10-14-2010, 12:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-14-2010, 12:21 AM by Questioner.)
May I suggest that for the "outside channeling" forum, we only discuss sources that explicitly claim to be channeled. As far as I know, L. Ron Hubbard never claimed that his religious tenets came from channeling. I don't know of any claim from him that he experienced an altered state of consciousness, in which a personality conversed with him or downloaded information to his awareness as the foundation of his teachings.
Lavazza, I believe that Scientology is a very dangerous and destructive cult.
I believe that sprinkled throughout L. Ron Hubbard's material are a few unique and helpful insights. I believe he also included a few commonplace helpful ideas, expressed with useful, fresh, memorable turns of phrase. I also believe that there are many sincere, kind hearted people involved with Scientology who would like to help their fellow man, and sometimes do so in generous nonprofit ways.
I believe that both the insights and the charitable work would be better served if they were entirely removed from any association with Hubbard.
It's not clear to me how much of Hubbard's material came from his own imagination, that he knew to be false; how much came from his own imagination, that he bamboozled even himself into thinking was the truth; and how much was from evil spiritual forces or negative people who influenced him.
I believe that any student of the Law of One, seeking to polarize on a positive path, will be well served by staying as far away as possible from anything having to do with Scientology. I believe that a study of Scientology's tenets and practices, its history, Hubbard's life and times, the opposition to Scientology and the church's responses to its opponents, will only increasingly serve to warn off open-hearted spiritual seekers from this highly manipulative service-to-self based, negatively hierarchical organization.
I'm at a loss as to how any unique core tenets of Scientology could be considered compatible with the Law of One teachings from Ra and Q'uo. (As with any cult, I believe it's important to clarify what is unique to the cult's teaching, and what is simply plagiarized, misappropriated, and distorted from other sources.)
I'm willing to discuss all of this further.
Lavazza, I believe that Scientology is a very dangerous and destructive cult.
I believe that sprinkled throughout L. Ron Hubbard's material are a few unique and helpful insights. I believe he also included a few commonplace helpful ideas, expressed with useful, fresh, memorable turns of phrase. I also believe that there are many sincere, kind hearted people involved with Scientology who would like to help their fellow man, and sometimes do so in generous nonprofit ways.
I believe that both the insights and the charitable work would be better served if they were entirely removed from any association with Hubbard.
It's not clear to me how much of Hubbard's material came from his own imagination, that he knew to be false; how much came from his own imagination, that he bamboozled even himself into thinking was the truth; and how much was from evil spiritual forces or negative people who influenced him.
I believe that any student of the Law of One, seeking to polarize on a positive path, will be well served by staying as far away as possible from anything having to do with Scientology. I believe that a study of Scientology's tenets and practices, its history, Hubbard's life and times, the opposition to Scientology and the church's responses to its opponents, will only increasingly serve to warn off open-hearted spiritual seekers from this highly manipulative service-to-self based, negatively hierarchical organization.
I'm at a loss as to how any unique core tenets of Scientology could be considered compatible with the Law of One teachings from Ra and Q'uo. (As with any cult, I believe it's important to clarify what is unique to the cult's teaching, and what is simply plagiarized, misappropriated, and distorted from other sources.)
I'm willing to discuss all of this further.