<p style="font-size:24pt;"><h3 style="color:#ff0000">1. SCIENTOLOGY</p></h3>

History:

Scientology is a all about body beliefs. According to L.Ron Hubbard, who was the founder of Scientology, the main denominator of existence is survival.He stated,

...that life, is trying to survive. And is composed of two things: the material universe and an X-factor. And this x-factor is something that can evidently organize, and mobilize the material universe.

Hubbard grew up in Nebraska but he spent most of his time traveling in Asia. During his time in Guam, he was studying the research of Sigmund Freud and began to develop an interest to the human mind. After his observation of the effects on man's mind during World War II, he was determined to look for the answers to the human mind. At first, he made a theory that mental blocks can prevent medical treatments from being effective. Then later, he found out that this theory works on many patients including him. In addition, he made different kinds of procedures working on mind and finally published books that are now used as sacred texts by the members of Scientology.

Books/Articles:

1. Dianetics
2. Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
3. What is Scientology?
4. Self-Analysis
5. The Emotional Ione Scale
6. Introduction to Scientology Ethics
7. The Technology of Study
8. Scientology 0-8
9. Basic Scientology Picture Book

Beliefs

• There are three important parts of human:
  1.Body - which organized physical composition or substance of a man
  2. Mind - consists essentially of pictures
  3. Thetan - the soul, creator of things
  
• They believe that the spiritual beings need a type of counseling called "auditing".Auditing is a form of psychoanalysis in which individuals retrieve their traumatic events. It is then accomplished through helping individuals rid themselves of any spiritual disabilities and increasing spiritual abilities. Auditing uses processes that are sets of questions asked or directions given by the auditor to help a person locate areas of spiritual distress, and gives advice on how to fix it. According to the Church of Scientology

  auditing can bring anyone from a condition of spiritual blindness to the brilliant joy of knowing.

• It is not official that they believe in after life. But during the auditing, the auditor may tell the person the idea of being born again into another body.

Scientology Today:

Although Scientology is not considered as a true cult compared to others, it still has a big influence around the world. Recent members from Scientology tell stories of mind control, devastation, and criminal activity leading to the deaths of those trying to escape the religion. As of today, the Church of Scientology still continues to recruit people and expand their wealth.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
www.scientology.org