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What is Scientology?
Scientology Books
October 13, 2012    
The size and weight of this book make it pretty much useless except as a record of information that is otherwise being erased from history by the church. The collection of lists of orgs, missions, Narconons and other groups is a fairly accurate picture of where Scientology stood in 1993. So too the lists of books, lectures, historical dates. One can compare this to the existing scene today. While there is no longer a list of orgs and missions and Narconons anywhere, you can look at the 1993 list and see if the org or mission still exists today.

If you have the book, hold onto it. It also contains some of the only published summarized descriptions of Dianetics, Scientology, auditing and training in existence. They are quite accurate and condense a lot of information into a short summation.
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Information found nowhere else the church cannot sweep under the rug

The size and weight of this book make it pretty much useless except as a record of information that is otherwise being erased from history by the church. The collection of lists of orgs, missions, Narconons and other groups is a fairly accurate picture of where Scientology stood in 1993. So too the lists of books, lectures, historical dates. One can compare this to the existing scene today. While there is no longer a list of orgs and missions and Narconons anywhere, you can look at the 1993 list and see if the org or mission still exists today.

If you have the book, hold onto it. It also contains some of the only published summarized descriptions of Dianetics, Scientology, auditing and training in existence. They are quite accurate and condense a lot of information into a short summation.

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Independent Scientologist

Pros and Cons (optional)

Pros
A record of information that cannot be erased from history as hard as the church might try to do so.
Cons
Unwieldy in the extreme. A lot of hype.

Bottom line...

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