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Many have heard of the controversial subject of Scientology. Few know the inner workings of its day to day operations and management.
Marc Headly started working for the Scientology organization in 1989. After leaving in 2005, Marc posted bits and pieces of what when on at the Scientology headquarters (known from inside as the International Base). Marc posted anonymously under the screen name of Blownforgood aka BFG. In September 2008 Marc was invited to speak to an international conference of European government representatives regarding the Scientology organization and their abuses. It was at this time that Marc revealed his identity as Blownforgood.
By 2009, the Internet posts Marc had written over the past years had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, but there were still people who questioned their validity. Stories of grown men being thrown into dirty lakes and pools as punishment? Physical abuse never reported to authorities? How could this happen in modern day America? Two years after Marc wrote about these things and posted them on the Internet, a Pulitzer Prize winning U.S. newspaper printed accounts from former staff members who worked at the Int Base that matched and confirmed what Marc had written about. Not only that, Scientology officials admitted that these things had taken place!
Kathleen-the-Reader
Posted April 11, 2010
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I "backed into" this compelling book quite by accident. I had read "Lucas Manson" by Thomas Hauck, which is a fictional account of the Kingdom Seven Family Temple, a ruthless vampirical organization that looks a lot like Scientology. Hauck's satire is so on-target that I started looking around for books about cults and about Scientology in particular, and I found Marc Headley's book. If you want to get a real behind-the-scenes look at the Scientology empire, this book is a great place to start. It is amazing to me that in this supposedly advanced and enlightened era, people really believe in what would normally be considered far-out science fiction.
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Overview
Many have heard of the controversial subject of Scientology. Few know the inner workings of its day to day operations and management.
Marc Headly started working for the Scientology organization in 1989. After leaving in 2005, Marc posted bits and pieces of what when on at the Scientology headquarters (known from inside as the International Base). Marc posted anonymously under the screen name of Blownforgood aka BFG. In September 2008 Marc was invited to speak to an ...