Youngest Scientology Basics Completion

I just have to share this totally wonderful video of a 14-year-old girl who just completed studying all the Scientology and Dianetics basics at the Flag Service Organization (the religious headquarters of the Scientology religion). It's quite amazing.

I'm having tremendous wins from the Basics myself, and boy am I glad L. Ron Hubbard took the time to write these books and record the lectures, and that David Miscavige put the needed resources into getting them perfect and releasing them with a price anyone can afford.

A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Scientology Kids

I recently met a guy who has an 8-year-old daughter who is the center of his universe. He had a bad marriage that ended in divorce and his wife got primary custody. He lives away from the city where they live, on an island off the coast. But he goes to visit his daughter whenever he can.

They have a very special relationship, and since he got into Scientology a couple of years ago that relationship has become even more special and his daughter is thriving with what he's shared with her about what he's learned.

But what he is most excited about now is that she is starting to study the Scientology basic books. When David Miscavige described how easy it is to read these books now, with the errors corrected, the new formatting so that it is just easier to read and the extensive glossaries, I had no idea the difference it would make. But this young lady is living proof as at the age of 8 she is able to read and understand some of the beginning books.

This is great, because when you real L. Ron Hubbard's books, they help you so much in your life, setting and accomplishing goals, just plain being happy. It's remarkable and simply great!

A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Why Does Suicide Prevention Backfire?

Suicide is always shocking, but it is particularly alarming when it involves our children and youth. And among indigenous communities the statistics are more than condemnatory.

According to TheAge.com.au:

"This year ... the Howard Government announced national emergency measures to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory from abuse. Almost three months later, it is time to consider whether the action is improving the lives of children in remote communities. Sadly, the answer is that it is not."

This same article reports that in one small community in Australia, 31 young people attempt suicide in the space of eight months — 8 per cent of the population of 452 people.

So why does suicide prevention backfire?

The reason is that unless one addresses the real cause, suicides will continue.

No matter what measures you take, if a person is bent on suicide he/she will ultimately succeed. unless you help him/her change his/her mind.

A study of Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health and Science of Survival by L. Ron Hubbard are essential for an understanding of the spiritual and mental phenomena that underlie suicide, what causes a person to seek to take his/her own life and simple therapies to raise a person's emotional tone to the point where he/she would no longer seek such a solution.

In Dianetics, Survival is shown to be the basic motivation of life, but Mr. Hubbard also clearly lays out how it is that someone can be driven to go to such extremes that he appears to have given up on surviving entirely. When you read it, it suddenly makes sense to you.

In June, David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of RTC, announced the release of new editions of all the basic Scientology and Dianetics books and lectures recorded by L. Ron Hubbard that give the background and research data, providing even greater understanding of the books themselves.

Anyone really serious about helping potential suicides needs to study these texts. Without a full understanding of the mind, however earnest you may be in your intention to help, you will accumulate failures. And when it comes to child suicides, even one such failure is far too many.



A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Don't Break that Kid

So many kids are prescribed drugs because of behavior problems. Today, when there are more and more single-parent households, and where even more traditional families usually have both parents working, what can a mother or father do to help his or her child with discipline problems?

In the Scientology Handbook there is a section titled "How to Live With Children," in which L. Ron Hubbard stated:

"The main consideration in raising children is the problem of training them without breaking them. You want to raise your child in such a way that you don’t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity."

It's easy enough to say that, but how do you actually bring it about?

To do anything in life required a understanding and skill. You wouldn't think of trying to drive a car without learning what each of the various systems did or you'd step on the gas instead of the break and end up a casualty before you even got started.

But where's the the parent's "owners manual"?

Well, if you understood life better, and if you understood why people react, when they do, wouldn't that help you with your kid as well?

The basic books and lectures of Scientology and Dianetics (released in June by David Miscavige), cover all the fundamentals a parent needs

A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

How Much Does Your Happiness Affect Your Child?

L. Ron Hubbard once wrote, " main problem with children is how to live with them. The adult is the problem in child raising, not the child. A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have."

So it really comes full circle. How to help a parent to be a "good stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart," in our turbulent, stress-ridden society. How to be stable when you don't know how you're going to make ends meet, when you come home from work feeling frustrated, tired and insecure?

One thing anyone can do is visit the Scientology Handbook web site. There is useful information there for so many things that rock one's stability, make one feel insecure, upset, stressed and introverted.

I suggest just reading through the various sections or chapters, finding one that interests you, reading what it has to say and trying out the suggestions in there. Just see if it doesn't make you feel a bit better. Then observe how the people around you do when you are doing better.

Another thing I highly recommend is the Scientology basics -- the basic books and lectures of L. Ron Hubbard. Here is the basic knowledge of life and the mind. When you really understand yourself you can do something about it all.

If not for you, how about doing it for your kids. You are the most important influence in their lives. They will do as well in life as you are a "good stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart." And it will certainly make you happier too!


A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Exploiting Kids to Make Pharma Money

Once more our kids are about to be exploited, all to the greater good of psychiatry and Big Pharma.

Over 300 articles listed in Google News yesterday screamed about some "new study" showing a huge increase in bipolar kids.

Wow. Is this coincidental, or is it a direct correlation to the increase in prescription "meds" being given to kids to get them to sit up straight and not fight or disagree with their teacher? (oops, excuse me, for "ADHD" -- called "behavior problems" when I was a kid and usually handled by letting the kids blow off steam in the school yard or making sure they ate breakfast).

Why should we use our kids to bear the brunt of the pharmaceutical industry's need to expand their capital?

Over the years, with the help of briefings at Scientology events (even as recently as this last July when David Miscavige [Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center] covered the subject in a speech on reversing the current social catastrophe ). I've come to realize how responsible the psych/pharma syndicate [my words, not his] is for the degradation of our civilization). It has opened my eyes to what is really going on on this planet. Especially after I toured the CCHR (Citizens Commission on Human Rights) museum -- Psychiatry and Industry of Death. So much so, that when this latest "announcement" came out it was completely transparent to me.

Want to bet how long it takes for someone to come up with a new (expensive) miracle patent to charge our insurance companies and the US Congress (through appropriations) to "handle this mental health emergency." Leave me a comment on this blog on how long you predict it will be before the "fortuitous" announcement of the latest miracle drug that coincidentally solves this "new" problem.

What's even worse is that anyone can pick up one of the basic Scientology books or lectures by L. Ron Hubbard and find dozens of things they can do to help a kid. It's so easy to chill kids out. But once you start stuffing them full of meds you are setting them up for a life of desperation.

And by the way, if you want the real lowdown on big pharma "ethics" check out Michael Moore's new film, Sicko.

A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

Avoiding Teenager "Disorder"

I suppose you could consider being a teenager as a disorder (marked by rebellion, doing things that are harmful or dangerous for fun, avoiding authority figures like parents and teachers and only caring about what their friends think of them). But giving it a name doesn't do anything to fix the symptoms or prevent the damage.

Sure they'll "get over it" eventually. That is, unless they get themselves into serious trouble in the meantime.

Ironic, isn't it, that about the time kids are most in need of parents' advice they find it hardest to talk to them?

As adolescents and teens start feeling the pressure from friends and media to be "cool" they do things they know they don't want their folks to find out about. And this starts the wedge that drives the relationship apart.

Once that starts, parents who really want to help their kids are up against a lot. But what if was "cool" to honor help your parents?

Just this one precept from The Way to Happiness by L. Ron Hubbard could go a long way to helping kids avoid getting into trouble or minimally doing things set will them back, like drugs, crime, slacking off or dropping out of school.


Click here to view other Public Service Announcements

These video clips on The Way to Happiness web site are public service announcements produced by the Church of Scientology International, and released three weeks ago by David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center (ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion).

You can download them onto your blog.

Unhappy about the state of things? You can do something to change it by promoting these PSAs.

Check it out the PSA, and go here to copy the code onto your blog, or email it to your friends.


A good, stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy a child can have.~~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion