Meet a Scientologist - Barbara Schneider's Happy Ending

Scientologist Barbara Schneider is a model, TV personality, paramedic, Scientology counselor and mother of four who didn’t anticipate how well things would turn out 18 years ago when things went wrong.  

Born and working as a paramedic in Lugano, Switzerland, in the early 1990s a failed relationship left her desperate to get away.

“I went to a travel agent and told him I needed a change,” she says. “I wanted to be someplace far away and on the sea.”

The next thing she knew, she was flying to Majorca with her 3-year-old son. Once there, she was paying a friend a visit at a hotel when a man directed her ‘right this way for the audition.’  She tried to tell him that was not why she was there, but he insisted, and she ended up being cast as co-host of a TV show.

Despite the change in scenery and an exciting new job, a year and a half later, Schneider was still suffering.

“My twin sister Elena could tell I was unhappy,” says Schneider. “She had been a Scientologist since we were 16 and she was convinced Scientology would help me.”

Agreeing to give it a try, she received some Scientology spiritual counseling and was amazed—the upset vanished.

Schneider relocated to Clearwater, Florida—the spiritual headquarters of the Scientology religion.  It was there that she met and married husband Roberto. 

A Scientology auditor (religious counselor), she credits the skills she has gained from her training for her success as a mother and in so many other aspects of her life.

“I don’t know how I would raise a family in the world today without what I’ve learned in Scientology,” she says.

She is tremendously proud of how self-reliant and responsible her children are.

“My kids have a very good life but they work hard for it,” she says.  “It’s not automatically—‘Oh, you’re 16 so here’s a car.’ They earn what they get by studying hard and doing well in school. Even with my little one who’s only four, she loves contributing to the family.  She helps me around the house.  We make it a game and she’s proud of what she does.”

Schneider’s commitment to helping others extends beyond the family.  A Scientology Volunteer Minister, she traveled to Port-au-Prince in January 2012 with her three sisters and several close friends to help in the wake of the Haiti earthquake. 

 “We are all mothers and the children there really touched our hearts,” she says. “We took on helping more than 100 children who were living on the streets, orphaned or separated from their parents. We built tents, turned an old school bus into a cafeteria, cooked and served their meals, arranged medical care, and tutored them.  Where possible, we helped them find their families.  My sisters stayed on for months and made sure the children would be cared for when they left.”

Involved with helping others since she was a child, Schneider finds being a Scientology auditor (counselor) enormously gratifying.

“What I like most is to touch someone’s life with a bit of magic—that’s what I really love to do,” she says, “to inspire them, bring out the best in them, so they can see solutions on their own and go ahead and resolve their problems and be happy.”

To meet more than 200 Scientologists and hear their stories, watch the “Meet a Scientologist” videos at www.Scientology.org. 

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The popular “Meet a Scientologist” profiles on the Church of Scientology International Video Channel at Scientology.org now total more than 200 broadcast-quality documentary videos featuring Scientologists from diverse locations and walks of life. The personal stories are told by Scientologists who are educators, teenagers, skydivers, a golf instructor, a hip-hop dancer, IT manager, stunt pilot, mothers, fathers, dentists, photographers, actors, musicians, fashion designers, engineers, students, business owners and more.

A digital pioneer and leader in the online religious community, in April 2008 the Church of Scientology became the first major religion to launch its own official YouTube Video Channel, with videos now viewed more than 7 million times.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

Church of Scientology Backs UN Drug Demand Reduction Strategy

Active in drug education and prevention throughout the year, Scientologists around the world participated in United Nations Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

According to this year’s United Nations World Drug Report, drug-abuse kills some 200,000 each year and creates a “heavy financial burden” internationally. In a concerted effort to counter this epidemic, in the weeks leading up to the UN Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking June 26 through the first week of July, Scientology Churches, Missions and groups around the world, working with like-minded individuals and groups, organize, sponsor and contribute to drug awareness activities to prevent drug abuse before it begins.

The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was created by the UN General Assembly in December 1987 to encourage all sectors of society to work together to tackle drug abuse and addiction. Scientologists commemorated the day by organizing and sponsoring conferences, lectures and symposia, participating in cross-country running and cycling races, meeting with elected officials and manning drug education booths and kiosks.

In Tokyo, the Church helped organize a drug education symposium where legislators networked with representatives of civil society and journalists, sharing information on effective drug prevention strategies.

Sydney Scientologists set up drug information booths on busy streets, where visitors watched the Truth About Drugs documentary, Real People—Real Stories, and took home copies of The Truth About Drugs series of drug education booklets to share with friends and families.

Russian Scientologists ran hundreds of miles in a two-week anti-drug “marathon” from Nizhny Novgorod to Kaluga, on to Ivanovo, Yaroslavl and Orel and ending in Moscow. Along the way they lectured in schools and colleges and distributed thousands of copies of the Truth About Drugs series of drug education booklets. Moscow Scientologists also distributed copies of drug education booklets and fliers in street events on June 26, the same day that St. Petersburg Scientologists participated in a local anti-drug bicycle race.

Danish Scientologists ran in an anti-drug marathon and distributed drug education booklets in Gammeltorv (Old Market), the oldest square in Copenhagen.

French Scientologists, cycling from Paris to Brussels, were met by Belgian Scientologists at the border. Together, they rode on to Brussels, meeting with mayors and aldermen along the way to provide them factual data on the importance of drug education in reducing abuse. Meanwhile, the Dutch “Say No to Drugs” marathon team took off from Amsterdam and, arriving in Brussels, joined the cyclists in an anti-drug bicycle tour through the center of the city, ending on the UN Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking at the headquarters of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions which hosted their anti-drug conference.

On June 12, Czech Scientologists began two weeks of running and cycling through the country for the 10th annual anti-drug “Cyclorun.” They educated youth on the truth about drugs in every town and city on their route.

Scientologists in Milan, Italy, held a “Say No to Drugs” soccer championship, and Scientologists from Padua carried out a bicycle tour through Cadoneghe, Noventa Padovana, Arquà Petrarca, Abano Terme, Montegrotto Terme and Battaglia Terme.

In New York, the Church of Scientology hosted the fifth annual Drug-Free Heroes Awards Ceremony.

In preparation for June 26, at a conference in Tennessee, Scientologists made drug education materials available to judges, court administrators, law enforcement officers, social workers, and treatment providers who deal with the backwash of drug abuse in state adult felony drug courts, DUI courts and juvenile drug courts.

As part of the International Faith-Based Coalition, the Church of Scientology of Sacramento helped bring the drug-free message to Oak Park, California, a community notorious for drug trafficking. At their press conference, religious leaders declared June 26 an “Oak Park drug-free day.”

In researching the destructive effects of drugs, Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote, “The planet has hit a barrier which prevents any widespread social progress—drugs and other biochemical substances. These can put people into a condition which not only prohibits and destroys physical health but which can prevent any stable advancement in mental or spiritual well-being.”

Scientologists live drug-free lives and work throughout the year to prevent drug abuse and addiction. Since last year’s UN Day against Drugs and Illicit Trafficking, Scientologists have distributed some 3.4 million copies of drug education booklets and organized, sponsored and participated in more than 3,000 drug prevention activities in their communities.

To learn more about the drug prevention initiative sponsored by the Church of Scientology or to participate, visit the Scientology website .

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The Church of Scientology sponsors the world's largest nongovernmental drug education and prevention campaign. It has been conclusively proven that when young people are provided with the truth about drugs—factual information on what drugs are and what they do—usage rates drop commensurately.


^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

There are only two tests of a life well lived, L. Ron Hubbard once remarked: Did one do as one intended? And were people glad one lived? In testament to the first stands the full body of his life’s work, including the more than ten thousand authored works and three thousand tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology. In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the generations of students now reading superlatively, owing to L. Ron Hubbard’s educational discoveries; they are the millions more freed from the lure of substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; still more touched by his common sense moral code; and many millions more again who hold his work as the spiritual cornerstone of their lives.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

NEW BIOGRAPHICAL VOLUME ON SCIENTOLOGY FOUNDER L. RON HUBBARD NOW PRESENTED IN ITS ENTIRETY ONLINE

The Church of Scientology International today announced the online edition of the new, biographical overview of the life and legacy of Scientology’s Founder, L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile. The work is the all-encompassing overview of The L. Ron Hubbard Series, the monumental 16-volume hardback biographical encyclopedia released on March 13 commemorating the yearlong celebration of Mr. Hubbard’s centennial. L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile is presented in its entirety at lronhubbard.org.

The online edition of this biographical work provides a never before available interactive chronology of milestone events in Mr. Hubbard’s life. Featuring hundreds of rare photographs, personal artifacts and pivotal biographical details, A Profile presents the many paths Mr. Hubbard traveled—as an author, adventurer, explorer, philosopher and founder of the only major religion born in the modern age.

The chronology details Mr. Hubbard’s lifelong trek to unravel the central questions of human existence, beginning in a rough and tumble American West where the six-year-old L. Ron Hubbard found himself befriended by an itinerant Blackfeet shaman who subsequently honored him with that very rare status of blood brother. Online visitors are further provided with details of each fundamental breakthrough along Mr. Hubbard’s trail of discovery through Dianetics and Scientology: from the startling moment when early Dianetics proved the single critical factor in saving lives of otherwise terminal patients at a northern California naval hospital, to the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and its meteoric rise to New York Times bestseller. Also detailed is the development of techniques demonstrating the human spirit is indeed independent and separable from the body, and thereby giving way to the birth of the Scientology religion.

L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile further presents Mr. Hubbard’s landmark accomplishments as a humanitarian: with a technology of study now employed by some 30 million students and educators world over; with an answer to drug addiction achieving unparalleled success rates through an international network of rehabilitation centers; with a moral code for the 21^stcentury now embraced by upwards of 100 million globally; and a body of organizational technology whereby groups and individuals may flourish, prosper and so achieve their dreams.

The online biographical resource further provides the definitive introduction to Mr. Hubbard’s legendary and multi-faceted artistic career—as among the world’s most prolific and influential authors with more than 60 bestselling works to his credit; as a musical composer, performer and arranger; as an award-winning photographer; and as a filmmaker whose codification of the craft provided for the production of several thousand award-winning public service announcements, educational films and documentaries.

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The Scientology religion was founded by author and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard. The first Church of Scientology was formed in the United States in 1954 and has today expanded to more than 10,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups, with millions of members in 167 countries.

• For more information on L. Ron Hubbard, visitL. Ron Hubbard.org.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard Quick Facts

L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) is the Founder of the Scientology religion. The first Church of Scientology was established by Scientologists in Los Angeles in 1954 and today spans the globe with more than 9,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups in 165 countries.

Mr. Hubbard’s researches into the mind and spirit are available in materials that include 18 volumes of technical writings, 12 volumes of administrative works and 3,000 recorded lectures describing various aspects of Dianetics and Scientology. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, his best-known work, has appeared on 600 bestseller lists since 1950 and sold 22 million copies. His body of fiction and nonfiction works comprises more than 100 million words.

L. Ron Hubbard left an extraordinary legacy: an immense body of wisdom that leads Man to spiritual freedom; the fastest-growing religion in the world today; and an organizational structure that allows the religion to expand without limit.

Mr. Hubbard also wrote extensively on the subjects of education, drug rehabilitation, morals and many other areas and developed technologies with broad application in secular programs including Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics and The Way to Happiness.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

Remembering 9/11

^{The tragedy of 9/11 changed countless lives. And while it brought more than 2,000 to an untimely end and stunned an entire generation, it also inspired renewed vigor in helping others.}

^{It was 9/11 that inspired Scientology Volunteer Ministers around the world to contribute far more of their time and effort to help their fellows. And it was the fuse that lit an entire international movement of unconditional help.}

^{In 1976 L. Ron Hubbard created the Volunteer Ministers program, with an essay titled "Religious Influence in Society" in which he stated:}

"We are today at a watershed of history and our actions today will decide whether the world goes up from here or continues to slide into some new dark age.

"It is important to understand bad conditions don’t just happen. The cultural decay we see around us isn’t haphazard. It was caused. Unless one understands this he won’t be able to defend himself or reach out into the society with effectiveness.

"A society is capable of surviving for thousands of years unless it is attacked from within or without by hostile forces. Where such an attack occurs, primary targets are its religious and national gods and heroes, its potential of leadership and the self-respect and integrity of its members.

^{The essay appears in full in the Scientology Volunteer Ministers website>>}

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

Favorite Book

^{I was trying to work out which is my favorite book of LRH, and I was stumped! I have so many.}

^{Dianetics absolutely changed my life because that was where I discovered a way out of the morass of unhappiness, introversion and unwanted attitudes.}

Creation of Human Ability appealed to me as an artist and gave me a true understanding of myself and others as a spiritual being.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard Centennial

<sup>As thousands around the world celebrated the beginning of the Centennial Celebrations of L. Ron Hubbard's birth this March, the next major event on the Centennial Calendar is the May 9th Anniversary Celebration commemorating 61 years since Mr. Hubbard's ground-breaking release of "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health."

Released on May 9th, 1950 and written by L. Ron Hubbard during the rise of the Cold War, Dianetics provides an explanation into some of the causes of war and how man's savage and irrational instincts can be resolved. Mr. Hubbard made the sweeping discovery in the field of mental health - painful incidents and experiences are stored in a part of the mind called the "Reactive Mind" and can later react on the person causing one to act irrationally below their conscious level.

Individuals can use the technology contained in Dianetics to address the source of their fears, upsets and irrationalities which are contained in the "Reactive Mind." With modern day conflicts and wars in different parts of the world, Dianetics not only offers an approach in helping prevent such issues, but provides a method to assist people who have been traumatized by war and the resultant suffering.

L. Ron Hubbard's research spanned several decades across the Americas, parts of Asia and included a study of some 21 different races. His research was interrupted by World War II and he was commissioned as a Lieutenant (jg) of the United States Navy where he saw active duty as a commander of antisubmarine patrols. The sheer horror of the conflict underscored the need for a workable philosophy of human betterment and provided further insight for his research.

Chapter one of Dianetics includes the statement by Mr. Hubbard that, "In the larger sphere of societies and nations, the lack of such a science of mind was never more evident; for the physical sciences, advancing thoughtlessly far in advance of Man's ability to understand Man, have armed him with terrible and thorough weapons which await only another outburst of the social insanity of war."

After its May 9th, 1950 release, Dianetics has been a best seller for more than half a century. It has over 20 million copies in print, is available in more than fifty languages and is used in more than 100 countries of Earth. Dianetics is indisputably the most widely read and influential book about the human mind ever written.

Each weekend Hubbard Dianetics Foundations across the United States deliver seminars on the use of Dianetics and how it can be applied to improve conditions in everyday life. For more information on L. Ron Hubbard's life & works visit the new interactive audio-visual website www.lronhubbard.org.</sup>

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard - Founder of the Scientology Religion

“The first principle of my own philosophy,” wrote L. Ron Hubbard, “is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of the commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.” To this he added that philosophy must be capable of application, for “Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.” Finally, he declared philosophic knowledge to be only of value if true and workable, and thereby set the parameters for Dianetics and Scientology.

How L. Ron Hubbard came to found these subjects is an immense story that effectively began in the first decades of the twentieth century with his befriending of indigenous Blackfoot Indians in and around his Helena, Montana, home. Notable among these people was a full-fledged tribal medicine man, locally known as Old Tom. In what ultimately constituted a rare bond, the six-year-old Ron was both honored with the status of blood brother and instilled with an appreciation of a profoundly distinguished spiritual heritage.

What may be seen as the next milestone came in 1923 when a twelve-year-old L. Ron Hubbard began a study of Freudian theory with a Commander Joseph C. Thompson—the first United States naval officer to study with Freud in Vienna. Although Mr. Hubbard was never to accept psychoanalysis per se, the exposure was once again pivotal. For if nothing else, he later wrote, Freud had at least advanced the idea that, “something could be done about the mind.”

The third crucial step of this journey lay in Asia, where Mr. Hubbard finally spent the better part of two years in travel and study. There, he became one of the few Americans to gain admittance to the fabled Tibetan lamaseries in the Western Hills of China and actually studied with the last in the line of magicians from the court of Kublai Khan. Yet however enthralling such adventures may have seemed, he would finally admit to finding nothing either workable or predictable as regards the human mind and spirit. (More)

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

L. Ron Hubbard

Founder of the Scientology religion

No more fitting statement typifies the life of L. Ron Hubbard than his sample declaration: “I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself from the shadows which darken his days.” Behind those pivotal words stands a lifetime of service to mankind and a legacy of wisdom that enables anyone to attain long-cherished dreams of happiness and spiritual freedom. “I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself from the shadows which darken his days.” — L. Ron Hubbard Born in Tilden, Nebraska, on March 13, 1911, his road of discovery and dedication to his fellows began at an early age. “I wanted other people to be happy, and could not understand why they weren’t,” he wrote of his youth; and therein lay the sentiments that would long guide his steps. By the age of 19, he had travelled more than a quarter of a million miles, examining the cultures of Java, India and the Philippines. Returning to the United States in 1929, L. Ron Hubbard resumed his formal education and studied mathematics, engineering and the new field of nuclear physics — all providing vital tools for continued research. To finance that research, he embarked upon a literary career in the early 1930s and soon became one of the most widely read authors of popular fiction. Yet never losing sight of his primary goal, he continued his mainline research through extensive travel and expedition. With the advent of World War II, he entered the United States Navy as a lieutenant (junior grade) and served as commander of antisubmarine corvettes. Left partially blind and lame from injuries sustained during combat, he was diagnosed as permanently disabled by 1945. Through application of his theories on the mind, however, he was not only able to help fellow servicemen, but also to regain his own health. After five more years of intensive research, Mr. Hubbard’s discoveries were presented to the world in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The first popular handbook on the human mind expressly written for the man in the street,Dianetics ushered in a new era of hope for mankind and a new phase of life for its author. He did not, however, cease his research, and as breakthrough after breakthrough were carefully codified through late 1951, the applied religion of Scientology was born. Because Scientology explains the whole of life, there is no aspect of man’s existence that Mr. Hubbard’s subsequent work did not address. Residing variously in the United States and England, his continued research brought forth solutions to such social ills as declining educational standards and pandemic drug abuse. All told, Mr. Hubbard’s works on Scientology and Dianetics total 40 million words of recorded lectures, books and writings. Together, these constitute the legacy of a lifetime that ended on January 24, 1986. Yet the passing of L. Ron Hubbard in no way constituted an end; for with a hundred million copies of books in circulation and millions of people daily applying his technologies for betterment, it can truly be said the world still has no greater friend.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard Stories from the Golden Age Surpass One Million Mark Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/236269#ixzz1Ffc18MvQ

Hollywood, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 02, 2011

“Stories from the Golden Age just surpassed its one millionth sale,” announced John Goodwin, President of Galaxy Press, the publisher for the line of books written by L. Ron Hubbard during fiction’s Golden Age. (http://www.goldenagestories.com)

Announced just days before Hubbard’s centennial celebration is about to begin on March 13 (1911-2011), the news is significant in demonstrating the resurgence in popularity for these kinds of stories. While sales do quite well in non-traditional outlets in the US, they are also doing well in several other countries around the world where a desire to learn English as a second language has found these books with their accompanying unabridged audiobooks a great resource. “We are almost to the halfway point in the release of the line,” stated Goodwin. “As awareness of this type of storytelling increases, we expect to rapidly see that two-millionth sale achieved.” For a complete listing of available titles and the schedule for release of the remaining books, go to http://www.goldenagestories.com/release-schedule.

But Hubbard isn’t the only author finding a resurgence in interest in his stories. Adventure House, Vintage Library, and Black Dog Books are three other publishers who have engaged an expanding audience through their reprints of such notable authors as H. Bedford-Jones, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Sales continue to increase as readers discover that many of their favorite characters, such as Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, Superman and Spiderman, have their roots in such perennially popular characters as Doc Savage, The Spider and The Shadow. “Hollywood has long known the treasure trove these Golden Age stories contained,” Goodwin stated, “now we are seeing the reader becoming more and more cognizant of this fact.”

Stories from the Golden Age contain 153 stories written by Hubbard that are being published in 80 volumes, in a wide spectrum of genres, including adventure, western, mystery, detective, fantasy, science fiction and even some romance, using his own and 15 pen names.

For more information about the Stories from the Golden Age, go to http://www.goldenagestories.com.

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^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard}

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE

The Church of Scientology has since its inception been a champion of human rights. The Creed of the Church, written in 1954 by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, begins with the statement that Man is an immortal spiritual being and that all people of any race, color or creed are created with equal and inalienable rights.

In fulfillment of that ideal, decades of human rights advocacy and accomplishment by Scientologists have ensued, including exposing slave labor camps in apartheid-era Africa, spearheading Freedom of Information laws in the U.S. and other countries, establishing the Citizens Commission on Human Rights to clean up human rights violations in the field of mental healing, and publishing Freedom human rights journal since 1968.

“It is vital that all thinking men urge upon their governments (for the governments’ own sake if no other) sweeping reforms in the field of human rights,” stated Mr. Hubbard in 1969. To that end, today the Church sponsors the world’s largest non-governmental human rights information campaign, aimed at raising awareness and calling for governments to meaningfully support and ensure human rights.

The Church has made possible the distribution of millions of educational booklets, the creation of a series of 30 public service announcements depicting each article of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and production of The Story of Human Rights film.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

L. RON HUBBARD

L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) is the Founder of the Scientology religion. The first Church of Scientology was established by Scientologists in Los Angeles in 1954 and today spans the globe with more than 9,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups in 165 countries.

Mr. Hubbard’s researches into the mind and spirit are available in materials that include 18 volumes of technical writings, 12 volumes of administrative works and 3,000 recorded lectures describing various aspects of Dianetics and Scientology. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, his best-known work, has appeared on 600 bestseller lists since 1950 and sold 22 million copies. His body of fiction and nonfiction works comprises more than 100 million words.

L. Ron Hubbard left an extraordinary legacy: an immense body of wisdom that leads Man to spiritual freedom; the fastest-growing religion in the world today; and an organizational structure that allows the religion to expand without limit.

Mr. Hubbard also wrote extensively on the subjects of education, drug rehabilitation, morals and many other areas and developed technologies with broad application in secular programs including Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics and The Way to Happiness.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

Meeting the demand for Scientology materials

While L. Ron Hubbard's lectures had been previously assembled from around the world and stored in archives, the poor quality of the original recordings and deterioration of master tapes seriously impaired mass reproduction. Consequently, the project to restore these lectures only became possible with advances in computer and digital technology. To reclaim Mr. Hubbard’s lectures, the Church established one of the world’s most sophisticated sound restoration studios."

^{"You may have been taught that the mind is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life."—L. Ron Hubbard}

Founding Chairman of Challenger Center for Space Education is Keynote Speaker at Writers of the Future Event

June Scobee Rodgers, Founding Chairman of Challenger Center for Space Science Education, will deliver the keynote address to winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the FutureContest, the Contest judges and several hundred attending guests this Saturday night at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Challenger Centers have the purpose to carry on the educational mission to utilize the excitement of space to inspire and motivate our nation's school children to take interest in mathematics, science and technology. Scobee Rodgers will address the evening's attendees on the vital role played by writers and illustrators of science fiction as the dreamers of a new tomorrow which will inspire the next generation of scientists.

It is not only as the founding Chairman of the Challenger Space Centers that she will be addressing the audience. She is also a published author. And, as the 25th anniversary approaches of the Challenger 51-L Teacher in Space mission, commanded by her late husband Astronaut Dick Scobee, she says that she is pleased to launch a new project, ''A series of novels that I developed with Writers of the Future judges Rebecca Moesta and Kevin J. Anderson, called Star Challengers.''
The highlight of the ceremony will be the announcement of the year's two Grand Prize winners who will each receive $5,000and release of the annual anthology L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers and Illustrators of the Future, Volume 26 (Galaxy Press, 2010). Also being released is a special coffee table book edition of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: The First 25 Years, a photographic retrospective of the 25 years of the contest and containing over 1,000 images.

The Writers of the Future writing contest (www.writersofthefuture.com) was initiated by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983 to provide a means for aspiring writers to get a much-needed break -- its winners have gone on to sell an impressive 31 million copies of their works combined. Due to the success of the Writing Contest, the companion Illustrators of the Future Contest was created in 1988.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

Scientology- an Invitation to Freedom

What an incredible video-- Scientology: an Invitation to Freedom

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

L. Ron Hubbard's Books and Lectures Restored

^{The Scientology News site explains how David Miscavige oversaw the full restoration of all of all the books and lectures of L. Ron Hubbard from 1948 through to 1962. It was a 25-year project, completed at the end of 2009 and announced at the yearly New Years event, televised to all Scientology Churches and Missions. The project, its products and the result of having carried it out has been called the Golden Age of Knowledge, and the driving force behind it, and behind making if fully available and seeing that every Scientologist benefits from its study is David Miscavige, in keeping with the intentions of L. Ron Hubbard.}

^{Here is how this is described on the website:}

Restoring Mr. Hubbard’s lectures from the period was another key phase of the project. In the 1950s, Mr. Hubbard delivered hundreds of lectures to Dianeticists and Scientologists, each expanding on some aspect of the corresponding book. Although recorded, many of these lectures had never been broadly available due to lack of reproduction facilities in the Church’s formative years. An earlier project had scoured the cities where the lectures were delivered—Los Angeles, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Wichita, London, Melbourne, Johannesburg—and rounded up all known original recordings. But mass reproduction was still hindered by the poor quality of many of the originals or by their deterioration over the years. Factually, despite various restoration attempts through the years, many of the lectures had never been heard since the day they were delivered.

By the turn of the 21st century, however, computer and digital technology had advanced dramatically, and the painstaking work was begun anew—this time with result. But even then, to achieve the quality befitting the content, the Church continually pushed boundaries of existing audio technology and thereby established the world’s most sophisticated sound restoration studios. Tens of thousands of hours later, the project had successfully restored hundreds of hours of previously missing, distorted or inaudible recordings. The net result was the recovery of an enormous body of Scientology Scripture for today and forever.

From this monumental undertaking in research, verification, editorial and audio came the most dramatic achievement in the Church’s history: recovery of the very foundations of the Scientology religion. Eighteen books by L. Ron Hubbard, perfect in every detail; the corresponding lecture series for each book, 280 lectures in all, produced in-house on CD; each lecture series including verified transcripts and supplemental references; and each book and lecture series containing a massive glossary, defining words as Mr. Hubbard used them to ensure understanding by any listener; and every book and lecture reproduced and released in the world’s 15 major languages.

And that is why this is truly a Golden Age of Knowledge for every Scientologist.

As Mr. Miscavige summed it up: “And just in case you missed it—we are not speaking of ‘corrected’ manuscripts. Not ‘newly verified’ manuscripts. And definitely not just ‘repackaged.’ What we are speaking of is 100 percent unadulterated SOURCE.”

To know that they are receiving the actual material from the source of the Scientology religion, L. Ron Hubbard, is the primary goal of every Scientologist. And Mr. Miscavige made it possible.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard

International Writers of the Future 26th Anniversary Set for Live Internet Broadcast Worldwide -- HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ --

International Writers of the Future 26th Anniversary Set for Live Internet Broadcast Worldwide -- HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Part of L. Ron Hubbard's legacy is the encouragement he gave to writers of speculative fiction through the Writers of the Future contests and anthologies.

This article explains:

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards ceremony celebrating the 26th anniversary of the internationally-acclaimed Writers of the Future Contest and its companion Illustrators of the Future Contest will be broadcast on Saturday, August 28th, 7:30 pm (Pacific), to a worldwide audience via Internet, it was announced today. Streaming will be live from www.writersofthefuture.com where a special link will be set up.

"This annual ceremony for new writers and illustrators of science fiction and fantasy is such a moving experience that we wanted all speculative fiction fans everywhere and the friends and families of this year's winners to witness it," said Joni Labaqui, Contests' director.

The actual evening ceremony will be held before hundreds of invited guests, celebrities, and many of speculative fiction's most popular writers and illustrators at the famous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in the very room that the first Academy Awards were held.

"We've got quite a show planned. Not only are we releasing volume 26, but a 25 year retrospective coffee table book of the Writers of the Future program with over 1,000 photos in 270 pages will also be released," Labaqui added.

Every quarter, three writers and three illustrators are selected by a panel of leading authors and artists of science fiction and fantasy. With no entry fee and judging done on an anonymous basis, the criterion is strictly merit. Beside first time publication, benefits include over $30,000 in cash prizes and royalties, a week-long workshop with top professionals of the genre as well as book signings, radio and TV interviews organized by the contest administrators to assist the winners in launching their careers.

For more information, on the Contests, go to www.writersofthefuture.com. You can see last year's awards ceremony a twww.youtube.com/writersofthefuture and click on "2009 Awards Ceremony-Vol XXV."

Please note, this is a live broadcast, so check your time zone for when it will be showing in your location.

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. — Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

Clearing Congress DVD

Clearing Congress (DVD)

I first watched the Clearing Congress films on 16 mm film. Then I saw it when it was on video cassette. The professionalism in the mastering of this DVD is amazing.

I remember watching the event when David Miscavige showed the difference in the before and after shots. Man. What a huge difference. And I found when I watched it the this improved quality made it so much easier to watch the film and appreciate the information.

Really remarkable.

^{Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion}

Books on Film by L. Ron Hubbard

In June, David Miscavige released The Problems of Work as a book on film. It is available from Bridge Publications or any Scientology Church or Mission.

The book itself helps you deal with the kinds of stress nearly everyone is experiencing today with an unstable economy and lack of job security and all the stress this puts on other aspects of your life.

^{I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}