LV426
11-19-2006, 09:50 PM
Are there any Scientologists among us?
Since every so often I delve into religions to seek out greater, ahem, wisdom, I choose Scientology this weekend. What I did find was one of the more interesting science fiction stories I have ever seen. That one man made a religion out of this is fantastically brilliant. I mean he has literally made millions out of his own drug induced delusions. It almost inspires me to begin my own church.
Anyway here is some of the information that I discovered about Scientology.
Body Thetans: A thetan is the term roughly corresponding to one's "soul", and a Body Thetan is an alien thetan who is 'stuck' in, on or near a human body, and all human bodies are said to be covered in these misplaced thetans, or clusters of them.
Now apparently they don't start you off on this section of the religion right away because people would read that and god "wtf" and leave. So you have levels of enlightenment to attain.
By the time the subject reaches the level of OT VII, it is revealed to him that his physical body is not just covered with Body Thetans, but is literally composed of them. The ultimate goal of getting rid of one's Body Thetans, then, becomes getting rid of one's body and "exteriorizing" as an all-powerful disembodied spirit that no longer needs a physical body.
Body Thetans, according to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, cling to a body because they have lost their free will as a result of an event in their past.
How did Body Thetans come about? Ah well therein lies the explanation of Xenu.
Xenu: Seventy-five million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having on average 178 billion people. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with people "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth. Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions of people to paralyse them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections". The kidnapped populace was loaded into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The space planes were exact copies of Douglas DC-8s, "except the DC-8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't." DC-8s have jet engines, not propellers, although Hubbard may have meant the turbine fans.
When the space planes had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralysed people were unloaded and stacked around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were lowered into the volcanoes, and all were detonated simultaneously. Only a few people's physical bodies survived. With all of these people now dead, their souls (Body Thetans), then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to wreak chaos and havoc today.
Oh but wait, it gets better. When all of the body thetans were released they were taken to a cinema where they were forced to watch a major motion 3D movie that somehow implanted misleading data. I have no clue what exactly this misleading data was but it apparently causes the thetans to attach themselves to the living and cause problems for everyone.
Xenu was then overthrown and apparently imprisoned on Earth in the Pyrenees mountains with a never ending forcefield.
Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a prison planet to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since that time.
The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology" doctrines taught only to advanced members. You must pay through the nose to acheive this level. Apparently the more money you put forth the faster you will ascend through the ranks. Apparently money isn't the only thing you have to contribute, you also have to surrender your will.
SEA ORG: The Sea Org is an abbreviation invented by L. Ron Hubbard for Sea Organization. According to the Church of Scientology website, the Sea Organization is a fraternal religious order and is not incorporated or otherwise organized as a legal entity. Members of the Sea Organization are responsible to the local church for which they work and are subject, as are all other employees of that church, to the orders and directions of its board of directors.
Members of the Sea Org sign an employment contract with the organization for one billion years. Jeeze talk about enslavement here.
Apparently Children are seen as a hinderance to servitude in the SEA ORG and couples are actually encouraged not to have children. In fact when you are involved in Sea Org you are not expected to have any free time to engage in dating and relationships. Relationships and marriages are distracting.
My sources are varied and some come from the Scientology website and others come from Wikipedia and still others are from the encyclopedia.com . They all shared the same information. True there is no way of knowing if the Xenu story is fact to these people because the Scientologists deny it exists but yet the story is out there in many places and is said to come from ex-scientologists.
Since every so often I delve into religions to seek out greater, ahem, wisdom, I choose Scientology this weekend. What I did find was one of the more interesting science fiction stories I have ever seen. That one man made a religion out of this is fantastically brilliant. I mean he has literally made millions out of his own drug induced delusions. It almost inspires me to begin my own church.
Anyway here is some of the information that I discovered about Scientology.
Body Thetans: A thetan is the term roughly corresponding to one's "soul", and a Body Thetan is an alien thetan who is 'stuck' in, on or near a human body, and all human bodies are said to be covered in these misplaced thetans, or clusters of them.
Now apparently they don't start you off on this section of the religion right away because people would read that and god "wtf" and leave. So you have levels of enlightenment to attain.
By the time the subject reaches the level of OT VII, it is revealed to him that his physical body is not just covered with Body Thetans, but is literally composed of them. The ultimate goal of getting rid of one's Body Thetans, then, becomes getting rid of one's body and "exteriorizing" as an all-powerful disembodied spirit that no longer needs a physical body.
Body Thetans, according to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, cling to a body because they have lost their free will as a result of an event in their past.
How did Body Thetans come about? Ah well therein lies the explanation of Xenu.
Xenu: Seventy-five million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having on average 178 billion people. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with people "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth. Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions of people to paralyse them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections". The kidnapped populace was loaded into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The space planes were exact copies of Douglas DC-8s, "except the DC-8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't." DC-8s have jet engines, not propellers, although Hubbard may have meant the turbine fans.
When the space planes had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralysed people were unloaded and stacked around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were lowered into the volcanoes, and all were detonated simultaneously. Only a few people's physical bodies survived. With all of these people now dead, their souls (Body Thetans), then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living, and continue to wreak chaos and havoc today.
Oh but wait, it gets better. When all of the body thetans were released they were taken to a cinema where they were forced to watch a major motion 3D movie that somehow implanted misleading data. I have no clue what exactly this misleading data was but it apparently causes the thetans to attach themselves to the living and cause problems for everyone.
Xenu was then overthrown and apparently imprisoned on Earth in the Pyrenees mountains with a never ending forcefield.
Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a prison planet to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since that time.
The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology" doctrines taught only to advanced members. You must pay through the nose to acheive this level. Apparently the more money you put forth the faster you will ascend through the ranks. Apparently money isn't the only thing you have to contribute, you also have to surrender your will.
SEA ORG: The Sea Org is an abbreviation invented by L. Ron Hubbard for Sea Organization. According to the Church of Scientology website, the Sea Organization is a fraternal religious order and is not incorporated or otherwise organized as a legal entity. Members of the Sea Organization are responsible to the local church for which they work and are subject, as are all other employees of that church, to the orders and directions of its board of directors.
Members of the Sea Org sign an employment contract with the organization for one billion years. Jeeze talk about enslavement here.
Apparently Children are seen as a hinderance to servitude in the SEA ORG and couples are actually encouraged not to have children. In fact when you are involved in Sea Org you are not expected to have any free time to engage in dating and relationships. Relationships and marriages are distracting.
My sources are varied and some come from the Scientology website and others come from Wikipedia and still others are from the encyclopedia.com . They all shared the same information. True there is no way of knowing if the Xenu story is fact to these people because the Scientologists deny it exists but yet the story is out there in many places and is said to come from ex-scientologists.