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

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Penned with clarity, style, and immense vulnerability, this engaging memoir absolutely deserves a place at the top of the list of Scientology survival stories. In The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama, homicide detective Billy Harney sends his new partner, Kate, deep undercover in a notorious Chicago drug ring. 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.

Ron Hubbard’s yacht and promised training in Hubbard’s most advanced techniques, Mike was instead put to work swabbing the decks. In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, ancient Rome, 19th-century San Francisco, eighth-century Baghdad, and beyond. They were soon immersed in the odd healing rituals and the concept of a superior “thetan” spirit responsible for everything.And that paves the way for the creation of a brand-new then-Rinder: a super hero (the narcissist leg of victim narcissist). In A Billion Years , he tells the gripping, harrowing account of growing up in Scientology, serving founder L. If you are at all familiar with scientology beyond the tabloid headlines, this book will fill in many gaps regarding things that have happened over the last 20+ years.

The narrative takes on the flavor of a suspense thriller after Rinder’s escape, which resulted in his ex-communication, harassment, and numerous dangerous threats by volatile Scientology executives like David Miscavige. As much as he attempts to paint himself the adorable victim, Rinder continually betrays his barn-sized ego throughout his book. Access to the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, including exclusive series.The CST federal court ruling he cites occurred almost a year after the IRS negotiations and audits had begun. In the early 1980s, Hubbard had believed he deserved one for his 'discoveries' of the Purification Rundown, in which he claimed a regimen of saunas, vitamins, ingesting oil, and huge doses of niacin resulted in drug residues being 'sweated out. Ron Hubbard's yacht and promised training in Hubbard's most advanced techniques, Mike was instead put to work swabbing the decks.

Hopefully this also opens their eyes, if they ever actually read it instead of blindly letting some organization tell them what they can or cannot do. However, nowadays it is also true of families and friends who are 'cancelled', even 'doxxed' if they reject/escape the teachings of a particular political eco chamber. There are many things about life in scientology that fit the old adage of not seeing the forest for the trees. It is an essential account from the inside, and while it’s a devastating exposé of the abuses of the church, the tone is measured and deeply humanistic.The second was a Federal Court ruling on Church of Spiritual Technology's (CST) tax exemption application. Had Rinder even read the decision - let alone participated in litigating any corner of IRS matters - he would have known and stated that the court did not definitively decide the merits of whether Scientology donations could ever be deemed tax exempt.

Rinder lets us feel what it’s like to fall into a state of blind faith, and how hard it is to break free and see the truth for what it is. Rinder's feigned memory-loss is integral to erasing any event in his 67-plus years that might account for even one or two of the travails he suffered.

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. I found it really hard going at first with all the different codenames but just went along with it anyway.