L Ron. Hubbard, 1950 Hubbard wrote Dianetics. It’s a hypnotherapy where body thetans are removed to regain our divine potentional aka auditing. The ‘preclear’ is audited by an ‘auditor.’ Scientology is born when Hubbard decides man is a spiritual being. 1954 the first church of scientology in LA. Actors, musicians, everyday people sign up.
Found mostly in Hollywood. 25,000 americans according to American Religious Identification Survery (ARIS)
1990: 45,000
2001: 55,000
2008: 25,000
1525 in canada, 1781 in England 741 in Australia recognized in us south aafrica Australia sween Netherlands new Zealand protugal spain
E METER: auditing
First Dynamic: self Survive as an individual
Second: creativity Family units and raising children,