Belief — The Church of Scientology

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →

L L. Ron Hubbard — the Founder. Pulp writer, naval officer, and author of the whole technical corpus. He withdrew from public life in 1980 and died in 1986; no one may alter what he wrote. Domain Dianetics, the technology, the whole corpusStanding Not divine and not worshipped — the source of the technology, whose word settles disputes about it Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →

The shared center — held across the tradition

You are not your body and not your mind. You are a thetan: an immortal spiritual being who has lived before, who fell into the trap of matter, and who is now identified with the equipment. Go deeper — context →

Held by most — broad, but not universal

Engrams are recordings, and they can be discharged. An engram is a moment of pain and unconsciousness recorded whole. Auditing locates it, runs it through until the charge is gone, and the church holds that the ability lost with it comes back. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death

The nature of reality

A universe of matter, energy, space and time, made and inhabited by spiritual beings who forgot they made it

After death

The thetan does not die — it takes another body, and the recordings follow it