When I arrived here at Narconon, I had lost all hope in life and myself. I was defeated and living on the streets, smoking crack. Being in an abusive relationship brought me so low I felt like I would just rather die. When I was first here I wouldn’t talk to anyone in fear they would hurt me or put me down. I never, in a million years, imagined I could feel so good. This program has given me my life back. In here I have regained myself and my family. I have grown. I have self-esteem and confidence I never before had. I can complete a task. I have been able to sit down and talk and help others as they have done for me. My body and mind are clean as is the new life waiting for me out there. I have the ability to make the right decisions and stay away from people who are not striving for the same goals. I am here on the earth for a specific reason and I have purpose; I never before believed that. My purpose to live and succeed and help others will help me survive. I have found out who I really am and it feels good. I am an intelligent, beautiful, funny, talented, caring, honest, respectful, trustworthy, hardworking woman, daughter and friend. I am drug-free for the first time in seventeen years and wonder why I never realized how good it feels before now. I remember things. I have never laughed so much in my life and all of me and my emotions are genuine. I will apply the technology and materials from my study here to my life and will never, ever forget what I have been given. I am a success! I am alive! Thank you!” ~~ M.R.

I’ve been a fan of Narconon’s drug rehab program since first hearing about it in 1971. Over the years it has gotten even more effective (especially since they added the purification program, which works to “sweat out” the residual drugs in the body) at keeping people off drugs after they do the program. I have several friends who have completed the Narconon program and remained drug free ever since; I know it works better than other residential drug treatment programs by an order of magnitude. If you have a loved one on drugs, contact them and get help now.

Their CMS system was really getting in the way of doing things like adding a “canonical” meta tag to each page of the site.

Over the years I’ve optimized several smaller drug rehab sites; yesterday I received a nice SEO testimonial from a drug-rehab SEO client in Canada, who is now #1 for her drug-addiction-related search phrases in Google Canada. It’s always great to receive these enthusiastic success stories and realize that what we do actually *does* help people reach the top of Google, and in this particular case, it helps the people searching for help for their drug-addicted loved ones, as well.

I like it when everybody wins.

Congrats to Narconon (one of my clients) for this milestone. The Narconon program has been around for more than 40 years now and has gotten tens of thousands of people off of drugs; now they have conclusive scientific proof that using the drug education materials to educate high school students on drugs will bring about a 25% reduction in drug use among those students.

The first of the Way to Happiness videos are here.

For the truth about what Scientology is and does, go to www.scientology.org or to some of its many activities for social betterment, such as CCHR or Narconon, or its literacy crusade, or read any of the basic books on Scientology for yourself.

I’ve been involved for 36 years, and been an ordained minister of the Church of Scientology for over 30 years.

The odd thing is that any mention of Scientology in the news helps to swell its numbers — because people are curious.

My first exposure to Scientology was through a person who was very much anti-Scientology. She had done some services back in the 1960′s, and when I met her in the early 1960′s she was rabidly anti-Scientology, even though she raved about how much it had done for her personally. Some people just can’t have real help, and it had helped her a great deal in her ability to communicate, and in her self-realization. Even I could see that she communicated better than 99% of the other people I knew. She was more “there” and more alive. She told me this while ranting at me various reasons that I shouldn’t go check it out for myself.

At that time, I was withdrawn, painfully shy, and couldn’t talk to people, especially new people. I wanted to be able to communicate better. So I took the simple communication course at the local Scientology center in Portland, and that little course in communication completely changed my life. Everything I’ve done in it since has been helpful to me personally.

The crap I find online about my religion is religious bigotry, pure and simple. That it should be unfashionable (and politically incorrect) to bash Jews, Christians, Muslims or Hindus, Native American earth worshipers, or Wiccans, and yet be acceptable to bash my religion — Scientology — seems fundamentally unfair and an injustice of some magnitude. Especially when you know, as I do from decades of personal experience within this religion, that it is trying to help individuals survive better and so to help Mankind survive.

Like I said, some people just can’t have help. Especially, it seems, the German government.

When I arrived at Narconon Arrowhead, I had lost all hope in life and myself. I was defeated and living on the streets, smoking crack. Being in an abusive relationship brought me so low I felt like I would just rather die. When I was first here I wouldn’t talk to anyone in fear they would hurt me or put me down. I never in a million years, imagined I could feel so good, This program has given me my life back, I n here I have regained myself and my family. I have grown. I have self esteem and confidence that I never had before. I have been able to sit down and talk and help others as they have done for me. My body and mind are clean, as is the new life waiting for me out there. I have the ability to make the right decision and stay away from people who are not striving for the same goals. I am here on earth for a specific reason and I have purpose; I never before believed that. My purpose to live and succeed and help others will help me survive. I have found out who I really am and it feels good. I am an intelligent, beautiful, funny, talented, caring, honest, respectful, trustworthy, hard working woman, daughter and friend. I am drug free for the first time I n 17 years and feel and wonder why I never realized how good it feels before now. I remember things. I have never laughed so much in my life and all of me and my emotions are genuine. I will apply the technology, conditions and precepts to and in my life and will never ever forget what I have been given. I am a SUCCESS. Thank You Narconon Arrowhead!
MR