{{Personal Profiles
|Image=Emir thumb.jpg
|Birthdate=03/29
|Birthday=March 29, 1968
|Birth info=Born in a family of university professors. Got interested in Scientology in early teen age, and did his first TRs course when 16.
|Nationality=Serbian
|Occupation=Former journalist, translator and press officer (spokesperson). As a writer, authored and published three books in former Yugoslavia.
|Org. affiliation=The Clearing Academy,
|Posts=Course Supervisor, Auditor, D of T
|Years active=35
|Spouse=Divorced
|Children=Hannah Salihovich
|Case Level=OT 6
|Training Level=Class V provisional
|Website=http://clearingacademy.org
|Alternate website=https://the-clearing-academy.learnworlds.com/
|Email=esalihovic@yahoo.com
|Social Media=https://www.facebook.com/scientologyauditing
|Phone=+381665598442
}}
I did my first Scientology course in 1984, the Basic TRs Course, and since 1985 I have continued with deeper and more thorough study and education in the field. I collected all the books and materials I could while living in a socialist country of Yugoslavia.
In 1983, my friend Desimir Ivanovic returned from Saint Hill where he had been trained to Class V and attested to Clear. In Yugoslavia, he started an association of citizens called Society for Psycho-physical Recreation. It was actually an undercover independent Scientology org, as he didn't want to continue with CoS, and couldn't use the word "Scientology" publicly in what was then Yugoslavia. So we were probably among the first, if not the first, Freezone Org in Europe!
After the "great purge" in CoS in the early 1980s, many of Desmir's friends from Saint Hill, like Alan Ambrose and Eric Ballard, started visiting us. Until the war in the Balkans (1991) we progressed through numerous courses, intensive training (like Standard Dianetics) and many hundreds of hours of co-auditing, during which I attained the state of Clear, though I did the DCSI and rehabbed it many years later.
During the war years, our activities had stop, but Desimir started training a select group of students on the Academy levels, which he had to call "School of Clearing" in public. I attended his training, and got a certificate in "Coaching according to Clearing method" as Desimir called it... (Approximately equivalent to Class IV).
After the war, thanks to the availability of a new invention called the Internet, I started reconnecting with old Scientology friends and making new ones.
With the help of my new Freezone friends, I worked on further training in all the available ways. Whenever, possible, I traveled to Switzerland, Italy or the UK, but also used the Internet communication and resources available.
In 2018 I spent many hours during my free evenings, after work, helping Jonathan Burke to upload online courses to his Online Academy (AOGP and STOSA). In return, Jonathan offered to do checkouts on my materials and C/S me on my Solo Course; he arranged for the late John Nunez to C/S my OT I-III.
After I successfully attested to OT III, I was offered a position as Online Course Supervisor for AOGP, so I quit my only job in Serbia in order to work for AOGP for $600 per month. Due to AOGP’s ongoing financial problems, my pay was late or did not arrive at all. I had to find PCs on my own in order to survive. I was kicked out because of it (after more than three years of service), so I decided to continue as an independent auditor and course supervisor.
I don't hold a grudge on AOGP, though, I understand that they have financial issues to cope with, and that’s stressful for anybody. But I'm glad we parted, and I wish them all the success in future and to overcome their monetary crisis.
Ralph Hilton of Independent Scientology Austria audited me on NOTs (OT IV and V) and C/Sed my sessions with PCs. Ralph needed to deal with some private issues, so I turned for continuation of my training and C/Sing to Randy Smith in California, USA. Randy welcomed me and is supervising me on my Solo NOTs course (OT VI), and he also C/Ses my PCs now.
From 1984 until today, my spiritual Path has always been an exciting, fulfilling journey that hasn’t left me disappointed. I discovered and attained what I needed to attain, and I'm at a good place now. I know what I know, and I know what I don't know.
I was never a member of the Church of Scientology and I was neither interested in that cult, nor the LRH personality cult. I was always interested only in Truth, and in auditing as a practical way to discover the Truth.
In my early teenage years, the magic of communication won my heart, and it became clear to me that auditing—in which one conscious being listens to and understands another conscious being who's presenting herself or himself—is truly a Path of Love and a Way Out.
I wish to help fellow humans liberate themselves from trappings of their minds for as long as I live. I will never cease to audit or progress up the Bridge.
Anyone who's willing to help me in that is a dear being and always welcome in my life.
And let everyone else do whatever they can do. Life is short enough and tough enough that the only hope that remains is at least we try to be kind to each other. There are always various angles to each person's story, and nobody's to be judged. Deep at the bottom we are good beings after all.
I wish you all happiness, freedom from suffering, and ability to find the Truth.

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2021-02-26T13:34:56Z

Esalihovic:

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2021-02-26T12:31:05Z

Esalihovic: 2018

2018

Charles Berner

2020-04-21T04:53:15Z

Esalihovic: /* early life */

{{Personal Profiles
|Image=Charles Berner.jpg
|Deceased=Yes
|Died on=2007
|Nationality=American
|Website=http://www.charlesberner.org/
}}
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== early life ==
Charles Berner (a.k.a. Yogeshwar Muni) was born in 1929 in CA, USA. He passed on in 2007 in Merimbula, NSW Australia.
Charles' childhood home was in Colton, California, which he remembered with great affection. He lived here for the first 18 years of his life. The house and the neighboring one were designed and built by his father.
Charles had dyslexia and couldn't read until age 14, when he laboriously taught himself, sitting in the kitchen every day while his mother was making the meal. He asked her help whenever he couldn't figure out a word, quite often at first. After working through The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Virginian, he was able to proceed using only the giant family copy of Webster's Dictionary.
In 1947 he graduated from Colton High School. Soon afterward he married his first wife, Virginia Mae Schermerhorn, in 1948.
After College, he worked as a laboratory technician at the National Bureau of Standards, Corona, California and then as an instrument technician at General Dynamics, Pomona, California.
Charles always said he was 'raised scientist', rather than in a religious tradition, but his interest in what life was really about led him to attend services at various churches.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Charles studied under Ding Le Mei (Institute of Mental Physics) and L. Ron Hubbard, and went to Saint Hill Manor.

== spiritual roots ==
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