I read a biography recently, the subject of the book being a Scientologist.
The biographer didn't go into an in depth explanation of the ins and outs of Scientology but I certainly gleaned some information from it, that I didn't know before.
Scientologists believe that essentially humankind is 'good', but some people do 'bad' things because there are 'body thetans' stuck to our bodies.
These 'body thetans' are the spirits of 'Thetans', which according to Scientology, came from space and lived on earth before Humans.
Scientologists are in ranks, much like the Armed Forces, In order to get rid of these 'body thetans', the Scientologist is to speak to talk through their life with a Scientologist of an upper rank called an 'auditor'. The auditor will decide whether the soul has been cleansed enough for the Scientologist to be promoted to the next ranking level.
According to the biographer, this is why so many Scientologists, particularly well known ones, rarely leave the 'religion', because these audits are recorded and kept. Apparently whenever well known Scientologists have indicated a nition to leave, they are blackmailed with the information they gave in their audits.
Oh, in addition to these audits, they are given a device (I have no idea what it looks like, but in my minds eye it's like one of those wands that airport security staff use to check you over) to get rid of these 'body thetans'. The aim is that you use this every day on yuorself and the device kills the body thetans.
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