Monday, February 07, 2011
Mr. David Miscavige Officiated at Grand Opening of New Scientology Church on Times Square in 2004
The Church of Scientology in New York City, located just off Times Square, was a gift from the International Association of Scientologists to the people of New York in recognition of their courage and spirit in the face of the 2001 World Trade Center disaster.
Mr. David Miscavige dedicated the building. He was joined by United States Congressman Charles Rangel, United Nations Undersecretary Maurice Strong, and Vice President of the Times Square Alliance, Mr. Bob Esposito.
In his address to the 10,000 Scientologists and guests assembled for the grand opening, Mr. Miscavige underscored the meaning of the new Church:
“This Church represents the work and help all of us must continue to bring, in achieving the full measure of our aims. For here is the Ideal Organization from which to bring all of our programs, all of our tech, literally everywhere.
“So yes, this is just the start. And that is why I say today is when the real work begins.
“For this is more than just a home for you, the Scientologists of New York.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Scientology Volunteer Minister helps Haiti Survivor
There's a great story in the New Haven Register on a Haitian amputee whose life was saved by a Scientology Volunteer Minister. :
NEW HAVEN — Five months ago, Ralph Gedeon was lying trapped beneath a pile of rubble when the engineering college he attended in Port-au-Prince toppled in the 7.0 earthquake that hit the island nation.
His leg was crushed and several organs were failing when his father, after digging for a day and a half, rescued Gedeon from the tumbled remnants.
Miraculously, on Sunday, the earthquake survivor stood on two legs — one of them a prosthetic — and packed his bags as he prepared to leave the Sister Ann Virginie Grimes Rehabilitation Center on Chapel Street.>>
David Miscavige once described the attitude of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers as giving indiscriminate help. The work of this volunteer was real heroism.
Meet a Scientologist!
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Meet Scientology Volunteer Minister Ayal Lindeman
The video below was taken at a special presentation for Scientology Volunteer Ministers returned from Haiti in Feburary 2010. Many of them have gone back for a second or third round of service in Haiti. There is a lot of news on the Haiti VMs on the VM blog.This whole program was developed in 1976 by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. In the wake of 9/11, David Miscavige greatly expanded the scope of the program, which now includes Goodwill Tours throughout the world.
Meet a Scientologist!
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Scientology Website explains the role of the Scientology Minister
The Scientology website has a new section where they describe the role of the Scientology minister in the community and society.
Scientology ministers act to ease suffering and provide counsel and support to those in need, whether a member of their congregation or simply someone in the community who may need help. In fact, one cannot function as a Scientology minister without a genuine and overriding desire to help others, whether to ease current suffering or to help people advance up The Bridge.>>
L. Ron Hubbard had the Scientology Handbook compiled to provide people of any faith or background with tools they can use to help their families, friends and community. Mr. David Miscavige, ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, regularly briefs Scientologists of the work of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers at international briefings, held throughout the year.
Meet a Scientologist!
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Meet a Scientologist!
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Church of Scientology Los Angeles—a new era!
The grand opening of the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles is definitely the start of a new era for the Scientology religion, just as David Miscavige said in his speech at the grand opening of the new church on Saturday.
The amount of community outreach that will be available now is a totally new level.
Los Angeles can certainly use the help!
Meet a Scientologist!
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Monday, August 31, 2009
David Miscavige Dedicates Newly Renovated Fort Harrison Hotel
"This Fort Harrison is and will always remain a landmark and home of all of Clearwater."
- Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board, Religious Technology Center
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Clearwater, Florida. June 30, 2007—Mr. David Miscavige stood before Scientologists gathered from around the world for the much-heralded occasion. He announced that what he was about to describe was nothing less than "the recovery of Dianetics and Scientology" that would "change the world of Scientology forever." Over the next several hours, he unfolded the complete story to an audience of thousands gathered in Clearwater's Ruth Eckerd Hall.
Mr. Miscavige first described the five-year, 2-million-man-hour research project to ensure the purity of all Scientology Scriptures, found in the writings and recorded lectures of L. Ron Hubbard. The task had been to locate the original manuscripts and dictation tapes of Mr. Hubbard's books, verify existing texts against those originals, correct any errors or deviations and return them to their original unadulterated form.
Deviations from the original manuscripts were immediately discovered to be far more extensive than imagined: transcription and punctuation errors of every variety, chapters bound in wrong sequence or even in the middle of another chapter, and the handiwork of a publisher who removed paragraph breaks to reduce page count. "Now let's add the 'editor,'" Mr. Miscavige explained, "who, instead of now correcting it, decides to add his own 'clarifying' footnotes to explain what LRH really meant."
Mr. Miscavige recounted a notable instance of the project to recover the technology. When the page count of a book did not match up to the number of dictation recordings to hand, researchers again searched through the archives and found three long-ignored wax dictation disks marked "UNK" for "Unknown." Locating equally long-obsolete replay equipment, they found the recordings were nothing less than two additional chapters of Mr. Hubbard's 1948 manuscript for Dianetics: The Original Thesis. The dictation also showed that other chapters had been printed in the wrong sequence since first published. The entire manuscript was then corrected and completed, and today the first and most basic statement on the actual nature and function of the mind is accessible and available for all to read.
In the ensuing years, every word and line in every
L. Ron Hubbard book was researched, verified, removed or corrected to ensure absolute purity. The standard set by Mr. Miscavige was perfection, the only standard suitable for the works of Mr. Hubbard.
Following that prodigious editorial undertaking, each book was meticulously designed, typeset, printed and bound to achieve the highest level of readability, comprehension, quality and durability—not to mention sheer aesthetic beauty. Thus came into existence only the pure and perfect Scientology Scriptures as authored by Mr. Hubbard.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Scientology Basics
I have to say I am so blown out from studying my Scientology Basics, I don't know where to start.I'm on a course on the book Advanced Procedure and Axioms. The course includes the study of 21 lectures Ron recorded in 1951. I listened to just one of those lectures yesterday and it changed my perspective about 180 degrees on something I've been having so much trouble with. Gave me something simple I can do when the stress levels get high and I tried it out and not only did it work, I went from feeling yuck to feeling wow. Not bad!
David Miscavige released the Basics 2 years ago. I am NOT going to take another two years to complete them!
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Monday, June 22, 2009
David Miscavige in Nashville
My friend Jim went to the opening of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre of Nashville and saw the whole thing -- the church is absolutely incredible. Gorgeous, but that's not all. Hotels can be gorgeous, but they sure can't do what this church does. It is amazing when you think of the kinds of miracles Scientology creates on a daily basis. You kind of get used to it as a Scientologist. David Miscavige was the highlight of the even, Jim said. He said his speech just completely got him going. He's even looking at joining staff there no. Go Jim!
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
A the Maiden Voyage events on the Freewinds, David Miscavige briefed everyone on the Scientology Volunteer Ministers program, including the work the volunteers do on disaster relief.
A real life example of what VMs do happened last month and is covered on the Scientology Volunteer Ministers web site. Here's what it says:
Recent floods in the Ukraine may be the worst disaster to hit that country since Chernobyl. Scientology Volunteer Ministers traveled to inaccessible areas in the Ivano-Frankovsky Region of the Ukraine to help those most affected. >>
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