![]() ![]() At the age of 4, Hill was already an adept, while her parents were members of “Sea Org,” the inner sanctum one requirement was that families be separated and that “children over the age of six would be raised communally at locations close to Sea Org bases.” Family visits dwindled, and Hill scarcely saw her mother unless on “special Scientology/Sea Org occasions… I would get to see her for a whole day.” Hill’s break from the sect in 2005, after years of control, coincided with the publication of an unauthorized bio of Tom Cruise, perhaps its best-known member, which she found to be accurate. That life included absolute obedience to dictates that seem crafted to strip away any autonomy from the individual, if any individuality at all. “Everyone I knew was in the Church, and as a third-generation Scientologist, my life was Scientology,” she writes. Ron Hubbard’s organization, and whose uncle is now its de facto leader, recounts a life resolutely within the realm of the thetans. Hill, born to parents who had been longtime members of sci-fi author L. ![]() If Charles Dickens had been a sci-fi author, he might have dreamed up something like Scientology and its weird workhouses. An ex-member of Scientology’s inner elite bolts-understandably, to trust this undistinguished but still valuable memoir. ![]()
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