| I put it here due to the fact that it IS entertainment,
i laughed my ass off
sounds like a Sci-fi book doesn't it?
ROTF this is great. i found it in a lot of places.
Scientology, Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and Xenu
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Do Scientologists believe in space aliens?
Scientology does teach that many of our problems are caused by the spirits of space aliens that are stuck to our bodies. However, that teaching is considered confidential and is only taught to Scientologists who have reached a certain level, known in Scientology as OT III - so a lot of Scientologists are actually unaware that this is an important Scientology teaching.
Scientology Teachings about Space Aliens
What, exactly, does Scientology say about space aliens?
In the materials for OT III (Operating Thetan level 3), L. Ron Hubbard writes that, 75 million years ago, the head of the Galactic Federation, made up of 76 planets, was a being named Xenu. Faced with an overpopulation problem, he brought beings to this planet, blew them up with hydrogen bombs, and packaged them. Their spirits now infest our bodies: he says "One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body." Scientologists at this level try to rid themselves of these thetans (spirits) by helping each one to remember the painful experiences of being blown up like that.
There are other Scientology teachings that relate to space aliens. The book "Have You Lived Before This Life?", described in Scientology advertisements as "a cold-blooded account of your last years", contains dozens of case histories of memories experienced by Scientologists, some of which include adventures in outer space.
Even the glossary in Scientology's What Is Scientology? contains a definition for the phrase "space opera", which, according to Scientology, relates to periods on "the whole track" (that is, our whole history, going back through many lives and millions of years), and it contains "space travel, spaceships, spacemen" and so on.
Scientology Confirms Xenu is for Real
How do you know the Xenu story is real, and not made up by people who want to make Scientology look bad?
Aside from that glossary entry in the official What Is Scientology? book, Scientology sued The Washington Post over publication of the Xenu story - and the suit claimed trade secret violations, not defamation.
In other words, Scientology was upset because the paper was spilling its secrets, not because the story was false. In addition, Scientology has sued individuals who have published the OT III teachings on the Internet for copyright violations - again confirming that they do indeed claim ownership of these materials.
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marc fisher - part of the post that the one above refers to as the law suit
This was something else that i found from an X scientology follower
Scientology, which runs a celebrity outreach program and counts among its
members John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, offers
to help people attain a near-god state through several levels of training
sessions. At the upper levels, church doctrine reads like a science
fiction plot.
The church believes that 75 million years ago, the leader of the Galactic
Federation, Xenu, solved an overpopulation problem by freezing the excess
people in a compound of alcohol and glycol and transporting them by
spaceship to Teegeeack -- which we know as Earth. There they were chained
to a volcano and exploded by hydrogen bombs. The souls of those dead --
"body thetans" -- are the root of most human misery to this day.
Much of Scientology's upper-level training consists of re-creations of
that galactic genocide. Weiland says most church members pay up to $20,000
to reach the final stages of the training. Critics estimate the total cost
at closer to $300,000.
It is the texts of those training sessions -- known as "Operating Thetan"
or "OT" courses -- that the church now seeks to keep secret.
In the lawsuit against Lerma, court documents unsealed Wednesday in U.S.
District Court in Alexandria contain 30 color photographs showing how
Scientology protects its sacred scriptures. Members ready to learn the
material obtain magnetized photo ID cards and sign agreements to keep the
information confidential. To see the material, they scan their ID cards to
walk through two sanitized white doors, and security guards unlock the
scriptures from cabinets where they are wired in place. Then guards escort
the members to a room where they are locked in and monitored on video
cameras..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
read the full story - just about pee'd myself laughing
here's a different part from wikipedia
The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for 36 days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data" (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, etcetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The interior decoration of "all modern theaters" is also said by Hubbard to be due to an unconscious recollection of Xenu's implants. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
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