02-12-2022, 11:16 PM
The thing about Scientology is there's a difference between their philosophy and views about life and the universe and all, and the fact that you have to pay lots of money or become a volunteer to take their courses that are supposed to lead to a better fit with the life they profess, called "clear and OT", and their aggressive, cultish promotion techniques and tendency to clash with some people who oppose them. The philosophy is basically Buddhist, crafted into a psychological technology for "clearing" by a former science fiction writer turned guru-master teacher, L. Ron Hubbard, who claims to be Buddha reincarnate. That means that on a questionnaire that anyone takes, Scientology will end up close to where Buddhism is, usually Mahayana. For me Scientology comes in around number 10; the recent selectsmart test I took put Scientology at #9 and Mahayana Buddhism at #8. It's also partly because I did study it and take a few courses in it and read some of Ron's books.