Teen understands life better

JH completed the book course Self Analysis and says, "This course has given me such amazing and beneficial tools to go help others! I cannot wait to put them to use and see the results!"

Teenager understanding ethics

MW completed a course on Ethics and says, "The Ethics Book has been an amazing course. It has broadened my knowledge of what reason, ethics, responsibility and the eight dynamics are as well as how to properly apply them. Although these lessons were immeasurably helpful, the most significant part of this course has been the explanation of overts and withholds and all that follows. I now know why I am others can sometimes act so unreasonably after a petty mistake/bad act. This knowledge has shown me how to handle people, including myself, incredibly better. I have thoroughly enjoyed as well as benefitted from The Ethics Book and highly recommend it to anyone and everyone, no matter your age or experience level."

Postpartum Depression

Here is some vital data about the dangerous proposed Mothers Act from cchr.org. See the link for the full article.

"THE MOTHERS ACT: A VIOLATION OF INFORMED CONSENT

The Melanie Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act, also known as the Mothers Act, is a federal bill named after Melanie Stokes, a woman who suffered emotional difficulties after giving birth and was subsequently prescribed a cocktail of intensely controversial psychiatric drugs including anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety, and anti-depressant drugs (documented by the US FDA to cause worsening depression, mania and suicidal ideation) before being subjected to electroshock treatment.

Melanie Stokes was in the mental health system, was prescribed drugs, was hospitalized, was subjected to the still barbaric practice of electroshock and then committed suicide. That is what the mental health industry did for a new mother named Melanie Stokes. It is incredible that a story such as this does not raise alarm bells within Congress on the negligence of prescribing cocktails of psychiatric drugs to new mothers, drugs documented by the US FDA and international drug regulatory agencies to cause worsening depression, depersonalization, mania, psychosis, suicidal and homicidal ideation. Conversely the bill before Congress entitled the "Mothers Act", which already passed the House of Representatives and is now before the Senate, will assuredly increase new mothers being prescribed these deadly drugs, the most common treatment for women diagnosed with postpartum depression...."

For the full article, go to http://www.cchr.org/mothers_act.html

Route to Infinity Course

MC just completed the lecture course "Route to Infinity." He said, "This is my second time listening to these lectures. I got more understanding of facsimiles and how to disintegrate them and how they really work."

Art

CW completed The Art Book course and said, "This course has honestly been the best I have ever studied. All of the information was mind-blowingly helpful to me. I wanted to frame every page of the book! It was particularly useful because I'm fairly involved in the arts. This course was truly amazing, applicable and just enjoyable overall."

Communication

LW completed the course, Success Through Communication. He said, "I found many weaknesses in myself in terms of communication. Many inappropriate tones, gestures and facial expressions were discovered. These had given someone with whom I was having a conversation wrong ideas. After we found them and made appropriate adjustmants, I feel more confident in delivering my messages to people and to audiences."

Changed viewpoint about life

A person serving time in prison has been studying the Problems of Work book and wrote this to us:
Has this course changed my viewpoint about life? Yes, I believe it has. I've always been fond of work but I like to set my own terms. This course has changed the way I think about work. It has made me more aware of the whole machine and of my part in it. I've learned to look at my part in the work I do as being important, even it at first it doesn't seem so for me. I always believed that work in any form is important to a healthy life and your teschings have reaffirmed that.
I am also more conscious of my surroundings and my spere of influence. I believe that, yes, it has changed my viewpoint on life and my part and purpose in it.
I do believe I conduct myself better when problems arise. Problem solving has become much easier and less confusing when I appy the maxim of the stable datum.
Sincerely, J

A good history lesson

DP completed the book and lecture course for Scientology: A History of Man and says, "This book and lecture series were amazing! They were so eye opening and really got me to see where I've been and what I've gone through. I cannot wait to audit all of these incidents on the Clearing Course and I'm excited to see what's next on my basics. Thanks to L. Ron Hubbard for this great data!"

Winning with Dianetics Auditing

AP has been receiving some Dianetics auditing and wrote this success story:
"New Era Dianetics auditing has been such an adventure for me even though I just started. Every day I've gone back and found some postulate that has still affected my life today. It has been amazing and I love it!"

Assist Auditing Program

JH completed an assist auditing program and says, "This program was wild! I now have a much higher level of ARC for myself and much higher respect for my abilities. I have recovered from something that many people never recover from fully. I know that if they did fully recover from incidents similar to mine, they would be much improved beings. I had never experienced Dianetics auditing before. It is unbelievable in the best way! I didn't know what I could achieve until I achieved it and it was a beautiful achievement." Here he is (on left) with his auditor Eric.

Life Repair Auditing

AJ completed Life Repair auditing and says, "Before auditing, my life wasn't going so well. I found out I had many overts and withholds. But lucky for me I had an amazing auditor. We handled everything that need to be handled and more, thanks to Tom. I really think that my life has changed enormously!! I am so grateful that I had him as an auditor."

Learning How to Learn

FC completed the course, Learning How to Learn and says, "I fully understand the course now and see that the last time I studied this, I was a little off. It is now really easy for me to spot misunderstood words and lack of mass.

The mechanism of blame

JH completed the book and lecture course for Handbook for Preclears. She says, "I learned so much from this book and these lectures, especially the lecture about cause on all dynamics and the mechanism of blame. I listen to this daily now, had my son and my husband listen to it and it has changed the whole dynamic for the better! Marvelous data! Thanks to the Mission for providing and to L. Ron Hubbard for discovering!"

Milestone One Course

MC completed the lecture course on Milestone One. He says, "The data about whole track incidents really validated things I've already seen on my whole track. So excited to see more!"

Handbook for Preclears

JB finished the Handbook for Preclears Book and Lecture Course. He said, "I thought the coolest part of this course was the fact that a person without an auditor could use the book to get processed. But of course there is much great data to use in my life. It was cool. Thanks Ron."

Join us for our Grand Opening

Join us for our grand opening for our new location on Saturday, June 13th at 3:30. We'll have a ribbon cutting and a party!

We have moved!

We have moved to a new location in Palo Alto!

150 Grant Avenue
North of Page Mill Road/Oregon Expressway
Come by and visit.

New Outlook on Life

Avalon 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's what she has to say, "Grade IV was truly amazing! I feel like I have a new outlook on life! I feel that I can take on new things and I feel free from fixed ideas I used to have."

Children's Communication Course

H.L. completed the Children's Communication Course and says, "I had a win on completing this course and I can use all the communication drills to help me in life. I learned to really be there and I learned how to really handle someone's problems so that they feel good in the communication cycle!"

Advanced Procedure and Axioms

J.H. finished the book and lecture course on Advanced Procedures and Axioms and says, "A lot of the data could easily stand alone as entire workable philosophies like the concepts of self-determinism, intelligence, thought-emotion-effort, responsibility and sympathy. Reading and hearing L. Ron Hubbard explain these concepts was fun and informative and and made me happy, because this is all true for every thetan. He is explaining you to you and your fellow man to you. The result is treating yourself and them with much more love, respect and understanding, along with being much more effective at bettering your own life and theirs. That's what I got - best bargain in the universe! Thanks Palo Alto Mission! Thanks Ron!"

Freedom from the upsets of the past

A.P. completed Expanded Grade Three! This auditing results in a person who is free from the upsets of the past with the ability to face the future. On Grade III processes one locates specific incidents where upsetting change occurred in life and addresses these so that they no longer adversely affect one. Some of the processes also enhance the ability of the individual to create positive change in himself or his environment. She says, "Grade III was awesome. I feel really good about being able to be okay with the past and to face the future confidently. I also know that I can cause changes for the good of myself and others. I feel comfortable with changes in my life."

Children's Communication Course

G.L. completed the Children's Communication Course and says he will use it in his life. In his success story he said, "If you were talking to someone you would understand them and they would understand you. I'm going to make sure I'm using good communication."

Learning How to Learn

T.L. completed the study course "Learning How to Learn." She says, "I loved learning how to learn! I learned the barriers to study and I'll know it for life. My favorite thing to learn about was lack of mass and misunderstood words."

The Entire Basics Books and Lectures Courses

D.W. completed the Fundamentals of Thought and Professional Course book and lecture course. She says, "This is the last of the book and lecture courses so just getting through all of these is a win for me. The biggest win is just my understanding of Dianetics and Scientology. But, I wouldn't have gotten this understanding if I hadn't done these in sequence - what a difference that makes. There're definitely things that I can apply in controlling communication cycles and in handling people with communication alone. I understand so much more about the reactive mind, about facsililes and how they follow electronic phenomena, about games and how a thetn creates mysteries for himself by not-knowing and so gets himself stuck. I just know more as a preclear and what an auditor is trying to do in session. I know about how much trouble thetans get into with agreements and I know that once a thetan can take over the automaticity of his facsimiles, he's in control of them and it doesn't matter if they're erased or not. Thanks to everyone here who keeps this place here and to Ron for all of this data - the books AND the lectures are so important to my understanding of all of this."

The Creation of Human Ability

E.Z. completed the Creation of Human Ability book course. He says, "This course was very good and helpful for me as an auditor. I got a lot of the theory behind the processes I run on my PCs. Very helpful. It make each of the processes make more sense in why we run them. Sweet!"

The Handbook for Preclears

M.C. completed the Book and Lecture course for The Handbook for Preclears. Here is what he has to say: "This course really helped me understand self-determinism and how it relates to the environment. It also helped me understand others' purposes."

Basics Book and Lecture Courses

Three students completed book and lecture courses on the Basics.

T.T. finished History of Man and Technique 88 and says, "Just by knowing more of where I've been helps to bring about hope of an understanding of the sources for aberrations held. By also balancing thought, flows and facsimiles will help to improve my tone, bring about more tone and rediscovered ability." D.P. also completed the book course and says, "This was an amazing book! I really learned a lot about why things and people are the way they are and I learned what's really on the whole track! I cannot wait to continue my auditing and handle it all."

D.W. finished Dianetics 55 and Unification Congress and says, "I feel like I have a much, much better understanding of communication and what I can do with it. I know how to get out of trouble with it by using it - if I get into trouble by communicatiing. Also I have a way to restore some former abilities by using it too - so that's really, really useful."

The Creation of Human Ability

"I just completed The Creation of Human Ability and Phoenix Lectures course. This course gave me a really, really good understanding of beings and this universe and how it all goes together. The biggest win is really just undersatnding things that I have been trying to understand for so long. One of the wins on this course is that I've actually been able to get my garage set up as a workshop. It was sort of set up before but wasn't very workable. Thanks to Ron for all this data and to everyone at the mission who keep this place open for lost thetans like me." - D.W.

The Technology of Study

H.P. 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 professionals to improve their competence in the workplace. Here is his success story:"I really liked this course and I cannot wait to apply it to studying the Basics courses!"

Advanced Procedure and Axioms

J.B. completed the course for Advanced Procedure and Axioms book and Thought, Emotion and Effort lectures. He says, "It seemed to me that I was studying REAL philosophy and not the junk in schools. It also changed me a lot. I found I used this in a lot of diverse ways. Great stuff!"

The Route to Infinity Lectures

M.H. and T.T. both completed the course on The Route to Infinity Lectures. Here are their success stories:

"I can see that it is important to make decisions and not maybes. Don't get held up in maybes. Cause is to be and making decisions to be."

"Another fine example of a set of lectures and course! This was enlightening."

More Awareness

T.T. completed the Milestone One Lecture Course and says, "It's interesting to see more of how we have moved on the track, what we had done and had done to ourselves. It's interesting to learn that there are probably others out there like myself due to the spread of theta on the track. It's just good to be more aware of where I've come from."

Route to Infinity

D.P. completed the lecture course for Route to Infinity.
Here is her success story:
"This was an amazing lecture series. I really understand the importance of living life to the fullest and of being at complete cause over life".

Expanded Grade Three

S.M.P. completed Expanded Grade Three today! The auditing on this grade results in freedom from the upsets of the past with the ability to face the future. The person achieves an enhanced ability to confront, experience and find advantage in the inevitable changes of life. Here is his success story: "Grade 3 was a lot of fun. Throughout it, I had a lot of realizations and just noticed things that I hadn't really looked at before. Things in life became easier to handle and I also realized something big that was making me unhappy. Overall, I'm glad I did this grade and I feel very good about it."

Communication Release!

J.H. completed Expanded Grade Zero, Communication Release. This auditing level addresses the subject of communication and handles spiritual factors having to do with the giving and receiving of communication. The person regains the ability to communicate with anyone on any subject. Here is his success story: "The ability to communicate totally and freely is something you don't know you've missed until you've got it back. It is an awesome and unbelievably fresh feeling. I know that this ability will help me and be with me from here on out."

We wish you a very happy holiday!

All of us at the Palo Alto Mission wish you a very happy holiday and a wonderful new year!

Student learns about Knowlege-Responsibiltiy-Control

J.H. completed the book course on Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science.
Here is his success story: "This course was awesome! It illustrated the Knowledge-Responsibility-Control triangle for me. It gave me knowledge about my mind which gave me more control which gave me the responsibility to use the data and to help others get it."

Handbook for Preclears Book Course

T.T. completed the Handbook for Preclears Book Course. He says, "I never realized that I've been living with postulates taken on from dead people. I'll be cognizant of postulated that I use which really have not been productive. Thinking and working as who 'I' am now seems more real."

Auditing Win

A.P. finished an auditing program and said, "I actually got a lot out of this program. I feel a lot better and like I am cause over my life."

Drug Education

H.L. completed a special course on drug education. Here's what he had to say: My favorite part is where it told me what drugs do and how much they could do to you. I'm really happy I did the course because now I know a lot about drugs."

Grand Opening of the new location for SoMa Mission

Please join us for the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting for the new location of the SoMa Mission!
Saturday, December 6th at 3:30
566 Folsom Street (between 1st and 2nd)
San Francisco

Self Analysis

M.L. completed the Book Course on Self Analysis. She said," This was a very easy book to understand. It was really cool learning about how to handle certain things that happen in session. Very helpful to me! :)

Milestone One!

M.H. completed the Basics Lectures course on Milestone One. Here's her success story:
"Another terrific Basics course. What a drastic difference from 'the world out there' which is so materialistic. I look forward to the continued route - and to listening to these lectures again in the future."

Assist Auditing

J.Z. completed an assist auditing program in order to help her recover more rapidly from a recent surgery. She says, "I loved this auditing program I did with Tom. It was so smooth and exactly what I needed. I hadn't realized how solid I had become after the surgery I had and that completely went away! Thank you."

Manager uses The Problems of Work book

R.T. completed the book course for The Problems of Work. She is an Associate Director Client Services and here tells a story of how she applied the information she learned in the book to her management position:
"I have two new staff members so had a meeting to create a new game with my team. The team members created a tool to measure what they handle using Affinity, Reality and Communication daily and promised to share all related data and to recreate the job daily. The agreed to take a walk when they feel burnt out or tired. I let them know this method will work at home too. This is good because they know I support them in start-change-stop cycles at work. We all gave each other a high 5 at the end of the meeting."

Auditing Survey

We are doing a survey to find out how you liked auditing (if you had some). We want to improve our quality and our delivery so your answers are very important to us.

We would like to know:

• What gains you achieved in your auditing?

• Did your auditing address the problems you were trying to handle?

• Did you have any difficulties in auditing?

• Would you like more auditing?

• Any other information you think we should have.

Just copy and paste these questions into the body of an email back to us with your answers and send to paloalto@scientology.net.

Dianetics study improves understanding

JH completed a course on the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. He had this to say about it: "By doing this course I got a much deeper understanding of Dianetics and how to apply it. I also have a better understanding of how the mind works. I can now operate more independently and not be negatively affected by bizarre behavior. I also learned new ways to help people - great course!"

Dianetics frees man from drugs

M.C. completed the New Era Dianetics Drug Rundown, an auditing action which results in freedom from harmful effects of drugs, alcohol and medicine and free from the need to take them. Here is his success story:
"I never knew that simple medications people take can really affect the reactive mind. I'm free of those and handled a lot of issues regarding drugs. There is much less case in the way and I feel freer."