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XENU

The story of Xenu (or Xemu) is a controversial one.

Critics of Scientology say that the Xenu story is an incredible one. Of course, many religious stories seem incredible to non-believers.

Scientology is accused of trying to hide the Xenu story.

The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology’s secret “Advanced Technology” doctrines taught only to advanced members. It is described in more detail in the accompanying confidential “Assists” lecture of 3 October 1968 and is dramatized in Revolt in the Stars (an unpublished screenplay written by L Ron Hubbard during the late 1970s). Direct quotations in this section are from these sources. (See also Scientology beliefs and practices)

Scientologists believe that 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 an average population of 178 billion.[1][2][3] The Galactic Confederacy’s civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens “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 his citizens together to paralyze 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 spacecraft for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The spacecraft were identical to the Douglas DC-8 with the exception of having different engines.

When they had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralyzed citizens were unloaded around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously. Only a few aliens’ physical bodies survived. Hubbard described the scene in his film script, Revolt in the Stars:

Other Scientology beliefs are:

* A person is an immortal spiritual being (termed a thetan) who possesses a mind and a body.
* The thetan has lived through many past lives and will continue to live beyond the death of the body.
* Through the Scientology process of “auditing,” people can free themselves of traumatic incidents, ethical transgressions and bad decisions which are said to collectively restrict the person from reaching the state of “Clear” and “Operating Thetan.” Each state is said to represent the recovery of native spiritual abilities and to confer mental and physical benefits.
* A person is basically good, but becomes “aberrated” by moments of pain and unconsciousness.
* Psychiatry and psychology are destructive and abusive practices.

Scientology’s crusade against psychiatry might pick up some steam if psychiatry keeps inventing mental “diseases”.

What were once signs of bad behavior has increasingly become uncontrollable “diseases” and “mental conditions”. It could have something to do with how Medicaid pays for treatments, or it could be a sign of “defining deviancy down”.

FAMOUS Scientologists

John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, Jason Lee, Isaac Hayes, Tom Cruise, and Katie Holmes are among the Hollywood adherents of Scientology.

James Packer, formerly the richest man in Australia is another famous Scientologist.

CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING SCIENTOLOGY

* Scientology’s disconnection policy, in which members are encouraged to cut off all contact with friends or family members considered “antagonistic.”[146][147]
* The death of a Scientologist Lisa McPherson while in the care of the Church.
* Criminal activities committed on behalf of the Church or directed by Church officials (Operation Snow White, Operation Freakout)
* Conflicting statements about L. Ron Hubbard’s life, in particular accounts of Hubbard discussing his intent to start a religion for profit, and of his service in the military.
* Scientology’s harassment and litigious actions against its critics encouraged by its Fair Game policy.[148]
* Attempts to legally force search engines such as Google and Yahoo to omit any webpages critical of Scientology from their search engines (and in Google’s case, AdSense), or at least the first few search pages

This is Scientology in the nutshell.

We don’t know if it changed anyone’s mind–one way or another–but one thing about it.

We learned a couple things.

by Mondoreb
images:
* cynical
* newstoob
* stop-wise
* success.com
Sources:
* Scientology.org
* Scientology
* “Anonymous” Hackers Vow to Destroy Scientology
* “Anonymous” Hackers Issue Third Video Warning to Scientology



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