Pros
I had actually done this program twice before for many years previously and was a bit in doubt if I should do it again. But I had not had good results earlier and now we had a significantly improved rundown as a result of recent overhaul of all Scientology services. I also had heard some rave reviews by others who had recently experienced the new program, so I decided to do it again.
I have not had extensive drug use but quite a bit of alcohol though. Then of course a couple of operations, a load of sun exposure, and what almost everyone has nowadays: radioactive fallout and radiation from the atmosphere, pesticides and additives in food and drink, impurities in water, over-the-counter meds and some prescriptions drugs, etc.
In the sauna I didn't actually experience a whole lot as, as I said earlier, My drug history was moderate and I had done this twice before, but what amazed me was the amount and range of results, especially mental/spiritual that I got out of it. Physically I sleep better, have much less headaches, my eyes and nose run next to nothing while earlier I had to constantly have my tissues ready to use them every few minutes. My skin seems healthier: very soft with healthy feeling oiliness rather than the somewhat dry skin I had had.
The mental/spiritual results were the most astonishing: I am more "here", with better memory and even with some long-lost emotions and memories recovered from my childhood. I can study better with more ease, speed and comprehension. I am more stable and am less self-conscious - can just accept myself and be poised and fall in easy communication in social situations where earlier I would slightly panic. I am less moody and can enjoy the present and my environment better, the nature, situations, activities, my work, the animals and people in it. I work with more energy and more goal-oriented from A to B and have less aversion towards even menial of routine tasks.
And these mental/spiritual wins seems to continue coming and holding with the realization in me that I have attained another, a bit higher level or state which bodes well for continued improvement on my chosen road to higher states as myself, a spiritual being. I now trust better myself and the Bridge and that I can attain higher levels and that Scientology really works.
I have also to say that the way the rundown now is set up is much much improved from earlier with better supervision, better trained personnel who run it, even with higher grade vitamins and more stress on eg. fresh vegetables, good food, enough sleep and standard schedule to be followed daily, in other words the level of the standards have been tremendously upped.
Cons
The rundown was not too easy to do as to the schedule with full time work and 3-4 hours in sauna every day for 28 days. Sometimes the sauna was a bit crowded due the org not yet having moved to new and more spacious quarters. But all these were not too hard to overcome with some willingness and arrangement
June 11, 2014
Someone could object that the price of the rundown was too much - well, not for me it wasn't: what is the price of a clean, toxin free body and mind that is conducive to further steps towards mental/spiritual freedom - for me it is priceless.