EXPLORE GROUPS: Church of Scientology

Church of Scientology

Dianetics, Sea Org, Freewinds, Flag Land Base

L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986)

David Miscavige (1960-), Heber Jentzsch (1935-)

USA (1950-1953)

include Los Angeles, CA USA; Clearwater, FL USA

include Hubbard College of Administration International

include Religious Technology Center, Applied Scholastics, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Concerned Businessmen’s Association of America, Criminon, Foundation for Religious Freedom, International Association of Scientologists, Narconon, Scientology Missions International, Way to Happiness Foundation International, World Institution of Scientology Enterprises, Operation Drug-Free Earth, Youth for Human Rights International

include Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, The Way to Happiness, Evolution of a Science, A History of Man, Scientology 8-8008

include International Scientology News, Freewinds, Source, Impact, Advance!

Hubbard is considered the revealer of a cosmic history many billions of years old. In the words of Philip Jenkins, "Scientology offers an unabashedly Gnostic mythology of sleep, forgetting, and reawakening. Believers are taught to return to the vastly spiritual state they once enjoyed, but lost when that original being [thetan] was trapped in the deceptions of MEST (Matter, Energy, Space, Time)."

Too numerous to mention (see links below)

50,000 (active)

Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

include Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese

www.apologeticsindex.org/s04.html
www.watchman.org/sci/index.htm
www.reachouttrust.org/articles/othergrp/scientology.htm
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/la90/la90-1b.html
www.xenu.net
www.factnet.org/Scientology/dianetics.html
www.exscientologykids.com

www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html?scp=2&sq=scientology&st=cse
www.religionnewsblog.com/category/scientology-consumer-alert/
www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/archive-videos.shtml

www.scientology.org
www.smi.org
www.bridgepub.com
www.newerapublications.com
www.youthforhumanrights.org