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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:

For example, have you ever had someone who seemed to push your buttons? No matter how often you decided you weren't going to react in a certain way, they opened their mouth and you exploded?

Wouldn't it be great to understand why you and other people you know react that way.

And wouldn't it be a relief to know you could change that? Not just restrain it or discipline yourself, or talk yourself into liking the person (when you really don't), or getting a new job (or a new apartment, or a new best friend, or even a new husband or wife) to get away from the stress of always feeling on edge around them?

I just finished reading the Dianetics book, and I suddenly understand what's going on!

It is hard to conceive what L. Ron Hubbard accomplished in his research for even this one book.

Here's one of my favorite quotes from that book:

"Man's primary fight is not with Man: that is insanity. Man's primary fight is with those elements which oppress him as a species and bar his thrust toward high goals. Man's fight is with the elements, with space and time, and with species which are destructive to him."

I highly recommend the Dianetics book to anyone It is available online at Bridge Publications online bookstore.

It's not always easy. Many people are addicted to alcohol and drugs, but the first step in overcoming an addiction and getting your life back on track is making a decision to do so.

Drugs and alcohol are a lot to contend with. You may know someone who has given up on quitting. But if so, their lives are a wreck. This video brings it so graphically to life, that whatever it takes, you won't be happy (and neither will the people you love) if you don't make this decision and do something about it.
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"According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association. The current manual was published in 1994; the next edition is to be completed in 2012. The benefit to people of an official classification is coverage by health insurance."

For shame. We are not paying enough for health insurance that we have to dream up outrageous, fraudulent "disorders" as this?

Ah, but who's really behind this, do you think? You don't suppose that Big Pharma is ready to "reveal" their latest wonder drug to revitalize our patriotic fervor and get us down to the voting booth, the first Tuesday of November, do you?

And if that weren't hard enough to swallow, check this out: "Reached by phone, Dr. Aaron Gestaltstein, a Council member and psychiatrist with the Michigan Institute for the Study of Individual and Societal Health, said the AMA proposal will help raise awareness and called it 'the right thing to do if the United States is ever to regain effective government and equitable public policies.' 'Sick Americans deserve compassionate treatment if our country is to survive. PADD is no joke,' he added.

OMIGOD! And here I was hoping the whole thing was a troll!

Let's just take a step back and look at this. What can we do to prevent drugging 80% of our population who have been driven down into apathy by inept leadership and lousy education that leaves them unable to adequately participate in their civil responsibilities. (and by the way, I don't for a minute believe these figures of 80%, and I can't imagine how they dreamed it up!).

Here are things we can do to remedy this:L. Ron Hubbard described in the book The Problems of Work in the 1950's. Just take a walk and look around at the environment until you feel extroverted. He explains why and how this works in the book, but all you have to do is get out and walk, even if you feel exhausted (and especially if that's how you feel).

2. Improve your ability to understand political issues by boosting your functional literacy. Functional literacy is the ability to apply what you read. The Scientology Handbook has a chapter on the technology of study. Very easy to read and learn, and when you use it, Voila, you can understand what you are reading much better.

3. Get out and do something to help someone. I recommend checking out the Volunteer Ministers web site, as that's my favorite web volunteer group, but there are so many groups working hard and doing good. Dedicate a bit of your time to providing some unconditional help.

4. Ignore those who would like you to believe that living is a disease. It is most definitely not. It is part of LIFE to experience emotions.

If I've learned anything in Scientology it's that you CAN improve your life and it's not hard to do. And it certainly doesn't require the latest Big Pharma invention (which we later find out has a 70% failure rate so they had to invent a new one.)

It is NOT illogical to feel apathetic about an unresponsive government that thinks it's perfectly okay to ignore a record low 26% approval rating and continue to act with a total disregard of what the public actually needs and wants.

Wait a minute. The AMA/APA were wrong. It's not 80% of use who have PADD yet. It's only 74%. 26% still approve of the way the government is being administered!