Scientology Silent Birth: 'It's A Natural Thing'

Nice story on Beliefnet, featuring an interview with the President of the Church of Scientology of New York on the subject of Silent Birth.

Church of Scientology of San Diego

One of my favorite cities in the US is San Diego. It has the great climate of Southern California without the some of the drawbacks of LA. It's a beautiful city, had a very diverse cultural mix, is close to the border of Mexico and lots of cultural and entertainment attractions.

The Church of Scientology of San Diego has a wonderful staff, very helpful and competent and the church is expanding so much they are planning to move to bigger quarters.

They have a really nice new web site too.

There is so much interest in Scientology these days and I would recommend that anyone living in San Diego County visit the Church and find out more about their programs and services.

Here's their contact information:

Church of Scientology
of San Diego
1330 Fourth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101

Phone/Fax: (619) 239-2091
sandiego@scientology.net

More on Scientology Silent Birth

Great Story today in the Orange Country Register about Scientologists and their adherence to basic Dianetics principles regarding birth.

There's been lots of hype on the subject. It's good to see some factual stories surfacing now.

Of course the BEST way to understand "silent birth" is to read Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health.

Great Story about Tom Cruise and Scientology Silent Birth

by SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES Apr 12, 2006 (AP) Tom Cruise has been practically shouting from the rooftops about his love for his pregnant fiancee, Katie Holmes. But when their much-anticipated baby is born, the superstar dad probably won't say a word.

Cruise, a longtime Scientologist who introduced Holmes to the faith, is likely to follow Scientology's practice of quiet birth. Followers believe the absence of talk and other noise in the delivery room is more healthful for mother and baby.

No one's saying publicly where baby Cruise will enter the world, but if it is at the actor's Beverly Hills home then noise control might prove a challenge. Buzzing paparazzi are already camped aside the property.

With the little one expected soon, tabloids and gossip Web sites have been rife with chatter about silent birth, spawning much speculation about what it is and isn't.

Some are sure it means the mother can't make a peep during childbirth forget the popular image of a chaotic hospital-room scene with a laboring woman spewing invectives. Others have claimed silence must be maintained for a full week after the baby is born and that Scientology opposes medical exams for newborns.

According to the tenets of Scientology, known as Dianetics, words - even loving ones - spoken during birth and other painful times are recorded by the "reactive mind," or subconscious. Those memories, adherents feel, can eventually trigger problems for mother and child.

What the doctrine doesn't say is that labouring moms can't make some noise during delivery.

"We're not going for absolute silence," said self-professed "Scientology mom" Michelle Seward. "If a sound is made, that's OK."

After years studying the faith, established in 1950 by fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Seward went the silent route for the birth of her son, Sage, five years ago.>> more

New Church of Scientology Mission in Sturovo, Slovakia

Staff of the new Church of Scientology Mission of Štúrovo, the 14th Mission in the Country of Slovakia.

It's an interesting point that of the greatest considered philosophers of all time, who influenced the thought and condition of man, such as Plato, Socrates Lucretious and Voltaire, actually had far less knowledge and research into the Human Condition than L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology religion.

Mr. Hubbard personally studied more than 20 twenty primitive races, traveling all corners of the globe, sought out the human condition and discovered through his research the situations and solutions to life. He actually had more information and data than any philosopher of his time and of those before him, simply because his early writings took him into many aspects of man and his condition. This was done over the period of twenty years prior to his writing of Dianetics, and then continued for an additional 40 years up to his passing in the late 80's.

With backgrounds in nuclear physics and engineering, he combined these skills to not only discover the secrets of man, but then demonstrate consistently their application and workabiliy.