Scientology terminology consists of a complex assortment of jargon used by Scientologists in conjunction with the practice of Scientology and in their everyday lives. It is difficult if not impossible to understand Scientology without understanding its terminology the way Hubbard defines it.[1][2]
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, created a large number of jargon terms or Scientologese to refer to various concepts in Scientology and the related practice of Dianetics. By the time he died in 1986, he had devised a thicket of language or nomenclature by means of which one and all are indoctrinated in Scientology religious lore.[3]
Hubbard's Scientology terminology consists of two types of terms:
Existing English terms given an additional Scientology definition. For instance, the word valence has various existing meanings in chemistry, linguistics, psychology and mathematics, generally referring to the capacity or value of something. Hubbard redefines it to mean "an identity complete with bank mass or mental image picture mass of somebody other than the identity selected by oneself."
Hubbard invented many wholly new terms, such as thetan to refer to his conception of a spiritual being.[4]
Scientology terminology is defined in Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary and Modern Management Technology Defined, colloquially known as the "tech dictionary" and the "admin dictionary". Between them, the two volumes reportedly define over 3,000 Scientology terms in over 1,100 pages of definitions.[citation needed]
The language amongst Scientologists is so thick with esoteric terms, that court cases involving Scientology sometimes need to hire expert witnesses, such as Claire Headley, to help the jury understand the evidence.[5]
^Bob Larson Larson"s Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality, p. 432, Tyndale House Publishers Inc., 2004 ISBN 978-0-8423-6417-1
^Frenschkowsky, Marco (2015). "L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology: An annotated bibliographical survey of primary and selected secondary literature". Marburg Journal of Religion. doi:10.17192/MJR.1999.4.3760. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^James R. Lewis Scientology, p. 109, Oxford University Press US, 2009 ISBN 978-0-19-533149-3
^Tope Omoniyi/Joshua A. Fishman Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, p. 292, John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2006 ISBN 978-90-272-2710-2
^Scientology's devious tricks to hold its members hostage for life. 60 Minutes Australia. August 6, 2023. Claire was able to decipher for the jury the Church's own records [...] the reports were laden with the language of Scientology that had to be decoded in such a way that anybody could understand what took place, and that was the role that [Claire] played.
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