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Was Hubbard influenced by Gnostic traditions, or did his Scientology's cosmology simply develop independently?
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he was a terrible sci fi writer
Philip K Dick should have made a religion
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Bey Murad II Reis bi (ID: !TURKY998uo)
2016-10-11 19:19:05
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The guy lived with a fucking rocket scientist working for NASA that was into occult shit and following a litera british wizard.
I think we can safely say his influence to create scientology was the Max Headroom incident changing his perspective of life.
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>>1811898
Frank Herbert should have made one.
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>>1811898
Answer the question.
His entire cosmology concerning 'thetans' is similar to the entire premise Gnostic Christianity.
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>>1811898
He kind of did, but nobody wanted to follow it.
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>>1811919
It could be but I doubt it. Before the 60s-70s little was known about gnosticism. Today we know more thanks to the Nag Hammadi and Qumran discoveries.
Maybe he was familiar with The Urantia Book, google it.
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>>1811904
confirmed as turk larper not actual turk
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Bey Murad II Reis bi (ID: !TURKY998uo)
2016-10-11 19:44:07
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>>1811966
are you saying that my knowledge to current events should be limited to only ottoman history for being a turk?
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Putting aside the space opera element, Scientology is basically modern Gnosticism.
The belief that thetans were spiritual beings who resided in the realm of light and aether, who descended into the (inferior) material realms until they forgot their origins; that 'implants' by various hostile entities (replacing the role of the gnostic Demiurge and archontes) have resulted in beings further forgetting their divine past; that the goal of the religion is to attain the correct 'knowledge' to avoid reincarnation in the physical world and make one's way back to the immaterial realm.
It's Gnosticism 2.0
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>>1812059
Gnosticism is big in Hollywood. See The Matrix, Truman Show, etc.
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