Study Technology, or Study Tech, is a met hodology for learning developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard's "Study Technology" is used by Church of Scientology members as part of their training, and is al so promoted outside the church by a church-affiliated corporation known as Applied Scholastics, which presents Study Tech as a univers ally applicable method to enhance the comprehension of any student, studyin g any topic.
It was publicly stated by Hubbard that Study Tech is dir
ectly affiliated with Scientology. He wrote in a policy letter that "Study
Tech is our primary bridge to Society."[1] All Study Tech books include a two-page biogr
aphy of Hubbard which does not mention his role in creating Scientology.
The Sea Organization or Sea Org is an associa tion of Scientologists established in 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer and founder of Scientology. Its mem bers are found in the central management organizations of the Church of Scientology as well as in individual churches. Initially c reated at sea, maritime customs and traditions persist today even in the la nd-based branches of the organization.
Despite the name, the Sea Orga nization itself is not an actual incorporated entity, but rather what the C hurch refers to as a fraternal religious order. Sea Org members do not actu ally work for the Sea Org, but for the specific Church of Scientology where they are employed and receive their weekly allowance.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Clear Day (September 4th, 2013 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Clear-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130904 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Clear-Day-00002013 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Clear in Dianetics and Scientology is one of two levels a practitioner can achieve on the way to personal salvation. A state of Cle ar is reached when a person becomes free of the influence of engr ams, unwanted emotions or painful traumas not readily available to the conscious mind. Scientologists believe that human beings accumulate anxieti es, psychosomatic illnesses, and aberration due to receiving engrams throug hout their lives. By applying dianetics, every single person can reach Clea r.[1< span>]
A person is said to be a Clear when he "no lo nger has his own reactive mind and therefore suffers none of the ill ef fects that the reactive mind can cause." A Clear is said to be "at cause ov er" (in control of) their "mental energy" (their thoughts), and able to thi nk clearly even when faced with the very situation that in earlier times ca used them difficulty. The next level of spiritual development is that of an Operating Thetan. A person who has not reached a state of Clear is called a "pre-clear."[2< span>]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Auditor’s Day (September 8th, 2013 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Auditors-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130908 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Auditors-Day-00002013 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Auditing was developed by L. Ron Hubbard, and is described by the Church of Scientology as "spiritual counseling which is the central practice of Dianetics and Scientology".
Auditing in the context of Dianetics or Scientology is an activity where a
person trained in auditing listens and gives auditing commands to a subject
, which is referred to as a "preclear".[citation needed
] All communications during auditing sessions are kept confid
ential between the auditor, the case supervisor and the pre-clear[citation needed].
The International Association of Scientologists (IAS ) is an Engl ish non-profit organization, which was formed in October 1984 by a grou p of Scientologists, who assembled at Saint H ill Manor in East Grinstead, Sussex, Engl and. The stated purpose of the IAS is "To unite, advance, support and p rotect the Scientology religion and Scientologists in all parts of the worl d, so as to achieve the aims of Scientology as originated by L. Ron Hubba rd."
The IAS followed the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International as the official membership organization of the Church of Scientology. It does not accept Fre e Zone Scientologists.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Flag Land Base Day (December 7th, 2013 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Flag-Land-Base-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131207 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Flag-Land-Base-Day-00002013 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Fort Harrison Hotel (June 2008)
The Fort Harrison Hotel serves as the flagship building of the Flag Land Base, the Church of Scientology's spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, Florida. It is owned and operated by the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc., a Florida corporation.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Christmas (December 25th, 2013 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Christmas DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131225 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Christmas-00002013 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Cr
9;stesmæsse, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemora
tion of the birth of Jesus Christ,[5][6
] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3][4] a
s a religious and cultural holiday by billions of peopl
e around the world. A feast central to the
Ch
ristian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.[7]<
/a> Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9][10] is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians,[1][11][12] and is an integral part
of the Christmas and holiday season.
The precise year of Jesus' birth, which some histo
rians place between 7 and 2 BC, is unknown.[13]
The Church of Scientology is an organization devoted
to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. The Church of Scientology International is the Church of Sciento
logy's parent organization, and is responsible for the overall management,
dissemination and propagation of Scientology.[2][3][4] Every Church of Scientolog
y is separately incorporated and has its own local board of directors and e
xecutives responsible for its own activities and corporate well-being.[5][6]
The first Scientology church was incorporated in December 1953 in Camden, New Jersey by[8][9]< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard" title="L. Ron Hubbard" >L. Ron Hubbard, his wife Mary Sue Hubbard, and John Galusha, although the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International (HAS I) had already been operating since 1952[10][11] and Hubbard had been selling Scientology books and other items. Soon after, he explained the religious nature of Scientology in a bulletin to all Scientologists,[12] stressing it s relation to the Dharma. The first Church of Scientology opened in 1954 in Los Angel es.[13]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:New Years Day (January 1st, 2014 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/New-Years-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140101 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-New-Years-Day-00002014 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first d ay of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as th e Julian calendar used in ancient Rome. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year's Day is the close st thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated wi th firew orks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the J ulian calendar currently corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian c alendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day is a postal holiday in the United States.[1]
The Romans dedicated this day to Jan us, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. After Julius Caesar reform ed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate vo ted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC < span>[2] in honor of his life and his institu tion of the new rationalized calendar.[3] The month originally owes its name to th e deity Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan traditions. Some have suggested this occurred in 153 BC, when it was stipulated that the two annual consuls (after whose names the years were identified) entered into off ice on that day, though no consensus exists on the matter.[4] Dates in March, coin ciding with the spring equinox, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns runni ng from January to December.[citation needed]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Criminon Day (January 25th, 2014 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Criminon-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140125 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Criminon-Day-00002014 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Criminon is a program for re
habilitating prisoners using L. Ron Hubbard's teachings. Criminon Internati
onal, a non-profit, public-benefit corporation managing t
he Criminon program, was spawned from Narconon International in 2000, and is part of Association for Better Living and Educ
ation's public outreach programs.[
1] Criminon is promoted by the Church of Scientology International. Independent
experts contend that methods used by the program are not supported by any
scientific studies.
"Second C
hance", another prison-based rehabilitation program for prisoners, is close
ly related to Criminon, from which it licenses the techniques and materials
used in its program.
[2][3]
Narconon is a residential program aimed at subst ance abusers, headquartered in Ho llywood, Los Angeles, California.< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narconon#cite_note-0">[1< span>] It operates through several dozen treatment centers worldwide, chiefly in the United States and Western Europe. Each Nar conon center is independently owned and operated under a license from ABLE International, a Scientology-related entity.[2] The program has garnered co nsiderable controversy as a result of its association with Scientology and its drug-addiction-treatment methods.
The hypothesis underlying the p rogram is that drugs and their metabolites are stored in the body's fatty t issues, causing the addict's cravings when partially released later on, and can be flushed out through a regimen comprising elements such as exercise, sauna and intake of high doses of vitamins. [3] This hypothesis does not enjoy main stream acceptance, and mainstream researchers and practitioners tend to dis count Narconon due to its connection with Scientology.[4][3]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Celebrity Day (February 22nd, 2014 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Celebrity-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140222 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Celebrity-Day-00002014 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Celebrity Centres are Church of Scie ntology facilities 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", as "those a re the people who are sculpting the present into the future". The Celebrity Centre International was established in Hollywood, California, in 1969 by Yvonne Gillham, a Sea Org member who worked with L. Ron Hubbard. Since then, other centres have been established in New York, London, Paris and a number of other cities across the world. [1]
The Church often quotes L. Ron Hubbard as saying that A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dre ams are dreamed by artists, citing this as the reason that Celebrity Ce ntres were established — to create a good environment for "artists". Critics of Scientology point to Hubbard's launch of "Project Celebrity" in 1955 to recruit celebrities into the church, and that the centres were esta blished as an extension of this initial purpose.[2][3] The church denies the existence of policy to actively recruit high-ranking celebrities.[4][5]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:CCHR Day (March 5th, 2014 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/CCHR-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140305 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-CCHR-Day-00002014 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR
) is an advocacy group established in 1969 by the Church of
Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.[1][2][3] The group promotes several video
campaigns which support views against psychiatry. The organization holds that
mental illness is not a medical disease, and tha
t the use of psychiatric medication is a destructive
and fraudulent practice.[4] The CCHR continues to be entirely controlled by and
subject to policy directives issued from the Church of Scientology. The gro
up is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.[5]
CCHR's views on psychiatry are a reflec tion of the position held by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, whose writings express very strong opinions against psychiatry.[6][7] CCHR advocates th at there is no biological evidence to support psychiatric theories of menta l disorders.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday (March 13th, 2014 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/L-Ron-Hubbard-Birthday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140313 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-L-Ron-Hubbard-Birthday-00002014 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 &ndash ; January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard (and often refer red to by his initials, LRH), was an American pulp fiction author and religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology. After establishing a career as a writer, becom ing best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-hel p system called Dianetics which was first published in May 1950. He subsequ ently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals as part of a new religious movement that he called Scient ology. His writings became the guiding texts for the Church of Scientol ogy and a number of affiliated organizations that address such diverse topi cs as business administration, literacy and drug rehabilitation .
Although many aspects of Hubbard's life story are disputed, the re is general agreement about its basic outline.[2] Born in Tilden, Nebraska, he spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana . He traveled in Asia and the South Pacific in the late 1920s after his father, an officer in the United States Navy, was posted to the U.S. naval base on Guam. He attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. at the start of the 1930s befo re beginning a career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories. He serv ed briefly in the Marine Reserves and later in the U.S. Navy during World War II, briefly holding command of 2 different vessels, the USS YP-422 and USS PC-815. He was removed from his position both times when sup eriors found him unsuitable for command.[3] He ended the war hospitalized for an acute duodenal u lcer.[3]. Later he developed Dianetics, "the modern science of mental health". He founded Scientology in 1952 and o versaw the growth of the Church of Scientology into a worldwide organizatio n. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he spent much of his time at sea aboard his personal fleet of ships as Commodore of the Sea Organization, an elite inner group of Scientologists. However , his expedition came to an early close. Britain, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Venezuela all closed their ports to his fleet. At one point, a court in Australia revoked the church's status as a religion. Similarly, a high cou rt in France convicted Hubbard of fraud in absentia. He returned to the United States in 1975 and subsequently went into seclusion in the Calif ornia desert. In 1983 L. Ron Hubbard was named as an unindicted co-conspira tor in an international information infiltration and theft project called " Operation Snow White". He spent the remaining years of hi s life secluded to a ranch near Creston, California, where he died in January 1986.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Dianetics publication anniversary (May 9th, 2014 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Dianetics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140509 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Dianetics-00002014 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Dianetics is a set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body that was invented b y L. Ron Hubbard and is practiced by followers of Scientology. Hubbar d coined Dianetics from the Greek stems dia, meaning th rough, and nous, meaning mind.
Dianetics explores the existence of a mind wi
th three parts: the conscious "analytical mind," the subconscious "reactive
mind", and the somatic mind.[1] The goal of Dianetics is to remove the "reactive min
d", which Scientologists believe prevents people from becoming more ethical
, more aware, happier and saner. The Dianetics procedure to achieve this is
called "auditing".[2] Auditing is a process whereby a series of questions are asked by t
he Scientology auditor, in an attempt to rid the auditee of the painful exp
eriences of the past which scientologists believe to be the cause of the "r
eactive mind".
According to the Church of Scientology, "Ethics may be defined as the actions an individual takes on himsel f to ensure his continued survival across the dynamics. It is a personal thing. When one is ethic al, it is something he does himself by his own choice." [1]
According to founder L. Ron Hubbard 's teachings, Scientology ethics is predicated on the idea that there are d egrees of ethical conduct. [2]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20130618T233136Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Maiden Voyage Anniversary (June 6th, 2014 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Maiden-Voyage-Anniversary DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140606 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Maiden-Voyage-Anniversary-00002014 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:There are many holidays, commemorations and observances in the Church of Scientology, including:
This is a m ajor holiday for Scientology's many Celebrity Cen tres, highlighting their achievements and celebrating their existence. The date is specifically the anniversary of the opening of the Celebrity Ce ntre International in Los Angeles in 1970, which, in the Church's words, is "dedicated to the rehabilitation of the culture through art".
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