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think- ago

Christine A. Chandler, who - together with her husband - was a long-time Tantra disciple, before she left years ago - points out that there are eeringly similarities between Tibetan Buddhism and Scientology.

Which I find very interesting, since we already saw that NXIUM uses practises / teachings that resemble Scientology teachings.

migratorypatterns ago

And there's a reason for that:

https://www.scientology.org/faq/scientology-founder/who-was-lronhubbard.html

When his father was assigned to the South Pacific as a United States naval commander, Ron embarked upon the first of his famed Asian travels. By the age of 19 he had traveled more than a quarter of a million miles and traversed much of China and India. Through the course of it, he became one of the few Western adventurers to enter forbidden Tibetan lamaseries in the Western Hills of China and study with the last in the line of royal magicians from the court of Kublai Khan. Yet for all the wonders he witnessed, he could not help but conclude the legendary wisdom of the East did nothing to ease suffering and poverty in these overpopulated and underdeveloped lands.

Of course, what this leaves out is that the Tibetan monks didn't give two shits about the poverty anymore than Skankles cares.

think- ago

Through the course of it, he became one of the few Western adventurers to enter forbidden Tibetan lamaseries in the Western Hills of China and study with the last in the line of royal magicians from the court of Kublai Khan.

Wow. I had no idea that Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, in fact studied Tibetan Buddhism, let alone in Tibet.

@Vindicator

migratorypatterns ago

Read that a long time ago and it stuck with me. I think it was because Crowley also dipped his pen in the same water.

think- ago

Do you mean Scientology or Tibetan Buddhism?