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[199] [200] Joined Scientology and achieved the status of "Clear". [201] Cyril Vosper: 1935–2004 1968 Author and deprogrammer; wrote The Mind Benders which was the first book on Scientology to be written by an ex-member and the first critical book on Scientology to be published. [202] Matt Willis: 1983– 2008
This category is for people who are publicly known as members or former members of the Church of Scientology. Many former members are now critics; see Category:Critics of Scientology. Other former members practice Scientology without being connected to the COS. They refer to themselves as Freezoners.
Occultism is one form of mysticism. [a] This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices, including alchemists, astrologers, some Kabbalists, [b] magicians, psychics, sorcerers, and practitioners some forms of divination, especially Tarot.
Church of Scientology was incorporated in California on February 18, 1954. Two years later it was officially renamed to Church of Scientology of California on June 19, 1956. That corporation was restated in August 1982, dissolved on December 30, 2002, and terminated with the California Secretary of State on November 18, 2004.
[9] [7]: 149–50 In a bizarre twist, the Church of Scientology acquired CAN's assets including files on Scientology, and re-opened CAN under Scientologist leadership, becoming a front group for Scientology. [10] [11] In 1998, the Boston Herald identified Narconon and the World Literacy Crusade as front groups for Scientology. [12]
The LA-born and bred actor, known for films such as Sneaky Pete, Avatar and Ted, was born into Scientology and was present at the opening of a Scientology Museum in December 2005.
Numerous religious studies scholars have described Scientology as a new religious movement. [69] Various scholars have also considered it within the category of Western esotericism, [70] while the scholar of religion Andreas Grünschloß noted that it was "closely linked" to UFO religions, [71] as science-fiction themes are evident in its ...
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