Friday, September 10, 2010
Scientology - Find out
Labels: david miscavige, Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard, scientology
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.— ScientologyFounder, L. Ron Hubbard
Labels: david miscavige, Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard, scientology
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tampa, Florida: World's First Ideal Church of Scientology
Tampa Scientologists and guests celebrated a watershed achievement in Scientology history when they dedicated the new Church of Scientology of Tampa on March 29, 2003. On that day, Tampa became the world’s first Ideal Church of Scientology, ushering in a new breed of Church capable of providing services to both parishioners and the community at large at at an unprecedented level.
Carrying out strategic planning directed by Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center, Mr. David Miscavige, Tampa Bay Scientologists joined forces to create this ideal Church of Scientology and attain the goal set years earlier by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. Staff and parishioners accomplished the target less than one year after the building was acquired and so made the historic Andres Diaz Building in West Tampa their new home.
Three times the size of the previous Church, the four-story structure comprises numerous spiritual counseling rooms, two course rooms seating 200 students and a Chapel for Sunday services and other Scientology ceremonies.
Scientology - Find out
Labels: david miscavige, scientology, Tampa
Friday, January 08, 2010
Scientology Materials Restoration Completed
The story about the Golden Age of Knowledge came from AP in Clearwater!
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- More than 1,000 unreleased recordings of lectures by L. Ron Hubbard and reams of corresponding writings have been unveiled in the culmination of a 25-year project to locate, restore and transcribe lost pieces of the Scientology founder's work.
Though sure to be derided by the church's many critics, its followers say the materials amount to an opportunity to deepen understanding of the religion and to release the last known unpublished Hubbard works dealing with Scientology and Dianetics.
"It would be like discovering that Buddha, unbeknownst to anybody, had sat down and wrote down the entirety of his discoveries and it could be verified that he wrote it," said Tommy Davis, the church's top spokesman.
The new materials were announced in a New Year's celebration at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles that was broadcast to churches around the world last week and include 1,020 lectures and hundreds of corresponding booklets from courses and other sessions with Scientology ministers from 1953 to 1961. They include discussions of how Hubbard arrived at the principles of Dianetics and his research on everything from decision-making to personal responsibility.
They were recovered through a painstaking hunt that led members to find tapes and papers in a basement in Wichita, Kan., a storage trailer in Phoenix, and a garage in Oakland, Calif., among other places. Some of the materials were believed to have been lost.
"We've been able to restore lectures we literally never thought would be heard again," Davis said.>>
The release marks the third and final batch of Hubbard works to be distributed as part of the decades-long project initiated by Hubbard himself but carried out after his 1986 death by the church's current leader, David Miscavige. Releases in 2005 and 2007 included updated versions of 18 basic Scientology books to correct transcriptional errors, as well as hundreds of other lectures given by Hubbard.
Labels: david miscavige, Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard, scientology, Tommy Davis
Friday, October 23, 2009
IAS Event About to Start
Clearwater Scientologists are in their seats about to watch the opening of event marking the 25th Anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists.
The live event was held at Saint Hill in East Grinstead in Sussex, England.
David Miscavige outdid himself with a more than three hours presentation of the highlights of the last 25 years. OMG where we have come from and where we have arrived!
Labels: clearwater, david miscavige, Scientologists
Thursday, October 22, 2009
David Miscavige Hosted Scientology Event: 6,500 Scientologists Attend
Chick Corea is probably my all-time favorite. Not just the best in jazz, period, but a terrific person in every respect.
I wish I could 've been there.
I heard from friends that David Miscavige outdid himself with more than three hours or stunning overview of where we've come in the past 25 years.
Thanks John Alex Wood for the photos!
Labels: Chick Corea, david miscavige, East Grinstead, Scientologists
The Bigotry Behind the St. Petersburg Times' Facade of Responsible Journalism
In recent years, the S.P. Times has worked hard to present a more honest and credible image to the public, attempting to shed its reputation for biased reporting. The newspaper’s recent “special” report exposed the facade: At its core, the S.P. Times has not changed. It is an organization that twists the news to incite hatred against Scientologists and stops at nothing to paint a false picture of the Scientology religion and the Church.
Recounting its long record of bigotry toward the Church of Scientology, its members, staff and leaders is unnecessary. That is something with which most Tampa Bay residents are all too familiar, including thousands of non-Scientologists appalled at the Times’ attempts to unfairly stigmatize Scientologists who are their friends.
But if the Times has not changed, the articles in this magazine detailing Scientology’s explosive expansion in both Clearwater and around the world show how Scientology has continued to grow. As the Church has gained greater local prominence, thousands of Scientologists have contributed to improving their community through charities and civic groups.
Scientologists work alongside friends and neighbors on civic and cultural boards, in sports and arts societies and in numerous social partnerships. The newly restored Fort Harrison regularly hosts functions for other charitable organizations; public are welcomed for tours and Church staff work hard to invite questions and provide an open response. Juxtaposed with the day-to-day reality of friends, neighbors and workmates who are Scientologists, the hysteria of the Times’ stereotypes has become self-evident.
A full and objective review of the recent allegations the Times presented to the Church from four ex-Scientologists evidences both the lack of credibility and sinister motives of these sources—people who will say anything to attack their former faith.
- The same false allegations have been posted on the “grassy knoll” of the Internet by avowed Scientologist-haters for years.
- Even though first-person accounts from dozens of eyewitnesses demolished the fabrications presented by the Times’ sources, reporters Joe Childs and Tom Tobin refused to hear from those eyewitnesses.
- The Church provided an unprecedented amount of documented evidence and detailed accounts proving the sources had lied.
- The Church also provided detailed evidence regarding the motives of these four apostates to lie about the religion and its leader: delusionary ideas of “taking over” the Church, resentment over their removal from posts and money.
In the most offensive gesture of all, the S.P. Times refused to accept an offer of an in-person interview with Mr. David Miscavige, the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion.
The interview would have been his first in 11 years and only the third in his 25-year career as the Church’s leader. Despite purporting to seek this interview, to which Mr. Miscavige had immediately agreed, the newspaper abandoned its facade of objectivity, cancelled the interview and rushed to print. The Times reporters and their bosses knew the scheduled interview with Mr. Miscavige was absolutely essential under fundamental journalistic standards and ethics. When they turned their backs on that interview, the reporters made a conscious decision to turn their backs on the truth. After all, they knew a response would further annihilate the credibility of their sources, rendering their false story fatal.
The Church offered the reporters full and unfettered access to the Church and all facilities. Tobin and Childs refused to accept the offer. The Times decided this information “wasn’t relevant” to their story, that somehow an interview with the Church’s ecclesiastical leader was unnecessary even for a three-part series on the man.
So, in response to the Times exhibition of unprovoked malice and shredding of the truth, Freedom presents the real story of both the Church … and the so-called journalism practiced by the S.P. Times.
More: http://www.freedommag.org
Labels: church of scientology, david miscavige, joe childs, scientology, st. petersburg times, tom tobin
Monday, June 22, 2009
Thank You LRH and David Miscavige
I just finished listening to a tape on course today, and it was so incredible, I just have to say once more time how much I appreciate all the work David Miscavige did to get all the basic LRH books and lectures published and with such incredible quality. I have changed so much from this study. And all for the better.Labels: david miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Scientology News from Florida
The big news in Florida is there isn't a single spare seat in any of the Flag course rooms, let alone any room for new students to route onto course.But more new students arrive every day, and from what I hear, the staff are scrambling to put together new course rooms.
Ever since David Miscavige announced the release of the Scientology and Dianetics Basics (books and lectures) late last June/ early Aug 2007, it's been a phenomenon.
I've never seen anything like it. Very exciting!
And the wins are just phenomenal!
Labels: church of scientology, david miscavige
Thursday, July 17, 2008
20 years! The cruise ship Freewinds went service 20 years ago as a special Church of Scientology organization. To celebrate this occasion four celebration events have been held on board. The celebrations presented by the Church's ecclesiastical leader David Miscavige are being shown all around the world throughout July and August 2008.
Labels: church of scientology, david miscavige, freewinds, scientology
