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

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Eliminate negativity and change your life with best-selling author, happiness expert and life coach Domonique Bertolucci. In the case of former Scientologists, they did/still do slavery in overdrive, escaped with nothing, and are victims of a 'religious'-regime who finance their prosecutions on tax payers' dimes. I have followed his story from afar since the first John Sweeney documentary, and I remember the shock and relief I felt when I read he had left scientology.

While Rinder admits his recollection may be blurry due to the “dull fog of exhaustion,” the voice is crisp, urgent, and vividly impassioned, whether assessing his years as a compliant member, his breathless escape, or his promise to continue exposing Scientology as a “unique and vengeful monster. At times the details were a bit much but I would think that it was needed to understand the full story. From billion year contracts, to mysteriously missing people, to surveillance cameras, to Xenu the alien leader and his hydrogen bombs, Scientology is even more wild, and it’s leaders (past and present) even more unhinged than you ever thought possible.

There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Mike Ridner's early life in scientology was interesting and mostly new, but most of this was handled in the series and in the previous book. Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original.

They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. It explicitly remanded the case for further proceedings and invited the petitioner to attempt to fill the gaps in that evidence insufficiency. Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor.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. 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. Nevertheless, the read taught me a couple of things about Rinder which helps to put him into accurate perspective. A repeated passage in the book brought to memory that in fact Rinder was generally regarded as narcissist (self-loving, selfish, conceited and aloof) in the church. But for entertainment purposes, also because I really can't understand why someone would ever want to be in this cult and all the extreme events, I'm giving this 4 stars.