Scientology Volunteers

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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 | |