Mon Dieux! Les Videos!

Check out the new Scientology web site. Fantastic!!!!!

The video about Auditing reminded me about one of the first major wins I had in Scientology.

I was pretty fixated on my father and blamed him for a lot of what I was going through in life. I had this one auditing session. I laughed more in that 2 hour period than I had in months, just remembering some of the really funny (weird) things that he did and how I used to react to it.

What was amazing was I was laughing about it!

Somehow looking at those things, they no longer seemed so important.

I actually forgot about that until I watched this video. But you know I'd say that was probably the point where I started being able to related to my dad as an adult instead of blaming him for everything that was wrong with me.

From then on I think I was able to see him as another person who had his own problems and was coping with them.

Classy Skyline

LA used to be pretty flat. Earthquakes made it dangerous to build "up" so LA built "out" -- hence the famous LA sprawl.

But about 30 years ago or so they developed the technology to be able to build what they claim to be "safe" skyscrapers. Let's see what happens when "The Big One" hits...

L. Ron Hubbard Way, on Ron's Birthday

This is the signpost on the street where I spend a lot of time.

I moved to Los Angeles to be close to the biggest Scientology center in the US (and the world I believe), and it all is centered on the street called "L. Ron Hubbard Way."

And as today is Ron's birthday, I'm taking this opportunity to post about what it's like to be a Scientologist in Los Angeles.

Frankly, it's great.

But then again, it's pretty cool being a Scientologist anywhere, if you asked me.

Here are one of the churches on this one LA block:

This is the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles -- known as LA Org (Org stands for "organization").

Really lost!

You might say I got really lost!

But what happened is I lost my blog! Couldn't find the login.

So, now, with the help of one of my American friends who is ghostwriting for me to handle my terrible Frenglish I hope to be posting again!

From a village of less than a hundred, to one of 500, then back to my birthplace of 2000, going to Saint-Etienne (approx. 200,000) was a big jump! Believe it or not, my most fascinating early experience of the big city was going to the mall. Time and again, returning to the mall was a special, exciting experience for me. I was pretty much mesmerized by everything I saw--the crowd, the stores, particularly a music store that became a hangout of mine during the school year, and where I got my education of what was the hip music of the 80s ("New Wave)", and the 70s.

Lost in LA

I have had for many years a fascination for to big cities. Being born in a town of 2000 in "South Central" ;) France, and raised during my early years in a nearby village of less than a hundred, for the better part of my childhood, I had no real concept of what a city is. By age 8 I moved to a nearby village of 500. It was 1975. By age 11, after completing primary school in my larger village of Saint Georges, I went back to the "big town" where I was born to go through middle school. As I grew older and my vision of the world started to expand, I started to develop a fascination for people and languages, travel and big cities teeming with people. By the time I was 15, a school counselor "diagnosed" that I had a "literary mind" with special abilities for languages. He recommended I pursue the study of languages and came up with the idea that I should go for something"exotic", like Rusian! I was all for it and my parents liked the idea. So here I was on my way to the big city--Saint-Etienne here I come! This was 1982...