Scientology: Origins, celebrities and holdings - 2009-06-21

Scientology: Origins, celebrities and holdings June 21, 2009, Tampa Bay Times

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Scientology, which was established in Los Angeles in 1954, describes itself as the handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others, and all of life. Following are details about Scientology's beliefs and history.

In Scientology, a person is an immortal spiritual being — a "thetan" from the Greek letter "theta," meaning "spirit" — who has a body and a mind and lives on from lifetime to lifetime. By following Scientology practices, a person can achieve spiritual awareness.

Scientologists believe that the "reactive mind," the part that works on a stimulus-response basis — not under the individual's control — commands one's awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and action.

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