It is no secret that I have distanced myself from Scientology these past few years. Being born into Scientology, this has been a slow difficult process. Recently I have been reading closely the seminal materials that comprise the Scientology canon and I came across the following, written in May 1950.…
Original Post Published 9th August 2020. A common question I am asked nowadays is 'Are you a Scientologist?' Many people assume that publishing a neutral book on the subject indicates support of Scientology or its church. Yet in contrast, Scientologists who stumble upon my book nearly always take the opposite…
The Master (2012) A couple months ago I sat down and watched The Master for the first time. It is late 2019, and the film was released in 2012, so I am only seven years late. It wasn’t that I had particularly avoided the film. I recall watching the trailers…
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…