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!"

Happy Halloween!

The Zylker Boys came by to Trick or Treat. Jackson is a green and purple dinosaur and Chase is a black bat. We hope your Halloween is full of treats like this!

Life Improvement Course Success

Joellen completed the Life Improvement Course, Overcoming Ups and Downs in Life. Here is what she had to say, "I have learned to name and recognize anti-social behavior and know that positive people are social behavior type people. I will apply this knowledge by simply being more aware of those people around me and with whom I associate.
I plan on moving forward with positive results in life. By doing this course I hope to eliminate roller-coastering, which is moving up and down emotionally and physically."

Basics Courses Successes

The Mission is now delivering the Basics Books and Lectures Courses! Here are a few of the wins our students are having on just a few of these courses:

The Problems of Work Course:
"Wow! I cannot express just how enlightening this has been for me. Just during the reading of this book I have begun to apply the basics of good control and have been quite successful. My employees have become more productive and my employer has become more satisfied." RW
Self Analysis Book Course
“I feel a new understanding about life and how I can control it. I really understand survival and how to survive on a prosurvival level. It is so easy to understand and put into use. Thanks Ron.” SA

Fundamentals of Thought Book Course
“I’m reading about Reality – that it is simply agreement which you can reach with anyone with enough communication. And I realized just how powerful that is. We literally get to control and create our reality by simply reaching agreements with others on what it is. That is the joy of creating from yet another viewpoint. Just decide what you want, get agreement, and then, enjoy!” JH

Grade II Auditing 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. Eric, Mission Executive and Professional Auditor, just completed this Grade and has this to say:
"This was really cool. It really handled a bunch of things for me on the subject of cause: being cause or being an effect. I was able to feel relief from both - things I have caused another and things another has caused me. I also found that I am less afraid to be cause and more willing to be cause. Before I was afraid of what might happen. This was a good grade. I feel lots less withheld to since I cleaned up that area. Thanks to my auditor, my case supervisor and Ron.

Emotional Tone Scale Course

Roni just completed the Scientology Handbook course on the Emotional Tone Scale. Here's what she has to say, "Wow! Simply knowing the tone level of a person can make my personal and business life much easier. Not to mention that being able to spot a tone level and going uptone by just a small amount may just be the way to help another - the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. Incredible! It's as simple as that! Thanks, guys and gals."

BASICS COURSE ROOM OPENING CELEBRATION

The Palo Alto Mission held a Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting for the New Basics Course Room to celebrate our being fully qualified to deliver the Basics Books and Lectures Courses.
These courses mark a first in the history of Scientology. Each book and companion lecture series has its own individual course checksheet and pack. Studying these Books and Lectures in the Mission means you'll know them as part of you.
The photo shows Cindy Feshbach (Mission Holder), Jan Silber (Executive Director Mountain View Org) and Robin Selmier (our newly trained Basics Course Supervisor) cutting the ribbon.

Basics Courses!

The Mission is now totally authorized to deliver the Basics Books Courses and the Basics Books and Lectures Courses! Don't wait any longer - come start today and bring your friends!

Book Store Enlightenment System

The Mission has a Bookstore Enlightenment System which is very easy to use. There are excerpts from lectures by L. Ron Hubbard accompanied by video footage illustrating what is being discussed. You can stop by any time, select a lecture (Basics, Congresses or Classics), put on the headphones and become enlightened. Here you see Jackson Zylker and Sadie Cox listening to Ron talk about the subject of games.

Emotional Tone Scale Course

Jose just completed a course on the Emotional Tone Scale. He says, "I have had many wins on this course. Being able to use the Emotional Tone Scale to spot different people and where they actually are on the chart is great."

Success Through Communication Course

Roni just completed the Success Through Communication Course. This is a course which teaches 18 very specific communication skills to improve one's ability to communicate in business and social areas. Here's what Roni has to say, "I have been successful in applying all aspects of this course in my work as well as my personal and social life. I can fully attest that positively communicating has gained my successes already which would lead me to believe that I will only continue to be successful so long as I continue to apply what I have learned in this communication course."

New Era Dianetics Success

Eric has been receiving some New Era Dianetics auditing. He had a big win today and wrote a success story. Here it is:
"After my session it kept hitting me what had happened in my session. My win just kept on going. What I spotted really is the first time I started thinking, 'there must be something wrong with me.' and let me tell you I have had that thought many times, on a physical and mental aspect. It was really interesting that once I spottedwhat had happened and where I got that from, the whole thing blew! It's really hard to put into words what happened. Words just don't do this kind of win justice. Dianetics really is simple and it works."

Basic Study Manual Course

Romell completed the Basic Study Manual Course. This course provides a more comprehensive education in Study Technology than the other basic study books. It can be studied by middle and high school students and adults to improve their ability to use what they study, and also by professionals to improve their competence in the workplace. Here is Romell's success story, "This course has helped me teach my son how to learn and read better. It is also helping me with all the other work related course I am taking because I study with the intention of applying what I learned in my life. This was the best course because it is the foundation of gaining knowledge."

Robin wins studying the Basics of Scientology!

I’m lucky! I am currently studying the Basics Books and Lectures Course full time and I feel like I’m discovering Dianetics and Scientology all over again. The wins I’ve had span across my dynamics. My viewpoint of life and the world around me gets saner by the day because I’m getting the truth right from Ron. Studying these materials chronologically brings order to this vast body of knowledge. With this alignment, there is so much more understanding to be had.
And while my wins on a personal level are huge and could fill up pages, what I look forward to most is using this new certainty and knowledge at the mission. I feel we now actually have a way to impart this incredible religion of ours to new public straight from Ron like never before. I know my ability to help others has increased ten-fold already and that this increased personal certainty will make me more effective at creating new Scientologists – and that’s what it’s all about!

Scientology Personal Efficiency Course

Jose completed the Personal Efficiency Course. This course teaches the very basics of Scientology and introduces a person to auditing by co-auditing the recall processes from the book Self Analysis. Here is Jose's success story:
"I used all the tools I have learned on this course. The auditing is good and should be done every day for good results. I'm able to communicate better and feel more comfortable in my life. I'm doing good and ready to keep going up the Bridge!"

Scientology Palo Alto new website!

Please check out our new website:

www.ScientologyPaloAlto.com

It totally rocks!!

Just click on the link. Tell your friends.