“If you have found reality in Dianetics you are already falling down the rabbit hole.”
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Roger, I will probably take you up on your kind offer to communicate by email, once I’ve become more familiar with the subject. Thanks so much!

I’m very familiar with Tony Parsons and Rupert Spira. Personally, I dislike Tony rather intensely as he ends up confusing people more than anything. Rupert is a good teacher in my opinion. He and my teacher (who teaches classical, old school vedanta) are friends. The teaching isn’t about how to get what you want and how to achieve your goals. Advaita can’t be understood from the viewpoint of scientology but scientology can be understood from the viewpoint of advaita. This can be easily demonstrated but I have no intention of utilizing this blog to achieve that purpose. I invite people to contact me personally if they wish to discuss the matter in detail: roger.hornaday@gmail otherwise google it, that’s what I did.

Roger, what a coincidence that you should mention “advaita vedanta.” Just recently I watched a couple of youtube vids of Tony Parsons and he mentioned this discipline as one of his sources. I read a couple articles on his website too. Pretty intriguing stuff, but I haven’t learned enough yet to see how this brand of non-dualism works in life, as regards how one actually operates. Rupert Spira is another Brit whose videos I’ve watched a couple of. I think he may make more sense to me personally because he isn’t confrontational the way Parsons is. But if I were over there in England I would probably go to one of his “meetings.” If you haven’t done so yourself, I think you should! 🙂 Btw, do you mind saying what training you had in Scientology?

The definition of “real” is that which is non-changing and ever-present. It isn’t a matter of what is real for “me”. What is real isn’t a subjective or individual experience. No offense taken.

What’s real to you it’s real to you. We can agree on that. No disrespect. I’m happy you have something that you love.

Davila, scientology is certainly not for everyone. It isn’t for me although it used to be for me. I believed in it enough to be willing to dedicate my life to it and sign a billion year contract. Alas, believing in something requires believing what it promises. Scientology doesn’t deliver what it promises but some people have settled for and become content with something else than what was promised. If that something else is unshakable peace, knowledge that the universe is within you, and the understanding that what you are has never been damaged or compromised and therefore is not in need of repairing, then they have realized the timeless knowledge taught by the sages past and present. Ron Hubbard apparently didn’t grasp this understanding and invented his own thing, “scientology”. Scientology is an incomplete teaching and contains many falsehoods in its theory. I say this from the platform of an ancient discipline called, “advaita vedanta.” I am able to defend this knowledge against any criticisms and take pleasure in doing so. I have never known a scientologist who could say the same thing about scientology.

In my line of work I deal with hundreds of people every year.

Simply put – there is a very small percentage of people who are at a much higher level.

Look at percentages- great athletes, scientists, super models, writers, artists, successful honest people. The number is so tiny that one is lucky to meet a handful out in the wild.

Scientology isn’t for everyone… The church isn’t for anyone. Those of you who truly believe in this subject I consider you all part of that small percentage of truly capable beings- spiritually speaking.

I agree Aqua, that Haters should not try to convince not in’s that the Tech works.

I’m yanking your chain, OSD. So much fun to do.