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1.		Dianetics: The Original Thesis by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 304 pages Price: $15.00 Here is L. Ron Hubbard’s first description of Dianetics. Find out what started it all—with the book that holds the bedrock foundation of Dianetic discoveries. Other Editions: Hardback, Audiobook
2.		Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 224 pages Price: $15.00 The story of how L. Ron Hubbard discovered the reactive mind and developed the procedures to get rid of it—the scientific methodology to unravel the mysteries and problems of the human mind that has become a worldwide phenomenon:Dianetics. Other Editions: Hardback, Audiobook
3.		Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 704 pages Price: $20.00 It’s the all-time bestseller on the human mind and contains the discovery and full description of the source of your nightmares, unreasonablefears, upsets and insecurities—the Reactive Mind. Other Editions: Hardback, Audiobook
4.		Self Analysis by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 384 pages Price: $15.00 Learn to know yourself—not just a shadow of yourself. Self Analysis takes you through your past, through your potentials, your life. Other Editions: Hardback
5.		Handbook for Preclears by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 446 pages Price: $15.00 Discover why behavior patterns, habits and decisions of long ago still affect one so strongly; why past negative experiences still exert so much power over one today; and what an ideal state of being truly comprises. Other Editions: Hardback
6.		Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 256 pages Price: $15.00 Here is the Book One of Scientology—a concise, yet broad description of Scientology’s most fundamental principles. Because it is possible to know about the spirit, the mind and life. Other Editions: Hardback, Audiobook
7.		The Problems of Work–Scientology Applied to the Workaday World by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 208 pages Price: $15.00 The Problems of Work contains technology no one can live without, practical solutions that can immediately be applied by anyone in any endeavor—including the answers to Exhaustion and the Secret of Efficiency. Other Editions: Hardback, Audiobook
8.		Scientology: A New Slant on Life by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 384 pages Price: $15.00 This book sets forth the basic principles of the Scientology religion and answers that can be applied in the here and now. Here in this timeless selection of L.Ron Hubbard’s writings are truths to consult again and again. Other Editions: Hardback, Audiobook
9.		The Way to Happiness by L. Ron Hubbard (Paperback) 256 pages Price: $15.00 True joy and happiness are valuable. If one does not survive, no joy and no happiness are obtainable. Trying to survive in a chaotic, dishonest and generally immoral society is difficult. Other Editions: Hardback, Booklets Bundle, Audiobook
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New role awaits a historic eyesore

Church of Scientology buys former Alexandra Hotel

By Thomas C. Palmer Jr.
Globe Staff / January 30, 2008



The Church of Scientology of Boston Inc. has bought the historic Alexandra Hotel building at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue in the South End and plans to relocate its local headquarters from the Back Bay, following extensive renovations.

The sales price of the Alexandra - ravaged by fire in the 1993, decayed, empty, and recently eluding City Hall's hopes that it would become residences - was not disclosed by the Rev. Gerard Renna, the top Scientology representative in Boston.

The church, founded by L. Ron Hubbard and counting among its members actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, "pledges to transform the hotel to its original grace and elegance," it said in a news release.

Advised by Staubach Co. of New England LLC, the church bought the former 50-room hotel, at 1759-1769 Washington St., and an adjacent building on Washington. The church already has a storefront presence a few doors down on Washington.

City officials said the seller was Macedonia Realty Trust, which had owned the building for several years and had presented several plans to renovate the building and create condominiums.

Built in 1875, the Alexandra was a luxuriously appointed hotel in Ruskinian Gothic style. It faded in prominence when the elevated transit line was built along Washington Street in 1900. It closed in the 1960s and then was gutted by a fire in 1993.

The city had worked hard to get the prominent structure redeveloped, especially since the MBTA's Orange Line was relocated in the 1980s.

"The city's been tortured with this eyesore for so long," said Renna, who has been with the Church of Scientology in Boston since before it opened its current headquarters on Beacon Street in 1974.

Randi Lathrop, the Boston Redevelopment Authority's director of community planning and former head of the Mayor's Washington Street Improvement Task Force, said that as of a few weeks ago the city thought the building's former owners might redevelop it into condominiums, with extensive ground-floor retail space.

Because the building is so prominent, situated at a major intersection, City Hall wanted shops opened there to generate street-level business activity for the neighborhood. It is not yet clear what the church will install on the first floor, but after searching for a new home in Boston for three years, church officials clearly liked the visible location.

"This is a very prominent building - it's one of the criteria. They've found it with this," said Brian Smallman, vice president of Staubach of New England.

Staubach has done other work for the church around the country and will be project manager on the design and redevelopment.

"It could be an absolutely gorgeous building by the time they're done with it, and they do everything first rate," Smallman said.

The building had been for sale in recent years, at one point with a price tag of $3.5 million, said Lathrop, but the sales have always fallen through.

The city at one point went to court to have a receiver appointed for the property, because it had languished and rotted for so long, but later relented.

The building is not itself designated as a Boston Landmark by the city Landmarks Commission, but it is part of the South End district, which does have landmark designation. Any changes to the exterior of the building would need advance approval.

The project will also need approval under the BRA's small-project development process, which is expected to take months.

No architect has been selected, Smallman said; officials at church headquarters in Los Angeles will be involved in the process and have many decisions to make about the final configuration.

"The city and the mayor, especially, have focused on this as his pride corner," Lathrop said, referring to Mayor Thomas M. Menino. "It's a very important building to the district. The good news is the church will spend millions of dollars on the building."

The Church of Scientology is based on what followers call founder Hubbard's "technology" and its ability to help them understand more about themselves and others. The church acknowledges the controversy it creates on its own extensive website. "As Scientologists have openly and effectively advocated social reform causes, they have become the target of attacks," the site says. The church has battled with the media, the Internal Revenue Service, and supporters of certain psychiatric drugs and treatment.

Renna said he answers "ecclesiastically" to the mother church in Los Angeles.

Thomas C. Palmer Jr. can be reached at tpalmer@globe.com.

© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.

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BOOK REVIEW

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
by L. Ron Hubbard

A hidden part of the human mind is at the root of our problems of stress, unhappiness, self-doubt and paralyzing anxiety, said the author of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Author L. Ron Hubbard said past painful experiences are stored as memories just below the level of conscious thought in what he called the “reactive mind,” where they can be triggered in the present to work destructively against you. It works like this: through years of research on hundreds of cases, Hubbard discovered two parts to the human mind. First there is the analytical mind, the mind that rationalizes, calculates, dreams, solves and creates. This is the part of the mind that we want to be working at 100% capacity, 100% of the time. What hinders achieving this 100% level of operation is called the reactive mind.

The reactive mind is the subconscious part of our mind that acts without our permission. It takes control on a stimulus-response basis, acting as a self-defense mechanism gone awry. The reactive mind thinks in identities, that is to say it cannot differentiate between a current situation and a past painful experience. It collapses the two, giving us commands to operate off of that have little or no basis in current reality.

The analytical mind goes through existence recording diligently until something happens that causes the reactive mind to take over. The cause could be an accident, heavy drowsiness, emotional shock or many other combinations of painful experiences. Suddenly the reactive mind begins recording everything that is occurring around you during the painful incident: all sounds, scents, sights and feelings.

Later in life, when you encounter a situation similar to the original recording made, the reactive mind once again takes over and begins to feed you data about how to act and respond -- based on information from a totally different incident in the past!

In the opening pages of Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard wrote, “Dianetics is no solemn adventure. For all that it has to do with suffering and loss, its end is always laughter, so foolish, so misinterpreted were the things which caused the woe.”

Herein lies the crux of Dianetics’ success. According to Dianetics practitioners, those things that hold you back, the feeling that you just can’t shake, the mistakes that you can’t help but make again and again -- the simple reasons for these and answers to many other mysteries about yourself and your mind can be discovered through the use of Dianetics technology.

Through years of research Hubbard discovered the source of personal stress, anxiety and depression and then developed carefully tested procedures to desensitize and erase the negative content stored in the reactive mind -- thus freeing up your ability to act solely in the here and now and off of good data stored in the analytical mind, free from the chains of stress.
In reality, the only way to realize Dianetics’ workability is to use it -- pair up with someone and apply the techniques. It’s easy. Hubbard’s bestseller has helped millions, and it should be read and used by all who are searching for a true understanding of the mind and a solution to such problems as self-doubt, stress, anxiety and depression. Dianetics is available in bookstores everywhere or visit www.dianetics.org for more information.

Hubbard Dianetics Foundation of Boston will be presenting a free workshop for Dianetics Readers on December 8, 2007 at 1:00. Guest who have not read Dianetics can still attend the worskshop and learn more about what Dianetics is really about.

Call 617-266-9500 or visit www.dianeticsboston.org to find out more about the upcoming workshop.

21st Century Religion: L. Ron Hubbard's Own Philosophy

21st Century Religion: L. Ron Hubbard's Own Philosophy

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Improve Your LIfe and Others for FREE - Scientology Basics Revealed

Most people would logically jump at the opportunity to find out how to improve their abilities to study, to raise their I.Q. (That's right. you can actually raise I.Q.), to better understand and communicate with others and to simply have the knowledge to create a better life. The jump for awareness often isn't made though, as so many times the promises of help are very limited in value if helpful at all. This help can also be expensive as in the tens of thousands of dollars poured into universities that often leads to requirements of classes that the student doesn't find interesting. In the case of the Church of Scientology, most people have heard
testimonials from friends, acquaintences or celebrities in how it helped them in life, but may not want to lay out any money to see how the works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard could be useful to them. The solution is www.scientologyhandbook.org .

Click here and get many of the basics of Scientology that can be immediately read and used to better you own life and the lives of those around you. If you want to understand and deal with the reactions of others, look under the emotional tone scale "Ups and Downs in Life" . If you want to understand how to help your children become more ethical and competent, there's data to be applied for this. If you want to "assist" others who may be suffering from pain or sickness, just look under that section and help this person. There's no cost or guess work.
You just read the simple instructions on how to improve various areas of life and do it. It won't hurt. It will cost you nothing. Go ahead and click.


About Church of Scientology - Boston
Scientology addresses man as a spiritual being and gives people tools they can apply to their lives to improve conditions. Among these are the techniques for
alleviating spiritual trauma contained in the book Dianetics, by L. Ron Hubbard.
Community Programs include: “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life” Campaign Human Rights Programs including Youth for Human Rights International and our
local Boston Scientology Volunteer Ministry serving the inner-city of Boston and traveling the world to assist in disaster relief efforts.

Contact Information
Community Services
Church of Scientology - Boston
http://www.bostonvolunteerministers.org
617-266-3841

National Night Out Boston 2007

National Night Out Boston 2007 is the 24th annual citywide celebration to unify our communities throughout the City of Boston. This program cultivates and strengthens partnerships between the community, youth, police, city agencies and community-based organizations. National Night Out also acknowledges the remarkable contributions of Neighborhood Crime Watch groups, and seeks to increase participation in crime watch programs among local residents.

National Night Boston 2007
“Unity Through Community”

The Boston Scientology Ministry invites the community for our National Night Out Boston 2007 Block Party.

On Tuesday, August 7th, from 5:00 to 6:00 pm at 1783 Washington Street in Lower Roxbury, the Boston Scientology Ministry will host a National Night Out Boston 2007 Block Party.

The Ministry will present information and lectures on education and other social reform issues. Children will be deputized as official Drug Free Marshals after taking the pledge to be drug-free.

The Boston Scientology Ministry was established three years ago to assist the community in the eradication of crime and violence by handling the issues that underlie crime and violence. One of the Ministry’s most successful programs is the Reading and Study Skills program for all ages. For more information on the ministry and the Church’s programs visit www.bostonvolunteerministers.org.

For more information regarding the Ministry contact:
Rev. Robert Castagna
(617) 927-2247
rwcastagna@yahoo.com

For more information about National Night Out Boston please go to www.BostonCrimeWatch.com or call the Neighborhood Crime Watch Unit of the Boston Police Department at 617-343-4345

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Celebrating the Anniversary of the Publication of Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health

Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health, is approaching its 57th year in print. Published on May 9th, 1950, this year its anniversary will be marked by celebrations in more that 160 nations all over the world.
And why not? Dianetics technology is simple to understand and learn; anyone can get a copy of the book and start using it; and the results are remarkable, even in the hands of people completely new to the subject.

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