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For extended information regarding Scientology beliefs and practices, one may purchase a ebook or softcover book at ebay.com. The title of the book is "Scientology(tm) vs. Scientology(tm) by Patricia Krenik. It was published in 2005 to demonstrate that the original intentions of the Founder of Scientology and what is actually practiced in the Churches of Scientology(tm) are at some considerable variance.
The entire idea in Scientology is that man is a composite being, part body, part mind, part spirit. This idea is greatly expanded upon as one learns more about the various parts. For example, the body is really a separate entity with a mind of its own. That mind regulates the basic function of keeping the body alive, such as regulating heartbeat. It developed on an evolutionary line, changing its form as it needed to adapt to changing conditions. Its development is available to the spiritual part as knowledge via the "mental image picture" or recording of events that have happened on the evolutionary time track.
The most important part of the composite, the spiritual part, is what is normally called "you." You are a Thetan, (from the Greek word theta, or thought) or spirit, wearing a mind, wearing a body. Thetan is a Scientology term describing that essence of life that remains after body death, and, hopefully, that same life (you) is in charge of running the body and the various mental machinery while the body is alive. When the thetan who should be in charge is not, or is not fully, strange abberations may appear. When this is severe, people wind up on prescribed drugs or in institutions.
The problem is always in the matter of a composite being. There is nothing wrong in being a composite, provided only that one understands what the composite consists of, and that starts with learning the language of Scientology. You can't fix a car unless you know its parts. Half the gains in Scientology consist of training where we learn the different parts of the mind and how it affects us (such as the word "engram", a mental image picture containing pain/unconsciousness with impact or injury) and the "auditing" half, where such items as engrams are addressed so that you as an immortal being, a thetan, can sort out the truth of your own being.
As a Thetan, or life source, over an existence that spans before time, you have had ample opportunity to have created/destroyed many identities. You have been a man, a woman, perhaps even a robot. You have forgotten, and those areas of forgettingness (to coin a word)are ripe with confusions and misidentifications. Were you the tiger slayer, or did the tiger slay you? Memories, forgotten or not, are still part of you as a composite being.
Scientology aims to "clear" or remove those things in the mind that prevent a person from functioning optimally. It does this by correctly identifying the parts, and thus one can understand the whole.
The goal of Scientology was to "clear" the planet, and thus bring about a world without insanity and war, where honest men could have rights. A "Clear" in Scientology is someone who has removed one part of the mind that he doesn't need, the part called the "reactive mind." He has sorted out what that is and has ceased to have it be part of his composite being. To "clear" the planet would require a nearly endless flow of new clears setting out to change conditions with clear thinking.
Unfortunately, the practice of Scientology within the Churches is to charge such extrodinary prices for auditing and training that very few people are cleared compared to the number we need to clear to really make a change on our planet, thus the Churches are self-defeating.
There is an alternative to Scientology though, called the Freezone. Not free in cost, but much, much more reasonable, making it possible for the overall goal of clearing the planet to be achieved.
Here are some links to some Freezone sites with further information.
