Church of Scientology/Catalogs/Terms

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AA (attempted abortion): Dianetics claims that many mothers attempt to kill their unborn - this is often stated to be a hidden cause of mental trauma.
aberration, aberrated: insanity or departure from rational thought. Also used to describe engrams or hidden memories.
ABLE (Association for Better Living and Education): a Scientology-affiliated group
ARS, Ars, a.r.s: shortened name of the USENET newsgroup alt.religion.scientology
Arslychus: ancient civilization in space described in Hubbard's teachings
auditing: a process that has the form of a counselling session where the auditee holds two metal cans hooked up to an E-Meter which the auditor monitors.
Book One: refers to the first book of Dianetics and Scientology - Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
Bridge: short for "The Bridge to Total Freedom", the full set of auditing and training courses that lead one to the highest Operating Thetan level.
disconnection: the practice of requiring Scientologists to 'disconnect' from friends and family members who express skepticism of the Church
Ethics: division of the Scientology organization which deals with those who disobey policy
Freezone: people who still practice and believe in the ideas propounded by Hubbard and the Church but outside of the structure of the church.
lines: services offered by the Church (as in a "line" or products and services). See off-lines.
LRH: Abbreviation of L. Ron Hubbard
MEST: Matter, Energy, Space and Time. The universe of MEST is to be contrasted with the 'Theta Universe' which consists of pure spirit.
Narconon: a Scientology-affiliated drug rehabilitation program, considered by critics to be ineffective, pseudoscientific and used only for recruitment
off-lines: members of Scientology who are not paying for Scientology services
Operating Thetan, OT: having become Clear, the state one achieves having had one's Body Thetans removed, considered a state of enlightenment
OSA, Office of Special Affairs: the department which critics allege is responsible for 'dirty tricks' - PR, spying and so on
Out-Ethics: description of someone who has not obeyed Church regulations
Rehabilitation Project Force, RPF: work camps used as a punishment for those who disobey Sea Org regulations
RTC, Religious Technology Centre: body which holds and enforces the intellectual property on Scientology works - specifically, trademarks on terms used by the Church and copyrights on published and unpublished works.
Saint Hill: the manor and accompanying estate in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England, originally purchased by Hubbard in 1959 and now used for a variety of Scientology purposes
Sea Org: an association of Scientologists formed at sea - hence the naval-style customs, uniforms and parades. Members of the Sea Org sign a "billion-year contract". Some scholars of religion have described the Sea Org as "paramilitary" or "pseudo-paramilitary".
SP, Suppressive Person: anyone who expresses doubt regarding Scientology or the Church
Teegeeack: the name used for Earth as it was 75 million years ago in Scientology's doctrine
Theta: life force; used to describe situations that are positive in tone
Thetan: the equivalent of a spirit or soul in Scientology
Tone Scale: a list of emotional states given a numerical value ranging from -40 to +40.
Touch Assist: a 'touch therapy' system used by Scientologists, sometimes at the sites of disasters (the 2010 Haitian earthquake and at Ground Zero following the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York, for example)
wog: term used to describe non-Scientologists, adopted from the British racist slang term used to describe black people (derived from the blackface minstrel character Golliwogg)
wog world: the aggregate of non-Scientologists
Xenu, Xemu: the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy described in Hubbard's teachings