Over the past 13 years, I have gotten many successes from Scientology. I understand life very well; I have great patience and ability to relate well to others. I am not critical, like the way I was. I am extremely energetic and inventive. I have fun all day long every day. I don't get sick. Problems disappear. I am carefully ethical in all my dealings. I am financially prosperous. My kids are great people, and so is my grandson. I have been happily married to the same woman for more than 26 years. I have attracted very competent and caring people around me in my business, and we have fun all day every day. I have done a lot to help others, including drug education programs, tutoring, and other endeavors to help others understand life and lead ethical existences.

      As my awareness of Scientology has grown, I have found that old errors don't hold me down anymore. I have learned how to look at the past and see where I made erroneous conclusions. I have learned how to spot evil people and how to deal with them. I have learned how to communicate easily with anyone I want to. I have learned what problems are and how to deal with them, I have learned what people do to justify actions they know are not right and I can spot it when I am doing that and clean it up. And most valuable of all, I have come to understand again that I am an immensely old spiritual being and I am free of a lot of the "baggage" that I have been carrying around for eons.

     This shedding of useless "baggage" is most pronounced on the advanced levels of Scientology. I have met hundreds of people from all walks of life in this church: people of all ages, races, cultures, and what they and I have in common is that life works better when we understand it.

     Studying Scientology is like reading an owner's manual for life. It takes a while, but if you keep showing up, life gets better. And I did not think life was bad before; it's just that it got a lot better. The people running the church are among the most ethical I have ever met. None of the negative crap that you read in the press has any truth that I have ever seen, and I have kept my eyes open.

     Here's what I recommend: buy a book or two written by L. Ron Hubbard and read it and make sure you understand every word you read, and see if it makes sense to you. It will probably make you curious. You may chuckle that some of the things you read seem so obvious once they are pointed out for your inspection.