Scientology Volunteers

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Scientology Volunteer Ministers: Watch the Videos

There's a brand new Scientology web site! It is now a Scientology video channel, and it has terrific videos on the volunteer ministers.

Just go to the main page and at the bottom of the video viewer you'll see a box at the bottom that says "Volunteer Ministers."

That video is one of the most moving things to me. As a VM it really represents exactly why I do what I do.

Enjoy!

posted by: jbasoon at 02:24 | link | |

Online VM Courses

I'm totally pumped that there's a way anyone can learn to be a Scientology Volunteer Minister now. There's free extension courses in each of the main aspects of being a VM.

Now people who don't live anywhere near a Scientology org can learn this tech. Fabulous!

My favorite video is here.

posted by: jbasoon at 04:35 | link | |
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Is it Really Just a Dream?

Do you know anyone who seems to be "stuck" in a dream?

What I mean is, have you ever known anyone who seems to live in an illusion that some day he/she will accomplish great things or fond hopes, when there is little to back this up in truth?

In fact, it is such a common thing for people to give up on accomplishing their dreams that it almost gives dreaming a bad name. But what would life be without a dream? Hardly worth living, really.

The Scientology Handbook has a chapter on Targets and Goals. It describes the subject in these terms:

In examining the subject of organization, L. Ron Hubbard developed an enormous body of technology to ensure the success of any group. In doing so, he also provided a solution to the most common of failings: the lack of ability to execute plans.

The information in this chapter of the Handbook is very simple, but it is so effective.

In his presentations at Scientology events Mr. David Miscavige generally begins with an overview of the accomplishments of Scientologists over the last few months in their work to help their communities and society, and it is pretty remarkable how much gets done.

It is often just a small handful of people, and what they accomplish is completely out of proportion to their resources, as shown in the tremendous work of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers who helped hundreds of thousands of people after the Indian Ocean tsunami and hundreds of other disasters.

Their ability to do this is based on the application of the technology covered in this chapter of the Scientology Handbook, a portion of which is online for anyone to study and use.

But as "practical" as this is (and it is intensely practical) it is nonetheless true that helping a person accomplish his goals and purposes has a strong spiritual component. It is enabling a spiritual being to translate his dreams into the physical universe. Magic!

posted by: jbasoon at 07:07 | link | |
scientology, l ron hubbard, david miscavige, disaster relief, scientology handbook, scientology volunteer ministers

Scientology Handbook

I loved this article from the Scientology Press Office. The Scientology Handbook contains such a wealth of information you can use to help people (and to get help yourself), and I love that it's on line. I share it with people all the time when I find someone who needs help with their partner, or if someone has a parent or friend or child who is ill and suffering. I have used it to help people get through their exams in one piece. And there is one chapter I've used to help someone who probably would have given up on life entirely, and I got her through it and back on the rails again.

So here's the story. Enjoy!

"Nothing could be done about it.

"I knew the brain, a mechanism created by cosmic chance, decayed and died. And that was it. Nothing followed or preceded life. I wanted to have faith, but every time I asked, 'Is there something more out there?' all I heard back was silence.

"Worse, I didn't feel like I had any control over what was in front of me right now. Nothing in this purposeless existence could be bettered or significantly changed.

"Then a few months ago, I discovered my neglected copy of the book, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought. Hubbard's words re-ignited in me an awareness of myself, where before I had gone numb.

"Energized, I looked online for more at Scientology.org, which lead me to the Scientology Volunteer Ministers website.

"From there, I started reading the Scientology Handbook online, still cynical and skeptical—until I applied an assist* to my wife and it miraculously worked!

"Purchasing and then studying the Handbook several times, cove-to-cover, I incorporated its teachings into my life. Nothing but success occurred with every application.

"Previously a cynic and a blossoming atheist, I found myself a hesitant believer in the idea that there is more to life than the physical, and that something can be done about both spiritual and material problems. >>

posted by: jbasoon at 07:08 | link | |
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BBC Reporter -- A Boor at Wild Hogs

Manners may be a thing of the past, but when a BBC regular like John Sweeney can hide in the back of the crowd at a John Travolta grand opening and scream at him about his religion you have to admit this crosses any boundary of civilized behavior. Watch the guy cupping his hands and yelling. That's Sweeney. I know he prides himself on being trendy. But there's a point where being "cool" and being an outright bigot cross. Of all the people for the BBC to pick to do a story on Scientology. I'm sure glad I'm not in BBC's shoes right now. What a laughing stock!

posted by: jbasoon at 05:45 | link | |
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My Heartfealt Sympathy to All Afftected by the Virginia Tech Massacre

Monday's events at Virginia Tech will stay with all of us the rest of our lives. I can't express how sorry I am for the parents, families and friends who lost people to the gunman's bullets.

But it wasn't just those directly affected who have experienced the loss. A lot of us felt overwhelmed.

If you need some help, you should contact a Scientology Volunteer Minister. That's what we're here for, and we will help in any way we can. Our techniques are very effective, so if you need help, call the VM hotline and find someone close by who can help you.

posted by: jbasoon at 18:47 | link | |

Scientology Volunteer Ministers in India

Here's a really interesting story on the VMs in India.

I love the fact that Scientologists are working with people like these teaches. When I was fresh out of college I really wanted to teach. After a year of attending graduate school classes and working part time in a middle school I knew for sure that no one knew how to help these kids and I couldn't bear the pretense. I didn't have the courage, frankly. So, I have enormous respect for anyone who makes a career of teaching and I am so proud of VMs who are helping them. For me, when I learned study technology it was a turning point in my life. Things I "knew" I could never learn were finally approachable. And I had the benefit of a decent education. The kids I tried to help as a teacher didn't have a chance. They had been in the system for 9 years already. Most of them could barely read. And they no longer even wanted to even try. So the fact that education seminars like this are available now is just great!

posted by: jbasoon at 01:50 | link | |

Good News/Bad News

I found out about 2 friends who have terminal breast cancer this week.

It's such a shame, when breast cancer is so curable these days.

I was very fortunate to have a bout with the beast 13 years ago, and I can through with no recurrance. I was lucky to catch it before it spread, and to have some doctors, including one very dear personal friend, who advised me that despite its being tiny and early, just beat the crap out of it right away. And that's what I did.

My two friends were not as fortunate, or knowledgeable, or didn't have the kind of support I had. In both cases they found it late and did not treat it aggressively until it was probably too late.

I've heard of cases like this going into remission even at this stage, and the one friend, who is a Scientologist, has much better chance of beating it than my other friend who isn't. I say this, because with Scientology assists you can get to the underlying spiritual factors that precipitated an illness and undo the spiritual factors that prolong illness.

posted by: jbasoon at 05:15 | link | |

Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tour in India

I found this photo the other day and it made me so proud to be a Volunteer Minister.

I think it's terrific that there are Scientology Volunteer Ministers training people of all walks of life in the simple technology L. Ron Hubbard included in the Scientology Handbook and how this technology is making it through to people who really need it in all parts of the world now. Like the nurses in this photo. (The story was covered last week on the Scientology Press Office site.

I know that's exactly what L. Ron Hubbard wanted and intended when he created the VM program.

In 2001, right after 9/11, David Miscavige issued an open letter to Scientologists called the "Wake Up Call," in which he basically laid it on the line -- we live in a pretty crazy world and even though it looks like it is stable and predictable, at a moment's notice something like the World Trade Center terrorist attacks happen and you realize that it is not that stable at all.

What's real to me is that there are wars going on all over the world, right now as I write this. I'm lucky to live in LA, and in the part of LA that has nightclubs, shopping centers, movie theaters, condos, lofts, freeways, etc. Not the part that is itself a war zone, where you never know if your kid is going to make it back from school because of gang violence.

It's pretty easy for me to go along without having to worry about tomorrow.

But what about the vast majority of people on this planet who live at a level of bare survival and who need help.

And I have the skill to help them.

That's what really got to me about what David Miscavige said back then. I think it got to a lot of us, because every Scientologist I know has become so much more active, helping people, sharing the technology they have, disseminating.

And what is so exciting is how fast the Scientology religion is growing now.

It's a very good time to be alive!

posted by: jbasoon at 02:45 | link | |
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Cynical? Try Helping instead

I find the best therapy for being completely upset with someone is to be in a position where you have to help them.

There'sone person at work I have a really hard time getting along with -- Just something about the way she puts things that always gets me flaring up.

She felt sick one day and asked for my help and I gave her an assist. It was actually pretty amazing how much better I felt about her after I helped her.

I recommend it highly.

posted by: jbasoon at 04:57 | link | |