What do scientologists believe?

Scientology means knowing how to know. Here's the scoop, according to L. Ron. You are a spiritual being. Basically good, not a sinner by nature. You have a mind and you have a body, but they are separate from the spiritual part of you. See? The spirit. The way the see in Scientology is that there is this spiritual life force, known as Thetan, that is in all living things. And the ultimate goal of all life for all beings is to survive eternity.

There are eight ways, called channels, you can do this: Through your individuality, your family, groups, mankind, all living things, the physical universe, spirits, and God. Check how they get bigger as you go, from you up to the Universe.

The best way to survive is to do the most good for as many of these dynamics, or relationships, as you can. Okay. That was the spirit. Got it? Now let's look at the mind. The mind is a recorder. They believe it keeps track of all the good and bad moments from this life and all your past lives.

So, your mind is keeping track of all this stuff and, like a good mystery novel, give clues, these recordings, to figure out what's wrong with your spirit. Your mind also records painful moments in your unconscious mind, called engrams, problems you didn't know you had. These engrams or spiritual growth can mess up your thinking at nay time, kind of like a computer virus.

Auditor, people who listen, help you find and understand these traumas by using this thing called an E-meter. It's kind of similar to visiting a shrink. They believe you'll be a lot happier when you get rid of this engrams and live life without their side effects. God exist but His identity is a matter of personal awareness and conviction.

Jesus was one of many great teachers. You're on a search to understand yourself, others, life and God. Your job is also to help others and make the world a better place.

Scientology churches are places where people get together to study and receive counseling. Scientologists are actively involved in their communities through things like drug rehabilitation, park cleanups, revitalizing neighborhoods, fighting AIDS and more. Remember, their philosophy is that to survive for eternity you have to help out as much as you can.

Scientologists believe that your spirit is immortal; it never dies. But they believe while you die you don't go to heaven or hell. Instead, you are reincarnated on this earth over and over for forever. Scientology teaches reincarnation as the outcome of life after death.

Scientology offers a path to spiritual awareness and leaves it to the individual to come to his or her own awareness of God. That means the Christian God exists, but so do all the other gods people worship.

It's a big space opera that happened like 7 gazillion something years ago. Except instead of Darth Vader the guy is Lord Xenu and he tries to take over the universe.

According to L. Ron Hubbard our solar system has been conquered by various alien invaders. There was supposed to have once been a Galactic Order kind of like in Star Trek. Xenu collected all the souls in the universe and started dropping them into volcanoes or something riddiculous... I saw it on South Park so I forget but they give an accurate retelling of Scientologist beliefs.

You might laugh but what makes a talking snake in a garden telling two people to eat a piece of fruit that condemns man into suffering so much more plausible??

in the completely true words of South Park, season 9, episode 12, Trapped in the Closet:

"You see, Stan, there is a reason for people feeling sad and depressed. [leans in] An alien reason. It all began 75 million years ago. Back then there was a galactinc federation of planets which was ruled over by the evil Lord Xenu.Xenu thought his galaxy was overpopulated, and so he rounded up countless aliens from all different planets, and then had those aliens frozen. He frozen alien bodies were loaded onto Xenu's galactic cruisers, which looked like DC-8s, except with rocket engines. The cruisers then took the frozen alien bodies to our planet, to Earth, and dumped them into the volcanoes of Hawaii. The aliens were no longer frozen, they were dead. The souls of those aliens, however, lived on, and all floated up towards the sky. But the evil Lord Xenu had prepared for this.Xenu didn't want their souls to return! And so he built giant soul-catchers in the sky! The souls were taken to a huge soul brain-washing facility, which Xenu had ALSO built on Earth. There the souls were forced to watch days of brainwashing material whiched tricked them into believing a false reality. Xenu then released the alien souls, which roamed the earth aimlessly in a fog of confusion. At the dawn of man, the souls finally found bodies which they can grab onto. They attached themselves to all mankind, which still to this day causes all our fears, our confusions, and our problems."

They believe in the self help book by L. Ron Hubbard. That is what started the who Scientology movement to begin with.

L.RonHubbard (Sci Fi author) the founding father of Scientology , ackowledges Jesus as a individual and a instructor, it rather is all. the religion/cult, would not know him as a savior or God, or the Holy Trinity. they don't have self belief in heaven or hell in simple terms that they have got a spirit that has lived distinctive lifetimes and their God is a few Xenu diety from outerspace.

they believe Xenu, an intergalactic emperor took prisoners of war on golden DC-9s to earth and laid them around volcanoes.

they then hydrogen bombed the volcanoes killing them all. their souls were floating up away from earth but were captured and forced to follow Xenus commands of staying on earth

and here they haunt us, they are called thetans and latch onto your soul. scientology has the miracle "cure" for this and it consists of mainly giving money to the cult. yes it is considered a cult due to their methods of keeping believers.

They believe we are haunted by the souls of aliens who were dumped into an Earth volcano after a war.

Seriously.

Oh boy where to start. Well it has a lot to do with volcanoes, B52 bombers, nuclear bombs and aliens.

um... isn't science and religion starting to come together and so soon we'll all believe the same thing hopefully (yn)

This is their "OT 3", their equivalent of the Gospels

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/OTIII/

decide for yourself