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

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One of the punishments for those who messed up in the RPF [Rehabilitation Project Force] was assignment to the RPF's RPF. Access to the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, including exclusive series. It's crazy that this kind of brainwashing is happening but I'm grateful for those who are exposing the truth.

He barely knew them before leaving Scientology, and now has been 100% cut off from them and subject to vile public comments and videos online reviling him. 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. 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. Penned with clarity, style, and immense vulnerability, this engaging memoir absolutely deserves a place at the top of the list of Scientology survival stories. The second was a Federal Court ruling on Church of Spiritual Technology's (CST) tax exemption application.It is a remarkable statement by someone promoting himself as a professional authority on the subject he's pontificating on. and began exposing Rinder and his cohorts for their hypocrisy, and b) Monique Rathbun fired her lawyers and ended her litigation. Just reading about how he started sleeping 8 hours a night for the first time, and how he was able to visit a park and be able to take time to enjoy it for the first time after leaving scientology, was illuminating. Imagine for a moment someone living with the apparent cognitive dissonance of being a victim and hero at the same time. Millions of people dead in horrific wars and revolutions and most of these game-changing rebels murdered or dead themselves.

Watching a few Youtube videos of dissenters, it is clear that there is a impressive cloud of smoke, hiding perhaps a massive fire. Michael John Rinder is an Australian-American former senior executive of the Church of Scientology International (CSI) and the Sea Organization based in the United States.

The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat. At 18, instead of attending college, Rinder signed a billion-year “Sea Org” contract and boarded a ship, where he worked as a deckhand in filthy conditions without pay. His blog is an excellent source of extra information, especially the stories of other scientologists that are not really his to tell in his book anyways. The narrative gets off to a good start with Anderson’s nostalgic memories of her childhood in coastal Vancouver, raised by very young, very wild, and not very competent parents.