A Piece Of Blue Sky

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Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.

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Overview

Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.

Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780818404993
  • Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date: 8/1/1990
  • Pages: 448
  • Product dimensions: 1.13 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 6.00 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 9, 2001

    Wonderful Expose!

    Don't miss this amazing inside story into the bizzare, creepy and downright scary cult. This unbelievable yet true story is riveting and frightenting. Hard to believe there are people dumb enough to fall for this and turn over huge amounts of cash to these kooks!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 12, 2001

    A Wonderful Book!

    I first found this book in the local library. I was doing research on religious cults, and this showed me a cult that scared me. I started recommending this book to my friends, but it has disappeared from the library - I'm told this is a common Scientology tactic. The new printing of this book has made it possible for me to give several new copies to my local public librarys, and the local university. The author of the book has also given his gracious permission to publish this book digitally, for free, on the Internet, in PDF format. Just look for it using any standard search engine!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2001

    One of the best sources of factual information available about Scientology

    This book exposes the criminal, sinister world of Scientology, as well as lays bare the criminal and insane world of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. I've read many books about Scientology, and I consider this one of the best for the most factual data available. I HIGHLY recomend it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 15, 2000

    What's the point?

    Throughout this very informative book, I asked myself that question, but found no satisfactory answer. Granted, the author did a wonderful job exposing the church of scientology as he sees it, but to what end? Sure, it is a bad system, but the people he asserts are drawn to this cult will not read this book; it will not open their eyes. What does he call them? Unintelligent and irrational, or something to that effect. But he does prove it is a bad system. Now I cannot help but wonder whether this book is little more than one man's detailed conceit against a system that wronged him. Then again, it is a bad system. Oddly enough, what of some who agree with him--i.e. 'case in point?' Evidently we all could use a lesson in what we laugh at--the 'tidal' correction, if you can call it that, makes no sense, our fellow reviewer was spelling 'title.'

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2000

    Good expose of a giant fraud

    Atack effectively shows just how fraudulent (and often criminal) Scientology is. He also shows how the organization preys on poorly-educated individuals, and how its toxic mix of pseduo-science, a religious mythos derived from pulp Science Fiction, a quasi-military organization and psychological carrot-and-stick tactics draw the ignorant, the easily swayed or the insecure into its grip. <p> Readers might also want to look at Roy Wallis's 'The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology.' Wallis has it basically right when he says Scientology began as a lay psychotherapy (the Dianetics part) and developed into an authoritarian sect (the religion part), as Hubbard gradually 'revealed' his further 'discoveries' about the mind, thetans, space aliens, etc, all within the framework of pay-as-you-go coursework designed to take you up the ladder to Operating Thetan status. Such nonsense is hardly to be believed.

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