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It all started when some plug-ins I was using in order to make WordPress actually do SEO – these conflicted and set up some sort of loop which was crashing the server. So they very nearly kicked me off.

Then I said, hey – all this stuff about Burt Goldman and his Quantum Jumping product is fine, but it’s not my main line of work. Let me see if I can just move this over to another wordpress host and redirect the traffic there.

Now it worked fine the first day – but by the second, wordpress.com had put in some sort of cancelling script which redirected everything to the front page. A simple work around was to take my most popular Burt Goldman scam post and put it up as the front page.

But the damage was done. My traffic went to nothing, since Google also then figured that these links weren’t worth anything and so I quit getting but maybe a fifth of my daily traffic before.

Continue reading ‘How I thrive. Learning despite Google and WordPress scams is the trick.’ »

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This video presentation allows you to find out where you are at as a member of humankind. Controversial, shocking, and perhaps just containing outright lies – there is still a discussion to be had.

If you’ve ever been scammed, you’ll want to see this. If you consider that management and owners conspire against you – then read on. If you consider that quantum realities are obvious, then don’t bother…

This is a way to help you improve your life. Hopefully, the infotainment here will be worth it – otherwise, there are still greater wastes of time on the Internet…

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And the notes version is available via Slideshare:

I hope to come out with some application which allows you to rate your government officials or other celebrities on this scale. Of course your comments will be very valuable, particularly if you want to elect a certain someone for permanent fame in one category or another on this site…

(And of course, this video and presentation are not approved by Burt Goldman or his Quantum Jumping marketers. I just think his approach is cool. )

Good Luck – and Have Fun.

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I write this as a storm passes overhead, an apt metaphor.

Scientology is a storm that tries men (and women)’s souls.

As you probably know by now, I judge my own truths through the oldest philosophy I’ve been able to find – Huna.

And anyone who’s followed Huna will tell you that there is no one school, no one teacher. But they do agree on basic principles and traditions. Just not how they are interpreted. All the Kahuna’s I’ve found (the ones who publish to the Western world) leave that  up to the individual.

My other comparative is Levenson. His followers are similar in that regard. Levenson found a series of truths which eventually restored his own personal Freedom and a real “peace that passed all understanding.”

And it’s that singular peace – which I’ve had my own moments of satori – that lead me to leave Scientology.

I left – even though I had worked internally to correct and improve the organization for decades – because the organization became flawed from top to bottom. It no longer upheld the basic tenets of Hubbard’s teachings to be sacrosanct.

Now I left nearly a decade ago, and have worked to stay on amicable terms with the individuals in it. I have no need to take any further services, but have no quarrel with anyone still within the organization itself.  I still value every single day I invested in that subject, and I spend a long 20-plus years at it. Dedicated.

So I’m no witness to what Rathbun, Rinder, and others are saying about the current “management crimes”.

I also wish no one ill who chooses to follow Scientology within or outside that organization.

For anyone resolutely within it, Scientology does work. For those of us outside it – not so much. For it’s a very narrow set of parameters which have to be kept in order to keep working.

After I departed L. A. and my long career helping others, I set out to see what it was I needed to know in order to verify Scientology itself. I left with a rental truck full of heavy books and tape transcripts and a couple of their emeters. One of the first things I did was to get an Internet access that would give me all the data I needed. I also had to get a job and work in the real world. For all those years on Scientology staff, I had no pension, no benefits, no savings.

That combination of real-world work and Internet access became a crucible where all Hubbard wrote was tested.

Unfortunately, it failed that test.

I found that a) Hubbard was very human. b) the corporate structure was flawed in its basic set up. c) that there exists in humankind a very wide propensity to be scammed, duped, and deluded.

But as well, d) it is possible for anyone and everyone to seek and achieve their own enlightenment.

So I don’t hold that being an “Independent Scientologist” will work. Simply because it is very difficult to maintain those tight parameters so that the practice can be done. It was the corporate structure which maintained those thin, high walls which could not be crossed. And that corporation still tries to do so, today.

Those who leave Scientology-the-corporation are those who went out on the Internet and found out for themselves what the real world consists of. Or at least a very different version than the one they had been told all this time. But in comparing notes with each other, these public Scientologists are finding that they all had the same deep-rooted suspicions. (Leaving staff – a much more tightly-controlled scene – has always been where a person runs into a series of situations which radically departed from basic deeply-held personal beliefs. Both can’t be true. And they give up the one which has the weakest proof.)

Management, for years, has told staff and public a very polished version of their “truth”. And, with these high-level defections recently, the man behind the curtain has been exposed as the humbug he has always been. That man is both Miscavidge and Hubbard.

I will not rain on anyone else’s parade, however. People are free to think as they will. Believe as they will. And people have ego’s which get in their way from time to time. So you won’t find me dissing someone’s personal beliefs. That being said, I don’t expect that I won’t have to defend my own by those who are hyper-critical and ghost-ridden about their own.

What you see I write here is my own continuing resolution of the world around me, and my memories of it.

Because I know for myself how you can get all the self-esteem you want without having to tear someone else down to get it. I know that the peace of mind you have is due to the peace of mind you help others find.

So tolerance and forgiveness play a huge part in my own ideas and beliefs.

I only hope to share these with others who have encountered Scientology to any and all degrees.

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This other datum rings true, at least for me: Scientology creates its own enemies. In its policies is that one line, that the organizations are not subject to external pressures as much as internal ones. If the current management feels haunted, then it might seek to find what actions it has taken to bring that “motivator” on itself… Humility is the heart of Review, it is said.

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