The next best thing or the next cult type religion?

 

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I remember when L Ron Hubbards book DIANETICS was the next big thing. Very controversial and you couldnt watch tv without a commercial about his books and teachings. I am not sure when all that advertising stopped but I remember being bombarded by it. So much so that one of my friends actually bought me the book. Stating that they thought I would love the book since I am always so interested in learning about self as well as the spirit I read this book and was totally unimpressed. The book even read as something of a cult practice and based solely on what one man believed and thought and backed up by that same mans beliefs and thoughts. Then you start a religion from it? It sounded like somehting right out of science fiction even at the time of reading Now I see on the Oprah show about a new book "A NEW EARTH". At first I am thinking its more of the same crap like the shows she been having on THE SECRET. Which I think is a bunch of crap the way it was explained the first time. Anyway, it's not. A New Earth, in my opinion, is the same as Dianetics. If you read about Dianetics, you see that it was first published as science fiction. SCIENCE FICTION! "Beginning in late 1949, Hubbard sought to publicize Dianetics, the self-improvement technique. Unable to elicit interest from mainstream publishers or medical professionals,[61] Hubbard turned to the legendary science fiction editor John W. Campbell, who had for years published Hubbard's science fiction. The first article on Dianetics was published in Astounding Science Fiction. The science fiction community was divided about the merits of Hubbard's offering. Campbell's star author Isaac Asimov criticized Dianetics' unscientific aspects, and veteran author Jack Williamson described Dianetics as "a lunatic revision of Freudian psychology" that "had the look of a wonderfully rewarding scam." I just cant believe that RL Hubbard made some stuff up in his mind, that most people with half a brain see its crazy and then makes a church and following from it. A New Earth seems to be the exact same thing to me "Dianetics is a set of ideas and practices regarding the relationship between the spirit, mind and body that were developed by L. Ron Hubbard. According to Hubbard, mental and psychosomatic physical problems are caused by traumatic recordings called engrams that are stored in the reactive mind. The goal of Dianetics is to erase the engrams in the reactive mind to achieve the state of Clear. Once this state of "Clear" is achieved according to Hubbard, an individual is able to function at his or her full potential." So isn't this man doing the same thing? Just had a lot of ideas that made sense to him (and obviously no one else by reading the notes on Oprahs board and they have to have a class to understand it) and now he is trying to pass it on as THE WAY TO THINK? This makes me just way too nervous. I have joined the class, will be reading the book and praying the ENTIRE TIME this is not another cult following in the making. Yet the following Oprah has can make it happen. With the power of the internet and given the gullable state that people are in lately with all the war and drama the last 10-20 years without a real leader or figure to look up to anywhere in the world, the oprah show is just the platform to launch another "church" Pray this is all legit. Read and education yourselves. If this really is looking to be A New Earth, then pass it on to your to be sure we all can live a more peaceful life together on this earth and still enjoy ours to the fullest