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Scientology Volunteer Ministers Blog

Check out thisScientology Volunteer Ministers blog on Wordpress.

That's a really attractive blog. (I like the Wordpress appearance a lot. Only problem I've had is it seems to be really slow. Maybe I just tried blogging there when their servers are maxed out. I'd use wordpress instead of any other blog if I could get it fast enough. [and I just don't think I should have to pay for hosting and domain when it comes to blogging.]) Anyway, this VM does a lot of posting on what's going on in Scientology. But there is SO MUCH happening with the Scientology Volunteer Ministers movement that I don't think anyone could say they were up-to-date.

I think move VMs should blog. That would help. They could publish their wins online and we could connect up through one another's blogs.

If you're a VM and you'd like to do this, drop me a comment!

References for this story:

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David Miscavige - on Scientology Volunteer Ministers

posted by: jbasoon at 03:09 | link | |

Drug-Free Blood

Sounds like a gourmet vampire movie, huh?

But all kidding aside, one of the problems the Red Cross has these days is contaminated blood.

Not only do they have to screen for HIV/AIDS, but drug abusers are frequently ill with other kinds of problems.

I don't know about you, but I would want to know what's been in the veins of anyone whose blood I got added to my body.

So a Scientologist is at a premium when it comes to blood drives, because Scientology is a drug free religion!

posted by: jbasoon at 08:25 | link | |

Scientology in England

I just heard that the Jive Aces gave an anti-drug concert this weekend.

These guys are great. If you've even been to one of their concerts, it's not just like a concert, it's a celebration.

They are completely exhilarated and they bring you up with them.

And these guys are totally sober. No drugs. Period.

By their very example they prove that you don't have to be on dope to be happy.

They perform for a lot of Scientology events in England as well, always making them a special occasion by their presence.

So, thanks, Jives. You guys are great!

Here's a recent post from their blog:

Yes, the jivin' fools are working on Christmas Day! BBC Radio London invited us to play live for breakfast and who are we to say no, eh? And so it was that the very morning that the "hardest working man in showbizness" departed this earth, the "hardest working band" - playing day and night for all December - hit the road at 6.00am and drove through no traffic whatsoever into the centre of London and to the BBC London building where we did a live set in the studio from 8.30am. Being Christmas morning the atmosphere was great, the mince pies flowed and we even got responses for a competition proving that other people were also up and awake at that time! Merry Christmas!!! (Please note it will be quiet the next couple of days, we'll be having a well earned rest, eating and merrymaking!)

posted by: jbasoon at 17:38 | link | |

The Volunteer Ministers cavalcades are public services provided by Scientology churches and the continental churches in the US, UK, Europe, Latin America Africa dn Australia.

Scientology is a very practical religion.

On the Scientology Volunteer Ministers web site is a quote by L. Ron Hubbard, where he said:

"If one is going to find fault with something, it implies that he wishes to do something about it and would if he could. If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he can do something about it. He can become a Volunteer Minister and help civilize it, bring it conscience and kindness and love and freedom from travail by instilling into it trust, decency, honesty and tolerance."

What makes Scientology unique, and what makes Mr. Hubbard stand out among philosophers and humanitarians, is that he and it provide effective solutions to make life better.

The Scientology Handbook, for example, is a very simple book written to provide simple techniques anyone can learn. And they work.

Life can be pretty intense. Pretty awful in fact. Everyone needs a hand from time to time.

Here's the story a friend of mine told me about what was happening when she first got into Scientology and why she became a Scientology Volunteer Minister.

I don't know about you, but to me it is really awful to have someone who is important to you need help and not be able to do anything for them.

When I got into Scientology the first thing I needed was help for myself. I had hit a pretty rough spot in my life, and I had run out of solutions. A friend had told me that Scientology might be able to help me. I checked it out.

I had hit such a level of anxiety I didn't know how to control it. It was dominating my life. I couldn't work and it was wrecking my relationship with my boyfriend. I couldn't sleep.

So I went into the Scientology church near my house and attending an introductory lecture.

You may not believe this, but the woman giving the lecture explained two basic aspects of Scientology and I had a realization of exactly why I was going nuts and *bang* it turned off. Just like that. It was incredible.

What had happened was I realized that I am a spiritual being, and not my mind: that just because I had pictures of terrible things that were stuck and kept coming back to haunt me, didn't mean that I WAS those pictures. I just HAD them.

As soon as I realized that, BANG the pictures that I had not been able to control just went =whoosh= and everything got very quiet. Well, after that it wasn't as though everything was handled, but I just didn't have my attention rigidly fixed on myself. It was right then that I decided I wanted to learn more about this stuff so I could help my boyfriend, and a girlfriend who was pretty messed up, and another girlfriend whose husband was a complete jerk.

So as soon as I was no longer fixated on my own problems, I wanted to help other people.

And what was so wonderful is that in a day or so I was able to learn enough of the most simple Scientology techniques that I COULD help other people.

David Miscavige, Volunteer Ministers in these terms: "...when it comes to helping those in most desperate need, we not only know we can help, we are doing something about it."

posted by: jbasoon at 05:10 | link | |

Scientologists from Australia Helping in the Philippines

A Team of Volunteer Minister from Scientology Churches in Australia joined up with staff from the Scientology Mission of Manila to help the survivors of Typhoon Durian in December.

The team is still going strong. Here's the story from the Scientology Press Office:

Living in the shadow of the Mayon Volcano, in an area known as "typhoon alley," the people of Albay Province on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines are no strangers to disaster. But that doesn't make it any easier when disaster strikes.

Since early December, the Scientology Disaster Relief Team has been working one-on-one with those who survived Typhoon Durian, which killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes.

With seminars and workshops based on the Scientology Handbook and the book Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard, they are giving men, women and even children tools by which they can put these painful experiences behind them. >> continued

posted by: jbasoon at 03:35 | link | |
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Scientologist from Los Angeles Spreads the Work about Drugs

Lidia Dinges is a Scientologist living in the greater LA area. She is also the spokesperson for the Foundation for a Drug-Free World.

Last weekend on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service she announced a campaign to help parents learn how to talk to their kids about drugs.

I think that is such a smart idea. Who would be better to talk to a kid than her or her mother or father? And if they know how to bring up the subject and really establish rapport on the subject, well, maybe that will be enough to help a kid avoid being a statistic.

posted by: jbasoon at 07:34 | link | |

Turning to Drugs

I was talking to a friend who works helping people get off drugs. It takes a lot of courage to do this. Drug and alcohol addicts are not easy people to help. And I really admire anyone who has the level of commitment to their fellow man, to take it on.

Of course, it help to have the technology that enables you to get addicts through withdrawal, and help them address the underlying cause of their addiction - what led them to taking drugs in the first place. The technology L. Ron Hubbard developed for this is absolutely brilliant.

If you ever want a good cry, just talk to a Narconon graduate. Listen to the story they have to tell of what a mess they made of their lives and how much they hurt their families, girlfriends, boyfriends, neighbors, people at work-- you name it.

I'm reminded about what David Miscavige said at the grand opening of the Church of Scientology of New York. He said, "what about those everyday disasters simmering beneath the social structure? The marital difficulties and familial discord that ruins lives each day? The delinquent child and the parent with nowhere to turn for help? Not to mention oppression and depression, which all too often — with no other help in sight — turns to drugs as a last hope to dull the mental pain?

And it really is like that -- getting to and overcoming the mental pain is why Narconon has such incredible success rates. But it takes a real, effective mental and spiritual technology to be able to produce over 70% success rate.

posted by: jbasoon at 08:03 | link | |
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Scientology Volunteer Minister Web Site -- Good News

Since the launch of the new Volunteer Ministers web site in October, there is five times the number of people contacting the site to volunteer to help as VMs!

That's great news!

In 2004, David Miscavige said: "The final word, as regards our front-line work bringing our help wherever and whenever needed is our corps of 30-thousand — on call, 24 hours a day in a score of nations."

In the past year that has expanded to 87,000 Volunteer Ministers and you can find them all over the world!

posted by: jbasoon at 21:37 | link | |

Scientology in Berlin

It's a very exciting day for every Scientologist, to see the grand opening of the Church of Scientology of Berlin.

I wish I could have attended myself, but I have several friends who went and they told me it was absolutely spectacular! And David Miscavige was there after all! (I thought he would be based on his announcement at New Years Ev that the church was going to open on the 13th.

posted by: jbasoon at 04:47 | link | |
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Scientology Handbook

One of my favorite books is the Scientology Handbook.

It is such a useful book.

So often you run into someone who needs help with something in his/her life. Sure, it helps just to listen, and often just doing that, the person can come up with a solution that works.

But then to also be able to give some really sound advice, or show the person a chapter from the book is terrific. Because it really helps.

posted by: jbasoon at 01:16 | link | |

Scientology New Years

Before I was a Scientologist I well remember the reeling New Years Eve celebrations.

I suppose some were fun, but for the most part they were forced gaity with too much booze (or drugs) and were just an excuse to get drunk or stoned and to start off the new year on the wrong foot.

I also used to be aware of how false the happiness was.

Maybe it was just the people I hung out with. I don't know.

But I have to tell you I much prefer the way I celebrate New Years now.

For the past twenty years or so the Church of Scientology International has hosted a New Years Eve event. And for at least the past 17 years that event has been at the Shrine auditorium in LA.

Since 2000 the event in LA has been help a couple of days early, so it can be edited and translated and sent out around the world to all the Scientology churches.

Whether your watching at a Scientology church in the UK, Scientology in South Africa or Scientology in Australia, Russia, France or Japan, you get to see >David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center present an overview of the accomplishments of the past year and set the pace for the coming year.

Long before I was a Scientologist I had certain personal goals and dreams. Among them were the dream of peace and brotherhood.

As skeptical as I became over the years, I never gave up on that one.

And when I first heard about Scientology and learned that the Aims of Scientology are "A civitization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights" I realized that not only had a found a technology that could help me personally but one that had exactly the same goals that I had, and that sold me.

That was many years ago, and do you know I am even more certain today that this is the way to go than I was back then?

So, back to New Years á la Scientology — hearing David Miscavige covering what we have accomplished in the past year and realizing where we are going, it is a wonderful feeling.

I invite you to find out more about Scientology. Leave me a comment with your email, if you like, and I'll be very happy to answer any questions you have on the subject. How's that?

posted by: jbasoon at 04:32 | link | |

Happy New Year

In LA it is exactly 3 hours till 2007.

I truly believe that tn the three years remaining to this first decade of the new millenium we can make a real difference on Earth.

I believe that most people want a better world.

I salute all volunteers who are working to bring this about, and especially my fellow Scientologists who are making the technology of L. Ron Hubbard available to people who need help.

posted by: jbasoon at 04:00 | link | |