Scientology's Views On Death

The Early Show: Principles Likely To Play Role In Jett Travolta's Funeral

(CBS)  The funeral of John Travolta's son, Jett, will be held in Florida.

The ceremony will most likely involve tenets of the Church of Scientology, the faith of Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman observed Tuesday.

Jett Travolta, 16, died Friday at the family vacation home in the Bahamas. Funeral home officials say the cause of death was a seizure disorder.

And, Kauffman says, while there will be mourning for Jett, Scientologists believe his spirit is still alive.

"The mood of the funeral or the ceremony itself would not be a very sad one," former Scientologist Bruce Hines says. He's presided over Scientologist funerals.

In Scientology doctrine, Hines explained, "the body that you have ceases to work. It dies for whatever reason, and then you go and, for example, they say you would go to a hospital and find some baby being born and you would decide to inhabit that body."

Call it reincarnation, with a twist, Kauffman suggests. That spirit is called a thetan.

"Scientologists believe that thetans have been attached to bodies in past lives and that this pattern of attachment will continue well onto the future," points out Stephen Kent, professor of sociology and alternative religions at the University of Alberta.

"At one point during the history of Scientology," Hines notes, "they said you had to dodge these alien beings who will try to trap you and give you an implant."

Most scientologists cremate their dead, Kauffman says. The Travolta had Jett's body cremated.

Says Kent, "The founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, was cremated. ... Because the body is de-emphasized in the Scientology belief system, likely it doesn't really matter a whole lot what happens to the body itself."

To lose a child after illness is especially difficult for Scientologists, Kauffman adds, because they believe 70 percent of disease is psychosomatic.

"If you are sick," Hines says, "you definitely have something you need to deal with on a mental and spiritual level.

"The other possibility," says Kent, "is to believe the thetan had some issues in past lives that it was working out by incarnating in a challenged body."

In Jett's case, Kauffman concludes, the challenge was seizures.

[johncarl54]

err, ahh, what? you just find a baby and take over it''s body? what happens to that baby''s spirit, kick it out? it is not for nothing that l. ron wrote science fiction. idiots...

[hayleesnanny]

What a mistake.

GOD decides these things, not man. I must say I''m disapointed to know that God is not a Part of Johns life or Kellies.

Jett is gone, who they follow will determine if they see Jett again... In HEAVEN.

While I''m truly sorry for their Loss, I know how hard it must be.

But the grieving process needs to be dealt with instead of some man saying, he isnt dead, just searching for another body.

God Bless this family and help them with their grief, show them the light and let them serve no God but YOU.

[jazzer9]

I wonder what baby use to be Hitler or Saddam? After you reach the highest level where do you go from there?
The article states as follows:
they say you would go to a hospital and find some baby being born and you would decide to inhabit that body."
"At one point during the history of Scientology," Hines notes, "they said you had to dodge these alien beings who will try to trap you and give you an implant."

I don''t care how you sugar coat it-that is just plain creepy.

[barbie49]

Watch "What the Bleep Do We Know" You''ll find that science is beginning to line up with many religions teach.
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Religion, any religion, is the scourge of mankind.

It disables your mind, keeping you from accepting truth and science.

"Who is the more foolish...........the fool or the fool that follows him?."
(Quoted from Star Wars)

[impeach_o]

When you die, you''''re gone. You''''re done. You don''''t exist any longer, like every other creature on this planet when they die. Just because humans have the ability to think, does not mean we go anywhere different than any other creature on earth.


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Posted by sly_64 at 08:22 AM : Jan 07, 2009
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if that IS WHAT YOU THINK then you have that right as I respect that...

now can you be the same?

[impeach_o]

Religion, any religion, is the scourge of mankind.

It disables your mind, keeping you from accepting truth and science.

"Who is the more foolish...........the fool or the fool that follows him?."
(Quoted from Star Wars)


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Posted by tibu987 at 07:28 PM : Jan 06, 2009
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that is why the ideology of athiesm invented the MTV..to fill in that vacumm

[barbie49]

Please read, Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian Weiss.

I''m no chemist or scientist but here''s my take. Humans are energy. Energy, once created, can not be destroy. It can be transferred but not destroyed. Our spirit is this energy source. When we die it leaves our bodies. Even Christians believe that we are all spirit and that the spirit lives after it leaves the body.

[churscientny]

Any child''s death is horrible to imagine.

Please spend 5 minutes searching for information about Scientology. The answers to the worlds problems can only be solved by Scientology. Oh, if you come across anything that calls it a cult - please don''t read that stuff. Education is King and Scientology may already be in your neighborhood disguised as? "Applied Scholastics" "Narconon" "Criminon" ...

[sly_64]

When you die, you''re gone. You''re done. You don''t exist any longer, like every other creature on this planet when they die. Just because humans have the ability to think, does not mean we go anywhere different than any other creature on earth.

[barbaram99]

Their views on death are scarey. It is a cult. could never handle their idea of death. I would not want to be born into a new born baby again. Nope.