As a Scientologist one spends a lot of time reading the books and listening to the lectures that comprise the religion. This has quite some advantages, not the least of which is that by reading and understanding the materials one can get one's own opinion of how the religion works.
It's not all about being lectured and told that things are this way or things are that way etc.

Over the last few years I have been reading the books and doing the extension courses of the books you see above. I actually read them all one time through and that was pretty cool.

I was doing the extension courses at home as I mentioned in my previous post (Keeping up with Scientology Teachings) it was fun and definitely a certain level of learning.

But recently I went to the Church of Scientology to do the complete courses, with the lectures. Wow what a difference. It's like a third dimension to the data. When reading some of the books I could see how the information is good, but sometimes it wasn't totally real how it had anything to do with me. So doing the course and listening to the lectures helped make it real. L. Ron Hubbard, gives example on example making the information more and more real.

And doing it in a church of scientology is so much faster, no distractions, course supervisor there to help in case of bugs and more. It speeds up the progress by 2 or 3.

I recommend it.