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Welcome to the Global Watch Weekly Report Is the Church of Scientology gaining or losing members and influence? The answer to that question may depend on who you ask about the controversial movement. A recent group of defectors from Scientology claim that the church is showing signs of decline in participation and finances due to abuses by leaders. In contrast, new scholarly outlooks on Scientology are more divided about whether the movement and its distinctive blend of science, psychotherapy and esoteric religion is growing. In late June 2009, a special 35-page series in the St. Petersburg Times newspaper of Florida reported on allegations of church abuse from top Scientology executives who left the church. The ex-members, who include former spokesperson Marty Rathburn, the former head of Scientology headquarters, Tom DeVocht, and Amy Scobie, who helped create the church's celebrity network, allege that physical violence permeates the organization's management.
Scientology head David Miscavage is said to have beaten many church staffers over minor infractions and for challenging his leadership. In the last few years attacks on the Scientology have grown more frequent and bolder by ex-members and other critics. The recent allegations were denied by church officials, who claim that the defectors are trying to stage a coup and seize control of the church. However regardless of leadership questions it is the belief system of Scientology which we examine in this weeks edition of the Global Watch Weekly. Enjoy. Rema Marketing
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HUBBARD’S SCIENTOLOGY ENIGMA He also pointed out that Scientology has its hands full with other problems.
SCIENTOLOGY UNCOVERED In 2011 a book was released by Princeton Press which caused a stir within the occult conspiracy sector .Hugh Urban's, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, had arrived almost the same day as Janet Reitman's highly anticipated book about the church, Inside Scientology.
"I think they have so many things to deal with, especially since Rathbun and Rinder came out, they don't have time to go after publishers"
This is in reference to Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, two high-level church executives who defected and ever since have been speaking out about abuses in Scientology. STRANGE TEACHINGS Many people who find out what Scientology teaches are normally baffled and confused as to how people could be drawn to a movement with such a bizarre belief about the origins of the universe and mankind. Furthermore how could so many celebrities be drawn into such a belief system?.
What was impressive about Urban, is that his 216 pages, not only laid out a robust history of Scientology in a highly readable narrative, but also did what others really hadn't before: put L. Ron Hubbard's (the head of the Scientology movement) creation in the cultural and political context of its time -- Scientology is a Cold War product, and absorbed all of that era's paranoia and desire for secrecy.
These beliefs have been discussed to a large extent in UFO Religions by Christopher Partridge, The Encyclopaedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions by James R. Lewis, and UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture by Gregory Reece. Stories of extra-terrestrial civilizations and interventions in past lives form a part of the belief system of Scientology.
The book made for a great companion to Reitman's journalistic approach: with both having the common goals of looking at a controversial subject from an objective, scholarly point of view. Urban had stated that publishers would be more comfortable now that Scientology has stopped automatically filing lawsuits against newspapers and publishers. He stated, "Since the lawsuit with Time magazine [a $416 million monster in 1991 that was dismissed, costing both sides millions in legal costs], they've changed strategies. It's dropped off significantlyF..Look at South Park and the episode that revealed the Xenu story -- they didn't do anything, really, to them...It seems like they've realized that the 'sue everybody' strategy isn't working, and it has the opposite effect of making them look more defensive and reactionary."
The most well-known story publicized and held up to ridicule by critics is that of Xenu, the ruler of the Galactic Confederacy who is said to have brought billions of frozen people to Earth 75 million years ago and placed them near a number of volcanoes, and dropped hydrogen bombs into them, thus killing the entire population in an effort to solve overpopulation. The spirits of these people were then captured by Xenu and mass 4
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HUBBARD’S SCIENTOLOGY ENIGMA implanted with numerous suggestions and then even know something about the strange things Parsons and Hubbard did trying to create a “packaged” into clusters of spirits. "Moonchild." From the early 1950s onwards, Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, published a number of books, lectures and other works describing what he termed “space opera”. This collection of writings teaches that all humans have experienced innumerable past lives, including lives in ancient advanced extra-terrestrial societies, such as Helatrobus and the Marcabians. Traumatic memories from these past lives are said to be the cause of many presentday physical and mental ailments. Scientologists also believe that human beings possess superhuman powers which cannot be restored until they have been fully rehabilitated as spiritual beings through the practice of “auditing”, using methods set out by Hubbard in his various works also formerly known as Dianetics. According to Hubbard, when thetans (the Scientology term for a human being) die they go to a “landing station” on the planet Venus, where they are re-implanted and are programmed to “forget” their previous lifetimes, thus causing amnesia. The Venusians then “capsule” each thetan and send them back to Earth to be dumped into the ocean off the coast of California; whereupon, each thetan searches for a new body to inhabit. To avoid these inconveniences, Hubbard advised Scientologists to simply refuse to go to Venus after their death.
Hugh Urban’s article titled Occult Roots of Scientology? produces a thorough, academic study of the ways that Aleister Crowley's "magick" found parallels in what would become Hubbard's most famous creation, Scientology. After returning from his service in the war, Hubbard moved into John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons Pasadena rooming house (the "Parsonage"), which was something of a flophouse for his occult friends. Parsons was heavily into Crowley's "magick" and soon found a willing partner in Hubbard -- and even wrote to Crowley himself about their attempts to engage in some of Crowley's rituals.
The relationship between Hubbard and Parsons ended badly, with accusations of fraud and theft. But later, as Hubbard developed his ideas for Dianetics and Scientology, his experience with DEFECTIVE ORIGINS Crowley's cult "Ordo Templi Orientis" (OTO) seems to have permeated his thinking and even There is a saying that if something is defective the terminology of the church. then always look to its origins for clues as to why it is defective and looking at the origins of Urban notes that the church itself has virulently Scientology and its founder, Ron Hubbard, clearly denied that Hubbard's occult activities had shows this to be a good line of reasoning. anything to do with Scientology, or that remnants Long time Scientology watchers will be at least somewhat familiar with the tale: that after his involvement in WWII, Hubbard teamed up with Jet Propulsion Lab rocket scientist Jack Parsons, a man heavily into the occult, and in particular the teachings of The Great Beast, British occultist Aleister Crowley. You may
of Crowley's occult ideas can be found in its scriptures. But one of the most useful things about Urban's article is the way he shows that it's the church's own statements and legal maneuvers which tend to verify the connection between Crowley's "magick" and Hubbard's concepts.
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HUBBARD’S SCIENTOLOGY ENIGMA Urban goes back to the early 20th century and Aleister Crowley's rise as the most famous occultist of his day. Joining OTO and then becoming one of its leaders, Crowley wrote widely, and Urban focuses particularly on his book Magick in Theory and Practice, which Hubbard would later cite in lectures.
Crowley had written about the possibility of a "magickal child" or "Moonchild," and Parsons decided he'd try to make one. He identified a woman named Marjorie Cameron as the person who would be his "elemental," and then the two got busy.
First and foremost, Crowley repeatedly emphasized that Magick is a science. To distinguish his practice from parlor tricks and stage illusions, Crowley spelt Magick with a "k" and insisted that it was an exact science based on specific laws and experimental techniques. Hence his book begins with a "postulate" followed by twenty-eight "theorems" presented as "scientifically" as chemistry or mathematics. According to Parsons' remarkable personal accounts of these rites, Hubbard was intimately This science is fundamentally about the correct involved in the Babalon Working. Hubbard was knowledge of the individual self and its potential. asked to serve as Parsons' seer or "scribe" In short, "Magick is the Science of understanding during the Babalon Working; indeed, Hubbard oneself and one's conditions." became nothing less than the "voice" for Babalon Urban goes on to explain how in Crowley's herself, who spoke through him and was magick, the fundamental concept is Thelema, recorded by Parsons. which represents a person's inner will, and the ability to do "what thou wilt." Doing the processes of Crowley's magick rituals, the point is for a magus to astrally project himself so that he can ultimately become an all-powerful being who is "capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives, for everything that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual Will." In Hubbard's Scientology, which he insists is a science that will allow you to discover your true nature, you learn that you are a thetan, and through his processes you will ultimately be able to leave your body and become an all-powerful being able to create universes.
So was Ron sitting by taking notes, or speaking in ancient languages or something else while Jack was having occult sex with Marjorie? Whatever the three got up to, Parsons wrote to Crowley saying that the deed was done and that in nine months a Moonchild would be born. Crowley was not impressed. He wrote to a friend "Apparently Parsons or Hubbard or somebody is producing a Moonchild. I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these goats."
But all was for naught, apparently. No child was born, Hubbard made off with another of Parsons girlfriends, Betty Northrup, and absconded to Florida in a sailboat-sales scheme gone haywire, and in 1952, Parsons blew himself up with an In 1945, Hubbard moved in with Parsons, and the accidental chemical explosion in his home lab. two got up to some seriously kinky activities. Perhaps the most remarkable part of this whole Early in 1946, Parsons began what he called his story is that the Church of Scientology admits "Babalon Working" experiments as he and that all of this did happen. Hubbard began trying to take Crowley's ideas into new territory. www.globalreport2010.com
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HUBBARD’S SCIENTOLOGY ENIGMA Apparently unable to deny entirely that Hubbard took part in wild occult sex rites with a rocket scientist, the church has, over the years, floated the howler that Hubbard was actually on a military mission to infiltrate Parsons black magic club in order to neutralize it. It is worth noting, however, that neither the Church of Scientology nor any independent researcher has ever produced any evidence for this claim.
Perhaps more significant, however, is the repeated mention of a female guardian figure, the most important spiritual adviser and aid to the listener. The emphasis on the guardian here seems to have been directly influenced by Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice. Urban states
Urban in his material turns to even more sensitive material that the church has never denied the authenticity of. “One of the most important documents for making sense of the Crowley-Hubbard link and the occult roots of Scientology is a curious text called the "Affirmations" (or "Admissions") of L. Ron Hubbard. Composed in 1946 or 1947, "Affirmations" appears to be Hubbard's own personal writings, meant to have been read into a tape recording device and then played back to Hubbard himself. No church official has ever publicly denied that "Affirmations" is an authentic Hubbard document, and Scientology's own legal position indicates that it does consider the document to be church property and clearly wants to keep control of the text”
“According to a mutual release and settlement agreement between the Church of Scientology of California and former member Gerald Armstrong in 1986, Armstrong agreed to return a number of confidential documents to the church, including all copies of Hubbard's "Excalibur manuscript" and "all originals and copies of documents commonly known as the 'Affirmations' written by L. Ron Hubbard." Here the church clearly indicates that the text was written by L. Ron Hubbard, and it is difficult to understand why the church would file suit to retain ownership of the text were it not an authentic document.”
In these extremely personal writings, Hubbard sounds very much like Crowley. Affirmations indicates that the author is engaged in some kind of magical ritual and hoping that his “magical work is powerful and effective." In fact, the "affirmations" describe themselves as "incantations" designed to become an integral part of listeners' natures, impressing upon them the reality of their psychic powers and magical abilities. www.globalreport2010.com
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HUBBARD’S SCIENTOLOGY ENIGMA WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY
EARLY CHURCH FATHERS ON GNOSTICS
Scientology is a Gnostic [gnosis: to know] system in every sense of the word. The material is transitioned out on the Church’s illumination gradient at steep prices. Each course is a prerequisite for the next. The church member is compelled to take that next course to secure their spiritual salvation or be condemned to sliding back to a state of degradation. Hubbard set up Scientology as circles within circles, a spiritual treadmill without end. Scientology always has a new "breakthrough" technology to learn that will unlock your spiritual potential.
It is interesting to see the position of the early church fathers on Gnosticism. We quote from two of the early fathers, Tertullian and Iraeneus.
Gnosticism parallels Scientology: "Even for specialists, Gnosticism is hard to define. It is a set of forms of religious belief that probably came into existence in the first century BCE as a heretical form of Judaism. Gnosticism flourished in the second to fourth centuries CE as heretical forms of Christianity. It is, as Pheme Perkins correctly argues, not a systematic set of ideas but of "mythemes" and speculations that were combined in a host of different ways both within and without Christian vocabulary. Gnosticism claimed that there exists a higher god that has become trapped in the material world due to a flaw in God's wisdom.
QUOTES FROM TERTULLIAN "The Valentinians, who are no doubt a very large body of heretics comprising as they do so many apostates from the truth, who have a propensity for fables, and no discipline to deter them (therefrom) care nothing so much as to obscure what they preach, if indeed they (can be said to) preach who obscure their doctrine. The officiousness with which they guard their doctrine is an officiousness which betrays their guilt. Their disgrace is proclaimed in the very earnestness with which they maintain their religious system.”
[Compare Scientology's strange Xenu stories and the policy of keeping the doctrine secret] “In like manner, the heretics who are now the object of our remarks, the Valentinians, have formed Eleusian Dissipations of their own, consecrated by a profound silence, having nothing of the heavenly in them but for their mystery. By the help of sacred names and titles and arguments of true religion, they have fabricated the vainest and foulest figment for men's pliant liking, out of the affluent suggestions of Holy Scripture, since from its many springs even errors may well emanate.”
[In like manner, the Scientologists show many The book of Genesis was therefore understood to similarities to these early heresies and mystery be a story of how the demonic Jewish God, (often religions from the first and second centuries. labeled Yaldobaoth) tried to trap human souls in Compare the references to 'religious values' and material bodies. To free the soul from its 'Scientific research' and that you can be entrapment, the Higher God sent a revealer into 'Christian and Scientologist at the same time'.] this world to inform humans of its divine origin. Those who understand this revelation, this “Let, however, any man approach the subject from a gnosis, are empowered to rise above this world knowledge of the faith which he has otherwise learned, as soon as he finds so many names of of demonic materialism and resume their places in the realm of the Higher God." (Gnosticism and the New Testament, Pheme Perkins, 1993, pp 261)
Aeons, so many marriages, so many offsprings, so many exits, so many issues, felicities and infelicities of a dispersed and mutilated Deity, will that man hesitate at once to pronounce that these are the
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HUBBARD’S SCIENTOLOGY ENIGMA "the fables and endless genealogies" which the inspired apostle by anticipation condemned, whilst these seeds of heresy were even then shooting forth?”
[Compare the intricate cosmology of Hubbard with thetans, marcabs etc. The reference is to Paul, I Timothy 1:4] QUOTES FROM IRANEUS “For who would not expend all that he possessed, if only he might learn in return, that from the tears of the enthymesis of the Aeon involved in passion, seas, and fountains, and rivers, and every liquid substance derived its origin; that light burst forth from her smile; and that from her perplexity and consternation the corporeal elements of the world had their formation?" (AH I,4:3, p. 321)
[Compare Hubbard's statements about Dianetics and Xenu. (Dianetics was totally unprecedented, Hubbard was the only one in 75.000.000.000 years to solve the problem of Xenu, etc.)] THE FINAL WORD ON SCIENTOLOGY The website www.whichelohim.com which focused specifically on the UFO concepts found within some cults states,
The Xenu story is part of the church's secret "Advanced Technology", considered a sacred and esoteric teaching, which is normally only revealed to members who have contributed large amounts of money. The church avoids mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story's confidentiality, including legal action on the grounds of copyright and trade secrecy.”
Gregory Reece, in his book UFO Religion: Inside flying saucer cults and culture, writes: "Scientology is unique within the UFO culture because of this secretiveness, as well as because of the capitalist format under which they operate. Scientology is also difficult to categorize. While it bears strong similarities to the Ashtar Command or the Aetherius Society, its emphasis upon the Xenu event as the central message of the group seems to place them within the ancient astronaut tradition. Either way, Scientology is perhaps most different from other UFO groups in their attempt to keep all of the space opera stuff under wraps. They really would have preferred the rest of us not to know about Xenu and the galactic federation. Alas, such secrets are hard to keep."
“Scientology is perhaps most different from other UFO groups in their attempt to keep all of the space opera stuff under wraps. This is because their system of belief is probably one of the most bizarre of all UFO cults. Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, beginning in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. Hubbard characterized Scientology as a religion, and in 1953 he incorporated the Church of Scientology in Camden, New Jersey. Scientology arguably has the most bizarre belief system of all UFO religious cults believing that there was a previous god called Xenu who was the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who 75 million years ago brought billions of his people to Earth in a spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs. These events are known within Scientology as "Incident II", and the traumatic memories associated with them as "The Wall of Fire" or "R6 implant". www.globalreport2010.com
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