{"id":2415,"date":"2021-02-18T06:31:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T03:05:30","slug":"what-is-scientology-what-are-its-beliefs-why-has-it-been-so-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/what-is-scientology-what-are-its-beliefs-why-has-it-been-so-controversial\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Scientology, what are its beliefs & why has it been so controversial?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. Scientology was developed by an author of science fiction (Sci-Fi) books, L. Ron Hubbard.<\/li>\n
  2. Including short stories, novels, and non-fiction, he published 1084 works in his lifetime (died in 1986) and holds the Guinness World Record<\/span><\/a> for most published works.<\/li>\n
  3. After serving in WWII, he practised as a hypnotist and published a book called Dianetics <\/i>(soon became a bestseller), which, he said, covered a new approach to handle mental health.<\/li>\n
  4. The success of Dianetics provoked Hubbard to establish a foundation that was based on 3 principles: A) Souls are eternal and each soul has had multiple bodies over many lifetimes; B) In each of these lifetimes, the soul has gathered traumas; C) We, the current carriers of this soul, could get rid of these traumas through a process called \u2018Auditing\u2019.<\/li>\n
  5. In auditing, either through a conversation or through a machine called {tooltip}E-meter{end-text}Scientologists say an e-meter measures the body’s electric flow as an auditor asks a series of questions they say reveals sources of trauma. It is said to work like a polygraph lie-detector and the auditor observes the phrases and words that generate negative feelings.{end-tooltip}, <\/i>professionals help the patient recall their past traumas.<\/li>\n
  6. Members believe that reliving those traumas helps victims overcome them because the analytic mind (instead of our reactive mind) takes over and the victim reaches a state called \u2018clear\u2019.<\/li>\n
  7. The process, however, has not received any endorsement by medical science so far.<\/li>\n
  8. Those who look down upon Scientology base their argument on the fact that it was developed by someone whose life revolved around science fiction.<\/li>\n
  9. Another argument against the legitimacy of Scientology as a religion is that auditing costs money (US$800 for a 1-hour session<\/span><\/a>; high-level full-scale auditing can cost up to $100,000), which is not something people associate with religion.<\/li>\n
  10. Also, the religion restricts people from leaving; people who have shared their inner secrets during auditing feel scared leaving (potential blackmailing).<\/li>\n
  11. A few<\/span><\/a> (including Hollywood celebrities) who have left the religion have made various complaints but because of lack of evidence, these complaints have been ignored.<\/li>\n
  12. In the 1960s, when Scientology began making huge sums of money, the US tax department tried to claim taxes but after 25 years of a legal battle, it was ruled that Scientology was indeed a church and thus exempt from taxes.<\/li>\n
  13. After Hubbard died in 1986, David Miscavige took over the church; he has been accused of violence and abuse towards church members but nothing has been proved yet.<\/li>\n
  14. The biggest controversy around David Miscavige is the mysterious circumstances under which his wife, Shelly Miscavige, went missing in 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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