Scientology Network’s Documentary Showcase presents Australia: The Wild Top End Friday, October 25 at 5 and 8 p.m. ET/PT. The film is an epic journey through some of the wildest and most beautiful landscapes on Earth, providing a rare glimpse at archeological treasures dating back over 50,000 years. Few places on Earth remain as wild and pristine as the Top End of Australia. It is a land that time forgot. A place with some of the richest wetlands and oldest rainforests... Read more
Published on the Scientology Newsroom, this article describes the grand opening of the new Church of Scientology Mission of Panama in the heart of Panama City. Scientology Welcomed to the Crossroads of the World With a recorded history spanning five centuries in one of the most beautiful lands on Earth, Panama City has everything. Surrounded by volcanic peaks, rainforests, and rivers, more than 50 skyscrapers carve out a skyline mere blocks from the 17th-century Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Church.... Read more
Scientologist John Logothetis answers the question, “How does it feel to be a Scientologist,” and describes how and why he became a Scientologist. Published courtesy of STAND (Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination) Since I have been a Scientologist for over 20 years, I feel I’m very qualified to answer this question. I’ll answer it with one word and then I’ll elaborate. Liberating. When I was 10 years old, I remember thinking: “God, why are there so many rules for so many things?... Read more
Join the Hollywood Village monthly neighborhood cleanup at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre on Saturday, October 19. Hollywood Village is a community coalition of people of all faiths, ideologies, political preferences and backgrounds, working together to make Hollywood beautiful, safe and clean. Anyone wishing to take part in the next Hollywood Village Cleanup is invited to join the team Saturday, October 19, at 5930 Bronson Avenue at 9 a.m. Read more
Some 1,000 firefighters, 8 helicopters and fixed-wing air tankers are battling to gain control of the Saddleridge Fire that has destroyed at least 25 homes and burned more than 7,500 acres in the northern foothills of the San Fernando Valley since it began Thursday night. Winds gusting 50 miles per hour are driving the blaze through an estimated 800 acres per hour, according to Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas. “You can imagine the embers from the wind have... Read more
STAND blogger Wayne Hanson answers a question that comes up often: Why do Scientologists oppose psychiatry? Wayne, a Sacramento-based writer and Dianetics counselor, takes on this controversial subject in a blog originally published on the STAND (Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination) website. In 1975, just as Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was filmed at Oregon State Hospital, I became a Scientologist in Portland. Kesey’s book and the film that followed it have perhaps done more than any other... Read more
The October 8 article and podcast by journalist Steven Zimmerman, “Year of Faith: What is Scientology?” can be read on the El Paso Herald-Post website. The entire article is well worth reading. I’m sharing some of it here: Like most people, I wanted to know more about Scientology, who they are and what they believe. So, I reached out to the Scientology Mission of El Paso, where I was put in touch with the Mission Holder, Joni Superville. As we sat down,... Read more
The latest blog of STAND’s Rodger Clark, “Inside Scientology: The Art of Critical Thinking” is true to Clark’s description of himself as a “compulsive learner currently in recovery from authoritarian education,” as he takes aim at those who create and buy into memes without ever taking a look for themselves. At this point it’s safe to say that nothing and no one in recent history has received a more intense, relentless and sustained public smear campaign than the Church of Scientology,... Read more
Big Sonia, featured on the Scientology Network’s Documentary Showcase Friday, October 4 at 8 pm ET/PT, tells the life story of Sonia Warshawski—from her detention in Nazi death camps to her life as a great-grandmother and small business owner in Kansas City. Her stories of how she survived the Holocaust have become a surprising source of inspiration for a new generation. Co-directed by Independent filmmakers Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday, Big Sonia follows 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski as she’s served an eviction notice for... Read more
An essay on Scientology ethics, by STAND (Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination) blogger Wayne Hanson. Throughout history, the less ethical the individual, the more forceful the actions taken against him by the group. An individual steals, so the society cuts off his right hand and hangs it over the city gate as a warning, then writes in the Great Book of Laws that thieves on the first offense shall lose their right hand, unless they are left-handed in which case... Read more
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