Started by L. Ron Hubbard. I never read him, nor was I intending on it.

The central beliefs of Scientology are that:

* a person is an immortal spiritual being
(termed a thetan) who possesses a mind and a body accompanied by a lesser "genetic entity";
* the thetan has lived through many past lives , stored memories of which can cause problems in the present day;
* a person is basically good, but is "aberrated" by the memories of traumas.
* Total infallibility of everything Hubbard (Source) has written or spoken.