NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes "an utterly necessary story" ( The Wall Street Journal ) that pulls back the curtain on the church of Scientology: one of the most secretive organizations at work today. - The Basis for the HBO Documentary. Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright- ...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes "an utterly necessary story" ( The Wall Street Journal ) that pulls back the curtain on the church of Scientology: one of the most secretive organizations at work today. - The Basis for the HBO Documentary. Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright--armed with his investigative talents, years of archival research, and more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists--uncovers the inner workings of the church. We meet founder L. Ron Hubbard, the highly imaginative but mentally troubled science-fiction writer, and his tough, driven successor, David Miscavige. We go inside their specialized cosmology and language. We learn about the church's legal attacks on the IRS, its vindictive treatment of critics, and its phenomenal wealth. We see the church court celebrities such as Tom Cruise while consigning its clergy to hard labor under billion-year contracts. Through it all, Wright asks what fundamentally comprises a religion, and if Scientology in fact merits this Constitutionally-protected label.
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This is a detailed and harrowing account of life for the average person inside Scientology. Here's why it's hard for people to leave - they have no contacts on the outside having been forced to break ties w/ anyone not of the church, they have no documented work history, they have little education beyond elementary school, they have no car, or savings and some don't even know exactly where they are. AND, many are deep in debt to the church having been coerced into signing 'million year contracts' for Scientology training. Members are actively encouraged to report on each other. If they try to leave and fail, physical and emotional abuse follows.
Most members , including children, work morning to night 6-7 days a week, for the church, and for little money.
Being related to one of the high level men in the church is no protection - see 'Beyond Belief' by Jenna Miscavige Hill, (niece of David Miscavige) another detailed and harrowing insider account. Though the 2 books were written separately there is remarkable consistency in the stories.
