Wow, what an event that was!  David Miscavige hosting a 3-hour plus overview of the past 25 years' highlights of the the Scientology religion, including legal victories and the humanitarian activities of the Church.  Awesome!

These Open House photos really tell the tale:

I attended the Maiden Voyage Event last weekend and it was incredible to see how much we've accomplished in the past year.

As usual it was a total treat seeing David Miscavige at the podium. What in incredible speaker. And he certainly has a way of presenting the news that keeps you riveted to every word he says.

I was so excited to see the new ideal org buildings.

And I, for one, am winning so much on studying the Basic Scientology Books and Lectures that it was a treat seeing the success stories of other people who are winning too.

I love the events David Miscavige emcees. I'm sure the rest of the summer of events will be incredible too.

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But last year was a great year for me, because in July, I got a set of the new basic Scientology and Dianetics books and lectures, and I've been diligently studying ever since.

This is changing my life.

I am finding that things I have had trouble with forever are starting to resolve for me.

What is so brilliant is that Ron gives you so many tools you can use in life. It's still up to you to use them (and Scientology doesn't work unless you put it to use), but once you do, boy, this stuff really works!

On the 138th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, world leaders reflected on the message of this wise man and his affect on history. "Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh welcomed Tuesday as the first International Day of Non-Violence coinciding with Mahatma Gandhi's 138th birthday.

"The 192 members of the U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted the date as a commemoration of Gandhi's message of non-violent conflict resolution, equality and harmony. The United Nations adopted the resolution June 17, 2007.

"Prime Minister Singh acknowledged the occasion highlights the continued relevance of Gandhi's message."more

Here is the irony of a man who lived by peace, dying by violence. But his message of non-violence and peaceful resistance reverberated around the world, and was responsible for much of the social change in the second half of the 20th Century, not only in India but around the world.

"A rare summit and apparent progress on halting North Korea's nuclear program raise expectations on the Korean Peninsula.

"As a plan to declare and disable North Korea's nuclear facilities by the end of the year moved forward, the leaders of North Korea and South Korea met Tuesday in Pyongyang in a historic summit aimed at symbolizing a future of reconciliation between the two previous archenemies."more

As a plan to declare and disable North Korea's nuclear facilities by the end of the year moved forward, the leaders of North Korea and South Korea met Tuesday in Pyongyang in a historic summit aimed at symbolizing a future of reconciliation between the two previous archenemies.

In 1950 L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health, and began the book with these words: “A science of mind is a goal which has engrossed thousands of generations o Man. Armies, dynasties and whole civilizations have perished for the lack of it. Rome went to dust for the want of it. China swims in blood for the need of it. And down in the arsenal is an atom bomb, its hopeful nose full-armed in ignorance of it.” This is as true today as it was in 1950. My optimism on a resolution of the most important situations on this planet is running high and this news only adds to it. But I'll tell you, the June release by Mr. David Miscavige of all of L. Ron Hubbard's basic books and lectures, including the new edition of the Dianetics book--a beautiful new version of a real classic. It has a complete glossary of terms used in the book, and is very easy to read and assimilate.

If you have ever studied Scientology you may recognize the name as appearing in one of the most famous of L. Ron Hubbard's recorded lectures -- the Phoenix Lectures.

While he lived in this modest home in Phoenix Mr. Hubbard's research into the spirit and life took on a completely new dimensions, as it was here that he developed processes that enabled the individual to gain certainty of himself/herself as a spiritual being.

The basic books and lectures of L. Ron Hubbard were released last month at an international Scientology event in Clearwater, Florida. David Miscavige did a three-hour long presentation documenting the tremendous work that was done to go back to L. Ron Hubbard's original works including the wax disks on which the material for all but one of the basic Scientology books were dictated and from which the books were transcribed.

It was fascinating to see how transcriptionists had altered what he dictated. And it is very exciting to now have this original research in a pure form for study.

And since so much of the original work came from the years when LRH lived in Phoenix, it is fitting that this part of history has been memorialized in this museum.

He's pretty much decided to break up the relationship but wants to be able to care for his daughter as well, and doesn't want his girlfriend to move away. They didn't marry, but he's still responsible for supporting the daughter, yet he doesn't know what, if any, rights he has as far as custody or visitation is concerned. Having sex with this woman without first determining whether he was willing to make the concessions she demands of him was not an ethical thing to do, in that now he has to make some really tough choices and risks so much that is really important to him.

Our "liberated" culture doesn't take into account that indiscriminate sex has repercussions in many areas of one's life.

I really value the subject of Scientology ethics. Ethics has long been explored by philosophy and L. Ron Hubbard did a great deal of research into that subject, and came up with some simple, natural laws.

One of them is the concept of making one's decisions by how much what you are going to do helps or hinders all concerned.

In July a new edition of the Scientology ethics book was released by Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center.

Would I recommend it to anyone who needs to sort out areas of his/her life that are holding him/her down or keeping him/her from achieving his/her full potential? Absolutely!

You can order a copy online here: