ellauri065.html on line 498: thetan: In Scientology, the concept of the thetan (/ˈθeɪtən/) is similar to the concept of self, or the spirit or soul as found in several belief systems. This similarity is not total, though. The term is derived from the Greek letter Θ, theta, which in Scientology beliefs represents "the source of life, or life itself." In Scientology it is believed that it is the thetan, not the central nervous system, which commands the body through communication points.
ellauri217.html on line 778: Claire was also frustrated by Salinger's ever-changing religious beliefs. Though she committed herself to Kriya yoga, Salinger chronically left Cornish to work on a story "for several weeks only to return with the piece he was supposed to be finishing all undone or destroyed and some new 'ism' we had to follow." Claire believed "it was to cover the fact that Jerry had just destroyed or junked or couldn't face the poor quality of, or couldn't face publishing, what he had created." After abandoning Kriya yoga, Salinger tried Dianetics (the forerunner of Scientology), even meeting its founder thetan">L. Ron Hubbard, but according to Claire was quickly disenchanted with it. This was followed by an adherence to a number of spiritual, medical, and nutritional belief systems, including Christian Science, Edgar Cayce, homeopathy, acupuncture, macrobiotics, and, like a number of other writers in the 1960s, Sufism. What a nincompoop.
ellauri351.html on line 556: thetan">L. Ron Hubbard, uskomusjärjestelmien Dianetics ja Scientology perustaja , ehdotti olevansa "Metteya" (Maitreya) vuoden 1955 runossa Hymn of Asia . Lukuisat Hubbardin toimittajat ja seuraajat väittävät, että kirjan esipuheessa erityiset fyysiset ominaisuudet, joiden sanottiin olevan hahmoteltu – nimeämättömissä sanskritin lähteissä – tulevan Maitreyan ominaisuuksina, olivat ominaisuuksia, joiden kanssa Hubbardin monikätinen ulkonäkö (alla) oletettavasti yhtyi.
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