Sign me up! My tradition is completely opposed to proselytizing and only accepts adults who ask to join, but this isn’t trying to get people to join CAW, it’s trying to get people out of $cientology. (FWIW: I haven’t even asked my own husband to join my tradition. It’s up to him to ask.)

What’s one thing that could be said to wake these ppl up? A single sentence that would make them think?

And for anyone about to spend big on “life repair” in this sham “religion”, consider buying or borrowing the book “Get out of your mind and into your life” by Steven C. Hayes – if genuinely applied, it can do more than dozens of scientology courses, and for pennies rather than thousands of dollars.

Dr. Russ Harris, an Australian exponent of ACT explains it this way:

“Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) gets it name from one of its core messages: accept what is out of your personal control, and commit to action that improves and enriches your life.

The aim of ACT is to maximize human potential for a rich, full and meaningful life. ACT (which is pronounced as the word ‘act’, not as the initials) does this by:

a) teaching you psychological skills to deal with your painful thoughts and feelings effectively – in such a way that they have much less impact and influence over you (these are known as mindfulness skills).

b) helping you to clarify what is truly important and meaningful to you – i.e. your values – then use that knowledge to guide, inspire and motivate you to change your life for the better.”

Act isn’t an ideology or a faux religion like scientology. It is a methodology for doing what scientology claims to do, but does it far more effectively. Moreover, unlike scientology, act is backed by real science. There are no “secret” doctrines or similar claptrap in act; it is transparently open to all – all its methods and its foundational underpinnings are available to everyone, via books and websites, videos, and audio files. To practice act, you don’t have to “believe” pulp fictional space operas or anything else, but you do need to have a genuine commitment to the process.

Many people practice act by utilizing the many excellent books that act’s founders have published, as well as heaps of how-to information in the form of text, videos, and audio files that is freely available on the web. There is a lively self-help community in the “act for the public” Yahoo group – a group where the founders of act often weigh in with practical advice for those needing it. Therapy with act practitioners is, on the whole, a lot more cost-effective than scientology. And there’s no “disconnection” policy.

Do yourself a favor and ditch the bullshit that is scientology.

Cheers, and have a wonderful 2018!

Clear up your MUs or surf to Ethics, OSD. Your EO is the dude to your far left with a tee shirt that says “What Are Your Crimes?” . He’s about to go into the soup so give him a hand.

End cycle on the old year, and start fresh? Isn’t that going into agreement with the physical universe, you know, the position of the earth in its orbit and all that?

I’m stumped…in many ways.

Me too, not getting emails for three days. Easy enough to check the blog, but I realized I enjoyed getting the email!