Week 27: Scientology Provides the "Grift" of Salvation | February 8, 2026 Sunday School

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Scientology providing the grift of salvation, not the gift of

salvation. There's a reason why I would say

that the term grift, as it is defined in the dictionary, is a

group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of

swindles or fraud. And when I think of the Church

of Scientology, grift is exactly what I think of, because there

are many who will give thousands upon thousands, sometimes into

the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

To be able to go clear, we'll talk what that means in just a

moment. And then after going clear,

supposedly we'll continue to give money to maintain this

higher plane of living in existence of which they have

found. But yet really the only one who

benefits is the Church of Scientology.

And so I want us to look at that here today.

It has gained prominence through stars like John Travolta, Tom

Cruise, and the late Kirstie Alley.

Sometimes because of this, Scientology is called the Church

of the Stars because it is so ingrained into the Hollywood

would culture. Most recently it's had more

negative publicity. There was an actress named Leah

Remini who was on the TV show King of Queens who left

Scientology and has worked very hard at exposing many of the

secrets, much of the fraud, much of the abuses that have taken

place within the Church of Scientology.

And Scientology is dubious as it is both a religion and a cult.

As I just mentioned. It's a religion because as a

belief system, it is completely of its own.

There is nothing that Scientology can relate to.

There's no other religion. You could say, well, Scientology

is very close to this. It is completely invented from

the mind of 1L Ron Hubbard. But it's also a cult because for

almost 75 years, the 75 years it has been in existence, depending

on when you peg the date of it beginning, whether it was the

writing of Dianetics or whether it was founded as a religion

several years later. But for almost 75 years, it has

only had two leaders, one being its founder, L Ron Hubbard, and

then David Miskevich, who we'll talk about more in a few moments

as well. And if we were to summarize

Scientology in one sentence, it would be this.

Scientology, despite its glitz and glamour, will make you go

bankrupt before it sends you straight to hell.

That's not a great introduction to a religion, is it?

But that's what Scientology will do.

It'll make you go financially bankrupt before it sends you

straight to hell. Well, I do want us to look at

Colossians chapter #2 because I do think there's a passage here

that helps us understand a little bit of the problem of

Scientology. And certainly we're going to

have difficulty getting through this lesson.

This morning I have resigned myself to the thought or the

possibility that we may have to go into next week as well,

because there's some videos I believe you need to see to help

us set the foundation for what we're talking about.

And there's so many very, very strange doctrines that are

attached to this religion, as well as the fact that there are

many, many great abuses that have taken place in this

religion as well. There's no way I can cover them

all, but I do want to give you a good understanding of what it

is. So Colossians chapter 2 verse #6

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says this, as you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord,

so walkie in him. Boy, that's good for us to

remember, isn't it? Don't just receive him, but then

once you've received Him, walk in His ways.

And it says in verse 7, rooted and build up in Him, established

in the faith as He had been taught, abounding therein with

Thanksgiving. And I love that outline.

First we're rooted, then we're built up, then we're

established, and then we're abounding.

That's the way walking in the Christian life works.

It's first rooted, then built up, then established, and then

what happens? You abound.

And then it says in verse 8, beware lest any man spoil you

through philosophy and vain deceit.

After the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the

world, that word rudiments means a first principle or a first

element, the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ, for

him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily you say, What

does that mean? What means Jesus is God verse

#10 and ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all

principality and power. And I think verse 10 certainly

goes very well with what we have learned in Colossians chapter 3

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at Christ is all. And then we saw Colossians

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chapter 3 that Christ is our life.

But look again at verse #8 where it says this just a second,

where lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain

deceit. After the tradition of mem,

after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

I think verse 8 May be the best way for us to be able to explain

what Scientology is all about. Philosophy.

Scientology has it vain deceit trying to trick people

physically trying to trick people and knowing that they are

yes they have it as well the tradition of men.

Scientology has it it may be wrapped up in new age

terminology. It may be wrapped up in L Ron

Hubbard science fiction background, but yet really the

things he's presenting are errors as old as time itself.

And in the rudiments of the world that the idea that there

are some of the basic elements that they are going to teach

you, well, they have that in their eight dynamics and they're

8 dynamics are again, falsehood as well.

So what's the origin of Scientology?

Well, Scientology was founded by 1.

L Ron Hubbard. He was a science fiction writer

who had no biblical authority, obviously, or divine calling.

He was a science fiction writer who also had a very interesting

history. But I would also suggest that

his interesting history was nowhere as interesting as what

the Church of Scientology has presented.

And like all cult leaders, they have to be able to have a

biography that would cause people to want to follow this

person. L Ron Hubbard does not have the

type of life that people should follow his life.

However, they have carefully cultivated and crafted a

biography over the years to make this man that you see right

here, perhaps the most interesting man that ever lived.

And so we're going to look at why that is here in just a

moment. His teachings originate from

human philosophy. Rather than revealing God's

Word, Scripture warns against doctrines rooted in man's ideas.

As we read here in just a moment, everything that you find

in the Church of Scientology all comes from the mind of 1L Ron

Hubbard. Whether it is the writing of the

book Dianetics or whether it's the teachings that follow.

You will not find any thread of Scripture in that which he

teaches. It is all New Age teaching that

is really rooted, as I mentioned just a moment ago, in Old Age

Error. That's just repackaged purposed

by this gentleman right here. Now, I am going to show you a

little bit of a lengthy video here.

It's about 10 minutes. But I do believe it will help us

set the foundation of who L Ron Hubbard is.

And if, again, listen very carefully to his biography and

some of the things that are being said, because we're going

to find out here in just a few moments that pretty much

everything you're about to hear is false.

So let's go ahead and watch that and then we'll make some

comments. He was born Lafayette Ronald

Hubbard on March 13th, 1911 in Tilda, Nebraska.

He spent his formative years in a rough and tumble Helena, Mt

where he rode barely broken range Bronx at the age of 3 1/2.

As his mother was that rarity of her time.

A thoroughly educated woman, he was also reading well beyond his

years philosophy, science and the pillars of Western

literature, all in an effort to satisfy a rare and abiding

curiosity. As his father was a United

States Naval officer, he was further afforded to then rare

opportunity to travel, Criss crossing America's diverse

communities in the teens of the 20th century.

At the age of 12, he entered the Boy Scouts, first leading his

troop to victory in a regional Scout advancement competition,

then representing Scouting to United States President Calvin

Coolidge. But it was his 21 merit badges

that most distinguished L Ron Hubbard at this juncture of his

life. For just days beyond his 13th

birthday, he became the youngest Eagle Scout in American history.

It was another distinction entirely, however, that set him

on the first leg of his life's course, specifically when an

American naval officer who had studied under Sigmund Freud

introduced young L Ron Hubbard to the theories of

psychoanalysis. Although left with many

unanswered questions, here was the moment when his enduring

interest in unraveling the mysteries of the human mind was

born. His father's naval career

provided the next avenue of inquiry, in particular a Far

East assignment allowing the 16 year old L Ron Hubbard a chance

to visit Asia. It was land still steeped in

mystery and rarely seen by Westerners, yet pursuing very

fundamental questions on the origins of man and the ultimate

source of life. He trekked more than 1/4 of

1,000,000 miles through India, China, Japan and the Philippines

into many remote cultures and much arcane wisdom, including

Veda Kim's at the root of mankind's oldest beliefs.

It was also through these travels he gained entrance to

forbidden Buddhist llamaseries in China's western hills and

there witnessed wonders beyond any known scientific

explanation. Shortly after his return to the

United States in 1929, he entered George Washington

University as an engineering student.

It was a rigorous curriculum of scientific methodology, the very

tools he needed to examine human thinking with unerring accuracy.

Here, too, was one of America's earliest classes on nuclear

physics, through which he embarked on yet another

investigatory trail, this one to isolate a postulated life source

theoretically detectable in small energy particles.

Yet laboratory experimentation was by no means all that

occupied his university days. Beginning in June of 1932, he

organized the first of several expeditions to remote and

primitive lands, initially a 5000 mile voyage into the

Caribbean where he mingled with the people predating Columbus by

at least 10 centuries. Next came Puerto Rico, where he

not only conducted one of the islands first complete

mineralogical surveys, but also studied yet another ancient

culture deep within the hinterland.

Then, taking his thirst for adventure to the skies, he

became America's 385th licensed glider pilot.

Heralded by newspapers of the day as Flash hovered for his

aerial antics, while as a barnstorming sensation of

powered flight across rural America, he mixed with still

another slice of society. Then, leaving university in the

depths of the Great Depression, he began his career as a

professional author, turning his true to life exploits into high

action tales for magazines of the day, tales of adventure,

tales of intrigue, science fiction, fantasies, westerns,

and even the occasional romance. As an undisputed legend of

American Pulp Fiction, L Ron Hubbard wrote it all.

Indeed, with more than 300 novels and novelettes to his

credit, so prodigious was his output, he was eventually

authoring stories under 15 pen names and so filling whole

magazines with his work. He was also scripting matinee

blockbusters for Hollywood and otherwise leaving an indelible

stamp as an author whose career would span 50 years.

Then just as exploits fueled story ideas, so his stories

funded still more exploration until he was regularly Criss

crossing the country to live extreme adventures and mix with

people as far afield as Native American tribes along the

Alaskan Panhandle. In recognition of discoveries in

the field, he was further honored with a place in the

prestigious and invitation only Explorers Club and so went on to

captain expeditions beneath 3 club flags.

But the real point of such adventures was the fact he was

mixing with life to fathom life. The first decisive breakthrough

came in 1937 when he isolated the single common denominator

between all living things, a dynamic principle of existence.

It was recorded in a manuscript entitled Excalibur and presented

the basis for all future research into the mind and

source of life. But then came an interruption to

that research, the Second World War.

As he had since earned a rare master mariner's license to

captain any vessel in any ocean, he received numerous

recommendations for Commission as a naval officer.

In particular, he was described discreet, loyal, honest, and

without peer in the art of getting things done.

So it was. Lieutenant L Ron Hubbard

commanded warships in both the Atlantic and Pacific.

He was highly decorated for duties under fire and ended his

service in a military hospital where he was treated for wounds

suffered in combat. But that's also where he

embarked on his final Rd. of discovery, working with injured

servicemen who had failed to recover despite intensive

medical care. He began employing all he had

learned through the previous decades, spiritual principles

from the East as well as scientific methodologies from

the West. What he then discovered were

mental factors inhibiting recovery and preventing

medicines from taking effect. And when in fact those mental

blocks were addressed, the medicine began to work and

patients swiftly returned to health.

He then continued refining procedures on people from all

walks of life, actors and writers in Hollywood's film

community, St. gang members whom he treated as a special officer

with the LAPD, even deeply troubled patients at a Georgia

institution. And so it was.

Having developed a workable technology of the mind, he

authored A definitive text on the subject, a work detailing

all underlying theory, discoveries and techniques.

That book was Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health.

Published on May 9th, 1950. It sparked a storm of popular

enthusiasm and immediately hit the New York Times bestseller

list for 26 consecutive weeks. As such, it was the biggest

selling book on the mind ever written and remains so today.

Contained within was the discovery of the reactive mind,

the hidden source of nightmares, unreasonable fears, upsets, and

insecurity. Yet L Ron Hubbard never

considered Dianetics an end to his research, but rather a

stepping stone to the discovery and isolation of that long,

elusive life source. And indeed, the techniques of

Dianetics provided the means by which practitioners soon began

discovering past lives, pressing application and research.

Even further came the accomplishment of what is known

as exteriorization. Demonstrating the spirit was

indeed separable from the body and mind, The Scientology

religion was born. Thereafter, L Ron Hubbard delved

ever deeper into the spiritual nature of man, documenting his

discoveries in thousands of recorded lectures, articles and

books. While to present those

discoveries, he literally circumnavigated the globe.

And so churches of Scientology opened on 4 continents,

headquartered at his long term residence in Southern England.

Through ensuing years, L Ron Hubbard continued advancing the

subject until his passing in 1986.

His legacy comprises 10s of millions of published words and

3000 recorded lectures, while with over 250 million copies of

his books and lectures in circulation, he has inspired a

movement spanning all continents and all cultures.

So to those who would ask what kind of man could have founded

the only major religion of the 20th century, the answer is

simple enough. A man who lived life from the

top down and the bottom up. A man who would see much wisdom

and great suffering. A man who spent a quarter of a

century bridging the gap between East and West, science and

religion. A man such as L Ron Hubbard.

All right, that video was sponsored by Oscar Mayer.

Because there's a lot of baloney there, all right?

There's no other way to be able to put that.

The main foundation of that was to understand life.

You have to live life. And that's why L Ron Hubbard's

biography has to be so incredibly effusive as far as

how much praise is given to him. But yet, let me just give you a

short list of some of the false claims that were made in that

video. And I do mean that this is a

short list. The video falsely claims L Ron

Hubbard was the youngest Eagle Scout in American history by

joining at age 12 and then becoming the youngest at age 13

with 21 merit badges when younger boys had already earned.

It. Asserts he was a naval officer

who studied under Freud who introduced him to psychoanalysis

when no such officer or contact is documented.

Exaggerates that he traveled 25250 thousand miles across Asia

studying ancient cultures when his teenage trips were only

brief port stops covering a tiny fraction of that distance.

Presents his 1932 Puerto Rican trip as a major expedition to

study ancient cultures when it was actually a short failed

amateur mineral hunt. States that he wrote over 300

novels and novelettes when his published Pulp Fiction totals

only about 140 or 150 works. Asserts he commanded warships in

the Atlantic and Pacific during World War 2 when he only briefly

led to small non combat support vessels and was relieved of both

commands. Portrays him as a heroic combat

veteran with significant wartime action when he had no combat

service, no wounds, and only standard non combat metals.

Said he discovered during World War 2 that mental factors block

physical healing when no wartime records support.

This implies he held a rare near unlimited Master Mariner license

for any vessel on any ocean when his actual 1940 Masters license

was standard commercial credentials with normal

restrictions. States Dianetics.

Auditing naturally led to past life discoveries that birth

scientification when past lives were not even formally part of

Scientology until 1952 to 1954. And that's the short list of the

problems of what is here. The fundamental disconnect is

that to know life and to live life is not to know life.

To know God is to know life. That is what truly understanding

life is all about. And how do we know God?

Well, we know God from His Word, what He has revealed to us in

the 66 books that we have here in the Bible now in 1950, L Ron

Hubbard. Did write the book Dianetics

claiming to explain the true cause of all human problems.

Now I found it interesting as I was looking at some of the

images and putting these slides together.

Why do most of the books really from I believe the 1970s or so

and on have this volcano at the front of Dianetics?

And the reason why is because this is the belief of L Ron

Hubbard that very, very far back in Earths history, there was an

alien named Xenu who brought his people to the Earth to be able

to have them to die and then put H bombs inside all the volcanoes

of the Earth and had them explode to be able to kill his

own people. And that is why there's a

volcano on the front. Now look it up if you don't

believe me, because I'll be honest with you.

It's even coming out of my mouth.

And it sounds as crazy as the planet Kolob with the Mormons.

But it's again this fanciful science fiction writer who has

brought these ideas from his mind.

It is trying to portray them into the culture of Scientology.

He claims that that the true 'cause of all human problems can

be found in this book, Dianetics.

Dianetics teaches that man's issue is mental damage rather

than spiritual sin. Now Scripture identifies the

heart as the real problem, doesn't it?

Jeremiah 17/9. The heart is deep, deceitful

above all things, and desperately wicked.

Who can know it? You don't just find the deep

problems of the heart and then root them out yourself.

The problem is sin, and only Jesus Christ can save us.

And so that's very clear that this is not according to the

word of God. That's just one facet of it that

is different from the word of God.

When Dianetics failed in 1950 as both science and medicine, and

it was on the New York Times bestseller list for some period

of time, but immediately fell out of favor as a self help book

because many of the common authorities of the time said

this is bunk. There is nothing here

whatsoever. And then because of legal issues

as well that he was having from his self help book, it was

easier for him to turn Dianetics into a religion, which came the

Church of Scientology. Because with that religious

exemption placed upon him, there were legal protections that he

had as a nonprofit, including being able to amass large

amounts of funds and not having to pay any taxes on them.

And so Scientology was never what L Ron Hubbard was trying to

found, but he founded it because of the difficulties he was

having with Dianetics in those early years.

Scientology has been marketed since to Hollywood.

Of course, L Ron Hubbard was, I would say, a Barnacle on the

whole of Hollywood. He certainly was not a major

part of Hollywood, but he was part of the Hollywood culture

and seen enough that he realized very quickly that the best way

to be able to have Scientology to grow is to be able to market

to Hollywood elites. Why?

Because those are the cultural tastemakers, if you will.

They are the ones that are out there.

They are the Tom Cruise's. And by the way, when you look at

Tom Cruise's life and some of the extraordinary feats that he

does do, I have to wonder if he's trying to emulate the life

of 1L Ron Hubbard, which, ironically enough, is not

grounded in reality. But to be able to do these

incredible stunts, to be able to pilot aircraft that civilians

shouldn't even be able to pilot, But he has the ability to.

And he does these things, and he credits Scientology for it.

But it does seem like he's trying to scratch an itch that

maybe was placed there by looking at the biography of 1L

Ron Hubbard of many Scientologists come from

Hollywood. And the reason why is now there

is such an undercurrent of Scientologists in Hollywood.

There are many struggling actors, there are many

struggling musicians who find that by going into the Church of

Scientology, they have a support group that can help them,

producers, directors and otherwise can get them into TV

shows, into movies, recording contracts.

And it's almost as if it's the Rotary Club club.

It's almost as if it's the Lions Club for Hollywood for you to

enter in. Maybe just think that there's

really nothing to it. There's just a group of people

that want to do some nice things, some good things.

They're all part of Hollywood. But not realizing how absolutely

sinister the Church of Scientology is now.

Its current leader is 1. David Miscavige.

As soon as L Ron Hubbard passed away in 1986.

Miscavige, who was 25 years old at the time, took the reins of

power through some very Machiavellian type ways to be

able to take control from others who would have been next in

line, but instead has taken over and has been the leader ever

since. He has substantially increased

their financial holdings. Estimates rage that they make

anywhere from some on the low end 150 to $200 million a year

on the high end up to 1/2 a million or rather half a billion

dollars a year comes in. And from what I have seen

personally, I would say would probably be more on the higher

end and that's just calling their liquid assets, not

counting the substantial holdings that they have in real

estate as well in California and Clearwater, FL.

And also my familiarity with Scientology goes back to living

in Tampa as long as I did and seeing Scientology basically

take over downtown Clearwater, FL.

And when that process was taking place in the early 2000s, I

remember in the newspaper, yes, I subscribed to the newspaper

back in the early 2000s in the Saint Pete Times.

They did a great number of exposes on the Church of

Scientology and the Church of Scientology and David Miscavage

is really part of this is very much attached to their image.

They very much do not want the truth of what Scientology is to

come out. And if you were to remove

yourself or to be able to come out of within the Church of

Scientology, particularly if you're in some of those most

inner part groups like the C org, that would be one of them.

Those people will come after you.

They'll come after your family, they'll come after your assets.

They'll come after you in court. They are very vindictive in many

ways when you consider what I would call organized crime.

There are a lot of similarities in the name of religion with the

Church of Scientology with that man in his leader.

He's a very mysterious man. He's only given one interview

since 1986. That interview was on Nightline

in the 90s with one Ted Koppel. Now interestingly enough, he

handled himself so poorly in that interview that he has never

given another interview since. You cannot find this man

speaking other than today on the Church of Scientology YouTube

page or website. That's the only place that you

can hear him now. Interestingly enough, because

it's a cult, he has been set up as a deity.

He has been set up as much as L Ron Hubbard and I would even

argue even more. Doing an inspection of their

YouTube page this week and finding some of the videos that

I was looking for. I found that, well, if you were

to look at the Church of Scientology, this is their

actual YouTube channel. Out of these 12 videos that are

there, you have 123-4567 videos. What are they?

This guy is awesome. This guy is great.

What does it say? He inspires respect.

He sets the example. He feels like a friend.

He welcome to me, says Alice. Inspires real admiration, has

our full support, leads with unwavering purpose.

What you see here is the very actions of a cult lifting up its

leader more than the teachings itself.

And by the way, the teachings itself are pretty bad.

Now, Miscavige also has another issue.

Well, he has many issues, but one would be his wife, Shelly

Miscavige. She has disappeared since 2007.

The Queen Mother, if you will, of Scientology, she disappeared,

quote UN quote, and has never been seen since.

Leah Remini, when she left Scientology, actually put out a

missing persons report for, excuse me, Shelly Miskevich.

She reported it to the Los Angeles Police Department and

within hours the case was closed.

Now, I'm not saying that I know exactly what happened here.

But when you look at the mystery of what takes place, when you

look at the abuses of what takes place, including in a location

that is called the hole, where people in are taken to Los

Angeles if they do not obey the Church of Scientology.

Where you're living in a place that what I have read by all

accounts is worse than prison and run by the Church of

Scientology surrounded by razor wire to make sure people don't

get in and to make sure that people don't get out.

There's a lot here to be said for the Church of Scientology.

Now we're going to look at some of the unique terms that you

find in Scientology. And as a former science fiction

writer, L Ron Hubbard's teachings resemble what he wrote

for a living. Fiction.

What you are hearing is something that you might hear in

Star Wars or Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica, maybe

because this is coming from the mind of one who wrote that type

of fiction for several years. Dianetics teaches that there is

both an analytical mind and you might have heard it and saw it

on that video we saw a few moments ago, but there's also a

reactive mind as well. The analytical mind is what

you're using right now according to Scientology.

You're thinking about what I'm saying.

You're thinking about what's for lunch.

You're thinking about when is it ever going to warm up.

These are the things that you're thinking about right now in your

analytical mind. But the reactive mind is

different. The reactive mind allegedly

stores all painful memories that control behavior.

That can be memories from this life, that can be memories from

a past life, from any of your past lives.

And so you can see the rabbit hole that you can immediately go

down when you are suffering from difficulties, when you're

suffering from issues and you go to the Church of Scientology and

they say you are something in your reactive mind.

And it could be in this life. It could have happened in the

womb. Yes, I said that, right?

It could have been prenatal or it could have happened in a

previous life. And only we can help you.

And guess what? It's going to cost a lot of

money. So how do they help treat these

types of issues? Well, they start with N grams.

And N grams are those traumatic mental recordings that are

stored in the reactive mind. Scientology claims these cause

sickness, fear and immorality. Interestingly enough, you might

have remembered a well. Tom Cruise had several very

famous interviews, one jumping on the couch with Oprah, but

another one on the Today show many years ago where he was

talking about drugs and talking about particularly drugs that

would help with mental conditions and things like that.

And it made very clear that those were not to be taken under

any way, shape or form. Why was he saying that?

He was saying that because he was getting to the point that

really any type of mental issue, yes, any type of mental issue

that someone is dealing with is because of the engrams that they

have stored within them. Again, from this life, from

prenatal life, from a previous life.

This is what they teach and they need to have those end grams be

able to have rise to the surface so that you can eventually go

quote UN quote clear and you can be free of all of those types of

things. But scripture teaches evil

proceeds from where the heart mark 721 through 23 from within

out of the heart of men predicts precede evil thoughts,

adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness,

wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness and evil eye,

blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from

within and defile the man. Scientology teaches at engrams

can be formed again before birth or even while unconscious, and

this removes moral responsibility for the Sinner.

You're not the fault for your own sin.

It was someone else who in a different body, but with your

soul, your theaton soul that was able to do those things and now

you are paying the price. But yet we understand scripture

teaches what personal accountability.

Each of us are accountable for our own actions.

And I just mentioned that word theaton, but that is also

another word that is used theaton your theaton mind or

your theaton life. It's really what your essence is

called. It can be used in many different

ways, but scripture clearly denies reincarnation and teaches

that there is one life and after this what the judgment is

appointed on demand wants to die, but after this the judgment

and grams replace sin as the root of the problem.

So without sin there is nothing to be saved from.

There really is no problems. You have these N grams from your

your feet and spirit and your essence and they have to be

brought out. Now how are these N grams

uncovered? How do Scientologists learn

about their your most self? Well, they get together in what

they would call a form of worship, if you will.

And So what happens when Scientologists come together?

What are some of the things that they do?

We're going to watch video #2 and this is probably the last

video that we're going to show this morning, gentlemen.

We'll go into next week. But why don't we go ahead and

show the second video we can see?

What do those Scientologists do when they gather together?

I could understand how you'd be curious.

I mean, you walk in, you go, what is it?

What is this place? Walking to a Church of

Scientology is very much a new kind of experience.

It's not like a, a church that I was used to walking into.

You know, it's very modern looking, you know, very, very

clean. You know, it was a very friendly

atmosphere. People come in every day, all

the time, just walking in, hey, what is this?

What is this place? I'd like to know.

One of the things that you definitely see is a lot of

displays. We have panels, there's video

displays that are just designed just to answer questions.

It answers every question that they could possibly have about

what is Scientology. They can just literally push the

button, watch that 2 minute display and know exactly what

that concept is. You know, you can come spend 10

minutes, spend 2 hours, grab a coffee, just kind of come as you

are, check it out, walk. Through Scientologists have a

church because it's a a place where we can go to study, to

have Sunday service. We do the same types of things.

We have our Sunday services. We do marriages of naming

ceremonies. We have all kinds of services

that we do as a group, but one thing that's particular about

Scientology is that there's also a personal aspect to it.

You can kind of choose like OK what do I need help with in my

life? The first thing probably most

everyone does is a course. That's actually the theology in

Scientology. That's where you're learning

about the actual philosophy itself, and it is a religious

philosophy, but it's also an applied religious philosophy.

See, go apply it Kind of like a spiritual college.

I have tons of courses on pretty much any subject you really

think of. There are courses on how to

communicate better, how to get along with others, how to handle

negative people, how to raise children.

It's not just a philosophy where you sit and think about it.

It's taking the spiritual nature of man and it's combining it

with something that's really practical.

It has a way of being very, very simple and easy to come across

to the reader and easy to apply, but also extremely powerful.

You come in, you pick and share, you like, you sit down, you

study there. It's really quite simple.

You feel good when you're studying there.

You don't need to be a Scientologist and you can be any

religion really to come check it out.

The whole point is you're yourself in a Church of

Scientology. You're the one doing the

learning. Nobody's preaching to you or

teaching it to you. You're learning it yourself.

Well, here at the church we deliver courses, we deliver

personal counseling called auditing, and we deliver the

purification rundown. The Purification Rundown

actually opens the way to spiritual progress.

It's an all natural regimen which frees one from the harmful

effects of drugs and toxins. Old drugs that you took,

pesticide. You sweat all those things out

of your system and you feel so much more alive, revitalizing.

The simplicity. And the.

Power of it is immeasurable. There's also something called

auditing, which is Scientology counseling, and that is

extremely unique. That is where you actually get

rid of the unwanted emotions and unwanted habits, psychosomatic

illnesses. There's no hypnosis involved in

it. There's no analyzation, no.

One tells you what's wrong with you.

It finds the roots. It finds the cause, what's going

on, and it handles that spiritually for you.

You are giving back yourself. You start to recognize really

who you are, and that's really spiritual enlightenment.

What they use in auditing is an instrument called an E meter,

which really helps a person to locate areas of pain and trauma

that you may not be totally aware of.

Anybody can walk into a Church of Scientology and just write

off reception, get a demonstration of the E meter for

themselves. I mean, literally the person can

walk up and see for themselves how that actually works.

Tools and Scientology are used for you to help you with the

areas of your life that you're having trouble with.

It's a personal experience for an individual and.

It's not lumping everyone into the same ball of wax because we

all know it. We're all different.

Any person that walks in my course room is a totally new

person with their own story, with their own life.

And as you take that journey, you become more and more you.

You become more and more an individual.

After all, that's what we have to offer.

The world is our own unique view.

There's searches in Paris, in London, in New York.

Moscow, Germany. All over Europe, in Madrid, in

Africa. The best way to find out about

something. Is really to?

Look for yourself. It's as simple as opening the

door. You're always welcome.

We'll admit having a sauna in the church on a day like today

would be something that would be nice.

But you can see that everything in the video deals with you.

What do you want? What are you going to become?

You can become a better form of you.

This is what it is really. You are a good person.

You really have no type of sinful habits that need to be.

You need to be safe from no, no. What is the real issue?

The real issue is you need to find the better you.

And we find that in that video, there were several things that

were mentioned, as we saw from the first video, now kind of

distilled in the second video as we see these things being put

into practice that I want to show you quickly.

The 1st is auditing the idea of being audited.

What is that? Well, it's a counseling process

meant to erase those harmful engrams.

Freedom is promised through repeated sessions rather than

forgiveness, because that's what we do need, isn't it?

Forgiveness. Scripture teaches cleansing

comes through the blood of Jesus Christ first.

John 17 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we

have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus

Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sins.

So how is the auditor able to be able to tell what the end grams

are and how they can be removed? Well, it's through the use of

what you saw a few moments ago as well.

Oh, by the way, this is an auditing session right here.

We saw that on the video, but it's really through the use of

the E meter. The E meter measures skin

response during auditing. Scientology claims it reveals

spiritual and mental problems as you hold what sometimes are

colloquially called the cans. You saw those two things that

they're holding. It measures electrical response,

and as you talk during the auditing session, as that meter

goes up and down, it's supposed to show some areas where there

are harmful engrams that need to be removed.

And we can take a picture or look at an E meter right here.

Now, scientifically, medically, whatever way you want to look at

this, this has been uncovered as really nothing more than bunk.

There is nothing that can be found here that would be helpful

in any way, shape or form. There's no scientific basis for

this. Literally they have to take by

faith that this is actually helping them.

And it's another reminder that this is a faith-based system.

There is nothing here that can be looked at as anything that is

grounded on science. Well, and we look at ourselves,

we believe by faith, but it's also reasonable that we believe

by faith as well because we look around us and we see what God

has done and what God has created and the heavens declare

the glory of God in the firmament show of this

handiwork. That's not really a a leap for

us to be able to realize that faith is what we need to have.

This is unreasonable faith. It's putting your faith in

something that cannot help you in any way, shape or form.

The E meter replaces conviction by the Holy Spirit mechanical

reading substitute for divine truth.

And as you are using the E meter for months and years, it is

hoped that eventually you will go clear.

Going clear is the process of using auditing to completely

eliminate the reactive mind once and for all.

That's the idea is that the reactive mind and all the end

grams that it contains will eventually be taken away

completely and you have finally gone clear.

Now the first clear quote, UN quote was in 1950, Ron Hubbard

presented a student named Sonia Bakani as the world's first

clear during a presentation in Los Angeles.

Again, this was before it became an actual religion.

Interestingly enough, the first real clear was in 1966 because

years later Hubbard officially designated of South African man

named John McMaster as the first true clear under the religion's

evolve criteria. So even his criteria of what it

meant to be clear changed over time, which meant more sessions,

which meant what? More money.

But interestingly enough, he went clear in 1966, but John

McMaster left the organization three years later.

And so think of he's a man that finally made it to the pinnacle.

And three years later he goes, I'm out.

I can't do this anymore. It tells you of the absolute

egregious nature of this both religion and a cult named

Scientology. Well, it is true that I will not

be able to make it through all that I want us to look at here

this week. And so we'll continue our look

at Scientology and finish our look at Scientology by God's

grace next week. I would encourage you if you

want to look at some reading this week if there's something

that would interest you. There is a book called Going

Clear. I read it last year.

That was an expose is an expose on the Church of Scientology is

written by a gentleman named Lawrence Wright.

I would highly recommend it. Leah Remini has several

documentaries. I cannot necessarily recommend

them on the basis of the language that's contained within

them, but understand that as a documentary and as a teaching,

it does give some understanding of what she came through from.

And then also a man named Mike Rinder, who is also very high in

the sea organization, how he came out and is trying to expose

those things. And literally, if you go online

and just type in Tampa Bay Times and then Scientology, you'll

find about 20 years of articles that the Tampa Bay Times used to

be called the Saint Pete Times have written in about

Scientology again, because of of its secondary home base in

Clearwater, FL. And I can tell you, you can go

down the rabbit hole and find some very enlightening articles

there as well. Thank you for listening to the

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