Is there a God in Scientology? This question covers how Scientologist come to know God. Well, you know, the framework of Scientology says there is a God, or there is infinity, or there is the infinite, or...
Well, you know, the framework of Scientology says there is a God, or there is infinity, or there is the infinite, or a maker. We don't believe the universe is an accident. I read a Buddhist text one time. It said, "The universe is made by all the beings in it." I read that, and I went, "Oh!" That's actually kind of similar to Scientology. That part of you that is spiritual, that is permanent, that you or something like you, or a group like you or whatever, is what creates and makes the physical originally. Scientologists postulate you've come down this really long track of time. So sometimes when we are talking about that, we are talking about that being a long time ago. You're talking about viewing the human soul. In a sense, it's an infinite being. You don't exist because time and space exist. Some views of creation are the soul is a property of consciousness. It's there because the body is there. Scientology says, "No, that conscious being, the awareness, has no mass itself. It has no physical; it's not part of the physical universe. Originally, that kind of spiritual stuff created this world, whether it's God or whether it's beings in cooperation. It's presented more speculatively in Scientology than in Christianity, where it's dogma. It's not really dogma in Scientology, but there is speculation that beings, or God, or beings helped God, or beings together, you know there is a spiritual component that created the world. Life forms are the spiritual and physical interaction. It's more like Buddhism or certain forms of Buddhism in that it's saying, "You feel or we seem to be in one state. You experience one state of being." That's not really our native, original, potential state of being. You can reach a greater state of awareness, ability, understanding, enlightenment, or whatever you want to call it.
I think of Christianity being a little more absolute. "Here's man. Here's creature. Here's creator. Here's created creature. Here's creator," and the distance is really far. I think in Scientology it would be a little bit more like, "The most intimate understanding you are going to have of God, at least right now, might be a better understanding of yourself and other beings." You see what I mean?
