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Riverside Mission-comm course Successes
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| Name | Ryan and Jazz Mongiello |
| Training Success | Basic Course |
| Website | http://www.facebook.com/groups/scientologymuster/ |
Last week August 12th 2012 I graduated two of my five students through the Comm course. They are the first of hopefully many more to come. We gave them certificates that look great and they were very excited as we gave them to them and clapped and cheered for them and their successes.
Here are their wins from the course,
I feel I gained a better understanding of communication1. the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source point across a distance to receipt point with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt point a duplication and understanding of that which emanated from the source point. (HCOB 5 Apr 73)...more
and how it works. I also feel I have more control over my body and emotions and feel I can confront a lot more in general. For example I don’t get so worked up when my brother Jazz disagrees with me. I can Acknowledge his point of view and then decide where to go from there. I don’t just think of my own view point and refuse to be wrong.
Also I don’t know if this is important or not, but I appreciate being able to keep a straight face a lot better, for example, when telling a joke or hearing something funny, annoying, or mean.
I also feel I can handle conversations and upset a lot better. It’s really weird looking back to previous conversations and thinking of how I should have handled it better. Or looking back and easily pointing out whyThat basic outness found which will lead to a recovery of stats. (HCO PL 13 Oct 70 II) someone got so upset, when before, I had no clue whyThat basic outness found which will lead to a recovery of stats. (HCO PL 13 Oct 70 II).
I really enjoyed this course.
I hope the next one will be just as informative and fun.
Ryan Mongiello age 16
I have gained better communication1. the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source point across a distance to receipt point with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt point a duplication and understanding of that which emanated from the source point. (HCOB 5 Apr 73)...more and more level of being there and making sure that people get my communication1. the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source point across a distance to receipt point with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt point a duplication and understanding of that which emanated from the source point. (HCOB 5 Apr 73)...more.
Jazz Mongiello age 12
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| Author | Roy Wallis |
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by Roy Wallis. Columbia University Press. 1977
This is possibly the earliest relatively impartial book on Scientology and its history. It is not written by an Ex-Scientologist or a reporter, but by a sociologist. He says in his preface:
- I began my work on Scientology as a raw graduate student, fascinated by the relationship between beliefs, social organisation and society. While I had initially intended that Scientology be considered as one amongst a range of unorthodox system[s] of belief to which I proposed to devote attention, I found myself increasingly interested by the rich body of material I was uncovering on this multifaced movement.
To those who left, or were ex-communicated from, the "Church" during the first great exodus (1980 on), it was somewhat of a surprise to find some one had written such a book. Though a lot more data has been uncovered in the intervening years, it provided some surprises to those who had recently left or been thrown out of the Scientology "Church".
The main chapters are:
PART I The sociology of cult and sect
- 1 Cult and Sect: A Typology and a Theory
PART II The Cult and its Transformation
- 2 The Cult Phase: Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more
- 3 Crisis and transition
PART III The Sect: Scientology
- 4 Theory and Transmission
- 5 Social Organization and Social Control
- 6 The Scientological Career: From Casual Client to Deployable Agent
- 7 Relations with State and Society
- 8. Reality Maintenance in a Deviant Belief System
PART IV
- Conclusion
APPENDICES
- I Special Letter from Ron Howes
- II HCO Ethics Order
- III Executive Directive from L. Ron Hubbard
- IV On Roy Wallis' Study – J.L.Simmons, PhD
Bibliography, Index
The book is 282 pages, hardbound 15 cms x 24 cms and is published by Columbia University Press, New York, but the edition seen here is printed in Great Britain. It contains a fair amount of the data on Scientology that has been later published [a fuller summary needed and therefore invited].
The four page Appendix by J.L. Simmons, Ph.D. states in the second sentence "Unfortunately his [Roy Wallis'] study has little to do with Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more and Scientology, his subject matter." and suggests near the end "Get a copy of Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more Modern Science of Mental Health and read it along with this book. See for yourself which is more alive and hopeful and scientifically objective."
Reference
There is a scanned in copy of the book at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wallis/wallis1.txt . The first four full paragraphs at that link are not part of the book but a description of the book. This scan in could be valuable to deeply interested, containing data from early Dianetic and Scientology times which may not be available elsewhere, and data which may corroborate or amplify other sources. The scanning leaves something to be desired, involving patience in sorting out footnotes (of which there are quite a few) from main text and uncorrected spelling (scanning) mistakes.
