ello, my name is Rosemary Didear, and here is a little bit about myself:

     Some years ago, my family and I made the leap from a stable home base in Pasadena (friends, family, our own business of 11 years duration, our favorite restaurants and hikes -- you got the picture) to come up to Oregon and start a brand new career in education. We packed up the house and kids, took a trip around the Mediterranean and arrived at the Delphian School.

      This in itself was a result of a Scientology course that helps a person get all the parts of his life in better alignment. Although we had enjoyed the business world, we felt we weren't doing our share to handle the downward spiral of the world around us, and we needed to take more responsibility. The Delphian School uses the educational materials of L. Ron Hubbard to produce graduates who not only have a strong academic background, but also the ability to learn whatever they want and the strength of character to be leaders of the next generation.

      So this is the most recent adventure of our 25 years of married life. I became a Scientologist in 1971 when I was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working for Harvard. Although I had led a fairly charmed life -- great family, a Columbia University degree and high potential for a successful career -- it was painful for me to believe that there wasn't more to life than the race to accumulate more "stuff": two cars, two houses, two kids etc. I protested the bleakness of the path I was on but didn't know where to find a different direction.

      An earlier major purpose of my life had been to discover a way to help others, but I hadn't found my calling. Choosing areas where I had little experience and even less reality (ghettos, alcoholics, political campaigns), my purposes were blunted and joyless. It was at that time that I found Scientology through the man who later became my husband. Truly, it was a sudden transformation, although I know that is not necessarily true for all.

      My first course showed me that I could expand my reality and overcome emotional upsets and barriers. My first Scientology counseling (auditing) proved to me beyond a doubt that I was a spiritual being and not just a body. My further training gave me the tools to handle myself and others on problems, upsets, critical feelings and fixed conditions. Suddenly, not only did I have a way to help others, but also it was a way with specific techniques that I knew worked and I could apply -- a scientific method of handling the mind and spirit.

      Since then, I can say that I have never stayed the same. Truly, there is no limit to the awareness one might have. Scientology gives you the map to continue to climb that ladder (we call it a "Bridge to Total Freedom"). It is a Bridge that leads to greater and greater causativeness over your life, certainty of truth, an ethical life and gives you the potential for infinite expansion.