Today is the anniversary of L. Ron Hubbard’s birth.

And as far as I’m concerned it should be a national holiday!

There are so many people who are alive today because of his breakthroughs on the subject of Drug Rehabilitation.  And there are millions who are happier, brighter, and winning in life because he took the care to discover truth about life, the mind and the spirit, and make this truth available to all of us.

So on Ron’s birthday I’m posting to say "Thank you!"  

Daniel Hyun Lim is the artist who created this beautiful waif.  His web site is at http://www.daniel-lim.com and is well worth browsing.

 Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian fine artist and photographer whose disturbing images provoke a new view of life.

Craig Mullins is a brilliant artist, whose works are displayed online at http://www.goodbrush.com/.

His site includes a gallery of many magnificent paintings. 

He works in various media, but I’ve copied two of his watercolors (my favorite media and he uses it so very well). 

Maxfield Parrish was an enormously talented, visionary artist, whose beautiful paintings continue to inspire us today.

He suffered from emotional and spiritual problems called, at that time, a "nervous breakdown." 

Freud, who rose to prominence in Parrish’s lifetime, aware of the fact that artists tended to have such problems, and unable to discover why, went so far as to theorize that to create beautiful art one had to be a bit crazy.  (After all, look at Vincent Van Gogh), but this was just because he stopped short of really researching and understanding the mind.

Unfortunately, psychiatrists then "moved in" on artists and there have been many tragedies from that unholy alliance (see CCHR web site for many examples).

It wasn’t until I read the book Science of Survival  by L. Ron Hubbard that I learned the truth about this.  Creativity is inherent in the being.  It is not assisted whatsoever by neurosis or psychosis.  It is not necessary to suffer oneself to understand and have compassion for those who do, or to tell the take in line, color, verse or film.

Several years ago David Miscavige gave a speech at the 34th anniversary of the founding of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center in Los Angeles where he explained the special love L. Ron Hubbard had for the artist.  L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "A culture  is as rich and as capable of suviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance." 

I salute Maxwell Parish and his passion and purity of expression and artists everwhere who inject their magic into our lives.