Good for you Mike! We all aid each other in our individual recovery in some way by getting to that inner layer of the untold truth! There is a need for healing for so many that served in the CO$ as staff, sea org and public defenders turned detractors. I have always found you candid and hope you dug deep to have all questions answered! Best Wishes as ever my friend!

I sure hope there is the full story that leaves them shaking in their boots but more importantly I hope it will fill in more gaps not addressed that so many ex-members and ex-staff have been eager to know in their recovery. I myself have had all my questions answered directly by just asking Mike but others still want details like the who, what, where of attacks on the CO$ detractors. My fingers are crossed that Mr.Rinder delivers as effectively as he has in the past to blow the whole truth wide open!

That was a detailed response, thank you for taking the time and effort to answer. Much appreciated

No way that runt can handle what’s coming to him!🤡😜

The two foundational investigative books about Hubbard himself are the recent revised version of Jon Atack’s ‘Let’s Sell These People A Piece Of Blue Sky’, and Russell Miller’s ‘Bare Faced Messiah.’

For a quick overview, google ‘The Anderson Report, Board of Inquiry into Scientology,’ and read ‘The Prefatory Note’, a one-page condemnation of Hubbard and Scientology. It uses somewhat over-the-top language, but as one learns more and more about the abuses within Scientology it seems The Anderson Report got it exactly right way back in 1965.

Mike Rinder’s blog has his own reading recommendations in no particular order, shown below, with some of my own additions. There are other books, this list is not complete.

Troublemaker – Leah Remini
Ruthless – Ron Miscavige
Going Clear – Lawrence Wright
Counterfeit Dreams – Jeff Hawkins
Blown For Good – Marc Headley
Abuse at the Top – Amy Scobee
Unbreakable Miss Lovely – Tony Ortega
The Church of Fear – John Sweeney
Fair Game – Steve Cannane
The Truth Rundown – Joe Childs and Tom Tobin
Jenna Miscavige – Beyond Belief
Robert Dam
Margery Wakefield
Nancy Many
Janis Gillham Grady (2 books)
Deceived – Bonnie Woods

and the Time Magazine article ‘The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power’ from May 6, 1991.

Cult info:
Robert Jay Lifton M.D. – Eight Criteria for Thought Reform
Steven Hassan – The BITE Model

I once found a website called ‘Chronology of Publications on Scientology’ which included books and articles dating all the way back to 1950, including titles like ‘From Science-fiction to Fiction-science’, ‘Have You Ever Been A Boo-Hoo?’, ‘Scientology – Menace to Mental Health’, ‘Scientology can drive you out of your mind’, ‘Agents Search Scientology Offices for U.S. Documents’, ‘Scientologists Plotted to Frame a Critic as a Criminal’, ‘Scientologists Convicted’, ‘Scientologists’ Matriarch Surrenders ‘, and ‘Scientology’s bizarre manual of dirty tricks’, plus many others similar to these.

I would avoid Janet Reitman’s book on principle, since much of it is reportedly a not-very-accurate mish-mash of the work of Jon Atack. I also avoid anything by New Religion academics who refuse to interview critics and ex-Scientologists.

…and of course Mike’s new book is soon to be available and almost sure to be one of the best.

You can already pre-order it on Kindle Dave.

https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Years-Escape-Highest-Scientology-ebook/dp/B09RX3MVQD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PVC1H54OF2VS&keywords=A+billion+years+mike+rinder&qid=1657723274&sprefix=a+billion+years+mike+rinder%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-1