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

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The very first information I got on Scientology was reading Leah remini's Troublemaker book a few years ago and I also would recommend that as a good place to start. He describes his thinking and his feelings as he went through tremendous ups and downs (and then mostly downs) as a high level executive in the organization. Seeing the storm clouds gathering, he had first left England in March 1966 for Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), declaring that he was going to turn an entire country into a “safe base” for scientology.

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.

Sir Michael Caine knows a thing or two about gangs: whether that’s joining one as a kid, or playing them in movies for over 50 years. Though his career in the US Navy during World War II had been less than illustrious, he painted the picture for all who would listen of himself as a ship captain and war hero. Millions of people dead in horrific wars and revolutions and most of these game-changing rebels murdered or dead themselves.

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. Mike has told his story in bits and pieces througout the years but here you have the whole thing in his own words, plus a lot of new stuff that shows how Truly Sick scientology and it's leader David Miscavige is. Imagine for a moment someone living with the apparent cognitive dissonance of being a victim and hero at the same time.Mike asserts that when he stepped into the arena there was no rational hope for Scientology exemption because it was hit with the two most impossible of obstacles. Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his signature no-nonsense wisdom back to the subject he started his career covering: relationships. I discovered Mike Rinder through Leah Remini's show Scientology and the Aftermath and quickly came to love both of them. A much-used word, karma is loosely understood as a system of checks and balances in our lives, of good actions and bad deeds, of good thoughts and bad intentions. They even have 'The Hole' for the upper echelons of management, which was first exposed by Debbie Cook in court (available on Youtube).

The second was a Federal Court ruling on Church of Spiritual Technology's (CST) tax exemption application. Having said that, I think people need to know about this cult and I'm glad I took the plunge and decided to read it. Complemented by an array of revealing personal photographs, the narrative alternates between heartfelt nostalgia about the seedier side of Manhattan’s go-go scene and funny quips about her unconventional stage performances. Later, during his “slow voyage of self-delusion,” he fared somewhat better, receiving surveyor assignments in Portugal and eventually becoming Scientology’s international spokesman and head of its Office of Special Affairs.This life-changing Audible Original features a powerful mix of one-on-one life-coaching sessions and a personal narrative with vital take-aways that you can start using immediately. As someone who followed Mike Rinder's path out of Scientology on the web (yep, Scientology-watching is a hobby! Heber Jentzsch was the primary CSI participant, but could not attend on a couple occasions and so Rinder subbed from the bench. Even after he finally escaped he still believed in Hubbard and Scientology for awhile, until he started to see the truth that it was all a sham and Hubbard was just as delusional as Miscavige - just not as personally violent. Mike Rinder's parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old.