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Originally Posted by -jimi-
I don't know, this was a good while ago and I lost touch with him. It was during a weird craze here and it seems over with so I do think things are OK for him now. It was actually quite creepy because they followed me too and I was just a friend and had nothing to do with it.
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Wow, so creepy!
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Originally Posted by zinco14532323
I read L Ron Hubbard's Dianetics many years ago. I have no idea how I even got the book, but I thought I would read it. It is what the whole church of Scientology is based on as far as I know. I don't remember anything about aliens in the mind. It is all about unconscious memories and engrams and ridding your mind of them. It is just a psychological theory but it seems to claim to be a cure all. All disease is psychosomatic and can be cured by freeing yourself of engrams or something like that. I can't remember.
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Yeah, I haven't read Dianetics, but I was interested in and open minded about Dianetics and Scientology at one point. But from what I know about it, you've summarized it very well. Although Dianetics and Scientology are not strictly the same. In the CoS Dianetics is considered "a forerunner and substudy of Scientology."
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And I was being a little glib when I wrote Scientologists believe in evil aliens in the mind. They're actually called Body Thetans and it's part of the higher level secret teaching after a member has reached a certain level (and shelled out a lot of cash). It's all rather too complicated and dull to go into in great detail, but a quick google of "Body Thetans" and/or "Xenu" will tell the story. Here's a link, though.
Scientology's Body Thetan (BT, or "dead alien spirit" in non-Scientology terms)
But in all fairness, it's not strictly true that all Scientologists believe in Body Thetans . . . those that have not reached OT3 are trying to get "Clear" and then moving on to becoming "Operating Thetans" and are not aware of Body Thetans at all. It's only the Bigwigs of the Church and the famous movie actors and their ilk who are usually at the OT3 and beyond level.
Which, y'know, whatever. I live in the U.S. and we have freedom of religion. So people are certainly free to choose what they believe and where and how (or how not) they worship. And they're free to choose to not take medications based on their religious beliefs. Using those religious beliefs to try to persuade others to not take potentially beneficial medications crosses the line, though, I think.