What is the Church of Scientology?

The Church of Scientology was established in 1954. Today its more than 3,000 churches, missions, related organizations, groups and activities span the globe and minister the religion to more than 8 million people in 100 countries in over 30 languages. The rapid emergence of the Scientology religion within the world's changing spiritual community has led many to ask what kind of religion it is, how it compares with other faiths and in what ways it is different. What is its …

…found that the George Washington University psychologists had no comprehension or understanding of the results-but more importantly-they weren't even interested in such things. Stunned, he soon came to the realization that no one knew how the mind worked. And furthermore, no one in the fields of psychology or psychiatry was about to find out. Not only were there no answers in the East, there were none to be found in any Western center of culture.