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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.
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.
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.
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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 ...
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.
The movement has been the subject of a number of controversies, and the Church of Scientology has been described by government inquiries, international parliamentary bodies, scholars, law lords, and numerous superior court judgements as both a dangerous cult and a manipulative profit-making business.