Grade IV Completion!

Expanded Grade IV, Ability Release: The auditing processes of this Grade enable the person to view himself in relation to all life and free himself from any patterns of thought and action which, while seeming to promote one's survival, in reality, do any but. When one moves out of fixed conditions, he can experience a huge resurgence in the ability to choose, partake in and enjoy new activities. Moving out of fixed conditions and being able to do other things is attained at Expanded Grade IV. Delancey, Mission Staff Member, completed this Grade and here is her success story: "This was an amazing auditing action, While each grade gave me a newly regained skill and awareness of myself and the wold around me, Grade IV far surpassed the gains of all the others. I now am aware of the fixed conditions I was in so I can be free of them. I am also more confident of my own abilities to do things and don't need to justify my actions. And it feels great!"

Grade II Completion

Scientology Expanded Grades consist of a series of auditing processes which restore to the individual specific abilities and lay a strong foundation for more advanced auditing. Expanded Grade II is also called "Relief Release" because the auditing on this level brings relief to a person from the hostilities and sufferings of life. Shayna, Mission Staff Member, completed Grade II! Here is her success story:
"Wow! This has been a new look at life and I feel able to really look and reach. My abilities are so much more freed up :) Thanks to all who helped and especially The Man, L. Ron Hubbard!"

Dianetics Book Course Completion

Sterling completed the book course for Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health today and here is his success story:
"This book was really awesome. It was only my first time but the information on prenatals. engrams and everything in between will stay me for a long time. This book has given me a better understanding of what Scientology is based on and where my beliefs stem from."

Win from Life Repair auditing

Dennis is receiving Life Repair^® auditing and had this win today:
"Eric (my auditor) deserves a pat on the back! Ah! Some all new goals and dropped out some old out-dated ones. I'm seeing myself much more cause in every thing I'm doing. I have more energy and more focus for finishing all the things I've let pile up around me. More motion."

Saturday Artists Seminar

Join us for Seminars every Saturday at 12:30. Bring your lunch and learn. Our next seminar is on
March 29 - The Aesthetics Series: The Art of Communication through Music. This seminar is conducted by harpist Karen Keuter. Karen will also give a short performance on her harp.

The Emotional Tone Scale

Gerardo, a chef, completed a course about the Emotional Tone Scale and says, This is a great tool to use every day."

Saturday Seminar - The Fifth Dynamic

March 22 at 12:30 is our next Saturday Seminar. Join us for another seminar in The Dynamics Series: The Fifth Dynamic and what it has to do with you and your survival.

What is a Dynamic? Dynamic(s): there could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics. These are urges for survival as or through (1) self, (2) sex and family, (3) groups, (4) all mankind, (5) living things (plants and animals), (6) the material universe, (7) spirits, and (8) infinity or the Supreme Being.

This seminar will be given by biologist and Director of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Janet Hanson. Janet is a long-time Scientologist^® and well qualified to speak on this subject. Bring your lunch and learn.

Success Through Communication Course

Harrison, 8, and Will (pictured), 10, completed the Success Through Communication Course.
Harrison says: "I feel very good that I completed this course, even if it was hard."
Will says: I got so many wins out of this course. That makes it even cooler than I thought!"

Expanded Grade IV Completion

Mark has just completed Expanded Grade IV, Ability Release. The auditing processes of this Grade enable the person to view himself in relation to all life and free himself from any patterns of thought and action which, while seeming to promote one's survival, in reality, do any but. When one moves out of fixed conditions, he can experience a huge resurgence in the ability to choose, partake in and enjoy new activities. Moving out of fixed conditions and being able to do other things is attained at Expanded Grade IV. Here is Mark's success story:
"I just have to say that all the Grades were awesome, especially Grade IV. I knew that this Grade would handle a lot of considerations that were limiting me in my ability to live life with others. And it has! I just had to put my attention in the right places. The Hubbard Guidance Center has been great at taking me through this. It's been an adventurous journey from the start and I am confident and certain about whatever the future holds for me and the rest of my trip across the Bridge. I look forward to confronting the remains of the reactive mind and handling it for good! I have has so many gains in Scientology the past 2 years and I look forward to (and can barely imagine) what surprises are in store for me. Thanks again to the Palo Alto Mission, the Hubbard^® Guidance Center and my auditor Eric Z for delivering 100% standard tech and giving me the opportunity to experience what L. Ron Hubbard has been trying to show all of mankind."

Donna completes all the Basic Book Courses

Here's Donna's success story: "I’m not really sure where to begin on this. It’s a really great accomplishment for me to have gotten through all of the extension courses. I’m one of those people who almost never goes to course. Of course, I had great excuses like I’m a staff member and there is always lots and lots to do on post.

But this time around I got really interested. Reading these Basics in the right sequence gave me all of the data that I had been missing. I found out that you can’t get through courses by doing one page every three weeks or worse. You have to go and study alot and go as fast as you can. I feel like I was getting into present time on the Dianetics^® and Scientology^® time line. I would be still in the “past” if I hadn’t gone through all of these books and I still need to listen to all of the lectures now too, so that I have all of the data.

There’s a lot more too - like the tremendous way in which studying all this data in sequence helps understanding. I feel like was right there with Ron as he is working out all the ways this all works and how it all fits together. I’ve listened to a lot of the lectures and read books before, but I skipped around all over the place and never did read stuff in sequence before. It’s all making a lot more sense now."

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

Delancey completed the Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health Book and Lectures Course and says, "I learned so much from this course that I would never be able to write it all down. It really became real to me how important it is to clear this planet and how valuable this data really is. I cannot wait to continue on the Basics and go with L. Ron Hubbard through everything up to present time - because I know that Dianetics is just the beginning and that there is much more to come! And, I finished on Ron's birthday - so Happy Birthday and thank you for this tech!"

How to Get Happy

Join us this Saturday at 12:30 for our next Saturday Seminar. Professional auditor Ted Sullivan will talk about how to use the workbook Self Analysis by yourself for yourself to get happy and come up the emotional tone scale. He'll go over how to use the book as a kind of "Dianetics^® First Aid" as well as to use the book for long-lasting gains. Don't miss this!

Wins with Life Repair Auditing

A lady has been receiving Life Repair^® auditing and wrote this success story:
"I can't believe it, but I am indeed walking straight, normally and with almost no pain at all. I am just enjoying the moment - this very moment of being able to walk with no pain from my arthritic knees!" M.C.

Successes with Basic Books

Our students are having great successes with the Basics! Each book has a book course that goes with it to assist you in thoroughly understanding the concepts for us in your life. Here are some recent completions' success stories:

Romell completed the Dianetics^® book course and says, "I now have a profound respect for auditors. They are a contribution to all of Man. Dianetics first aid is prevention and the cure to most ills. I am ready to work with an auditor to get to the State of Clear. I will share this with more people as I would like to be surrounded by people who are on the road to Clear."

Jose completed The Problem of Work book course and says, "I practice and use this in my life to fix all these problems. I learned ideas and how to work hard and be happy and to have more energy in my life."

Joellen completed Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought book course and says, "What I have taken from this course boils down to this: Communication wven within one's mind is the solvent for mankind...I will use it to better exist with myself by processing and with others to better co-exist."

Healthy Living, Healthy Eating Seminar

Please join us on March 1st at 12:30 for our next Saturday Seminar. This week we will present a seminar from The Health Series: Healthy Living, Healthy Eating with nutrition expert, Dr. Vikki Petersen. Find out how to eat healthily and enjoy your food even more. Vikki is a fabulous cook and will totally surprise you with what can be done with healthy eating. And you might even get to taste some yummy food!

Art of Communication Through Music

Professional musician and long-time Scientologist^®, Jim Sturges, will be delivering this Saturday's seminar. This is part of the seminar series on Aesthetics and is entitled The Art of Communication Through Music. Jim is an extraordinarily good speaker and will also do a performance for us so this seminar is NOT to be missed.

Sisters Co-Audit

Sisters Margot and Colleen have been co-auditing processes from the book Self Analysis. They have been having great gains and going up the tone scale. Just look at these happy girls!

Dissemination!

Ellie Feeney, Power Field Staff Member, led a seminar/workshop on dissemination at the Mission on Saturday. She regaled the crowd with funny stories and anecdotes and had them drill dissemination until everyone was competent. All attendees now know how to talk to friends and family about Scientology^® technology.

Questions about the Scientology® religion?

If you have questions about the Scientology religion, there are several ways to get them answered truthfully:
1. Visit the Scientology.org website. This is the official church site which has the truth about Scientology.
2. Visit the ScientologyPaloAlto.com website. This is the mission's site which gives introductory information.
3. Read a book about Scientology. I recommend Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought which is available online at ScientologyInfo.com.
4. Come into a Church of Scientology and find out for yourself.

How to Use Handbook for Preclears

Learn how you can use this book to help yourself—by yourself. This seminar is given by Cindy Feshbach, Case Supervisor.

There are fifteen Self-processing Acts given in Handbook for Preclears. This book contains several essays giving the most expansive description of the Ideal State of Man. Discover why behavior patterns become so solidly fixed; why habits seemingly can’t be broken; how decisions long ago have more power over a person than his decisions today; and why a person keeps past negative experiences in the present. It’s all clearly laid out on the Chart of Attitudes — a milestone breakthrough that complements the Chart of Human Evaluation — plotting the ideal state of being and one’s attitudes and reactions to life. In self-processing, Handbook for Preclears is used in conjunction with Self Analysis.

Sharing Scientology® Wins with Friends and Family

Dorothy is one of Palo Alto Mission's top disseminators. She loves to share Scientology with friends and family and help them to discover the subject for themselves. Here she is (center) with friend Roni (left) and daughter Jessica (right). Roni is on course at our mission and Jessica is a staff member at Riverpark mission in the Sacramento area.

Self Analysis Book Course

Dennis completed the Self Analysis Book Course. Here is his success story: "I have just completed the Self Analysis Book Course and have gained an awareness of how much I have grown and how much more potential I actually have."

The Self Analysis book takes you through your past, your potentials, your life. First, with a series of self-examinations and using a special version of the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation, you plot yourself on the Emotional Tone Scale. Then, applying a series of light, yet powerful processes, you embark on the great adventure of self-discovery. This book further contains embracive Dianetics^® principles that answer the questions you've had, but never knew where to ask:

• The laws of survival and abundance
  
  
• The most embracive description of consciousness
  
  
• Essays describing a broad array of Dianetics discoveries including time, remembering, forgetting, imagination, valences and special auditing lists for each
  
  
• And, beyond all those revelations, self-processing lists that provide the most powerful of auditing and which can be done anywhere and at any time — uncovering the real world of you.

Seminar - How to Take the "Starving" out of "Starving Artist"

How to Take “Starving” out of “Starving Artist”

January 26th at 12:30

Speaker: Artist Debbie Arambula

Debbie Arambula is a painter who is internationally collected and is best known for her “Heart Portraits.” She has demonstrated their creation on over a dozen national television shows.

She will tell you how she became a successful artist and what tools she has used to achieve her goals.

Bring your lunch and learn

The Problems of Work

Joellen finished the Problems of Work Book Course and had this to say, "I am not a cog in the machine. I am the machine. I can start, change and stop."

Attackers of the Scientology® Religion

"The secrets of a person who is evilly disposed toward his fellows are not safe around a Scientologist. The hidden motives of a group attempting the enslavement of a people are too easily penetrated by a Scientologist. And the fight against him is inspired by terror and guilt - and terror and guilt are far too weak to win against truth...
"Unfortunately, the person who does not want you to study Scientology is your enemy as well as ours. When he harangues against us to you as a 'cult,' as a 'hoax,' he or she is only saying, 'Please, please, please don't try to find me out.'....
"But Scientology is also generous, tolerant and kind. And before the breadth of its understanding and the kindness of its people, a new world can be born for anyone, a world without war, criminality or the insane.
"But also, much more personally can be born a real friendship where there was private fear before, a real family founded on mutual trust, a real marriage where its partners are united against the world, not divided from one another by hidden acts.
"Beware the person or group who fights Scientology, for that person fights truth- not the truth of natural laws, but the truth about himself.
"It's well worth knowing, we assure you."
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology

How to Achieve your Goals

The Mechanics of Goals

January 19th at 12:30

Speaker: Rod Selmier

You can learn how to achieve your goals for real and not just live another year wishing instead of acting.

What are the mechanics of making a goal? How do you ensure you actually achieve a goal? How do you avoid the booby-traps that will stop your success?

Rod will give you invaluable data from L. Ron Hubbard that will answer all these questions and empower you. Don’t miss it.

Bring your lunch and learn

Study Skills for Life

Study Technology^®, researched and developed by L. Ron Hubbard, is a unique program enabling a student to overcome the basic barriers to studying and learning any subject, so that he can understand and retain the data which he is trying to absorb and can effectively put into application the material which he has been studying.

Study Technology is an exact system which teaches one how to learn. It includes the identification of the specific barriers to learning, the tools to help a student grasp the material being studied, and the means to organize the basic learning environment toward the attainment of better results for both the student and teacher. It can be used to create a highly efficient and self-paced learning environment. Understanding and learning to bring about an ability to apply what one has learned is fundamental to Study Technology.

Study Technology gives the student the techniques and understanding which enable him to take increased responsibility and control of his own learning process.

Brytnii completed the course, Study Skills for Life, the course for students 12 and up. which gives a student a basic grounding in Study Technology. Here's what she has to say:

"I've enjoyed this course so much. The staff made it easy for me to understand what all the barriers to study are and how I can handle them in my day-to-day life. I know this can help me."

Scientology® Personal Efficiency Course

Margot completed the Personal Efficiency Course Part 2 and here is her success story:
This course has taught me a lot of helpful information. I have learned a lot about people and the tone scale. Although I loved learning everything, my favorite part would definitely be auditing. I learned how to audit and the effects of auditing. I really enjoyed co-auditing. I thought it was so cool when both my twin and I would always come out of a session way more energetic and cheerful - even when all we did was ask a few simple questions. This course has really helped me understand so many things and made me a happier person."

Happy New Year from the Mission!

The Palo Alto Mission wishes you a very happy and lively new year.
Let's celebrate! It's 08!

Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science

Robert completed Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science Book Course. "I feel that this course is a must for anyone who is fortunate enough to have the world's greatest computer - an optimum brain - and wishes to better appreciate its use in the processes of Man's survival. This course is like falling into a huge vat of workable data and then climbing out with a new outlook on life and its paths of challenges with a determination to WIN!!!"

Scientology Grade III

Mark completed Grade III!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The ability gained from this grade is that one achieves freedom from the upsets of the past and ability to face the future. Here is his success story:
"With this grade I regained the ability to accept change and create change at will. This includes change in myself as well as granting beingness to others. I have also recovered some old (forgotten) postulates that I had made about past upsets in my life as well as other-determined 'purposes' that I had confused as my own. Upson seeing these, I was able to make new postulates and have a better eye for the future. This grade couldn't have happened at a better time in my life...as big changes are coming ahead."

Wins with Beginning Scientology Services

Roni completed two Beginning Scientology Services this week!

Her success from Introductory Dianetics Auditing: "Oh my gosh!!!! I have been able to remember things and people that I have thought were gone. I cannot express just how exciting it feels. The weight on my spirit is so light that I feel almost as though I can float on a cloud, so much unlike how I felt (overloaded and dragged down) when I first began these sessions."

Her success from the Self Analysis Book Course: "I would suggest this course to everyone, both involved in Scientology and others. My mood has been so much more positive. I am alert and aware. The memories that once haunted me are no longs so frightening or painful. I have had the most wonderful experience of remembering my mothers, of whom I have only had one memory for the past 39 years. I am feeling confident in myself and my abilities. I look forward to further Self Analysis."

Dianetics Book and Lecture Course

Mark just completed the Dianetics Book and Lecture Course and has this to say:
"This is the second time I've read Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and I totally love the updated version. Having the questions on the new course really made me apply the data and the lectures made better sense. I have a better understanding of what Dianetics is and what it actually does to change a person."

Personal Values and Integrity Life Improvement Course

Joellen finished the Life Improvement Course, Personal Values and Integrity. Here is her success story: "This course is great. Basically it's how one thing leads to another in the Big Picture! Being honest, ethical and moreal maintains the dynamics. simple, huh?"

Ingredients for Career Success - Avoiding Job Burnout

The Ingredients of Success—Avoiding Job Burnout

Saturday - December 15th - 12:30 pm at Palo Alto Mission

Seminar with Wally Stokes. How would you like to learn the secrets to remaining interested and engaged in your job? Would you like to avoid feeling burned out and exhausted when you go to work or when you go home? Wally will go over some key information from L. Ron Hubbard that can help you handle this common problem. Wally is an experienced business consultant who is an expert at applying the data of Scientology to resolve work-related issues.

Saturday Artists Seminar

Marc Silber Seminar

Get to Know Your Camera

December 8th at 12:30

Marc began taking photographs in the 1960s, starting his career in photography at the legendary Peninsula School where he eagerly learned composition and darkroom skills. He took frequent trips with camera to the mountains and the coast, falling in love with the beauty and the spirit of the Sierra and the California coast. Through his images he has been able to capture the expression of the spirit, each telling a story, whether of the spirit of nature or the spirit of the individual.

Marc studied the works of masters such as Ansel Adams, the Westons and Henri Cartier-Bresson but quickly forged his own unique style and quality.

He honed his skills at the celebrated San Francisco Art Institute. Founded in 1871, the Art Institute is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in art and photography in the United States. The Art Institute’s photography department was founded by no less than Ansel Adams and Minor White.

Silber’s work covers a full range from action shots, to candid portraits to landscapes. His series from the Sierra Madre, Mexico gives us a rare glimpse into the remote mountain region above Mazatlan, days by jeep and foot. He tells of the people being so grateful for the medical help that his project brought that he was allowed to photograph and capture their life in a completely intimate manner.

Though Marc moves through his fifth decade as a professional photographer he is still constantly exploring approaches, styles and projects.

Marc is a senior Scientologist as well as an accomplished public speaker and loves to teach photography through his workshops and published works. Often his workshops have accompanied his exhibits, with excellent reviews.

Shown here is a photo of the carousel in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, taken on a recent trip. To see more of Marc's work and find out more about him and his artistic philosophy, visit his website: SilberStudios.com.

Children's Ethics Book

Hunter completed a study of the Children's Ethics Book.
This is a basic non-religious course teaching ethics for a child to understand. Here's his success:

"I feel happy that I finished this. I know all the good things I am supposed to do and the bad things I'm not supposed to do. Since I have done this course I can use it and not commit overts. I am happy I did my course."

The Fundamentals of Thought Book Course

Robert has completed the Fundamentals of Thought Book Course! Here is his poetic success story:
"I have just completed this course with a new glow of light indicating that I can now go back out into this physical universe and help make man create a better image in this day and time of global disruption."

The Children's Communication Course

Jarod just completed The Children's Communication Course and says, "This course was good. I can use this anywhere - at home or at a park or with my friends. I can use it at school with my buddy."

Introductory Dianetics Auditing

Dennis has completed some Introductory Dianetics Auditing.

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is an advance of such magnitude, that The New York Times compared it to man’s discovery of fire and the wheel.

Dianetics contains a revolutionary easy-to-apply technique by which a person can GET RID of their reactive mind (the “invisible” storehouse of recorded painful experiences which react on you like post-hypnotic commands).

Our experienced Dianetics Auditors can locate and remove mental blocks that stand in the way of your self-confidence and success. This is not psychology or “therapy.” It is an exact process that reveals the hidden sources of pain, nervousness, unwanted behavior patterns, psychosomatic illness, negative emotions, depression and much more. Dianetics addresses the unwanted stops in your life that are holding you back from reaching your fullest potential.

Here is Dennis' success story: "Where did that burden go? And all that stress and worry? I feel more clarity about my sense of people around me. I have more focus. Somehow my world seems so much bigger now - many more choices. I know that I am choosing more things to do of my own choosing. I am finding that there are things that I am re-evaluating as to having or not having to do that I always thought I had to do."

Scientology Expanded Grade II

Mark completed Expanded Grade II! This auditing level has as its end result RELIEF FROM THE HOSTILITIES AND SUFFERINGS OF LIFE. Here is Mark's success story:
"With every Grade so far I've regained more ability to be free - especially with Grade II. It was long and every day was a new 'adventure' but in the end I have a better sense of cause and effect. I'm willin to expand and reach into life without much effort and with more knowingness."

Problems of Work Book Course

Robert, Professional Artist, just completed the Problems of Work Course. Here's his success story.
"I definitely feel more informed, better prepared to handle problems relative to work aboard my 'ship' (home) and do highly recommend this course to all who work in this society. A Great Course!!"

Problems of Work Book Course

Evan has been studying the Problems of Work book on the Basic Book Course. Here's what he has to say so far:
"I have been having fun with this course. It is really a lot easier to read this book now and I get the information better. I have been clearing up some confusions I have had on control so that's good."
Anyone can do this course - there are no prerequisites. Don't wait!

Success in Business with Scientology Administrative Tools

Rick Petersen, OT VIII and successful chiropractor, spoke at the mission on Saturday. The subject was how to use Scientology Administrative tools to make a business expand and prosper. People loved hearing Rick speak. A few comments:
"I got some data on how to start a business. Going over the non-existence formula helped me to gain certainty and actually do the next step in starting a business." LM
"I felt like I really understand business better - how to get stuff going and keep in moving and what happens if things go down and how to change it." JB

Problems of Work Book Course

Melissa is on the Basics Book Course on the Problems of Work book. This book contains the senior principles and laws which apply to every endeavor, every problem of work. For they are the discoveries which lay bare the core of these problems and explain the very fabric of life itself. Here is what Melissa has to say about the course so far:
"I am having a lot of realizations on the Problems of Work Course! It is crazy to me how simple the data is, but yet so powerful. I already feel totally different at my job and also in life. It's not really like being on a course; it's more like just reading a super good book. I am having a lot of fun!"