07.21.2009 – Tampa: The Church of Scientology of Tampa held a Dianetics seminar this weekend, to rave results. In fact, this was one of the first of an entirely new kind of Dianetics seminar--a kind just announced at an international Scientology event.
Each summer, every Scientology church and mission holds events on four consecutive weekends. Each features a televised speech by Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, on Scientology activities, Church expansion and the religion's humanitarian campaigns.
This year, one of these events featured news about Dianetics, and released a brand new Dianetics Seminar, predicted to bring about a Dianetics boom even greater than the one inspired by the original publication of Dianetics almost 60 years ago.
The word "Dianetics" means "what the soul is doing to the body through the mind," and traditionally, a Dianetics Seminar is a weekend-long activity by the end of which attendees get their first taste of what Dianetics can do for them and how they can use it to help themselves and others.
Dianetics counseling is called "auditing" from the Latin word "audire" -- to listen -- and Dianetics seminars involve "co-auditing" which stands for cooperative auditing. In other words, the attendees are divided into groups of two, and those two people learn how to use Dianetics and go back and forth helping each other with Dianetics procedures all weekend.
But while this seminar followed that same traditional format, and all the attendees paired up to help each other, at that point the similarity to past Dianetics seminars ended, as the new format brings the weekend-long event soundly into the 21st Century.
The centerpiece of the new seminar is a DVD that presents what Mr. Miscavige described as "Dianetics from A to Z in a fashion that was not even conceivable just a few years ago."
Using the latest audio-visual and special effects technology, in one and a half hours the DVD presents the essential concepts of Dianetics, and gets the person ready for auditing. Attendees gain so much understand of Dianetics that they know exactly what to do and are ready to do it!
As soon as this new type of Dianetics seminar was announced, people from all around the Tampa Bay area called in and signed up. And early on Saturday morning, the 18th of July 2009, they started pouring in to the Church of Scientology of Tampa to get their first taste of Dianetics. Held both in English and Spanish the seminar got its attendees excited from the start.
One attendee said she finally understands why she has always been so fearful. One man, after four hours of Dianetics counseling, hugged the supervisor on his way out, stating, "I feel like you gave me 'me' back. I am finally able to be myself." After his first Dianetics session, another man described the experience as "empowering." He wants to become a professional auditor now, to bring Dianetics to his country in Africa and help his people.
One man discovered the source of his fear of heights and overcame it fully. A woman found two incidents in her past that were making her feel "crazy" and had ruined her life for the last 26 years. "All my life I felt like a failure," wrote another attendee, "but my fears were addressed through auditing."
In Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health, L. Ron Hubbard described Dianetics as "an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, the vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads." He goes on to say, "Your are beginning an adventure. Treat it as an adventure. And may you never be the same again."
For those who participated in the first new Dianetics seminar at the Church of Scientology of Tampa, that adventure has truly begun.
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At the top of the ecclesiastical structure of the Scientology religion is the Church of Scientology International (CSI), the mother church for all Scientology. Located in Los Angeles, CSI provides overall direction, planning and guidance for the network of churches, missions, field auditors and volunteer ministers which comprise the Scientology hierarchy it spans, and ensures these various organizations are all working effectively together.
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