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Virtually all these concepts and claims originate with the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was a prolific American author and founder of Scientology and Dianetics. ...

MEST

Main article: MEST

MEST is an acronym Hubbard coined which stands for matter, energy, space and time, the component parts of the physical universe. [1] It is claimed that by completing Scientology courses, it is possible to eventually attain "cause over MEST" — the ability to control matter, energy and spacetime in the physical universe, free of the encumbrance of the body. (Hubbard, A History of Man, chapter 5) 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. ... Matter is commonly defined as the substance of which physical objects are composed. ... Space has been an interest for philosophers and scientists for much of human history, and hence it is difficult to provide an uncontroversial and clear definition outside of specific defined contexts. ... A pocket watch, a common timekeeping device. ... This article examines the beliefs and practices of Scientology as taught by the Church of Scientology. ... A History of Man is a Scientology book written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952. ...

Stacy Brooks, of the Lisa McPherson Trust, observes: Lisa McPherson (born Lisa Skonetski, February 10, 1959–December 5, 1995) was a Scientologist who died while in the care of the Church of Scientology (CoS). ...

"This is the real goal of a Scientologist - to be free of the MEST Universe, to be able to discard the body and be completely free of the limitations of MEST. When enough Scientologists reach that goal (a goal which no one to my knowledge has yet attained) and Planet Earth has been cleared, they will be able to travel at will anywhere in the galaxy to clear other planets and, eventually, the entire MEST Universe". [2]

Dianetics and Clearing

Hubbard first introduced Dianetics to the general public in April 1950, in an article published in the Astounding Science Fiction pulp magazine,[3] and followed quickly with the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health that same summer. The original version of Dianetics made overt promises that it could cure disease, but this was toned down in later years, after investigations that medicine was being practiced without a license. Astounding Stories was a seminal science fiction magazine founded in 1930. ... Flynns Detective Fiction from 1941. ...

Dianetics postulates that there is a part of our psyche called the Reactive mind, and that most of our mental and physical problems are psychosomatic, thus they can be solved by eliminating this portion of our minds. This mental state of self-mastery is called Clear. 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. ... A psychosomatic illness is one with physical manifestations and supposed psychological cause, often diagnosed when any known or identifiable physical cause was excluded by medical examination. ... 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. ...

The 1992 hardcover edition of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

In the 1992 Hardcover edition of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Hubbard claims: "A Clear, for instance, has complete recall of everything which ever happened to him, or anything he ever studied. He does mental computations, such as those in chess, for example, which a normal would do in half an hour, in ten or fifteen seconds." (pg. 214) Image File history File links Dianetics1992hard. ...

Exteriorization of energy

Speaking on the subject of "Exteriorization - communication in Theta and MEST", Hubbard claimed that with Scientology training, one can self-generate electricity sufficient to power vacuum tubes, batteries, and bell jars: In electronics, a vacuum tube (American English) or (thermionic) valve (British English) is a device generally used to amplify a signal. ... Four double-A batteries In science and technology, a battery is a device that stores energy and makes it available in an electrical form. ... A bell jar is a piece of laboratory glassware in the shape of a bell. ...

"The truth of the matter is an individual can activate a vacuum tube. By the way, he can activate a vacuum tube because he isn't trying to go through the terrific insulative quality of air. I've forgotten what an inch of air insulates, but it is something fabulous. An inch of air represents maybe a hundred thousand volts or something on that order. He would have to be almost as big as a lightning storm to get across any space of air. But he can do it in a vacuum tube, and he could do it in a bell jar from which the air could be exhausted, while he himself was outside the bell jar. He simply puts a beam inside the bell jar connecting two electrodes and you would get a registry on a meter inside the bell jar." (3rd ACC Lecture 35)

The Church of Scientology's Operating Thetan symbol.

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Immortality

The Church of Scientology describes achieving the state of Operating Thetan as "complete spiritual freedom from the endless cycle of birth and death" and literally promises immortality: In Scientology, the state of Operating Thetan is a spiritual state above Clear. ...

"Some of the miracles of life have been exposed to full view for the first time ever on the OT levels. Not the least of these miracles is knowing immortality and freedom from the cycle of birth and death." [4]

Superhuman health

Medical science currently has no treatment for colds, the most common of all human diseases. However, on pg.121 of the 1992 Hardcover edition of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Hubbard bluntly states: For a villain character in Codename: Kids Next Door, see Common Cold (Codename: Kids Next Door) Acute nasopharyngitis, often known as the common cold, is a mild viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory system (nose and throat). ...

"Clears do not get colds."

It is also hinted that achieving the state of Clear prolongs lifespan: "What the lifespan of a Clear is cannot be answered now; ask in a hundred years." (pg.384)

Increasing body weight

Hubbard has stated on numerous occasions that it is possible for Scientologists to use mind over matter to increase one's body weight, although why someone would specifically want to do this is not explained. In his book Understanding the E-meter, Hubbard wrote that this assertion can be tested by "mocking up" mental pictures in one's imagination. "This test has actually been made and an increase of as much as thirty pounds, actually measured on scales, has been added to and subtracted from a body by creating 'mental energy.'" (pg.52) An E-Meter is a battery powered electronic instrument manufactured by the Church of Scientologys Gold Base. ...

In December 1954, Hubbard declared before a crowd at a lecture:

"Just mock up something, pull it in, mock it up and pull it in, mock it up and pull it in. Mock up heavy planets, mock up dense things and pull them in. You shoot a person's weight up - if he's working pretty well, and you do this very insistently, and you insist on density and mass - you can put a person on a set of very accurate Toledo scales, have him do this process for a few hours, put him back on the scales and find out his weight has gone up about thirty pounds." (Introduction to 9TH ACC - Havingness)

In 1957, Hubbard claimed that he was contacted by physicists from a scientific congress in Boston: "They wanted to know if I had any proof I could offer that thought created matter". Hubbard said he gave them all his data about using Scientology's mental "mock-ups" to increase body weight, and reported "I got back a highly enthusiastic wire saying that my data, as sent to them, had been of great assistance". (Ability Congress, 2nd lecture, December 1957) Flag Seal Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Location Location in Massachusetts Government Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Geographical characteristics Area     City 232. ...

Touch assists

Scientologists (especially Volunteer Ministers) are taught to administer what Hubbard called the "touch assist". He made pseudoscientific claims that when one is in pain, "the energy from a shock will make a standing wave in the body". He goes on to explain that the purpose of a "touch assist" is to "unlock the standing waves that are small electronic ridges of nervous energy that is not flowing as it should". [5] The Scientologist is to perform a sort of laying on of hands to the subject, and in so doing, relieve pain stored in the subject's nerves. This contradicts mainstream science's current conception of the nervous system, which holds that nerves transmit pain, rather than storing it. The Volunteer Minister program is a worldwide effort founded by the Church of Scientology International. ... A pseudoscience is any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method. ... The laying on of hands is a religious practice found throughout the world in varying forms. ...

The Super Power Building in Florida, where the Super Power Rundown will be given upon completion.

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Super Power Rundown

The Church describes the Super Power Rundown as "A super fantastic, but confidential series of rundowns that can be done on anybody whether Dn Clear or not that puts the person into fantastic shape unleashing Super Power of a thetan. This means that puts Scientologists into a new realm of ability enabling them to create a new world." (Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary, 1982 hardcover edition) The exact nature of these "Super Powers" have not yet been enumerated, at least to the public. In Scientology, a rundown is a procedure set out as a series of steps to produce a particular end result, or phenomena. ...

Scientology researcher Martin Hunt says that the Super Power Rundown is "expected to make planetary clearing and the expanding of all service organizations to the size of old Saint Hill a reality". This refers to a directive issued by the Church that their primary goal must be to expand the size of all Scientology service organizations to the size that Saint Hill was in the 1960's - in other words, more than 200 staff members in each organization. [6] Saint Hill, near East Grinstead, Sussex, was for many years the head office of the Church of Scientology and remains the head office for the United Kingdom. ...

The Super Power Building is currently under construction in Clearwater, Florida for the purpose of administering this rundown. However, it has been plagued with construction setbacks since its initial groundbreaking in 1998. The Church of Scientologys largest project in Clearwater, Florida is the ongoing construction of a huge high-rise complex called the Super Power Building (SPB), an enormous structure whose highest point, when completed, will be a huge Scientology cross that will tower over the city. ... 1st incorporation date 1891 2nd Incorporation date 1915 Zip Codes 33755-65 County Pinellas (county seat) Mayor Frank Hibbard Population  - City (2004)  - Tampa Bay Metro   108,606 2,600,000 (estimate) Time zone Eastern: UTC-5 Latitude Longitude 27°58 N 82°46 W City of Clearwaters Official Website...

Telepathy and remote viewing

Scientology has had similar TRs over the years for recalling the thetan's lost telepathic abilities such as mind-reading and remote viewing. [7] Remote viewing (RV) is a procedure developed by parapsychologists at the Stanford Research Institute to allegedly perform clairvoyance under controlled conditions. ...

Two of Scientology's most famous proponents of remote viewing are Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann, who researched the subject at Stanford Research Institute for the CIA in the 1970s. [8] [9] Most of the SRI team, including project director Puthoff, and the CIA's star "psychic spies", Price and Swann, were Scientologists, a fact that skeptic Martin Gardner noted disparagingly. Puthoff and Swann were Operating Thetan (OT) level seven, and credited Scientology with their success in the CIA remote viewing program. [10] [11] Harold E. Puthoff, PhD, is an American physicist. ... Ingo Swann is an artist who helped develop the procedure of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute for the Central Intelligence Agency, and has become well known as a remote viewer himself. ... SRI International is one of the worlds largest contract research institutions. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Martin Gardner (born October 21, 1914) is an American recreational mathematician, magician, skeptic, and author of the long-running but now discontinued Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. ... In Scientology, the state of Operating Thetan is a spiritual state above Clear. ...

Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis, also known as telekinesis, is the power to remotely move physical objects by power of one's mind alone. As part of one's increased conquering of MEST through Scientology Auditing, the power of psychokinesis is promised if the subject is diligent enough. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

Long series of specialized Training Routines (TRs) and drills are supposed to "reorient" one's thetan with its forgotten telekinetic abilities. One TR involves the subject screaming at an ashtray "in the loudest voice he can muster" commands such as "STAND UP!" and "SIT DOWN!". If the ashtray fails to move, it is moved by hand to aid the visualization. [12] This routine is intended to develop the use of "Tone 40" on Hubbard's Tone scale, a system of classifying people according to how spiritually powerful and alive they are. The lowest, -40, is "Total failure" and the highest, 40, is labeled "Serenity of beingness". The Tone scale in Scientology technology is a characterization of human behavior and bodily appearance. ...

The routine's instructions are very specific that "heavy, colored glass ashtrays" work best.

Narconon's Communication & Perception course 4a instructs recovering drug addicts to scream levitation commands at ashtrays.

Scientology's drug-rehabilitation front group Narconon have used the screaming-at-the-ashtray routine, attracting concern from regulatory agencies. [13] In 1991, an investigation launched by the state of Oklahoma's Board of Mental Health found "The vast majority of Narconon's course materials in its drug and alcohol abuse program are not designed to educate and/or treat clients in the area of drug and alcohol abuse." [14] Image File history File links Narconon4a. ... Image File history File links Narconon4a. ... Narconon is not associated with Narcotics Anonymous, which is sometimes abbreviated Narcanon. Scientologys Narconon is an in-patient rehabilitation program for drug abusers in several dozen treatment centers worldwide, chiefly in the United States and western Europe. ... Official language(s) None Capital Oklahoma City Largest city Oklahoma City Area  Ranked 20th  - Total 69,960 sq. ...

Time travel

In the official Church of Scientology magazine Advance! (#130, pgs.22-23), there is a report about an Operating Thetan who, it is alleged, walked directly into the path of an oncoming truck but saved their own life by traveling in time to before they left their home. "I made the decision instantly to turn back time", says the anonymous Scientologist, who then found himself "standing by the door I'd left not 10 seconds before - completely unscathed". The author reports being "very pleased" with his OT abilities. Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ...

References

Lectures by Hubbard

• 3rd ACC. Lecture 35
• 9th ACC - Havingness
• Ability Congress, 2nd lecture, Washington, D.C., December 1957

Books

• Hubbard, A History of Man, 1952 edition, New York: Church of Scientology. ISBN 0686307844.
• Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, 1992 hardcover edition.
• Hubbard, Understanding the E-meter.
• Hubbard, Narconon Communication & Perception Course 4a, 2004 edition. (pg. 447-482)