The Netflix Documentary The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist Take a closer look at the series of burglaries that rocked Hollywood in 2008 and 2009. A group of teenagers, later dubbed the Bling Ring, targeted celebrities like Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Orlando Bloom by breaking into their homes and stealing their property. The documentary features interviews with former Bling Ring member Alexis Neiers and his mother, Andrea Arlington-Dunne. Both discuss the Church of Religious Studies, to which Arlington-Dunne credits part of his family’s success, but what does the Church teach?
Arlington-Dunne went on to serve as Church Minister of Religious Studies
After Arlington-Dunne’s marriage to Alexis and Gabbie Neiers’ father, Michael, fell apart, she found herself struggling to make ends meet. Her financial situation worsened and she eventually filed for bankruptcy. After that, however, Arlington-Dunne decided she wanted to become the Church’s minister of religious science.
In The real bling ring: Hollywood Heist, Arlington-Dunne tells producers that the Church of Religious Studies was not your typical church. It focused on its members using their thoughts and emotions to manifest the goals they wanted to achieve in their lives. Arlington-Dunne created vision boards and wrote affirmations that would lead to her family’s success in the entertainment industry. Neiers describes it as “a cross between Buddhism and witchcraft”.
RELATED: Is ‘Devil in Ohio’ Based on a True Story?
Law of Attraction
One of the main teaching points within the Church of Religious Studies revolves around the Law of Attraction. Established by Ernest Holmes in 1927, Holmes never intended to evolve his teachings into a church, but rather wanted to create an institution where he taught his ideas to others. The church takes snippets of religions like Christianity and Buddhism and combines them with the laws of science.
The Law of Attraction is the idea that a person who sends positive thoughts out into the world attracts positivity into their life while negative thoughts attract negativity. Arlington-Dunne leaned heavily into this belief and recounts The Real Bling Ring producers that her vision board was a way to manifest the goals she wanted. However, Neiers scoffs and says his mother only believed in it because “she wanted to think about her problems”.
As with almost all religions, the Church of Religious Studies has some controversial beliefs. Similar to Scientology, the Church of Religious Science does not believe in the use of mind-altering drugs. Instead, members believe people can heal themselves with the power of positive thinking and prayer.
The 2006 film “The Secret” focuses on the beliefs of the Church of Religious Sciences
When Arlington-Dunne caught one of her daughters drunk when she was 12, she punished her by only allowing her to watch a spirituality documentary named The secret for a whole summer. The film features interviews with professionals from industries such as quantum physics and psychology who claim to have used the law of attraction to achieve success in their lives. However, it starts to sound a little bigoted when some of the interviewees claim that high-level individuals are working to keep “the secret” hidden from the general public.
Arlington-Dunne never states whether or not she is a member of the church as of 2022, but she still has her trusty vision board. It’s probably safe to say that she still believes in the law of attraction.
Check The real bling ring: Hollywood Heist, streaming exclusively on Netflix.
RELATED: 5 Of The Best Netflix Movies And Shows To Watch In September
We want to say thanks to the author of this write-up for this amazing web content
‘The Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist’: What is the Church of Religious Studies, the church Andrea Arlington-Dunne took her family to? – Noufelle EN
Check out our social media profiles , as well as other related pageshttps://nimblespirit.com/related-pages/