Scientology

Scientology was founded in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard, an American science fiction writer and author of the best-selling book “Dianetics” (1950), which launched a popular self-enhancement movement out of which the Church of Scientology emerged.  The name Scientology means “knowing how to know,” and it maintains that it “constitutes man’s first real application of scientific methodology to spiritual questions.” Scientology asserts it is not merely a belief system but a mode of action, and it has a complicated vocabulary of its own.

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