Word: velona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerry Velona grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey and had not heard of dianetics or scientology before coming to Boston to study at the Berkeley School of Music. He joined a band with a few scientologists, became interested in dianetics, a keystone of the faith, and joined the church because he believed...
...Jerry Velona, there are two to see you," the receptionist said, dressed in a polyester suit. He was sitting behind a bulbous steel microphone, the type that usually summons hospital doctors. The microphone wired his voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...
...Velona opened the hollow, plywood door labelled 'Chapel' and sat down in the dimly-lit room near the Scientology cross. The verticle bar of the cross, according to Velona, symbolizes the "transcendence of spirituality over the world," while the four points at the end of the two bars of the cross represent four of the faith's eight dynamics. These eight dynamics stress the dedication and protection of one's self, of the family, the group, mankind, plants and animals, material objects, other spiritual beings and the "supreme being." According to Velona, the questions of right and wrong...
...religion of action rather than dogma," Scientology channels its efforts toward social reform, Velona said. The church's progressive group, the Association of Scientologists for Reform, supports groups aiding alcoholics, the aged, prison inmates, the mentally retarded and "identifies areas in society it sees are in need of reform." Another of the church's groups, the American Citizens for Honesty in Government, pays $10,000 to anyone who can document the corruption of a public official...