The Hidden Menace in your Head

"I know I can't do this," or "He couldn't be interested in someone like me," or "Damn it, what's wrong with me? Why did I say that," and "I know I'll never get over this," "I'm such a dumb f**k".... Sound too familiar?

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I hate to see the furor that has erupted resulting in the resignation of the Principal of the Khalil Gibran middle school.

Supporters of Almontaser, who wears a hijab, the traditional head covering, say she has been hounded and misinterpreted.

"Sadly and unfortunately, Debbie was singled out and attacked because she's a religious Muslim," said Rabbi Andy Bachman of Congregation Beth Elohim, who is part of an informal clergy advisory group for the school. "Everything in her career, from what we can see, has demonstrated she's a peaceful person who has been the center of dialogue."

^{"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}

Peruvian Disaster Relief

With the help pouring in from all over the world for the victims of the Peru earthquake even the media are having to report something decent and helpful, for a change.

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What's Dianetics Up To in Harlem?

Dianetics and Scientology are expanding in Harlem, as shown in this story.

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New Australian Law Won't Solve the Problem

New Australian law, aimed at helping Aboriginal children,will further disrupt the family unit and degrade the culture. What is needed is work to restore the self-respect and cultural values of the community.

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Church of Scientology restores L. Ron Hubbard’s Phoenix home

Nice article on the restoration of the L. Ron Hubbard house in Phoenix, AZ and some background on what LRH was doing when he was living there.

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The World Scene--Has it Really Changed?

In 1950 L. Ron Hubbard described war as insanity on a broad social level. Has this really changed and is there any solution?

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Scientology -- Reaching Out to Help the Community

If Scientology raises literacy, improves morality, helps people help one another, helps people to be more productive, why do people go so far afield to try to find controversy about it? Could it be some vested interests that profit off of people doing better in life?

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Suri Cruise -- Wow What a Face!

What a great moment caught for posterity -- Suri Cruse at the Berlin zoo. The magic of discovering the world around you -- guess that never changes! (no matter who your parents are!)

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Dianetics -- 57 Years Old But Reads Like it was Written Yesterday

New editions of Dianetics resonate as much today as it did 57 years ago. L. Ron Hubbard's discoveries apply as much today as they did then. Maybe even more...

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Scientology News: Harlem Church and Scientology Books

Two things announced by David Miscavige last month that are changing things big time--the plans for the new Scientology church in Harlem and how that fits in with expansion of Scientology internationally, and the release of all of L. Ron Hubbard's books and their accompanying taped lectures for the first time in 16 languages.

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Will That Be a Bomb with Your McMuffin, Sir?

Terrorism now ruled out in freak explosion at the new McDonalds restaurant in the trendy Park Street district of Kolkata. Scientology Volunteer Ministers helped police and civil defense agencies calm the scene where blast killed one and injured four Sunday morning.

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A Chapter a Day Keeps the Blues Away?

I've been taking time every day to real LRH books (books by L. Ron Hubbard).

You can take the time to read the directions of how to use some new gadget, IPod, how to upload your videos on a site, how to take digital pictures. But what if it was just as simple, even easier, to read a manual about you -- about how you tick, why you sometimes do irrational things, why people can be really hard to be around, why that last relationship didn't work out quite as well as you thought it would....

That and a lot more is what you get from reading Scientology books.

I have to say it's quite brilliant what David Miscavige has done with the release of all the basic Scientology and Dianetics books and lectures. (David Miscavige is the one who announced the new release of all these books and lectures last month).

To really understand Scientology you have to read and understand these books and listen to these lectures. They are the record of Ron's research and they are what lets you in on everything he learned about how people tick. It's still such an exciting route to read about, even though I've been a Scientologist for many years.

Mr. Miscavige described what it took to get these lectures and books out in 16 languages (15 plus English). We're talking man hours like you wouldn't believe!

So, I'm on Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health. And what a ride this is!

Frankly I'd forgotten what a great book it is, and this version (it has a really extensive glossary making it so easy to understand) is just gorgeous. But it's what's inside that really makes it special.

I would recommend this book to ANYONE.


^{"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}

The Scientology Religion Blog: Reply to Anonymous Comments

Why do people act so much worse when they are making anonymous comments than when they are talking to people in person?

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Californication — David Duchovny Personifies the New American Morality?

David Duchovny's new show, premiering on the 13th of August, looks like a total winner, but does it idealize a lifestyle that sets people up to lose in life?

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Sex and AIDS — Life and Death

It’s a pretty sorry state when we can be encouraged that “only” 29% of the pregnant women on one's country are HIV positive. But that’s the news today out of South Africa.

How many Americans could confront walking down a street in Johannesburg today, knowing that 3 out of every 10 pregnant women we see are living under a death sentence and passing it on to their unborn children.

As reported in 2005 almost half of the 1,200,000 orphans in South Africa lost their parents to AIDS.

The people of the African continent, living under the thread to AIDS have the lowest life expectancy on Earth.

Obviously, sexual abstinence is the most effective preventative measure for sexually transmitted HIV, but what will it take to shift sexual mores to such a degree that we can make a dent in the problem?

Last month a new set of video clips that are public service announcements were released at an international Scientology event in Clearwater Florida by David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center. (Mr. Miscavige is the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion).

These video clips illustrate the 21 precepts of The Way to Happiness, which is a common sense moral code, not restricted to any one religious belief, written by L. Ron Hubbard.

One of these clips illustrates the precept “Don’t be promiscuous.”

The video itself is a very funny representation of the personal backlash one can experience from violating this precept. It doesn't get into the question of sexually transmitted disease, but rather into the painful repercussions when the person you cheated on finds out. But its humor could be the very thing to use this as the opener for educating youth on sexual faithfulness being the most effective personal answer and social remedy for the AIDS pandemic.

This is not an advocacy against other campaigns to reduce the spread of AIDS through distribution of condoms. Whatever it takes to save lives, we need to do it. But this is one method that's foolproof, and it's easy for anyone to participate and spread the word.

Here's the video clip. It's less than a minute. Take the time to enjoy it. Then copy it onto your blog and spread the word.

Click here to view other Public Service Announcements

It is ironic that L. Ron Hubbard wrote The Way To Happiness in 1981, the year that the first cases of this new disease were reported, and a full year before scientists had given it a name. In this book, Mr. Hubbard wrote: “Unfaithfulness on the part of a sexual partner can heavily reduce one’s survival,“ and he goes on to say, “For a very brief period, it was said that sexual diseases were all under control. This is not now the case, if it ever was. Incurable strains of such diseases now exist,” and “The urge of the moment can become the sorrow of a lifetime.”

If this one precept were really implemented, we could cut back the spread of HIV/AIDS enormously in one generation.