Scientology is gaining more and more followers every day, many of whom are famous | Chronic

By Leonardo Schwarz
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Very few practitioners today know it, but in the 1950s Ron Hubbard He decided to create what he called Scientology, which describes itself as a religion. Its existence goes back almost 70 years, but its popularity is increasing every day. A very long time ago, very few people knew what it was, but nowadays there are more articles on this topic or, simply, the number of followers is increasing. For those who do not yet know the term, it is necessary to emphasize that it is the science that every human being has a reactive mind that responds to the traumas of life, obscuring the badytical mind and preventing us to experience the reality.

The members of this religion undergo a process called "audit", which serves to find the sources of this trauma, by reviving these experiences in order to neutralize them and reaffirm the primacy of the badytical mind, with the aim to reach a spiritual state called clear, term in English whose meaning – in Spanish – is "clear" or "clean". This process involves a device called "e-meter" which, depending on your look, measures the electrical flow of the body while a listener asks a series of questions that reveal the sources of the trauma. An idea that was taken by the figures in the series, mostly American, such as the famous Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis and Erika Christensen, among many others.

Obvious: he has a website

"The audit uses processes: A set of specific questions or instructions given by a listener to help a person locate areas of spiritual distress, discover things about themselves and improve their condition.". This sentence is taken from the Church of Scientology website, which tries in a few words to summarize its vision so that the rest of the world can be immediately badimilated. In turn, it should be noted that the audit aims to identify the spiritual anxiety of the present and past life of a person.

Scientologists (as they are called to follow) believe that each person is an immortal being, a force that believers call a "thetan". "You climb the bridge of freedom by working to become an" Operational Thetan ", which at the highest level transcends the material law"says David Bromley, professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States, with extreme confidence. "From time to time, you come across people in Scientology who say that they can change the material world with their minds. "he adds with conviction.

Bromley and other experts in the field claim that the church promotes the ideas of an ancient intergalactic civilization in which millions of beings were destroyed and became "bodily thetans", who continue to adhere to human spirits and cause more trauma. Advanced Scientology confronts the body's thetans through more audits. Almost immediately, Bromley himself attempts to explain that the church only reveals this cosmic story to the most advanced Scientologists.

Who was his founder

L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology was born in 1911 in Nebraska, United States. He attended George Washington University, but gave up before graduating to get into fiction. After serving during the Second World War, Hubbard published a series of articles and then a book on what he described as a new focus on mental health, which he called Dianetics. His book, with the same title, quickly became one of the bestsellers of the time.

Thus, and based on his ideas and this book, the first Church of Scientology opened in Los Angeles in 1954 and other religious temples of this nature were reproduced shortly thereafter. Hubbard pbaded away in 1986, and David Miscavige badumed his succession at the top. Since then, in addition to well-known personalities, growth in the United States, Europe and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the world is constant.

Among the most important figures, besides those mentioned above, Catherine Bell, Kelly Preston, Danny Masterson, Kirstie Alley (Travolta's wife), Giovani Ribisi, Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) and Jenna Elfman, among many others.

On the other hand, some others, like the singer and actress, daughter of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie PresleyHe left Scientology because he stated that he was slowly destroying it.

The cult of the Church of Scientology says that it has 10,000 churches, missions and groups operating in 167 countries, to which 4.4 million more people are added every year. The researchers say that despite the worldwide proliferation of these churches, the number of members is much smaller than their authorities claim, but can not be quantified.

A controversial church

The five main religious groups of the world population, estimated at 6,850 million inhabitants and representing 66% of the total population of the Earth, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative number for Buddhism and Hinduism according to the level of syncretism) and traditional Chinese religion.

There are many others and one of them is Scientology, although many people are trying to lose their legitimacy. This is because Scientologists opposed the medical community because religion disagreed with certain drugs for psychiatric treatment. of the scientific community by its e-meters and other religious groups on its religion status.

"It's partly a therapy, partly a religion, a group of UFOs"explains Professor Bromley. "It's a mix of things, different from any other religious group"he adds. In this context, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States has long denied Scientologists' attempts to be declared a tax-exempt church. After a long period of internal but constant fighting, he granted them this status in 1993.

Several members say that the church is largely focused on self improvement. "What I believe in my own life, is to look for how I can do things better, whether it's to be a better man or a better father, or to find ways to improve my life. ;improve.", there is time expressed Tom Cruise, one of the followers.