When I see the news with its talk of ruin, injustice, inequities (and iniquities) and failures in the world, it all seems very “gloom and doom”. Terrorism, the rise of militant Islam in the world, the impossibly high cost of health care, the high taxes, the unemployment, the failing educational system, man-made global warming etc., hurricaines, earthquakes, ad nauseum. The things that they are trying to get us to believe in so we’ll be too upset to resist their efforts at control because we’ll ASK them to come in and protect us from the bogey-men.

I try to keep my …

A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon ( Allan J. Hamilton ) has published a new book called “The Scalpel and the Soul” speaking out about the times from his experience when patients who were clinically dead (no heartbeat, no brain waves, etc.) recorded what was going on in the operating room, word for word.

This is rather a belated validation of what Dianetics has posited since 1950; that people do record what happens to them when they are in pain and unconscious. People who have had much of our Dianetic counseling will tell you that it is very possible (and relieving) to remember such …

I have found some quotes from Churchill concerning the telling of lies, and the having of enemies, that are worth knowing. Rather than put them in an ephemeral blog post, I put them on my quotes page. These quotes are particularly relevant to the attacks currently going on around the world against the religion of Scientology by the group calling itself anonymous. When masked picketers stage world-wide protests against your religion, you have to know your religion is doing great things!

The rise of YouTube over the last couple of years has amazed me. I had no idea that videos would grow to become so popular, and to contain so many subjects. Nor did I have a clue that comments left on Social Media sites like YouTube, Stumble Upon, and Digg would grow to be so rude and misinformed.

The whole “Can’t we all just get along?” attitude of the early web seems to have been replaced with a new expression, “GTFO”, meaning “Get The F!!k Out”. So if your opinion is different than that of those who have already posted …

More on the terrorist activities of the Anonymous group in the Injunction filed by the Church of Scientology asking for relief and to keep them 500 feet away from our buildings. When you get enough bomb threats (dozens of them recently) and when you get enough harrassing phone calls (thousands of them) and when people in your church have been killed (in my org, Portland, 12 years ago) by wackos like these Anonymous creeps, you ought to be entitled to some protection under the law. We’ll see what the courts say.

And here is a newspaper article - from the St. …

My friend Klaus Hilgers passed away on February 28th 2008.

Klaus was an internationally renowned public speaker and seminarist who delivered seminars to tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of people all over the world, over the last 25 years. He was the best public speaker I’ve ever seen, and could put together a seminar overnight on just about any subject.

He told the story of going to deliver one seminar many years ago, but when he got there and started delivering the subject he’d been asked to deliver to a group of about 20 people, they were very uncommunicative …

Well, this YouTube video about Anonymous ought to put a dent in their numbers. Anonymous = Hate Crimes & Terrorism Directed at Scientology. The sheer volume of crap these Anonymous cowards are creating is pretty revelatory of their intentions. Numerous bomb threats, thousands of harassing phone calls, vandalism and sending white powder to various Churches of Scientology by Anonymous show them to be true terrorists, not just cyber-terrorists any more.

This is a personal rebuttal to some websites I’ve seen from apostates recently that denigrated my religion with regard to raising children in Scientology. Here’s how I see this issue:

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My parents divorced when I was an infant, back in 1953. I grew up in a series of broken homes, attended 17 schools before graduating high school in 1970, and had 3 stepmoms and 7 step-dads at various times, as well as foster parents. I can remember living in 52 different houses in 6 states as a child. My parents were alcoholics, whose lives spun out of control in …

Published in Variety Magazine:

Posted: Mon., Feb. 11, 2008, 2:00pm PT

Scientology should be met with tolerance

Letter to the editor
By BERTRAM FIELDS
Dear Peter, I was disappointed by your recent column on Scientology and Tom Cruise. You say some things that are surprising coming from a man of your intelligence and education. You seem to recognize that, in America, we are all supposed to be free to practice — and even preach — the religion of our choice. Then, you appear to deny this fundamental right to Scientologists because of “their beliefs and protocols.” You add “To be a …

Anonymous is in the news again today for setting up demonstrations outside various Churches of Scientology.

Here’s a video from a year ago, from Fox News, showing what the group Anonymous is really about. They haven’t been just cyber-terrorists for some time, they are actual terrorists and the Church of Scientology is just their latest target. Hopefully these demonstrations will remain peaceful — it’s a given that the Scientologists won’t provoke them — they won’t even be talking to them in most cases.