand copies a year. As a result of L. Ron Hubbard’s determination,…

A brief History of Scientology The Scientology is a fairly new religion founded by Ron L. Hubbard in1954, a college dropout due to failing grades. Although he would later claim a distinguished wartime navel career, Ron never, in fact, saw combat, he left the US Navy requesting psychiatric care from the Veterans Administration. Ron had two polygamous fail marriages, and then he found success writing pulp/science fiction. In the late 1940s, Ron declared writing for a penny a word is just…

course or Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s book Dianetics, a set of theories concerning the metaphysical relationship between mind and body. The courses are $55 and the books $25, or more with an accompanying DVD. As someone who has never suffered from depression but knows many people who have, I wonder about the ethics of such recommendations. Another staff member, Tim*, explains that Scientologists don’t believe in “mind-altering drugs” such as antidepressants. The controversial church,…

Walking into the Church of Scientology I had a vague idea of what was about to happen and what they’re all about, but I don’t think I was mentally prepared for what I was walking into. I know that Scientology isn’t really the ideal candidate for this paper because they’re so secretive about their beliefs, but I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go and check out this mysterious religion. Now if I’m being completely honest, before my visit, everything I knew about Scientology I had learned…

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…

found a documentary that told of the “truth” about Scientology, called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. In the documentary it talks about how L. Ron Hubbard lied about his “injuries” from World War 2, and other accounts in his life. It also went on and had past members of the church talk about the bad parts of it. All I will say is there are always two sides to everything, and we must respect each side. Overall, with Scientology I ended up learning more about the religion, but…

religions, their practices, and beliefs. Since there were so many different religions, the religion that I would like to discuss is Scientology. I always hear about scientology or celebrities who practice scientology; however I never knew what scientology entailed. Throughout this research paper, I will discuss more in depth what scientology practices and beliefs are. Scientology was founded in 1952 by and author named L.Ron Hubbard. Hubbard had originally founded a program called Dianetics,…

The “whys of conformity” demonstrate why the Church of Scientology has been so successful in gaining new members and keeping indoctrinated members. Specifically, they help explain why people are motivated to conform to the church’s ideals. The group locomotive hypothesis, consistency theory, and the hedonistic hypothesis provide reasoning to understand how the church gains and keeps its members. I will examine how each of these theories/hypotheses play a role in “Going Clear”. The group…