ello, my name is Simon Wakley, and here is a little bit about myself:

     I started into Scientology as my parents were Scientologists. I did what they said and used what they showed me as that was what I knew. It was not until I was a teenager that I finally realized for myself what Scientology was all about.

      It is quite different being born into Scientology as I was raised by my parents in ways that followed the principles of Scientology. They would handle upsets with Scientology and use the technology to resolve conflicts.

      For example, like it or not, if you find yourself complaining and saying bad things about someone, it is caused by the bad things you have done, not by the person you are complaining about. Does complaining about this person resolve the problem? No, it doesn’t. If I went to one of my parents saying what terrible things my brother had done to me. (“My brother bit me” being a famous example), my parents would just say “OK, What did you do to him?” I would confess to breaking his toy or something and then I would feel better and happy again. Complaining about him did not produce this effect, only taking responsibility for what I had done handled the upset!

      Anyway, this way of life seemed normal to me and I didn’t really see what was wrong with the world until, as a teenager, I studied other religions, watched the world through the news and studied history. I realised that man was generally not in as good a condition as he thought and needed to resolve his personal human problems, but was far too wound-up in making a better bomb, etc.

      Now I work as a computer programmer in a field related to the film business, but I attend my Church regularly to improve my abilities and I am studying to learn counseling so that I can help others. I regularly use what I have learned in Scientology in my life to handle situations that come up and it is so much second nature to me that I hardly think about it.

      My free time is involved with having fun with my girlfriend, bicycle riding, horseback riding and roller-blading. I also like to sail and I recently took a course in the Santa Monica Marina and love going out on the ocean.