Download or read book L Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies written by Donald A. Westbrook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element surveys the history and practice of Scientology studies over the past sixty years and offers resources for scholars and students moving forward. Section 1 reviews the history of academic research on the subject from 1958 to the present day. Section 2 draws on the author's fieldwork with the Church of Scientology to illuminate how founder L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86) is viewed among contemporary members. Section 3 considers Hubbard's influence and legacy in terms of the church sites and institutions that exist today in connection with the soteriological 'Bridge to Total Freedom.' Section 4 introduces English-language archival resources and their strengths. Section 5 proposes some open areas for Scientology researchers. Finally, glossaries of terms and appendices are included with major dates in Hubbard's life and Scientology research and bibliographical information for major archival collections in North America.
Download or read book The Church of Scientology written by J. Gordon Melton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the theology and hierarchical structure of the Church of Scientology providing information on its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, the church's social reform programs, and a summary of the major points of controversy.
Download or read book The Church of Scientology written by Hugh B. Urban and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientology's long and complex journey to recognition as a religion Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Few religious movements have been subject to public scrutiny like Scientology, yet much of what is written about the church is sensationalist and inaccurate. Here for the first time is the story of Scientology's protracted and turbulent journey to recognition as a religion in the postwar American landscape. Hugh Urban tells the real story of Scientology from its cold war-era beginnings in the 1950s to its prominence today as the religion of Hollywood's celebrity elite. Urban paints a vivid portrait of Hubbard, the enigmatic founder who once commanded his own private fleet and an intelligence apparatus rivaling that of the U.S. government. One FBI agent described him as "a mental case," but to his followers he is the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind." Urban details Scientology's decades-long war with the IRS, which ended with the church winning tax-exempt status as a religion; the rancorous cult wars of the 1970s and 1980s; as well as the latest challenges confronting Scientology, from attacks by the Internet group Anonymous to the church's efforts to suppress the online dissemination of its esoteric teachings. The Church of Scientology demonstrates how Scientology has reflected the broader anxieties and obsessions of postwar America, and raises profound questions about how religion is defined and who gets to define it.
Download or read book Self Analysis written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Among the Scientologists written by Donald A. Westbrook and published by Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new religions, but perhaps the least understood. With academic and popular interest on the rise, many books have been written about Scientology and surely more will follow. Although academics have begun to pay more attention to Scientology, the subject has received remarkably little qualitative attention. Indeed, no work has systematically addressed such questions as: what do Scientologists themselves have to say about their religion's history, theology, and practices? How does Scientology act as a religion for them? What does "lived religion" look like for a Scientologist? This is not so much a book about the Church of Scientology, its leaders, or its controversies, as it is a compilation of narratives and histories based on the largely unheard or ignored perspectives of Scientologists themselves. Drawing on six years of interviews, fieldwork, and research conducted among members of the Church of Scientology, this groundbreaking work examines features of the new religion's history, theology, and praxis in ways that move discussion beyond apostate-driven and expos� accounts.
Download or read book The Research Discovery Series written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Technology of Study written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by Scientology Handbook Series. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To the Stars written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by Galaxy Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-08-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy.... How far is too far? Alan Corday is about to find out. Corday is shanghaied aboard a futuristic starship bound on an interstellar journey. . . on a trek at the speed of light, the world he leaves behind fast vanishing into the past through unexpected time travel. And nothing in the dark, forbidding reaches of space can prepare him for the astounding discovery he will make upon his return from the stars. “Remarkably powerful novel.” —John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding Science Fiction
Download or read book Dianetics written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Einstein said: We are using only 10% of our mental potential. Dianetics tells you how you can free a significantly larger part of your potential. Self confidence, harmonic relationships and a positive attitude towards life can absolutely be achieved. It makes Positive Thinking a reality. You can achieve your goals with more certainty if you are able to find the cause of upsets, unwanted reactions or emotions. The human mind is not a mysterious puzzle - impossible to resolve. Read and work with Dianetics, see how it works for you and make up your own mind. The book gives a clear description of what is happening in the mind and explains a practical method, enabling you to explore your own subconscious, and rid yourself of what holds you down, resulting in increased IQ and well-being. Watching the DVD called 'How to Use Dianetics' along with the book is recommended to have a visual illustration of the concepts and the practical application.
Download or read book Research and Discovery Series written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self Analysis written by ל. רון הובברד and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientology a History of Man written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book claims to unravel history with an "E-Meter", describing what the author believes are the principal "incidents on the whole track to be found in any human being". These incidents include electronic implants, entities, the genetic track, between-lives incidents, the relationship of the Genetic Entity to Theta Beings, and so on. Also presented are Hubbard's theory of how bodies evolved and why human's got trapped in them as well as his descriptions of how specific incidents reveal "the true story of between-lives" and "the insidious nature of electronics in enslaving thetans".
Download or read book Research and Discovery Series written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L Ron Hubbard the Auditor written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science of Survival written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by Bridge Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science of Survival The most useful book you will ever own. Built around the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation, Science of Survival provides the first accurate prediction of human behavior. Included on the chart are all the manifestations of an individual's survival potential graduated from highest to lowest, making this the complete book on the Tone Scale. Knowing only one or two characteristics of a person and using this chart, you can plot his or her position on the Tone Scale and thereby know the rest, obtaining an accurate index of their entire personality, conduct and character. Before this book the world was convinced that cases could not improve but only deteriorate. Science of Survival presents the idea of different states of case and the brand-new idea that one can progress upward on the Tone Scale.
Download or read book Dianetics written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Creation of Human Ability written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Book Jacket: From the three feet behind your head to a Grand Tour of the Universe, revealed within are the mysteries of exteriorization and the step-by-step route to native state ability as a thetan exterior. Having already mapped the unlimited potentials of a thetan in Scientology 8-8008, here is the culmination of Ron's next year of intensive research and development-working with auditor after auditor, preclear after preclear and delivering no less than 500 lectures-to make those potentials a reality. What resulted were no less than the Axioms of Scientology and auditing processes drawn from the very fabric of those revelations. Here, then, is the panoramic view of Scientology complete: the Auditor's Code, Code of Honor and Code of a Scientologist; a summary of Scientology and the Axioms; Intensive Procedure and the famed processes of Route 1 and Route 2-processes that literally make and break communication with the physical universe to undo Man's inverted belief that mechanics are superior to one's own considerations; and finally, the means to fully rehabilitate a being's innate abilities-as a thetan exterior. And that's why no book has ever been more aptly named. For this is: The Creation of Human Ability.
