I’ve shaken David Miscavige’s hand twice, however for somebody not very accustomed to Scientology, I feel the primary time is essentially the most revealing.
I used to be a younger singer-songwriter dwelling in Los Angeles. My profession was going nicely. I had not too long ago signed a contract with Warner Data. My music was on the radio and I used to be sharing the stage with bands I had seemed as much as for years, performing for tens of 1000’s of individuals each month.
My private life was one other story. My stress degree was at absolute most each waking second. I felt like I used to be fully in over my head—personally and professionally. I had so many questions and only a few useful solutions about how life, enterprise and private relationships have been imagined to perform in an effort to be wholesome, joyful and productive.
He made me really feel like I had really helped and, as anybody who’s given the chance to assist others is aware of, there isn’t any higher and extra validating feeling.
I discovered Scientology by means of a music producer I used to be working with and really shortly realized that, after an entire lifetime of earnestly looking out, I had lastly discovered a useful resource that answered all my questions with very actual and workable solutions that I might apply with instantly constructive outcomes.
After I was requested to carry out at a gala occasion in Hollywood for my Church, I used to be flattered and honored and excited to be part of it. I carried out one track (Van Morrison’s “Moondance,” one in every of my all-time favorites) and as I got here off stage and was mingling with different performers within the backstage space, I had a chance to fulfill and shake arms with Mr. Miscavige.
I had solely been in Scientology a short while and knew nothing about its ecclesiastical construction. I didn’t know who David Miscavige truly was, however I had a way from the way in which different individuals have been behaving that this man was essential.
However two issues struck me as I used to be launched and shook David Miscavige’s hand. First, I might actually really feel the power in my house change, like an electrical present was shifting by means of the air and amping all the things up. I’ve had that occur one different time in my life: once I first noticed U2’s frontman Bono (my hero and the rationale I grew to become a musician) come out reside on stage and begin singing. There are apparently sure individuals with such a profound potential to speak and to be fully current and attentive to others—whether or not an viewers of 1000’s or an viewers of 1—that it truly adjustments the power within the house. Folks discuss feeling “electrified.” That’s what it felt like.
The second factor that struck me was how honest David Miscavige’s due to me was for my efficiency. He communicated with a humility and a gratitude that was in such placing distinction to the everyday Hollywood glad-handing that I nearly laughed out loud with delight at the way it made me really feel. I felt genuinely and fully appreciated. As an artist struggling to reach what could be a brutal trade, that type of private validation meant absolutely the world to me. He made me really feel like I had really helped and, as anybody who’s given the chance to assist others is aware of, there isn’t any higher and extra validating feeling.
Within the years since, I’ve come to grasp extra completely what David Miscavige’s lifetime of private dedication to our Church and its Founder has meant—not solely to Scientologists however to each individual on the planet. His accomplishments are really extraordinary. Mankind is profoundly lucky to have had a being like L. Ron Hubbard uncover and codify essentially the most basic truths of our existence. For my part, we’re equally lucky that L. Ron Hubbard selected David Miscavige to make sure that the Expertise of the Scientology faith was safeguarded and shared with the world exactly as Mr. Hubbard had supposed.
To comprehensively codify L. Ron Hubbard’s lifetime of analysis into each side of the human expertise—to such an ideal diploma that anybody, anyplace can study and apply this religious expertise perpetually—is a herculean process that solely a superhero might pull off.
I really feel lucky certainly to have gotten the prospect to shake Superman’s hand and to spend the years since observing all of the extraordinary methods he has made the world a greater place.
By Wil Seabrook, initially revealed by STAND. Will Seabrook is a musician, author, enterprise proprietor, human rights advocate, aspiring Renaissance Man.
