Scientology

Sometimes, people can be so gullible, that they will believe almost anything. Take science fiction cults for instance, people get wrapped up in stories, but they do not want to let go of them so they start cults to replace the reality in which they live in. One such example of cults derived from science fiction novels is Scientology. Scientology began as a bet in which science fiction author Ron Hubbard believed he could get people to follow his writings as a religion.
Scientology’s central belief comes from a book called Dianetics. Hubbard explains that man has a problem that arose from traumatic engrams, or experiences, that they have had in their past. The way these engrams are cleansed is by a process called auditing, which is similar to that of hypnotherapy. Essentially, these engrams are transfered from on memory segment of the brain to the another segment, the one that processes all thinking. Once this process has been achieved, the person becomes cleansed of the bad engrams.
Perhaps the most absurd part of Scientology comes from the past engram. Dianetics does not deal with enrams from past lives. These past life memeories come from the episodes of Xenu. He was the director of the Galactic Confederacy and the Confederacy was getting overpopulated. Xenu took all the members of Confederacy and dropped them into volcanoes in Hawaii and hen he detonated it all with a nuclear warhead. Sounds to strange to be true right?
The religion of scientology focuses around the central idea that humans were from a race called thetans and we have forgotten our past lives. This is what scientology does, in essence it helps us remember our heritage. One has to buy his way up to different levels. For example, someone who is in Level 3 of Scientology is more cleansed as opposed some one who is level 1. These are the basics of Scientology, you can get their books from their website if you wish to learn more.