It's very difficult to summarize what I have experienced in the last 20 years. That's how long it's been since I read my first book written, by L. Ron Hubbard. At the time I was unemployed, living off of my girlfriends money, doing drugs (and had been for many years)...and begining to fail in my college courses. I had almost no survival skills, and didn't think that I was capable of getting them. I actually read that first book as a way of educating myself about this new religion that she had gotten involved with, that I was very much against. After all, within two weeks of starting her first course she stopped doing drugs with me. She also got hired as the singer in the hottest band in Sacramento and started making great money...two weeks later she stopped recieving welfare, for the first time in 6 years. Suddenly, my idylic life was ruined. I really wanted ammunition to use against her. So I picked up this book while she was out of the house. I had been reading every philosophy under the sun. Looking for something that might help me pull myself out of the hole I had dug, but nothing made enough sense to me.

     Two paragraphs into the first page of this book (it was and is called Dianetics: the Evolution of a Science) I stopped cold. It made sense. It made more sense than anything I had ever read and that really made me mad. Anyway, I started out and that first book changed my life and my first course changed it more and my first counseling blew my mind and well you get the idea.

     It's been a long process but basically what my religion has given me is a way to learn how to get better at anything I want to get better at. I fortunately want to get better at everything and that won't stop. I have a wonderful relationship with my family, a wonderful girlfriend, great friends, a great job, and a great career (I have a 9-piece country band. You can see our web site soon, as I will post the web site address soon).

     More important...I belong to a religion that has the goal of helping people and the technology to achieve it. That's it...(for now !)