From: mauler@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Scientology information
Message-ID: <1991Jul23.170033.32237@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 91 17:00:33 CDT
References: <GATELEY.91Jul19132355@helma.rice.edu> <1991Jul19.170332.6608@cadence.com> <1991Jul22.180150.17838@cadence.com>
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In article <1991Jul22.180150.17838@cadence.com>, deej@cds8613.Cadence.COM (Jim Howard) writes:
> In article <GATELEY.91Jul19132355@helma.rice.edu>, gateley@rice.edu
> (John Gateley) writes:
>> In article <1991Jul19.170332.6608@cadence.com>
> deej@cds8613.Cadence.COM (Jim Howard) writes:
>> 	   The Creed of the Church of Scientology
>> 		   18 February 1954
>>        We of the Church believe:
>>        -------------------------
>>        [...]
>>        That the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused
>>        ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in
>>        nonreligious fields. 
>>        [...]
>> 
>> Do I understand this correct? What this seems to say is that ALL
>> "mental healing" and "study of the mind" should be done in the context
>> of religion ONLY.
> 
>   Exactly.  This topic has to do with the soul, and makes no sense (and
> can cause catastrophic effects on somone undergoing treatment) if
> approached from the angle that man has no (isn't a) soul.
> 

But "mental healing" and "study of the mind" are accomplished elsewhere in
science, without even mentioning a soul.  Neurosurgery, for example, requires
an innate knowledge of most psychological mental processes in order to hit the
right spots in the brain, but no mention of a soul is made to "aid" in the
study.  If mental healing can occur only in context of a soul, then how is it
that atheists are able to benefit from hospital programs teaching visual
imagery to "combat" their illnesses (such as: white knights attacking cancer
cells, etc.).  Often, the addition of a soul will only make things worse, as in
the above visualization, where a person undergoing visualization treatment will
perceive that their soul/self-will is currently failing, and therefore not
respond as well to the treatment as someone who merely thinks of it as
self-will.  Also perception of a soul as being innately part of yourself and
therefore unchangeable  will hurt similar experiments from people who are
devout <whatever> and refuse to allow the change as it was "decreed by Deity".

> 
> 							~ deej ~
> 						    deej@cadence.com
> 					       Jim Howard - (408) 944-7947
> 					       Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
> 

Leo