What is Communication?

How does one talk so that another person listens and understands? How does one listen? How does one know if he has been heard and understood?

These are all points about communication that have never before been analyzed or explained.

People have known that communication is an important part of life but until now no one has ever been able to tell anyone how to communicate.

Until Scientology, the subject of communication had received no emphasis or study. Any attention given to it was mechanical and the province of engineers. Yet all human endeavor depends utterly on a full knowledge of the real basics of communication.

To master communication, one must understand it.

In Scientology, communication has been defined – an accomplishment that has led to a much deeper understanding of life itself.

Communication, in essence, is the shift of a particle from one part of space to another part of space. A particle is the thing being communicated. It can be an object, a written message, a spoken word or an idea. In its crudest definition, this is communication.

This simple view of communication leads to the full definition:

Communication is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source-point across a distance to receipt-point, with the intention of bringing into being at the receipt-point a duplication and understanding of that which emanated from the source-point.

Duplication is the act of reproducing something exactly. Emanated means “came forth.”

The formula of communication is cause, distance, effect, with intention, attention and duplication with understanding.

The definition and formula of communication open the door to understanding this subject. By dissecting communication into its component parts, we can view the function of each and thus more clearly understand the whole.

What Do Scientology Volunteer Ministers Do?

While in the last five years Scientology Volunteer Ministers have emerged as the largest independent relief force on Earth, they’ve also become a global force delivering effective help in disaster zones that don’t make the headlines: in homes and schoolrooms, in business and community centers.

Trained on the specific techniques from The Scientology Handbook, they learn the basics that apply to every aspect of life. And, proficient in the use of these practical tools, they can provide real answers to any one of life’s difficulties — from rescuing failing students or getting addicts off drugs, to alleviating the trauma of physical injury, salvaging troubled relationships or solving human conflicts. No matter the problem, a Volunteer Minster knows something can be done about it and takes action with effective solutions.

Reaching out with the message of hope to people in desperate need, Volunteer Ministers are on call 24/7 on the Volunteer Minister Hotline. To help even greater numbers they take their technology straight into communities, providing one-on-one assistance and seminars based on the chapters of the Handbook. In this way they train tens of thousands to apply fundamental technology to their own lives and to the lives of those around them.

Anyone, of any denomination, who wants to make a difference can become a Volunteer Minister by learning the simple techniques in The Scientology Handbook. Armed with these answers, a Volunteer Minister can help build a better world by restoring order, kindness and decency to any individual.