Scientology Religion
May 24, 2018
What Scientologists Are REALLY Up To
While I have been Jewish all my life, for the last 12 years I have added Scientology to my religious resumé. In practicing...
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Scientology Religion
May 21, 2018
Is Man Just Another Animal? Part 2: Loss of Spirituality and Increase of Dementia
The immortality of the soul is certainly a crucial and integral part of the belief systems of most if not all religions. And...
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Scientology Religion
May 15, 2018
The Real Story of Scientology
Imagine living in a world where you have something in your life that you find incredibly helpful and rewarding, something...
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Scientology Religion
May 2, 2018
The Best Thing In The World
Life is the essential raw material of artists—be they sculptors, performers, painters, writers, directors, or whichever—they...
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Scientology Religion
April 27, 2018
Why I Love Being a Scientologist
If you enter a Scientology Organization you will find diversity there second to none. Every race, creed, ethnicity, nationality,...
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Scientology Religion
April 13, 2018
The Self-Evident Truth of Scientology
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as...
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Scientology Religion
April 12, 2018
The Brilliance of Scientology
For most of us, our cell phone is a thing of wonder and mystery. We don’t know how it works, we only know it does. Well,...
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Scientology Religion
March 16, 2018
Pot Head vs. Clear Mind
Then, one day, my world changed. I mean CHANGED. I suddenly found myself in present time, in touch with everything and everyone...
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Scientology Religion
March 14, 2018
A Scientology Tool Called “Admiration”
So many relationships fall into an “I am right—you are wrong” argument-and-struggle level of communication.
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Scientology Religion
March 2, 2018
What Do Scientologists Believe?
If you’re curious about the subject and want to know more, talk to a Scientologist, but don’t ask them what they believe....
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Scientology Religion
March 1, 2018
A STAND Against Today’s False Prophets: Psychiatrists
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their...
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Scientology Religion
February 21, 2018
Scientology: What’s in a Name?
Ron was discussing methods of determining sanity. He described sanity in a number of ways but the simplest was noting the...
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Scientology Religion
February 16, 2018
Observe The Truth For Yourself!
I was born in 1943, too young to experience World War II. I am Jewish and as I grew older I learned about the Holocaust and...
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Scientology Religion
February 13, 2018
Gender Schmender
I’m no student of world religions, but the ministry seems to be a male-dominated field. In centuries past, women have, for...
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Scientology Religion
February 6, 2018
Me, Before and After Scientology
Scientology has given me the key to embracing life as an exciting adventure, not something to endure or hide from. Priceless.
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Scientology Religion
January 23, 2018
My Daughter’s Words Summed Up My Whole Purpose as a Scientology Parent
I spend a lot of time outdoors with my kids. Some might say too much. But while there are a lot of lessons one can learn about...
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Scientology Religion
January 22, 2018
How to Make New Year’s Resolutions That Work
A gorgeous cathedral, a footprint on the moon, a powerful electric automobile, a pocket device with tremendous computing power,...
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Scientology Religion
January 2, 2018
What I Tell My Friends When Scientology Is Libeled
In 1633, Galileo was tried and found guilty of heresy and confined to house arrest for the remainder of his life for correctly...
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Scientology Religion
January 2, 2018
The Truth—and Lies—About Scientology
When I was eighteen, I was working the cash register of the family grocery store when a gentleman walked in holding a brown...
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Scientology Religion
December 30, 2017
What It’s Like Being a Scientology Dad
I have the most awesome kid in the world. I know every parent thinks that, but in my case I have empirical evidence to support...
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Scientology Religion
December 29, 2017
What We Scientologists Wish You Knew About Us
I am a Scientologist of over 35 years, and my friends and I are here to tell you that we are no different from you.
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Scientology Religion
December 19, 2017
Scientologists DO Have An Agenda!
I’ve been in Scientology since 1975. For 32 of those years I worked in a Church of Scientology as a staff member. For 19...
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Scientology Religion
December 17, 2017
STAND’s Annual Year-End Reception: A Meeting of Minds
Once I began to study Scientology, one of the things that kept me coming back was the people I’ve been privileged to associate...
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Scientology Religion
November 22, 2017
Giving Thanks Grateful to be a Scientologist
Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. Some of my earliest memories are of my extended family gathering...
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Scientology Religion
November 12, 2017
Why My Staff Don’t Believe I’m a Scientologist
When asked, or if it just comes up, I tell all my co-workers and associates I am a Scientologist. The funny thing is, they...
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Scientology Religion
November 1, 2017
How Scientology Saved My Life
It was July 1977. Gold was selling for $161.10 per ounce, Dodgers players Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke had just invented the...
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Scientology Religion
October 30, 2017
Why Scientologists Oppose Psychiatry
In 1975, just as Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was filmed at Oregon State Hospital, I became...
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Scientology Religion
October 16, 2017
Life After Death—What Scientology Did for Me
It became apparent she was fighting for life, not for herself, but so her family would not have to suffer her death. Realizing...
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Scientology Religion
September 30, 2017
My Scientology Mom, Who Talks to Strangers and Helps Indiscriminately
I honestly don’t know how she does it. It takes commitment to be on call the way she is. It takes commitment to travel away...
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Scientology Religion
September 26, 2017
The “Secret” Practice of Scientology
He was hoping for some weird, juicy secret stuff from an insider but I had to disappoint him. Nothing there to tell. After...
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Scientology Religion
September 18, 2017
Surviving Irma Together—A Scientologist’s View from the Ground
While that contribution ended up playing out in the media, the behind-the-scenes I saw was more personal. It was the way the...
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Scientology Religion
September 17, 2017
A Scientologist’s Response to “Critics”
Journalists always seem to get their panties in a wad, downright insulted that Scientologists, when asked to “respond to...
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Scientology Religion
September 14, 2017
What Scientology Is, to Me
For me, Scientology is about endless possibility and hope. It’s about daring to aim for the top of the mountain and the...
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Scientology Religion
August 10, 2017
Why Leah Remini is Only Worth Pitying
One of the first things one learns about when studying Scientology is the definition of an overt act. An overt act is an act...
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Scientology Religion
August 8, 2017
Church of Scientology Mission of Baton Rouge—Beacon of Light and Hope on the Mississippi
This building of this Mission represents years of dedication by me and many others. It is an aesthetic space worthy of the...
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Scientology Religion
July 26, 2017
Scientology and Responsibility
If you have the impression that Scientologists never examine Scientology, you would be wrong. The simple practice of Scientology...
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Scientology Religion
June 19, 2017
The Power of Listening
The first course I took in Scientology was called, “The Communication Course.” The first exercise on the course was called...
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Scientology Religion
June 18, 2017
The Truth about Scientology, in my View
I remember when I was 17 years old and first walked into a Church of Scientology in Chicago. I was young, troubled, unsure...
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Scientology Religion
June 13, 2017
The Biggest Secret About Scientology
I won't get into how it was, but one day I was sitting in a hotel in Siberia, downing a few vodka shots with Misha, the owner....
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Scientology Religion
May 29, 2017
A Face to Go With a Faith
Growing up in a new religion can be an interesting experience. As a child I was completely uninhibited about my beliefs. But...
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Scientology Religion
May 26, 2017
Science and Religion
When I was a kid I asked a lot of questions. That wouldn’t surprise anyone who knows me now. I can be a little obsessive...
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Scientology Religion
May 18, 2017
What? Scientology?!
If you have ever read or watched some media panic piece on Scientology, you may have wondered why anyone in their right mind...
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Scientology Religion
May 10, 2017
Know What You’re Objecting To
It’s fine if you object, but at least know what it is you’re objecting to. As a Scientologist of 36 years, I’ve read...
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Scientology Religion
May 8, 2017
One of Those Scientologists
A few years back my husband and I took in a family member who was having a rough time. She’d been on and off drugs for decades—yes...
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Scientology Religion
May 7, 2017
I’m “Secretive” About My Religion?
My religion has a lot that gets said about it in the media. But one of the most laughable and irksome myths about Scientology...
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Scientology Religion
April 26, 2017
To Share or Not to Share, That is the Question
When my husband and I eloped nearly 28 years ago, we had no idea what we were doing. But we were so distracted by the butterflies...
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Scientology Religion
April 25, 2017
Coming Out
Ok, admittedly, that title is somewhat deceiving—I am a happily married heterosexual woman. But here’s the thing: the...
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Scientology Religion
April 4, 2017
Why Our New Church of Scientology of the Valley Makes Me Proud
Have you ever been proud of some special achievement in your life? Perhaps it was something you did on your own, or perhaps...
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