To really get where I’m coming from, you should know that I looked into Scientology because I was curious, but I stayed because it worked.

I was looking for spiritual answers—who am I really, what am I here for, what is life really all about. But I wanted answered that worked. It wasn’t enough to me to have someone give me their opinion. I’d had plenty of that. I wanted to be able to see for myself.

Well, Scientology filled the bill in a very surprising way. It’s described as an applied religious technology. And that’s exactly what it is.

This is my own personal take on Scientology and what it means to me to "Keep Scientology Working,"

Scientology is a technology. Just like any other technology it will only work if you use it exactly.

If you were trying to repair a car, you’d expect the car manual to help you locate what was wrong and give you comprehensible directions to fix it. And you should be able to use it to troubleshoot your car and get it back on the road again.

If you were learning how to program a web site, and you grabbed a textbook on the subject and tried using it, you would expect to be able to learn it, follow the directions and create web pages.

Okay. So car repair and web site programming are technologies. No one would complain about having to learn them exactly and use them correctly to get them to work.

When I say Scientologist is a technology, I mean just that. Yes, it’s about you as a spiritual being, but the entire body of information that it’s based on was researched and documented by the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard.

In 1965 he wrote "Keeping Scientology Working," where he stressed that you have to apply Scientology exactly to get the results from it, and that when you don’t get results, don’t go looking for new ways to apply it, but rather go back to the text, find out what you didn’t understand and failed to apply correctly, and do it right.

This concept is a big yawn to an engineer. Of course that’s what you do when you’re talking about a technology.

But it’s is a startling new concept in the field of the humanities, a zone of life which has been dominated by opinion and junk science, witness the dramatic lack of results visible in skyrocketing statistics of criminal populations, addiction and broken marriages, all social problems that should be improving if the "established authorities" in those fields had effective technology.

When Scientologists refer to "Keeping Scientology Working" (sometimes described by the acronym "KSW") they are referring to this concept of a standard technology that works uniformly and invariably whenever you use it correctly.

People new to Scientology are sometimes amazed to see the kinds of results they can get in their lives just by reading a book by L. Ron Hubbard and trying out some of the concepts. For me, when I first read the book The Problems of Work it almost seemed like magic. I was so impressed I spent the next three days telling every one of my friends how incredible it was. But it doesn’t take long before you realize that the "magic" actually comes from exact application of the technology, and that’s when KSW becomes important to you.

I’ve used Scientology to help people for years. I’ve helping my family, people I work with, complete strangers and best friends. And I know that the results I get and the help I’ve been able to give is because I’ve applied it exactly.

So to me, KSW is a very important part of being a Scientologist. In fact, I couldn’t really call myself a Scientologist if I didn’t use it.