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."

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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."