If it’s true that one carries with oneself an accumulation of ideas and opinions of others with which one evaluates life; and if it’s true that some of those opinions could be incorrect - then it implies that one would occasionally operate on false information and thus, ones decisions in life could be ...wrong. Well, it happened to me.

      As a being I always knew that it IS possible to do more, that the daily realities and some of what the society around me agreed about were not necessarily the actual truth. It manifested itself by not being satisfied with life and by confusions about what I wanted and what were the relations between me and people.

      Example: My father is a person of: “black or white", no other truths exist, and same was conceived by the group I grew up with. This is rather a philosophical question, yet it bothered me and I pronouncedly left home because I felt I was being “true” to an imposed truth, rather than to my own.

      And there were more confusions.

      My biggest success as a Scientologist is this “cleanup” of past “others” viewpoints and ideas. It didn’t happen in one day. It’s still shifting. It is hard not to gain this certainty when you study for example, in a course about the subject of STUDY, about the role and manifestations of words which are not fully understood (and I remember falling asleep in class). My ability to gain data and evaluate sources of data for what they are, has a lot to do with my certainty about my own viewpoints.

      The other ongoing success is with my ability to help others rather than be a spectator. When one sees what’s going on with another, and can understand it - one can do something about it. And again, it’s something that expands with the knowledge I gain.