Church of Scientology Mission of Sonoma

Here is a Mission from Northern California, Sonoma Mission, and an area I used to live in.

Their open hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 7-9 pm and they deliver Lectures on Wednesdays at 7:30pm.

There is a free local skate park which is not the greatest, but pads aren't enforced and what do you expect for free these days?

The directions to get there are as follows: To get to the Sonoma Skate Park From Highway 101 North. Take the Highway 37 turn off into Sonoma and get on Arnold. Turn right on El Verano and the park is on the right hand side about a mile down the road.

How do You Make a Better World?

We live in a world of immorality and rising criminality. We feel the repercussions of this on a daily basis.

Employee theft causes one-third of all bankruptcies and costs employers $1 billion a year.

Insurance fraud exceeds $80 billion annually from faked accidents, injuries and illnesses.

The average age for first-time porn site viewers has now dropped to 8 years old (Fox News). (Source)

Underage drinking amounted to 19.7 percent of the alcohol consumed in the year 1999. (Source)

11.2% of 12-17 year-olds reported current use of illicit drugs in 2003. (Source)

A 10% increase in children living in single-parent homes leads typically to a 17 percent increase in juvenile crime. (Source)

One-half of all U.S. children will live in a one-parent house. (CNN, Dec. 10, 2004). (Source)

More than 20% of children are sexually abused before the age of 8. (Source)

There is a sexual assault every 2-1/2 minutes in America. (Source)

Violent Crime Rose in '05, with murders up by 4.8%, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Source)

Three-quarters of all employees have stolen from their employers at least once and U.S. prison population is now exceeds 2 million with 1 in 142 US residents now in prison. (Source)

Nearly 70% of prisoners released from prison are rearrested within 3 years. (Source)

40,000 children under the age of five die each day from malnutrition and vaccine preventable disease. (Source)

In the last decade 1.5 million children have died in wars. (Source)

Sixty million people have been killed in wars during the 20th Century. (Source)

The five major nuclear powers currently have more than 20,000 nuclear warheads in their arsenals. (Source)

As you read this, over 30 wars and conflicts rage around the world. (Source)

These are only a sampling of a broader cultural situation—soaring crime, intolerance and hate, corporate greed and corruption, Internet pornography and disintegrating families.

At the root of all is a loss of basic morals and values that would make a decent culture possible.

Reversing the decline and restoring to Man his integrity and trust is The Way to Happiness—the first moral code based wholly on common sense. (Find out more >)

Discover how you can use this miraculous yet simple booklet to raise moral standards around you and help others to live better lives.

GeoGreetings from Google

Check out this site where you can make some hot holiday messages with googlemaps. http://www.geogreeting.com. You can type in any message and they have a database of map images that are in the shape of individual letters and they will spell out your message for you in maps.

Check out the one I did, here.

They are even on the lookout for replacement letters. Currently they need better letters for (A, N, B, D, P, Z, 6, ? ) I would hope you would have better things to do on than scanning the globe with Googlemaps and finding buildings that are in the shape of letters, but maybe not.

Scientology Mission of Los Feliz

If you live in or around the Los Feliz, Los Angeles area and you want to find out what Scientology is all about, you should stop by The Scientology Mission of Los Feliz. Located at 1934 Hillhurst Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027, it's easy to find.

They're a great bunch of people and are interested in assisting in answering your questions or getting you started on an introductory service. Or maybe you want to buy a book and find out for yourself what it's all about. I've personally met a bunch of them (just because I'm a Scientologist and from the LA area) and additionally they travel all around town doing Dianetics Stress Tests which I've seen and have ran into them doing in Los Feliz, Hollywood, Glendale, Pasadena and Santa Monica. They are also coincidentily all around my age which is cool.

You can also check out their site at http://www.missionoflosfeliz.com

Or their blog at http://www.missionoflosfeliz.com/blog

The Los Feliz area is also a great place for Skating as there are a bunch of spots there. There's a local school there that I learned to do my first handrails at. Actually, it was really because I was skating with some guys that were better than I was that I even attempted it in the first place. Which turned out to be a good rule to live by. Basically, f you want to advance at something, hang out with people who do whatever it is much better than you. Maybe, it's common sense but I've also found some people like to be the best of their crowd at what they do and so don't advance as much as they could because of it.

Anyway, I was skating with Guy Mariano who was not Pro yet but he was locally sponsored. And I think Rudy Johnson who both skated a lot together even back then. They were sort of part of my skate crowd and were the kids advancing faster than everyone else and seriously devoting their time to it. Anyway, I just went for it (the handrail) and pulled off some smaller but steep handrails the first time trying and was totally stoked. This was around 1990. Coincidentally, in 1991 there was a street skate video that came out with Mark Gonzales, Guy Mariano, Rudy Johnson and Jason Lee which really reflected the LA street skate scene. It's good to see Guy and Rudy did so well at something they loved.

Check out what some religious experts say about Scientology:

Scientology: A Way of Spiritual Self-Identification
by Michael A. Sivertsev,
Expert Advisor on International Matters to the Committee of the Russian Federation

Religous Toleration & Religious Diversity
Bryan Wilson, Pd.D.
Emeritus Fellow
Oxford University

Human Rights & Religious Freedom

Since the end of the Second World War the right of all human beings to freedom of religion has been proclaimed by resolutions of various international bodies, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and in the Helsinki Accord. Governments are charged not only to abandon any former policies of religious persecution, but also positively to act to protect religious liberty, so long as the religious practices of a particular sect or denomination do not contravene the ordinary criminal law or invade the rights of other citizens. Particularly in the absence of any scholarly concensus on the definition of religions, such resolutions do not, however, guarantee the elimination of all forms of religious discrimination. Governmental preference for one (or more) religions may still persist, as instanced in the establishment by law of particular religions in various European countries. Such preference may confer economic, specifically fiscal, advantages on particular religious bodies as well as social and even political privileges denied to other faiths. Even where such discriminatory measures are not overtly maintained (by law, custom, or precedent), there may be diverse governmental or social attitudes which favour some types of religious body above others. In particular, there may be official or public suspicion of certain religious organizations, particularly where the teachings and practices of a religious group are generally unfamiliar -- so unfamiliar that, by officialdom or public opinion, they may be regarded as being “not really religious”. The public, and at times the authorities, invoke a stereotype of what a religion should resemble and how religious believers should behave. Bodies which depart too radically from this, perhaps unconsciously hypothesized, model may thus appear ineligible for the extension to them of normal religious toleration. They may, indeed, appear to fall outside the category of what is to be considered as religion at all, or even have to face the charge that they operate in ways that contravene the law.
CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

Religious Toleration & Religious Diversity

by Bryan Wilson, Ph.D. Emeritus Fellow Oxford University.

Reactive and Analytical Mind - What's the Difference??

Have you ever wondered how your mind works?

Your mind records pictures of everything you experience throughout life. These “mental image pictures” ARE your memory.



Through mental image pictures you can see the past, hear what was said, feel, taste and smell things from long ago or just from yesterday. Your perception of mental image pictures — however vague at first — can be sharpened with Dianetics.

Mental image pictures are used continually to solve problems, imagine and remember things. L. Ron Hubbard’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, will tell you much more about mental image pictures, how the mind works and even the purpose of the mind.

Two Minds, Not One

Unfortunately, you have another mind, which has been called in the past the “unconscious” or “subconscious” mind. It is a mind which records and stores mental image pictures made during traumatic experiences.

This mind is more accurately called your reactive mind, since it reacts illogically and irrationally, giving you feelings you don’t understand and making you react in ways that are “not you.”

Irrationality comes from your reactive mind, acting upon you like post-hypnotic commands. It makes you say and do things you don’t understand. It is WHY you have inexplicable feelings, strange aches and pains, why you can’t be yourself.

You can learn how the reactive mind works and how to GET RID OF IT FOREVER by reading Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. This is how Dianetics technology can help you become A WELL AND HAPPY HUMAN BEING, able to think rationally in all circumstances and go forward in life to achieve your goals for real.


The Reactive Mind

You DO have a reactive mind and it IS the single SOURCE of your irrational fears, self-doubts, uncontrollable emotions and even your nightmares as a child.

The reactive mind is also the source of psychosomatic ills — which means illnesses which are caused by the mind. Experts estimate that psychosomatic illnesses account for up to 70 percent of man’s ills, including being too fat or too thin, migraines, allergies and other afflictions not strictly caused by physical reasons.

Feelings of unhappiness, uncontrollable emotions and the like are no more than the “memory” of past painful experience being replayed by your reactive mind.

Find out how to get rid of your reactive mind >

How Does a Scientology Marriage Work?

"When someone begins on that arrangement called marriage, he is getting into something which is, to say the least, adventurous. When a couple get married, they are doing something they know nothing about. And, from all indications, when they have tried it more than once, they know no more about it the second time than they did the first"...

Get more info at www.scientologywedding.org >

Selfless Acts

What percentage of people will stop what they are doing to help a complete stranger?

How many times have you seen somebody get in trouble or injured and witness the fact that most people will just "mind their own business" or "won't get involved"? Most likely if you haven't seen this it's because you too just ignored it to the extent that you may not have even realized you were ignoring it.

What separates those individuals who will "go out of their way" or "interrupt their busy schedule" and help "a complete stranger"?

I can't say that I have totally analyzed the answer to this but I do know, as a general statement, that a Scientologist will selflessly assist his fellow man.

The Scientology Volunteer Ministers is such a group that goes out and assists in any and all ways possible. This group is made of volunteers who don't get paid for what they do, leave their homes and family for extended periods of time and volunteer their time just to help others. Check it out for yourself on their site at www.volunteerministers.org.

And check out Tom Cruise, who as you know is also a Scientologist, in this article www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah1230.shtml

If you read the Scientology Code of Honor you will get more of an idea why Scientologists do what they do. This is what I found on the What Is Scientology site, starting with a quote from L. Ron Hubbard on the Scientology Code of Honor:

“No one expects the Code of Honor to be closely and tightly followed.

“An ethical code cannot be enforced. Any effort to enforce the Code of Honor would bring it into the level of a moral code. It cannot be enforced simply because it is a way of life which can exist as a way of life only as long as it is not enforced. Any other use but self-determined use of the Code of Honor would, as any Scientologist could quickly see, produce a considerable deterioration in a person. Therefore its use is a luxury use, and which is done solely on self-determined action, providing one sees eye to eye with the Code of Honor.

“If you believed man was worthy enough to be granted by you sufficient stature so as to permit you to exercise gladly the Code of Honor, I can guarantee that you would be a happy person. And if you found an occasional miscreant falling away from the best standards you have developed, you yet did not turn away from the rest of man, and if you discovered yourself betrayed by those you were seeking to defend and yet did not then experience a complete reversal of opinion about all your fellow men, there would be no dwindling spiral for you.

“The only difference between paradise on Earth and hell on Earth is whether or not you believe your fellow man worthy of receiving from you the friendship and devotion called for in this Code of Honor.”

1. Never desert a comrade in need, in danger or in trouble.

2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted.

3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support.

4. Never disparage yourself or minimize your strength or power.

5. Never need praise, approval or sympathy.

6. Never compromise with your own reality.

7. Never permit your affinity to be alloyed.

8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself desire it.

9. Your self-determinism and your honor are more important than your immediate life.

10. Your integrity to yourself is more important than your body.

11. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

12. Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.

13. Don’t desire to be liked or admired.

14. Be your own adviser, keep your own counsel and select your own decisions.

15. Be true to your own goals.

PSYCHIATRY An Industry of Death

Do you know much about psychiatry?

Have you ever wondered how 650,000 psychiatrists worldwide are permitted to practice their form of "mental healing" and not be held accountable after huge sums of money are paid to them and there are admittedly still "no cures." And in fact what they are doing is just resulting in family members, friends or loved ones rapidly getting worse - or even dying - under psychiatric treatment. At least 10% of them admitting to sexually abusing their patients. This is literally, 65,000 "professionals" whose "therapy" admittedly includes sexual abuse.

Here are some informational links I've put together on this important topic:

The Official Citizens Commission on Human Rights site: Investigating and Exposing Psychiatric Human Rights Abuse
www.cchr.org

This website provides an anatomy of terrorism, one which was not discussed in the media. It is, however, one that contributes considerable sense to what has been, to date, almost entirely unfathomable.
www.PsychAssault.org

PsychCrime.org contains a database of convicted mental health practitioners reported to CCHR International as a public interest service to law enforcement agencies, health care fraud investigators, immigration offices, international police agencies, medical and psychological licensing boards and the general public.

"In the last 15 years, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has collected data on the criminal conviction of over 1,200 mental health practitioners. In 2005, nearly half of all psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health workers were convicted of sex crimes; 35% were convicted of fraud."
www.PsychCrime.org

AbleChild: Parents for Label and Drug Free Education consists of a growing number of parents outraged over both the subjective labeling (ADHD, ADD, OCD, ODD) and pervasive drugging of our children. Our organization's goal in creating this website is to provide information to parents regarding the many subjective labels and the risks associated with drug "treatment" that are critical to their ability in making an informed decision.
www.ablechild.org

Of the 650,000 psychiatrists and psychologists worldwide today, at least 10% of them admit to sexually abusing their patients 65,000 "professionals" whose "therapy" admittedly includes sexual abuse.
www.mental-health-abuse.org/abuseForm.html

The Real Crisis In Mental Health Today Report and recommendations on the lack of science and results within the mental health industry
www.mental-health-abuse.org/realCrisis.html

Massive Fraud Psychiatry's Corrupt Industry Report and recommendations on the criminal mental health monopoly
www.mental-health-abuse.org/massiveFraud.html

Psychiatric Hoax The Subversion of Medicine Report and recommendations on psychiatry's destructive impact on health care
www.mental-health-abuse.org/psychHoax.html

Pseudoscience Psychiatry's False Diagnoses Report and recommendations on the unscientific fraud perpetrated by psychiatry
www.mental-health-abuse.org/pseudoscience.html

Schizophrenia Psychiatry's For Profit 'Disease' Report and recommendations on psychiatric lies and
false diagnoses
www.mental-health-abuse.org/schizophrenia.html

The Brutal Reality Harmful Psychiatric 'Treatments' Report and recommendations on the destructive practices of electroshock and psychosurgery
www.mental-health-abuse.org/brutalReality.html

Psychiatric Rape Assaulting Women and Children Report and recommendations on widespread sex crimes against patients within the mental health system
www.mental-health-abuse.org/psychRape.html

Deadly Restraints Psychiatry's 'Therapeutic' Assault Report and recommendations on the violent and dangerous use of restraints in mental health facilities
www.mental-health-abuse.org/deadlyRestraints.html

Psychiatry Hooking Your World on Drugs Report and recommendations on psychiatry creating
today's drug crisis
www.mental-health-abuse.org/psychiatry.html

Rehab Fraud Psychiatry's Drug Scam Report and recommendations on methadone and other disastrous psychiatric drug 'rehabilitation' programs
www.mental-health-abuse.org/rehabFraud.html

Child Drugging Psychiatry Destroying Lives Report and recommendations on fraudulent psychiatric diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth
www.mental-health-abuse.org/childDrugging.html

Harming Youth Psychiatry Destroys Young Minds Report and recommendations on harmful mental health assessments, evaluations and programs within our schools
www.mental-health-abuse.org/harmingYouth.html

Unholy Assault Psychiatry Versus Religion Report and recommendations on psychiatry's subversion of
religious belief and practice
www.mental-health-abuse.org/unholyAssault.html

Eroding Justice Psychiatry's Corruption of Law Report and recommendations on psychiatry subverting the courts and corrective services
www.mental-health-abuse.org/erodingJustice.html

Elderly Abuse Cruel Mental Health Programs Report and recommendations on psychiatry abusing
seniors
www.mental-health-abuse.org/elderlyAbuse.html

Chaos And Terror Manufactured by Psychiatry Report and recommendations on the role of psychiatry
in international terrorism
www.mental-health-abuse.org/chaosAndTerror.html

Creating Racism Psychiatry's Betrayal Report and recommendations on psychiatry causing racial conflict and genocide
www.mental-health-abuse.org/creatingRacism.html