Posts Tagged ‘true nature’

According to a BBC News report, France has convicted the Church of Scientology on fraud charges in the country and is seeking to ban the organization from operating there.

The French government refuses to recognize the Church of Scientology as a real religion and instead classifies it as a sect. The allegation is the the organization is only a commercial venture designed to fleece vulnernable victims of as much money as possible.

This stance has drawn some flak on the French government with accusations of violations of France’s constitutional guarantees on religious freedom as well as the European Convention on Human Rights. (more…)

Buddhist philosophy and Timothy Leary merge into a profound statement of existentialism… A quote from Timothy Leary (1966):

“I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world- so manifestly real was actually a tiny stage set constructed by the mind. We discover abruptly that everything we accept as reality is just social fabrications.” (more…)