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Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape.

In this tell-all memoir, complete with family photographs from her time in the Church, Jenna Miscavige Hill, a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization, offers an insider's profile of the beliefs, rituals, and secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions, including some of Hollywood's brightest stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

Author : Stephen A. This multidisciplinary study of Scientology examines the organization and the controversies around it through the lens of popular culture, referencing movies, television, print, and the Internet—an unusual perspective that will engage a wide range of readers and researchers. This is the new, unexpurgated, unabridged version of the classic history of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. Exposing Hubbard's false claims to be a war hero, a nuclear physicist, an explorer and a protege of Eastern gurus, and showing the true malevolence of Scientology.

Invaluable for its history and insight into the character of its founder, L. This is the standard reference among serious students of authoritarian belief systems. Jefferson Hawkins spent thirty years selling Scientology as one of their top marketing executives. The the Orwellian dark side of the Church threatened to destroy everything he had. A rare look at what goes on behind the glittering facade of today's most controversial cult.

Author : Henrik Bogdan,Martin P. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive iconoclasts. Aleister Crowley was a study in contradictions. Born into a fundamentalist Christian family and educated at Cambridge, he was vilified as a traitor, drug addict, and debaucher, yet revered as perhaps the most influential thinker in contemporary esotericism. Moving beyond the influence of contemporary psychology and the modernist understanding of the occult, Crowley declared himself the revelator of a new age of individualism.

Crowley's occult bricolage, Magick, was an eclectic combination of spiritual exercises drawn from Western European magical ceremonies and Indic sources for meditation and yoga. This journey of self-liberation culminated in harnessing sexual power as a magical discipline, a "sacrilization of the self" as practiced in Crowley's mixed masonic group, the Ordo Templi Orientis. The religion Crowley created, Thelema, legitimated his role as a charismatic revelator and herald of a new age of freedom.

Aleister Crowley's lasting influence can be seen in the counter-culture movement of the late s and early s and in many forms of alternative spirituality and popular culture.

The essays in this volume offer crucial insight into Crowley's foundational role in the study of Western esotericism, new religious movements, and sexuality. Now Janet Reitman tells its riveting full story in the first objective modern history of Scientology, at last revealing the astonishing truth about life within the controversial religion for its members and ex-members. Based on five years of research, confidential documents, and extensive interviews with current and former Scientologists, this is an utterly compelling work of nonfiction and the defining work on an elusive faith.

Scientology is a subject few have not now heard of. Proposed as a religion, it receives regular public beatings for its reported zealotry, particularly amongst its inner acolytes. Stories of personal struggle, financial hardship and familial turmoil are abundant, and in the public eye the subject as a whole seems largely tainted.

Yet through all the sorrow and joy that is the lot of any religion, it remains true that undergirding the belief structure almost always lies pure philosophy. In other words, philosophy is—amongst other things—the predecessor to religion.

Stifled underneath the often emotionally-charged conversation surrounding Scientology, its basic philosophical postulations have been kept largely out of the limelight.

Often caricatured away from their original accentuations—on the order of "Christians primarily believe that Moses literally parted the Red Sea"—the philosophical roots of Scientology lay wide-open for inquiry, unshackled from religious adulation in their original form. Author : James R. The Handbook of Scientology brings together a collection of fresh studies of the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religions.

Author : Elliot Benjamin, Ph. Publisher : Lulu. The book is divided into two generic segments, inclusive of a tri-perspective experiential analysis using a variety of cult danger rating scales, and a more personal experiential description of the author's involvement in these groups, written in stream of consciousness essay form.

Hubbard found it easy to create schemes to part his new following from their money. One of the first tasks was to arrange "grades" of membership, offering supposedly greater rewards, at increasingly higher prices.

Over thirty years later. Burroughs Year: and later Publ. By Russell Miller Publ. ISBN One of the most thoroughly-researched books on the cult, Miller covers Hubbard's family origins and his life chronologically while exploring and documenting his life-long habit of lying and exaggerating. Includes 22 photos, many of Hubbard's family. The book is now on the web, courtesy of the author. Rolph Year: Publ. It introduces Scientology, talks about Scn's hatred of psychiatry and details the tale.

It's a bit turgid and journalistic [would have to be, to avoid non-frivolous legal action inasmuch as possible] and not of current interest, but has some nice quotes and would probably be of historical interest.

Cults of Unreason By Dr. Christopher Evans Publ. First American Edition, Copyright c by Christopher Evans. Library of Congress CCN: ISBN: Email me to loan a copy of the late Dr. Christopher Evans' book, Cults of Unreason , long out of print. Slightly over half of this book is about Scientology, with good material on the early days of Dianetics, some amazing and hilarious material about OT wins, life at Saint Hill and aboard the ships, as well as good coverage of various Scientology offshoots, the E-Meter, and more.

Much of the material in Dr. Evans' book is not covered in the other critical books about the cult - highly recommended reading. It takes on the Hollywood PR machine and exposes the seamy and not-so-hidden uglyness that is celebrity today. One section deals with Hollywood's fascination with gurus,prohets, and other "spiritual" leaders. The chapter on Scientology is well researched,written and presents the truth about scientology and its celebrity schills.

A must read for everyone who is fed up with hollywierd celebrity ego-fests. Kaufman delivers stark insight into this madness-inducing cult in this book that gives the best picture of life on the inside.

Ron Hubbard Jr. Corydon, Bent. Note: L. A new edition includes an index; Brian Ambry organized and wrote the update and addendum sections for this new edition and the edition. ISBN for the edition: X. This large book on Scientology is fairly disorganized but it remains a vital source of first-hand testimony from ex-Scientologists about life aboard Hubbard's ship, the Apollo, and many alarming accounts of illegal and criminal activities within Scientology.

Includes 21 photos, mostly of Hubbard, and two illustrations that compare Scientology's cross to that of the infamous Aleister Crowley. The two later editions are significantly different from the original hardcover with several new added chapters and some revisions to existing chapters.

Religion Inc. By Stewart Lamont Publ. The single source of all inorganic mental and organic psychosomatic ills. Now Janet Reitman tells its riveting full story in the first objective modern history of Scientology, at last revealing the astonishing truth about life within the controversial religion for its members and ex-members. Based on five years of research, confidential documents, and extensive interviews with current and former Scientologists, this is an utterly compelling work of nonfiction and the defining work on an elusive faith.

At the end of it she was broken emotionally, physically and financially. This book is her story of how she became involved, what happened during her time with them, how she escaped the movement and what happened after. It includes her testimony of how she and husband Richard became Christians and the drama of her Court case with the Church of Scientology that won her the right to publish her story. The Appendix includes material from her leaflet What the Scientologists don t tell you.

Richard and Bonnie Woods live in the UK and run Escape, an Organisation set up in in order to help, support and counsel families and loved ones who have members in Scientology and to work with former members who have been affected by their involvement. This is the only book written about Scientology, by a former Scientologist who is now a Christian.