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Karin Spaink (born December 20, 1957 in Amsterdam) is a journalist, writer and feminist. Image File history File links Scientology_new_style_logo. ...
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Thetan is a term coined within Scientology, roughly synonymous with spirit or soul. More exactly, the person himself -- not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. ...
Dianetics is a therapeutic method and a set of ideas about the nature and structure of the human mind developed primarily by L. Ron Hubbard in the late 1940s. ...
In Dianetics and Scientology, Clear is defined as a state in which a person is free of unwanted influences of past memories, unwanted emotions, and mental and physical pain not existing in present time. ...
In Dianetics, the secular predecessor of Scientology, an engram is defined as a painful memory of unconsciousness stored in the stimulus-response unconscious (the reactive mind). ...
The reactive mind is defined in Dianetics as the portion of a persons mind which works on a totally stimulus-response basis, which is not under his volitional (willing) control, and which exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions. ...
In Scientology doctrine, Xenu (also Xemu) is a galactic ruler (of the Galactic Confederacy) who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. ...
This article examines the beliefs and practices of Scientology as taught by the Church of Scientology. ...
The tone scale in Scientology is a characterization of human mood and behaviour by various positions on a scale from +40 to -40. ...
ARC is a fundamental concept in Scientology doctrine. ...
In the Scientology religion, MEST is an acronym for Matter, Energy, Space and Time, considered by Scientologists to be the four component parts of the physical universe. ...
Reincarnation, also called transmigration of souls, is the rebirth in another body (after physical death), of some critical part of a persons personality or spirit. ...
Study tech is a Scientology method which helps students overcome the barriers which keep them from successfully studying a subject. ...
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// Beliefs Core beliefs and central tenets of Scientology The core beliefs of Scientology involve The spiritual nature of men and mankind. ...
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The Purification Rundown[1], known as The Purif within Scientology, is a program of detoxification developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, involving the use of saunas, vitamins, and the drinking of oils. ...
The Association for Better Living and Education (A.B.L.E.) is a secular branch of the Church of Scientology. ...
Founded in 1983, the Concerned Businessmens Association of America (CBAA) is an element of the Scientology movement directed at promoting moral education and enhanced well-being through the use of Hubbards The Way to Happiness booklet in their Set A Good Example (SAGE) program, which holds childrens...
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Scientologys Narconon purports to deliver a rehabilitation program for drug abusers in several dozen treatment centers worldwide, chiefly in the United States and western Europe. ...
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The Volunteer Minister program is a worldwide effort founded by the Church of Scientology International. ...
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) is an organization that educates and assists businesses in the use of Scientology management techniques. ...
This is a list of Scientology organizations operated by the Church of Scientology (CoS), including Church offices, missions, Celebrity Centres and publicized Scientology and Dianetics groups. ...
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The Gold Base is the headquarters of Golden Era Productions, the media division of the Church of Scientology, located near Hemet, California with the address of: 19625 Highway 79, Gilman Hot Springs, CA 92583. ...
Celebrity Centres are Church of Scientology centers that are open to the public but serve mostly artists and celebrities and other professionals, leaders and promising new-comers in the fields of the arts, sports, management and government. ...
The Office of Special Affairs (OSA) is a department of the Church of Scientology responsible for directing legal affairs, publicizing the Churchs social betterment works, and oversee[ing its] social reform programs. Observers outside the Church have characterized the department as an intelligence agency, comparing it variously to the...
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In Scientology, a formally condemned and shunned heretic or wrongdoer is labelled a Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP. L. Ron Hubbard coined the term to refer to enemies of the Church of Scientology, whose suppressive acts are said to impede the progress of Scientology. ...
Fair Game is a status assigned to those whom the Church of Scientology has officially declared to be Suppressive Persons or Suppressive Persons are those whose actions are deemed to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist. ...
Operation Snow White was the name given internally by the Church of Scientology to a program which included the largest incident of domestic espionage in the history of the United States. ...
The Church of Scientology planned Operation Freakout in 1976, to frame writer Paulette Cooper for bomb threats against the Church, Henry Kissinger, Arab nations and a laundromat. ...
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The Rehabilitation Project Force, or RPF, is a system of work camps set up by the Church of Scientology Sea Organization, intended to correct members who have not lived up to CoS expectations or have violated certain policies. ...
The Church of Scientology is well known for its extensive use of the legal system. ...
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Amsterdam Location Flag Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Coordinates 52°22′N 4°54′E Website www. ...
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Spaink is known as somebody who will actively, but legally, fight "the system" in order to right wrongs. She has fought, amongst others, new-age writers who claim all diseases are only a psychological phenomenon, the Church of Scientology, police officers whom she claims sexually harassed teenagers, and American pro-abortionists who got an anti-abortionist site banned because of texts that may be construed as a literal, illegal call for mutilation and murder of medical doctors who perform abortions. (Spaink herself is pro-choice on the issue of abortion, but felt that freedom of speech prevailed in the latter case.) Official Scientology Cross Symbol The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by the late author L. Ron Hubbard. ...
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Biography
Spaink was born in Amsterdam and trained as a secondary school teacher from 1975 to 1981, specialising in English. From 1981 to 1984 she studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Secondary school may refer to Secondary school in the United Kingdom, is the general term for the schools for children between the ages of eleven and eighteen in most areas (a few areas have schools for 13-18 year olds instead, and these are called upper schools). ...
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1981 (MCMLXXXI in Roman) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ...
From Athenaeum Illustre to University In January 1632 two internationally acclaimed scientists, Caspar Barlaeus and Gerardus Vossius, held their inaugural speech in the Athenaeum Illustre - the illustrious school - which had its seat in the 14th-century Agnietenkapel. ...
She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1986. She started writing freelance around this time. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 1986 and 1987 she trained as a computer programmer, at Volmac and Fokker, working at Fokker from 1988 until 1990. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Fokker 100 of British Midland Airways Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. ...
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She writes a regular column for Het Parool (1992 to present) and previously wrote for De Groene Amsterdammer (1998 to 2000). Het Parool is an Amsterdam-based daily newspaper. ...
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Between 1988 and 2003 her partner was Zenon Panoussis, who she met during the battles with the Church of Scientology. Zenon Panoussis (born 1956) was a naturalized citizen of Sweden who gained notoriety in large part because of his dispute with the Church of Scientology, as well as his novel legal tactics. ...
Taking on New Age proponents over physical ailments Spaink first came into the national limelight by accusing New Age writers such as Louise Hay, Thorwald Dethlefsen and Bernie Siegel of over-simplifying physical ailments by reducing them to a purely psychological phenomenon. Spaink, herself suffering from multiple sclerosis, was insulted by the suggestion that her disease was nothing more than the result of her own lack of willingness to heal. (Compare Idealism and responsibility assumption with Materialism; see also New Thought Movement.) New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ...
Louise Hay is the American bestselling author of Heal Your Body and She attended the Church of Religious Science in New York city in the early 1970s and became a popular councellor. ...
Idealism is an approach to philosophical enquiry. ...
Responsibility assumption is a doctrine in the spirituality and personal growth fields holding that each individual has substantial or total responsibility for the events and circumstances that befall them in their life. ...
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The New Thought Movement describes a set of religious developments that originated in the United States during the late 19th century, beginning with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. ...
Her essay Het strafbare lichaam ("the punishable body") coined neologisms such as kwakdenken ("quack thinking") and orenmaffia ("mind mob") that even made it into the Dutch language dictionary. The latter term derived from the expression that something is "all between the ears," in other words, "all in the mind." In linguistics, a neologism is a recently coined word, or the act of inventing a word or phrase. ...
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Scientology In 1995, the Church of Scientology unofficially declared war on the Internet. Spaink was one of the first famous Dutch Internet personalities and was one of about a hundred Dutch people to put up pages containing the Fishman Affidavit in protest against the actions of the church. Karin Spaink and Zenon Panoussis at Leipzig Human Rights Award 2003, copyright 2003 Tilman Hausherr This image is copyrighted, and used with permission. ...
Karin Spaink and Zenon Panoussis at Leipzig Human Rights Award 2003, copyright 2003 Tilman Hausherr This image is copyrighted, and used with permission. ...
Zenon Panoussis (born 1956) was a naturalized citizen of Sweden who gained notoriety in large part because of his dispute with the Church of Scientology, as well as his novel legal tactics. ...
In Scientology doctrine, Xenu (also Xemu) is a galactic ruler (of the Galactic Confederacy) who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Official Scientology Cross Symbol The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by the late author L. Ron Hubbard. ...
Scientology versus the Internet is the colloquial term for a long-running online dispute between the Church of Scientology and a number of the Churchs online critics. ...
The Fishman Affidavit is a set of court documents submitted by ex-Scientologist Steven Fishman in 1994 containing criticisms of the Church of Scientology and, controversially, substantial portions of the Operating Thetan course materials. ...
The Church of Scientology responded by suing Karin Spaink and a large number of internet providers, including XS4All, for copyright infringement. Part of the Fishman Affidavit were documents that Fishman had claimed to be the official teachings of Scientology. The defendants responded by challenging the church to prove it was actually the copyright holder of the disputed documents. XS4ALL (pronounced access for all) is the second-oldest ISP in the Netherlands, after NLnet (But xs4all was the first company offering internet for individuals). ...
Copyright infringement (also known as piracy) is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owners exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. ...
This put the church in a tough spot, because it claimed that those documents were church secrets; once it had proved the genuineness of those documents, the cat would be out of the bag. This was important to the church, because it claims that the believers have to read the documents in a certain order, and only when they are ready for them, in order to reach a state of Clear.
The church finally gave in and let a Dutch notary compare the church-copyrighted documents with the texts on Spaink's homepage. Through her lawyers, Karin Spaink received a copy and started rewriting her homepage, just a week away from the court date for handling the motion for summary judgement. Spaink replaced the contested documents with an analysis of the documents, quoting liberally, but not too liberally from them; Dutch copyright law does not have a fair use provision, but allows quotation for purposes of scientific dissemination. Interestingly, a representative of the Church of Scientology used this occurrence to back up a claim that the church had actually won the court case. Notary can refer to either of the following two professions: Notary public. ...
The fair use doctrine is an aspect of United States copyright law that provides for the licit, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another authors work under a four-factor balancing test. ...
The hearing on the merits was decided more along both lines: it was found that service providers do have a responsibility for documents that users put up on their web site; however, any claims that Karin Spaink was breaking the church's copyright were found unfounded, because Spaink had reworked her homepage as soon as she had discovered that the church indeed had valid claims to portions of the documents on that homepage. This implicitly meant that the scholarly study of the church's documents on Spaink's homepage was in fact legal.
Court costs were divided equally between parties. In the Netherlands these usually run into (only) thousands of euros; contrast this with the hundreds of thousands of dollars that American Scientology adversaries had to pay after losing their own, US based court cases. This may be an indication of why Spaink can still fight the church, and why it is claimed by Scientology critics that the barrage of law suits brought on by the church is not the making use of a legal right, but a form of harassment (barratry). The euro (symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the single currency of the following twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain; collectively also known as the Eurozone. ...
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Harassment refers to a wide spectrum of offensive behavior. ...
Two legal concepts go by the name barratry: one in criminal and civil law, the other in admiralty law. ...
The Church of Scientology appealed this decision. A court date was originally planned for September 2002, but was postponed several times. Finally in September 2003, the court decided in favor of Spaink and the internet service providers on all points, including the below-mentioned decision on links. 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ...
The three judges found that Spaink and the providers might indeed have broken Dutch copyright law; quotation is not allowed of works that have not been previously published, and whether or not the release as evidence in a US court case counts as 'publication' was considered dubious. However, the judges felt that they did not have to rule on this subject, because European law states that quotation is legal in case the quotation serves a higher goal. The court held it proven that Scientology is an organisation that tries to undermine democracy [1], and therefore ruled that Spaink had the right to quote the Church in its exposé. The European Union is unique among international organizations in having a complex and highly developed system of internal law which has direct effect within the legal systems of its member states. ...
Scientology appealed once more, this time to the Supreme Court of Netherlands. In July 2005, a few days before the court was expected to rule, Scientology withdrew the appeal. The Supreme Court dismissed Scientology's claims while accepting Scientology's withdrawal. The consequence of this withdrawal is, that Scientology has no possibility to appeal to the European Court, because this is only possible when all legal means on country level have been exhausted.The verdict of the appeal court stands, the Supreme Court did not add an evaluation of its own. European Court could mean: the European Court of Justice, an institution of the European Union for the resolution of disputes under EU law, based in Luxembourg. ...
Effects of this court case In the original court case, the judge held it for law that ISPs whose customers on their homepages link to copyright infringement are as liable as if the customers infringed on that copyright themselves.
This part of the judge's decision caused quite an uproar in the Dutch internet community, where many claim that a link is not a mechanism for publishing works but merely a reference to a work, although there are a fair number of voices who feel the judge's decision was correct.
In the verdict of the appeal in September 2003, this ruling was reversed.
See also: civil law Civil law has at least three meanings. ...
Right to Die Karin Spaink is also involved in the Right to Die movement; she hosts a website which offers access to information concerning methods of suicide and includes a chatbox in which people can express their desire to kill themselves. This website has garnered much controversy when, in October 2005, Christopher Aston (25) and Maria Williams (42) from Manchester and London respectively, entered into a suicide pact after meeting on aforementioned chatroom. (source: The Guardian of Tuesday October 11, 2005) For the 1987 film, see Right to Die (film) The term right to die (also: Dying with Dignity) refers to various issues around the death of an individual when that person could continue to live with the aid of life support or in a diminished or enfeebled capacity. ...
It has been suggested that Suicide and culture be merged into this article or section. ...
A suicide pact describes the suicides of two or more individuals in an agreed-upon plan. ...
Bibliography - 1991, Aan hartstocht geen gebrek, Handicap, erotiek en lichaamsbeleving (No lack of passion, Handicap, eroticism, and perception of the body)
- 1992, Het strafbare lichaam (The punishable body)
References - 1 "Uit de hiervoor onder 8.3 vermelde teksten blijkt dat Scientology c.s. met hun leer en organisatie de verwerping van democratische waarden niet schuwen. Uit die teksten volgt tevens dat met de geheimhouding van OT II en OT III mede wordt beoogd macht uit te oefenen over leden van de Scientology-organisatie en discussie over de leer en praktijken van de Scientology-organisatie te verhinderen." [2] Translation by Spaink: "The texts previously quoted show that in its teachings and its structure, Scientology c.s. do not shun the rejection of democratic values. From these texts it is also apparent that one of the objectives of keeping OT II and OT III secret is to wield power over members of the Scientology organisation and to prevent discussion about the teachings and practices of the Scientology organisation."
External links - Karin Spaink's homepage in Dutch and English
- Religious freedom watch entry about Karin Spaink. A Scientology-associated website accuses her of illegally infringing copyright, encouraging hate of Scientology, and encouraging harassment of Scientology parishioners
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