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}

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

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

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

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}

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

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}

Beautiful new LRH web site

There's a beautiful new web site for L. Ron Hubbard.

One, www.lronhubbard.org, is a flash site with gorgeous photos really beautifully presented. There's also a site for people who don't care for a flash site, at http://www.lronhubbard.org/home.html

"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 some 12,000 writings and 3,000 tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology. In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions of individuals whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the more than 28 million students now reading superlatively owing to L. Ron Hubbard’s educational discoveries; they are the millions of men and women freed from substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; they are the near 100 million who have been touched by his nonreligious moral code; and they are the many millions more who hold his work to be 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.

Scientology Philosophy in "A New Slant on Life"

"Who are you anyway? Where do you come from? What will happen to you? Are you a product of the mud as you have been told, to exist for a few years and then wither away and fertilize the earth from which they said you came? Or are you something better, something finer?"

That is the beginning of the book Scientology: A New Slant on Life. It's a great read and every chapter (most of them no more than a page of two long) contains something you can take and use. I doubt there's a person alive today who has everything in their life together. People have conflicts, upsets, disappointments, they fail, they lose, they make mistakes. Aren't we all looking for a way to fix these things and do better by ourselves and each other? I like to think so. and that 's what this book contains—a way to accomplish those aims.


^{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 Basics

One of the best things I've ever done has been reading the basic books and Scientology and Dianetics and listening to the lectures that go along with them. I have learned more over the past couple of years since beginning this study than in anything I've done in Scientology in the past.

Highly recommended!

You can find out more about this project on the Scientology web site where the speech by David Miscavige is presented in full. He released the project in 2007.

^{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}

Incredible Lectures

I am having tremendous wins from studying the Scientology Basics. I'm on a set of lectures right now called Technique 88. Wow. Incredible.


^{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 Office at the New Los Angeles Scientology Church

When he visited the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles yesterday, KCAL’s Dave Malkoff stopped by the office set aside for L. Ron Hubbard. He asked the question--do Scientologists expect Mr. Hubbard to come back. Is this office for when that happens. Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis explained that no, the office is there out of respect for the man who did so much for so many. It is simply a symbol of that respect.

The video is on line on Youtube.


^{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 of Los Angeles--A Real Tribute to L. Ron Hubbard

You can see genius in the planning and execution of the remodeled Church of Scientology of Los Angeles.

L. Ron Hubbard had a vision for the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles. At the complex called the Pacifica Bridge, this is the entrance gates to Scientology for the greater LA area, and Ron planned that a person could walk through that door and travel all the way up to Clear there, walk down the block to train to audit the advanced levels of Scientology at the American Saint Hill Organization and cross the street to the Advanced Org of LA and go all the way up the Bridge to a level called OT V.

Now, the way the LA org is set up, anyone wanting spiritual freedom can walk through those doors and learn the wisdom he or she has been searching for, for eons.

You can also see David Miscavige's hand in this Church in the attention to detail and the care. For example, the furniture is ergonomically perfect. The chairs are absolutely the most comfortable chairs I've ever sat in. The color scheme is so comfortable and aesthetic.

It is absolutely open to the public and there are tours and open houses so it is totally worth fitting it into your schedule. You will be able to find out to your satisfaction the answer to the question, "What is Scientology?" And if you have a group you can call and book the use of one of their conference rooms or seminar rooms.

Come in and check it out!

^{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}

Russia's Ban (spelled censorship) of Scientology Materials

WARNING--YOU COULD LEARN SOMETHING IMPORTANT FROM THESE LECTURES!!

Want to know what it says in the Unification Congress by L. Ron Hubbard, claimed to be "extremist" by the Soviet...I mean Russian (in Siberia no less) prosecutor ? Maybe this will explain the ruling.

"Let's find out how able a fellow can be and how free he can be. And if we discover this, we will discover immediately why research and investigation in the field of Dianetics and Scientology will continue to expand--because the direction toward ability is the only direction it has ever really had. The more able we can make a person the freer he is." L. Ron Hubbard.

Quick--burn those Scientology books!

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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.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard}

Scientology Books by L. Ron Hubbard

<sup>The new Scientology web site has videos of recent events, including the release of all the books and lectures of L. Ron Hubbard. You can find out what a breakthrough achievement is was to correct the books and what it took to do so. David Miscavige does the presentation. It is really worth watching. I've been reading the books and listening to the lectures and the quality of presentation of both is just the best.

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</sup>