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The Church of Scientology is a group of interconnected corporate entities and other organizations devoted to the practice, administration and dissemination of Scientology, which is variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement. [7]
- December 1953
- L. Ron Hubbard
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Sep 6, 2018 · Château Élysée. Scientology’s jewel in the crown is the Celebrity Centre. It’s housed in the old Château Élysée, a seven-story 1929 French Normandy Revival chateau in Hollywood’s Franklin...
- L. Ron Hubbard and “Dianetics”
- What Is Scientology?: from Dianetics to Religion
- Scientology Beliefs: Going “Clear” and Beyond
- David Miscavige and Death of L. Ron Hubbard
- Hollywood and Headquarters in Clearwater, Florida
- Scientology Today
Born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, Lafayette Ron Hubbard left George WashingtonUniversity, where he was studying civil engineering, after two years. He later launched a successful career writing stories for “pulp” magazines in the 1930s, ultimately focusing on science fiction. During World War II, Hubbard served in the U.S. Naval Reserves, and he la...
Post-World War II audiences proved receptive to Hubbard’s claims of the healing powers of the mind, and the book quickly became a bestseller. Dianetics groups spread across the country and abroad, even as the American Psychological Association and other organizations questioned Hubbard’s claims regarding the scientific nature of his approach. In 19...
The shift from Dianetics to Scientology included a focus on humans as immortal souls (thetans, in Scientology terminology) that are trapped within multiple bodies through various lifetimes. After purging the reactive mind of past trauma scars through the auditing process, an individual can become “clear”—a concept from Dianetics that represents a m...
Since its origins, Scientology has faced opposition and controversy, including long-running complaints from the medical and scientific communities over Hubbard’s claims regarding mental health and the science behind the E-meters, as well as complaints over its status as a religion. As it grew, Scientology became involved in multiple legal battles, ...
Scientology opened its first Celebrity Centre in Hollywood in the late 1960s, followed by satellites in New York, Las Vegasand Nashville and international outposts in cities like Paris, London, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Munich and Florence. Among Scientology’s most visible adherents over the years have been Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley,...
The United States, home to the majority of Scientologists, has recognized Scientology as a religion, with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reaffirming the church’s tax-exempt status in 1993 after a long-running investigation. In 2013, Britain’s highest court similarly affirmed Scientology’s status as a religion by ruling that the group could cond...
Gold Base (also variously known as Gold, Golden Era Productions, Int Base or Int) is the de facto international headquarters of the Church of Scientology, located north of San Jacinto, California, United States, about 85 miles (137 km) from Los Angeles.
- 520 acres (2.1 km²)
Jul 21, 2019 · The Church of Scientology doesn't only take over people's lives — it takes over entire cities. While Scientology's "Gold Base" is comprised of a 520-acre compound about 100 miles outside Los Angeles, the church has also virtually taken over the city of Clearwater, Florida, on the state's western coast.
Apr 19, 2018 · Whatever the specifics of its appeal, the hospital became one of the first few big acquisitions the Church of Scientology made when it started buying historic Hollywood buildings, beginning in 1973, a couple of miles away on Franklin Avenue, with the Château Élysée — now known as Scientology's "Celebrity Centre."
The Church of Scientology is headquartered at "Gold Base" in Riverside County, California, where the highest Sea Org officials work, and at "Flag Land Base" in Clearwater, Florida. The organization operates on a hierarchical and top-down basis, being largely bureaucratic in structure.
