An Evening in the Scientology Academy

Church of Scientology of Washington D.C., Academy Signage, originally uploaded by tadnkat. Probably one of my favorite parts about the Scientology religion is that one of the main practices of the religion itself involves one simply studying the basic texts of the religion, and working out for oneself how it applies to one’s life. I [...]

Family and my Decision to be a Scientologist

A college anthropology student sent me a question from my Scientology Parent page, as she’s doing some study for her class on how family history & background can lead people to various religions.  As she was studying about Scientology, she was curious how my own family and significant events in my life led me to [...]

Preserving the Authenticity of my Religion

I personally have quite a bit of respect for all great religions of the world.  I think that by and large, their founders and original proponents were quite enlightened, and had some fairly star-high goals for man – both in terms of morality and enhancing mankind’s ability to interact with one another, as well as [...]

Featured on the Patheos Blog about Scientology

I’ve been recently asked to add some guest posts on the Scientology section of the quite excellent Patheos Internet community.  I’d long admired the work of the site, as the folks who run the site seem genuinely interested in fostering an environment where one can learn about the religious beliefs of others whilst offering respect [...]

I Love My Local Church of Scientology

  Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, DC, Embassy Building, Night, originally uploaded by tadnkat. Any of you who are remotely close to me (or who follow my Flickr updates) know that I recently had my second child, a bubbly baby boy. And whilst the story of how he came into the world is a [...]

Evaluating Information – Seeing "Both Sides" of the Story

I got a rather loaded question on my earlier post on the Evil John Sweeney which I thought deserves its own forum for discussion. His question: I apologize if I’ve been disrepectful, but I do have a serious question for you. As your child grows up, do you want them to restrict information to themselves [...]

Why it’s important to be high on the Tone Scale

In having a look through Science of Survival (arguably one of my favourites of all of the Dianetics & Scientology Basics), it hit me again how utterly important it is for one, as an individual, to be high on the tone scale. Now, first off, if you’re reading this and don’t know what the Tone [...]

How do you make someone curious?

Here’s another one from my Scientology 0-8 book — this time a scale called the “Hide to Curiosity Scale”, excerpted from another Scientology book entitled “Creation of Human Ability“. This one I found interesting: I’ve long heard of what’s called the “DEI Scale” which is the scale of DESIRE ENFORCE INHIBIT …which is used any [...]

Single-Valued Logic – The Will of God?

There is another pretty nifty scale and schematic in the Scientology 0-8 book, this one that goes over the Evolution of Logic (it’s on page 152). Mr. Hubbard diagrams the 4 various kinds of logic there are — which are: 1. Single-valued logic 2. Two-valued logic 3. Three-valued logic 4. Infinity-valued logic Single-valued logic is [...]

Definitions of Dianetics and Scientology

This follows my last post on Scientology, further from the same chapter in Scientology 0-8 (part of the Scientology Basics Books) — something I thought bore repeating from the book. LRH defines the difference between Scientology and Dianetics, and what the subjects actually are and do in the following: “Dianetics is defined as, DIA (Greek) [...]