Because I could not answer this question myself fully, as I learned about Scientology at age 13 when I did my first course, and I didn’t get started for real until 17 years old when I got my driver’s permit. Unlike many of my friends who were born to Scientologist parents.
One of these stellar individuals is Ferdinand Haag who grew up in Scientology in Germany, and moved to Clearwater at about 7 years old. He’s volunteered as a Scientology Volunteer Minister for hundreds of hours to help people indiscriminately, he’s an executive at ATG Fitness and has won several local golf tournaments.
He now has several children and applies a lot of the Scientology principles in his life with his children, in a similar way that his parents did with him.
One of the Scientology principles that Ferdi uses with he’s kids is Personal Integrity, and “What’s true is what is true for you” – as he explains on the podcast episode about at around 22:30 “What can you sift through and find out what is true.”. All Scientologists that are active and practice are curious about learning. So much of Scientology is studying, and learning how to do things.
Ferdi grew up mostly in Clearwater, right next to Flag, which is the Church’s largest church. At the time several of his friends had studied an introductory Communication course, so several people started and learned about communication. But the big turning point for Ferdi was when he was 13 and he had a girlfriend and he says he was not really happy being with her, but he felt he had to be with her, and someone recommended he talk to someone at the church about it.
He saw someone at the Church who listened to him and recommended him a specific program of things to read and he said it really helped him with what to do and he saw how the wisdom helped him.
He also shared discrimination that he encountered early in his life from people who knew nothing about him. Find out from him directly what his beliefs are in the episode, and let us know what questions you may have for him 🙂
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