Scientology, good or evil?

Question answered by FreeZone in Scientology

Anonymous asked this question on 9/29/2000:

Hi, I have read many negative opinions about Scientology on this site over the last few months. I was hoping there was some Scientologist out there who could give me some insight into the religion....(not just the usual stuff written on the Scientology pamphlets, I've heard it all before). Eg: what type of personality charactoristics are derived from the 200 question quiz etc. What are some of the life tools used to make the most of one's life palette, etc. Why the secrecy? Please fill me in. I know a few Scientologists (who don't really seem to take my subtle hints & tell me more about their religion) however I have always found them to be kind, generous, positive, empowered, and definately too intellegent to beleive in dead space aliens and so on. I only want to hear from members, so if you have a heap of negative crap to send, please don't do so!! I wan't to learn something here!

FreeZone gave this response on 10/3/2000:

For info on the 'personality test', I recommend you look at the thread "OCA test" which ran recently on the COS investigations mailing list. You can find it at :

http://www.onelist.com/community/COSinvestigations

Of particular interest is message 2987, which includes an essay by Ray Kemp, the author of the test, explaining where it came from, some history if its use, and what it does and doesn't seek to measure.

Scientologists believe that we are immortal and have had many past lives prior to the birth of our present bodies. These lives are not seen as being restricted to the period that life has existed on Earth, or for that matter the period that Earth, or even this universe, have been in existence, so many of them were in civilizations on other planets and sometimes in other universes. We have been going through such lives for many, many billions of years, all the time accumulating failures and defeats. One of the esoteric (secret) beliefs is that many beings have gone down to the point where they no longer have the horsepower to run a body, so become attached to some other being or that being's body. These are the 'dead space aliens' referred to by critics.

There are many 'life tools' used by Scientologists, probably the most basic being the ARC triangle. ARC stands for Affinity (friendship or affection), Reality (agreement or common perception) and Communication. By raising one of these, the others can also be raised. Where there has been an upset, one of these has been broken, and the upset can be healed by finding exactly where and how the break occurred. Understanding exists where all 3 sides of the ARC triangle are present.

Anonymous rated this answer:

Thanks!

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