FREE ZONE SCIENTOLOGY TIMELINE 1938: L. Ron Hubbard constructed the Excalibur manuscript, documenting his near-death experience and claim of esoteric knowledge concerning the human goal of survival. 1948: The Original Thesis, Hubbard’s early writings on Dianetics (his theory of the human mind), was circulated amongst friends and the science-fiction community. 1950: Hubbard’s theories were publicly outlined in Astounding Science Fiction magazine and published as a bestseller: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 1954: Hubbard opened the first Church of Scientology in Los Angeles, California. 1965 (February 7): Hubbard published his Keeping Scientology Working (KSW) policy, outlining an orthodoxy of Church management and practice, effectively forbidding the practice of Scientology outside the institutional hierarchy of the Church of Scientology. 1965 (February 14): Hubbard released the Safeguarding Technology bulletin, condemning the…
VISUAL ARTS TIMELINE 1911 (March 13): Lafayette Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska. 1946 (March 14): Claude Sandoz was born in Zurich, Switzerland. 1948 (October 8): Gottfried Helnwein was born in Vienna, Austria. 1950 (May 9): Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 1951 (August 1): Hubbard published Science of Survival, which included a section about aesthetics and the visual arts. 1953 (November 12): Carl-W. Röhrig was born in Munich, Germany. 1965 (August 30): Hubbard published his first technical bulletin of the “Art” series. 1977 (September 26): Hubbard published his technical bulletin on “Art and Communication.” 1984 (February 26): Hubbard published his technical bulletins on “Colors,” and on “Art and Integration,” where he presented his theory of the mood lines. 1986 (January 24): Hubbard died in Creston,…
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY TIMELINE 1911 (March 13): Lafayette Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska. 1938 (January 1): Hubbard claimed to have a near-death experience and wrote his “Excalibur” manuscript. 1950 (April): Hubbard and John Campbell formed the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation (HDRF). 1950: “Dianetics” was published in Astounding Science Fiction in May and then in book form as Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 1950-1951: Dianetics practitioners began to report memories from past lives. Hubbard developed the idea of the thetan and past lives. 1951-1952: Hubbard began to use the E-meter in Dianetics auditing. 1952: Hubbard Association of Scientologists (HAS) was formed in Phoenix, Arizona. 1953: (December) Hubbard incorporated three “churches,” including the Church of Scientology. 1954 (February 18): The first church of Scientology opened in California. 1956: …
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GENESIS II CHURCH TIMELINE 1996: Jim Humble allegedly discovered that chlorine dioxide could cure malaria while gold mining in South America. 2006: Mark Grenon found Humble’s book and claimed to have cured a family with MRSA. 2006: Jim Humble released his book Miracle Mineral Supplements. 2009 (January): Grenon and Humble formed the Genesis II Church. 2010 (April): The First Seminar of Genesis II was held. 2016: Grenon established G2Voice Podcast and published his first book Imagine, A World Without Disease- Is it Possible? 2017: Humble retired from his involvement with Genesis II. 2020 (April 8): The FDA issued Genesis II a warning to stop providing GII Sacraments. 2020 (April 23): Donald Trump suggested that bleach could be used treat the coronavirus. 2020 (July 8): The FDA raided the main church…
Johanna J. M. Petsche graduated with a PhD in Studies in Religion from the University of Sydney in 2013. Her dissertation was published as part of Brill’s Aries Book Series and is entitled Gurdjieff and Music (2015). It centres on the piano music and esoteric teaching of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949). Johanna is currently working as a lecturer on world religions and interpersonal communication at the University of Sydney and Australian Catholic University. She has published on Gurdjieff, H. P. Blavatsky, E. J. Gold, Scientology, Discordianism, and musicians Keith Jarrett and Sun Ra. She also teaches clarinet and performs in the chamber music group, Ensemble Spiritoso .
Scholar’s Corner hosts and connects to a diverse set of video materials related to the study of emergent and alternative religions and spirituality: Nova Religio and WRSP have created a joint video project. Nova Religio produces video interviews with Nova Religio authors on their scholarly work and new trends and issues in religions. The World Religions and Spirituality Project conducts video interviews with authors on topics related to the academic study of emergent and alternative religions. The video interviews organized by Nova Religio can be accessed directly through the Nova Religio YouTube Video Channel and through Scholar’s Corner page. WRSP videos are posted on the WRSP YouTube Channel and are also available through the Scholar’s Corner page. Video interviews, conferences and seminars conducted under the auspices of INFORM (Information Network Focus…
TEACHING & LEARNING TEXTS AND ORIENTING MATERIALS Orienting Authored Volumes David Kim, ed. 2022. New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Sociocultural Alternatives. Lanham: Lexington Books. Joseph P Laycock. 2022. New Religious Movements: The Basics. New York: Routledge. Hugh B. Urban 2015. New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkeley: University of California Press. Thomas Ezala Yohane. 2021. New Religious Movements. London: LAP Lambert. Orienting Edited Volumes Emily Suzanne Clark and Brad Stoddard, eds. 2019. Race and New Religious Movements in the USA: A Documentary Reader. London: Bloomsbury Dereck Daschke and Michael Ashcraft, eds. 2005. New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press. Derek Davis and Barry Hankins eds.. 2020. New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America. Waco: Baylor University Press.…
Ethan Doyle White PhD specializes in the religions of early medieval England and in modern Paganism and related forms of occultism. He is the author of Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Sussex Academic Press, 2016) and co-editor of Magic and Witchery in the Modern West (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). His published research has covered such topics as the modern Pagan use of archaeological monuments, the influence of occultism in the music of David Bowie, and the revived worship of Hadrian’s deified lover Antinous. He is currently on the editorial board of Reading Religion, the review website of the American Academy of Religion. Ethan Doyle White is serving as the Senior Project Director of WRSP's Interview Forum. He has served as interview host for a number of interviews…