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A Billion Years

My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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A Billion Years

De : Mike Rinder
Lu par : Mike Rinder
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 This explosive memoir from former Scientology executive Mike Rinder reveals the secret inner workings of the powerful organization and his remarkable escape from its highest ranks that is “not only a cautionary tale but also an inspiring story of resilience” (Leah Remini, New York Times bestselling author).

Mike Rinder’s parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology’s elite inner circle, the Sea Organization. Brought to founder L. Ron Hubbard’s yacht and promised training in Hubbard’s most advanced techniques, Rinder was instead put to work swabbing the decks.

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. In the 1980s, Rinder became Scientology’s international spokesperson and the head of its powerful Office of Special Affairs. 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.

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.

In 2007, at the age of fifty-two, Rinder finally escaped Scientology. Overnight, he became one of the organization’s biggest public enemies. He was followed, hacked, spied on, and tracked. But he refused to be intimidated and today helps people break free of Scientology.

“An intensely personal, cathartic memoir of blind allegiance, betrayal, and liberation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), A Billion Years reveals the dark, dystopian truth about Scientology as never before. Abenteurer, Entdecker & Survival Andere Religionen, Praktiken & heilige Texte Spiritualität

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It‘s hard to understand how so many children get brainwashed while their parents are proud about what is happening to them. I‘m really sorry for everyone who has to live like this. And finally, if there is the great awakening, you‘ll loose everyone.

What I‘m missing in the book, are the feelings of Mike, after he understood that everything in what he believed, was a big lie. Maybe something for a new book?

Thank you Mike

Sad livestory with a ton of abuse

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Eine Geschichte so außergewöhnlich wie das Leben selbst. Ich hoffe auf mehr Geschichten von Mike Rinder in der Zukunft.

Wunderbar

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Although I have no personal experience with scientology, this book has caught my interest, and I am glad I read, or rather listened to, it. it was interesting and captivatingly told, and an enriching experience to accompany Mark Rinder through the story of his life in scientology.

truly fascinating and captivating

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Even one of the best thriller and horror authors could not have immagined of all these stories, lived by Mike Rinder. It is inbelievable. When I think of all the fabolous people that are wasted in this mind prison makes me really sad. I hope that they will be taxed again and soon have to justify every smallest expence.

Inbelievable

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Fantastic account from the ultimate insider. Mike knows the lengths this organisation will go to in order to extinguish dissent.

Essential reading

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