If it sounds like science fiction to you, you are not alone. One of the main criticisms leveled at these beliefs is how much it sounds like a Sci-Fi movie. And in some ways Scientology and the entertainment business are very much intermixed. The church first took hold in California and attracted many young Hollywood artists. The founder L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction novelist and is said to have always been intrigued by the film industry. At the time he founded scientology, he was writing in Hollywood, hoping to further his entertainment career by penning screenplays.
In , the church opened its first "Celebrity Centre", a church that is open to the public but meant for artists, business leaders, athletes, and other notable persons who may be interested in participating in the church and perhaps lending their talents to it. Hubbard hoped that the religion would be popularized through the arts.
Many notable people did in fact join the church and go on to publicly advocate for Scientology. The two most famous followers are John Travolta and Tom Cruise. Travolta was the first big celebrity to come out from the Scientology flock. He found the church in after reading Dianetics. He has credited scientology for giving him the resources and the confidence to pursue his acting career. When he became world famous after starring in the film Saturday Night Fever in , he was in a way the de facto face of Scientology.
Tom Cruise has perhaps supplanted Travolta as the biggest celebrity proponent of the church. In recent years, he has spoken publicly about his role in the religion. His first wife, the actress Mimi Rogers, who is now thought to have left the church, first exposed Cruise to the Scientology. Cruise credits scientology for helping his career, and is now publicly advocating for the church to be accepted as an official religion in Europe. Bromley and other scholars say the church promotes the idea of an ancient intergalactic civilization in which millions of beings were destroyed and became what are known as "body thetans," which continue to latch onto humans and cause more trauma.
Advanced Scientologists confront body thetans through more auditing. Bromley says the church discloses that cosmic history only to more advanced Scientologists. The church's media affairs department did not respond to requests for comment to this story.
In a CNN interview, church spokesman Tommy Davis was asked whether the basic tenet of the Church of Scientology was to rid the body of space alien parasites. People should really come to the church and find out for themselves what it is.
Who was L. Ron Hubbard? Ron Hubbard was the founder of Scientology. Born in Nebraska in , Hubbard was the son of a U. Navy officer who circled the globe with his family, according to Scientology expert J. Photos: L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology. Ron Hubbard published a series of articles and then a book on what he described as a new approach to mental health.
In , Hubbard founded the Church of Scientology. Hide Caption. Hubbard and his children in December They are testing a device called an E-meter, which Scientologists say measures the body's electric flow as an auditor asks a series of questions that they say reveals sources of trauma. Hubbard works in his greenhouse in December Hubbard in the south of France in May Hubbard talks with reporters in his office in Many groups and individuals have challenged Scientology's legitimacy as a religion.
Scientologists have faced opposition from the medical community over the religion's claims about mental health, from the scientific community over its claims about its E-meters and from other religious groups about its status as a religion. Hubbard poses for a portrait in New York in January He died in The entrance to the Los Angeles headquarters of the church in March Confetti rains down as actor Tom Cruise, left, embraces David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology, at the opening of a new church in Madrid in September Cruise is one of the world's most prominent Scientologists.
Miscavige speaks during the inauguration of the Madrid church in September Scientology made headlines in June when Cruise got into a heated debate with "Today" host Matt Lauer over psychiatric drugs. The Church of Scientology's website says that "the effects of medical and psychiatric drugs, whether painkillers, tranquilizers or 'antidepressants,' are as disastrous" as illicit drugs. A volunteer from the Church of Scientology touches an injured woman in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the devastating earthquake there in January In November , Miscavige dedicates the massive Clearwater building as the church's new spiritual headquarters.
Ron Hubbard in the s during the formative years of the religion. They set the guidelines for the practice and expansion of Scientology and still serve those ends today.
Included in these creeds are codes for the auditor, the supervisor, the manager and additional codes by which all Scientologists strive to live. Like Scientology, the usefulness of these principles determines their worth.
Scientologists follow these precepts in applying Scientology Technology, in dealings with others and in the administration of their groups and the practice of their religion. Representing the basic truths of life, the Logics and Axioms form the foundation upon which Dianetics and Scientology were built. These are the central considerations and natural laws which contain the answers to life and its interaction with the physical universe. Dianetics and Scientology in their entirety flow from these basic truths.
All later discoveries fall within the bounds of truth described in these Logics and Axioms. Many higher states of existence are available to Man, and these are attainable through Scientology. Ron Hubbard provided a precise delineation of these states, and then clarified how they could be attained by arranging them on a chart which graphically showed each step of the route upward. As the founder of the Scientology religion and the sole author of its scripture, L.
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