Random Cult...Random Schism
When you are a member of a particular group, dealing with external groups, you always assume that the external groups are unified and well-organized.
Well, you're often wrong:
The Free Zone Association (German: Freie Zone e.V.) is an international association, registered in Germany....Don't confuse it with the Free Zone in general. We represent the members and affiliated groups of our association, which grew bigger and bigger over the past years.
The "Free Zone" formed itself in the beginning of the 80's, to be more precise, in the days when the RTC (Religious Technology Center) took over the Church of Scientology. This was from 1982 on, when thousands of CofS members left the Church or were expelled by the RTC....
Our general opinion is that Scientology, as represented by the CofS, has departed far from its original philosophy and technology. But discover this for yourself by reading our pages. Based on the information at hand we can safely conclude, that today's Church of Scientology is not what L. Ron Hubbard originally intended....
The "Scientology Church" itself as a group, and "money", right now seem to be more important than Scientology itself. Only a few decent and dedicated staff members, who really try to help its individual members, keep it alive.
In the Free Zone we try to keep up the old "spirit" of Scientology. We don't need a "big management" and hirarchies. In actual fact, the best manegement, beside knowledge, is a high level of friendship, competence and repsonsibility of and for its members. Now and in the new Millenium we hope to contribute to a better civilization....
So here's what this splinter group publicly states:
This is an attempt to cover the basic philosophy very briefly.
Scientology is best comprehensible if one takes the viewpoint that life is basically a game.
A game consists of "freedoms", "barriers" and "purposes" . (LRH)
(Already in 1934 the name "Scientology" appears as the title of a work by the German philosopher Dr. A. Nordenholz. His "Science of Knowledge" has quite some similarity to the philosophy of L. Ron Hubbard.)
A person playing a game is involved in it to a greater or lesser degree. He loses control over the game the more it becomes compulsive for him. He gets involved with interferences from others, agreements and non-agreements, with creation and destruction, he gets entangled in games not of his own, and in the end he winds up rather being a piece or a broken piece than a player.
One of the most important targets of Scientology is the rehabilitation of the person as "Player" and the rehabilitation of his "Spirit of Play"....
So the Tom Cruise dance in "Risky Business" had religious significance.
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