The article goes into depth on the struggles of understanding cults. The author describes that oftentimes it is best to understand them from former members. This leads to ten warning signs given by former cult members. Manipulation and vulnerability tactics are discussed. Lastly, the author shares famous cults to share what it is like to keep someone aware of something similar but on a lower scale.
Hollywood actress Leah Remini has dared the Church of Scientology to slap her with a lawsuit over the revelations in her A&E docu-series which the organization alleges are all lies. In a “Larry King Now” episode aired on Friday, the host asked Remini for her reaction on the church’s statement about A&E docu-series “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” being nothing but a lie and a show for a profit. She then challenged the Church of Scientology to simply sue her over the matter, Entertainment Weekly relays. “Then they should sue us.
The way Scientology is laid out and explained seems like everything has been thought out, but what many don't know is the abuse involved in this process. In many cases, Scientologists working for the church face violence. Former member Jeff Hawkins wrote a book called “Counterfeit Dreams,” where he describes a time when
There are many different cults in the world and there are some that seem harmless and other well not so much. The cults have an uncanny way of controlling their followers and members do not realize what is going on. The cults that have this power become the cults of mass murder and suicide. The Solar Temple was a doomsday cult that was founded in 1984 (The Solar Temple 2004). The founder and leader of the Solar Temple is Joseph Di Mambro (Lewis 2005).
Founder of scientology, Ron Hubbard, started his studies of the mind and spirit in 1923 creating a manuscript called excalibur in 1938. Scientology was first created in some of his unpublished work. It was used to describe the study of “knowing how to know”. Dianetics was soon introduced as a broader version of scientology to help provide a way of therapy. To help spread his new findings he traveled all around the world to 4 different continents and opened several new churches.
Scientology imposes severe restrictions on the financial and personal independence of its devotees, including substantial dues and required donations, to keep up with ongoing pressure to acquire new members and go up the organizational ladder. The fact that Scientology is a tax-exempt religious organization, which falsely lends it some credibility and shields it from legal investigation, makes this kind of misconduct easier. The financial and psychological costs associated with achieving greater levels of spiritual enlightenment inside Scientology, as "Going Clear" demonstrates, are strong disincentives for members to quit, keeping them imprisoned in a cycle of servitude and
The ways the cult began to torment people who
L. Ron Hubbard once said, “The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion” (Lindsay). He would then go on to create the religion of Scientology which is now worth almost 2 billion dollars (Matthews). Evan Kneezer, the creator of Geistology and the founder of the company Ghostblasters, seems to be following in the steps of Mr. Hubbard. Mr. Kneezer has created a company based on pseudo-science and is trying to make money off of it. There are many reasons why the Ghostblasters Company is not to be trusted but the three main reasons are as follows.
Krenwinkel describes her attraction to him being memorizing and charismatic, immediately feeling entranced by his brainwashing abilities and free spirited attitude, left her home, her car and her last paycheck to start a new life with Mason in San Francisco. This is the exact odd behaviour that makes me completely intrigued by this cult’s
Scientologist are aware that their lives and their impact extends way beyond themselves. Because of this they are aware of the requirement to participate on a broader spectrum. By accepting each dynamic and their relationship then chances of survival increase on
Church of Scientology was created in purpose to being transformed into a religion, trying to create a religion based on the practices in science and theoretical readings that can eventually take over the world. By this time in 1953, a man named Ron Hubbard combined three churches known as “Church of American Science”, “Church of Scientology” and the “Church of Spiritual Engineering” for the purposes of research to the ways the world works. This cult has been around from the 16th century to the present day trying to find religious reasons through science and hypnosis. The Church of Scientology creates a bad influence on people today due to the brainwashing fraud and financial ruin that they cause among the people who don’t believe in what they believe in. They wouldn’t be as bad of an influence if they didn’t do terrible things to the people that didn’t respect what
Have you ever wondered how people seen on the news involved in a cult, ended up in one in the first place. Cults can develop from religious or social movements, often times involving; brainwashing, control, and kidnapping. In many cases social influence can leave an imprint on a person’s actions, personality, and growth. When people interact with others on a daily basis they tend to change their own behavior in order to conform with the what is relevant. Often times group thinking overrides a person’s a rational reasoning and can lead to the joining of a cult.
As a religion people work towards a goal of bettering themselves or bettering their environment. This idea can nearly be regarded as fact for some branches of religion have been around for thousands of years and have followers in every corner of the globe claiming that their ideology and faith of religion has helped them in the past and will continue to help them in the future. For cults, this goal is often illegal or immoral after all cults are almost always shrouded in mystery and details are often withheld from the public. Cults of some form or other have been around for as long as organized religion, during the first-century people of the Roman Empire began to reject Christianity because it was something new and instead valued Judaism as this had been around a long time. It was around this time that politicians began to spread vicious rumors that Christians were beginning to take part in “group sex acts” during what was called “love fests”, it was also thought that they took part in sacrificing infants to their god.
To combat this, Hubbard established the Scientology Navy: a group of early Sea Org members who traveled around the world by ship with the mission of, in the words of Hubbard “research, and spreading the eternal truth”. Many of those original members who recall accompanying Hubbard on this journey, remember the experience as difficult, but enlightening, commenting specifically on the
Corporate Identity Religion and Corporate Identity was not a common thing in the beginning of religious institutions, but as our culture moves into an industry that values money higher than faith, religion had to follow too. No longer is being a part of a religious institution just giving your soul, you now must reach deep inside your pocket. No matter what religion you are in, you will feel obligated to give money. Not only is religion more money focuses, it has also bled it’s values into businesses around the world. In this paper, I will discuss how Christianity, Islam, and Scientology are being conducted as a business.
