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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on March 16, 2003, 01:39:28 PM
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From Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s (http://www.bu.edu/arion/paglia_cults.pdf) by Camille Paglia published in the Boston University Arion
A startling and little-known example of Crowley’s endur-ing
influence is the Church of Scientology, founded in 1954
by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, one of the main
shapers of New Age thought. Hubbard had met Crowley at
the latter’s Los Angeles temple in 1945. Hubbard’s son has
revealed that his father claimed to be Crowley’s successor:
Hubbard told him that Scientology was born on the day that
Crowley died. The drills used by Scientologists to cleanse
and clarify the mind are evidently a reinterpretation of
Crowley’s singular fusion of Asian meditation with Satanic
ritualism, which sharpens the all-conquering will. The guid-ing
premise of Hubbard’s mega-bestseller, Dianetics: The
Modern Science of Mental Health (1950), is that morality
and spirituality can be scientifically analyzed and man-aged—
as if guilt and remorse, in the Crowley way, are mere
baggage to be jettisoned. Scientology, which attracts celebri-ties
like John Travolta and Tom Cruise, has been pursued by
the irs for its tax-exempt status as a religion. Scientology’s
religiosity can be detected in its theory of reincarnation: the
“process” allegedly eradicates negative thoughts and experi-
ences predating our life in the womb.
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http://www.xenu.net
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Operation Clambake... it has been around for years... :)
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Don't drink the Kool-aid.
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Scientology is nutty enough, even without the satanism connection. Read up on Operation Clambake about their sea service, for example.
Crazies!
Of course, now I'll probably be sued.....