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Reactive tendencies are stopped in the process of auditing, a non-evaluative therapy. The auditor uses an e-meter, a device Hubbard invented to measure tension, to help identify painful memories. Then a subject unburdens herself of bad decisions or events, thus ending neuroses and contributing to a feeling of well-being. Some Scientologists claim that after enough auditing they can remember all the way to their birth, and back further into their past lives...
Churches offer courses to help improve everything from adherents’ attention spans to their marriages. The holistic religion stresses that its members learn for themselves–Hubbard described Scientology as a way of “knowing how to know.” The Church also administers several drug and criminal rehabilitation programs, charitable programs, and two publishing houses for Hubbard’s works...
...personality and a hucksterish pyramid scheme. Former members have accused the religion of harassment and extortion, in some cases filing legal suits. Some European countries, including Germany, do not recognize Scientology as a religion. And a 1980 “Reader’s Digest” article quotes Hubbard as saying, “If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion...
...what I found. I discovered that Scientology is less a code of ethics than a how-to guide for the achievement of power and self-control. Sure, I felt that there was a lot of pseudo-science. But there was also the promise of actual superpowers. Follow his steps, Hubbard wrote, and you will not only achieve increased happiness and stress relief, but also telekinesis, extrasensory perception, and mental telepathy...
...Hubbard claims to have found the “single source of all insanities, psychoses, neuroses, compulsions, repressions and social derangements”: repressed, painful memory. Dianetics promises release through a process called auditing, a kind of non-evaluative therapy. After several courses of auditing, a Scientologist can become a “clear,” a person with no psychotic reactive tendencies. (Cruise is now an “Operating Thetan 6,” six stages beyond clear...