A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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posts that Rinder and his blood-sucking, back-stabbing shyster lawyer "friend" have yet to respond to because they cannot without forfeiting the latter's bar card.

As for the content of the book itself, this was a massive undertaking by Mike Rinder to consolidate 42 years of Scientology plus the years of the aftermath after leaving into a single book, and do it well. He helped negotiate Scientology's pivotal tax exemption from the IRS and engaged with the organization's prominent celebrity members, including Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley, and John Travolta. They were almost embarrassed by the CST federal court ruling when it came out; realizing they could not support the findings with facts. I won’t spoil the book by telling all his stories, but things get more weird, and more overtly abusive, than you can probably imagine.Millions of people dead in horrific wars and revolutions and most of these game-changing rebels murdered or dead themselves. Yet Rinder couldn’t shake a nagging feeling that something was amiss—Hubbard’s promises remained unfulfilled at his death, and his successor, David Miscavige, was a ruthless and vindictive man who did not hesitate to confine many top Scientologists, Mike among them, to a makeshift prison known as the Hole. Despite all of that previous exposure to this cult, my jaw still dropped more than once at the absolute madness that is Scientology. It’s a flamethrower of a read, burning up the organization’s wicked nonsense so all that is left is like so much ash in the ashtray.

The author's experience of Scientology stretches over a period of 14 years from when it was a little known and interesting form of psychotherapy, to September 1968 when he was declared an S. And it just has become, you know, to use the Scientology vernacular, they're fair game for the media now. The 9 Step Negativity Detox is a powerful series that will teach you the nine simple steps to free you from the unnecessary causes of negativity in your life.

Still, Rinder bought into the doctrine that his personal comfort was secondary to the higher purpose of Hubbard's world-saving mission, swiftly rising through the ranks. To not have anything from Ron was an enormous omission that should have been a signal flare to every scientologist. History teaches us that escapees of ideologies often are brutally prosecuted and killed; religions 'shun' people'.

Each individual instance seemed so justified - these people failed to do their jobs, so their punishment was well deserved. He went on to serve as Scientology’s international spokesperson and as the head of its Office of Special Affairs and was a member of the Board of Directors of Church of Scientology International from its creation in 1983 until he left in 2007. In the four years since most of that material has been publicly available, no one from ASC has attempted to refute a single word of it. What a detailed account of the cult of Scientology by someone who worked at the highest levels for decades.According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry. by time and perspective," but that doesn't matter because by contrast he has confidence in his "impressions, feelings, and emotions. And deeply affected victim narcissists know nothing other than manipulation by simultaneously playing the victim and hero.