6/30/2023 0 Comments David miscavige niece bookIt is the memoir of Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of David Miscavige, the maestro who usurped power over the Church of Scientology after Hubbard died (or “dropped his body”, as Scientologists put it), in January 1986. If you know only a little about Scientology, Beyond Belief will be an eye-opener. It was the word Heidegger used in Being and Time (1927) to define what he meant by “truth”.ĭoes Anderson mean us to understand that his film discloses the truth about Scientology? Or merely that the charlatan Dodd has the vast pretentiousness to proclaim, like many another religious figure or snake oil salesman, that he knows the truth about life, the universe and everything? Anderson's use of the name Aletheia, a Greek word meaning “truth'' or “disclosure” is presumably ironical. Hubbard sailed around in a ship called Apollo and did all these things. Philip Seymour Hoffmann plays Lancaster Dodd, who sails around in a boat called Aletheia, practising a new form of talking cure called "processing" and recruiting volunteers on billion-year contracts, while bullying and abusing critics or questioners. It is 1950, the year Hubbard published his signature book Dianetics. PAUL Thomas Anderson's recent film The Master is transparently a critical portrait of the early years of the Church of Scientology under its strange founder Lafayette Ron Hubbard. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escapeīy Jenna Miscavige Hill, with Lisa Pulitzer
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I was actually engaged and enthralled and it was nice seeing her enlighten Audrianna about some of the things she'd been miseducated about. This could have easily been a three star book Audrianna's relationship with Kendis was the most interesting thing in this series by far. Its author is at the height of her narrative powers and her creation will keep you captivated from the opening pages until the last sentence. Invigorated by mesmerizing prose and fervid imagination, The Children of Gavrilek weaves together world history, science fiction, and romance to unleash a powerful story of wrenching emotion and unexpected relevancy for today's age. The key to the universe's survival lies in the unraveling of Audrianna's conflicted past and desires, as well as in the seemingly motley collection of castoffs that Kendis has nurtured and trained. While in the care of this unique group and its beautiful and loving leader, Kendis, Audrianna comes to discover the secrets of her son's cognitive powers, his (and Kendis's) otherworldly origins, and an enthralling, Earth-changing "game" that threatens the existences of both the alien descendants of Gavrilek and the unsuspecting inhabitants of Earth. They survive thanks to the mystical efforts of a small community located on the coast of 1920s Georgia. Sailing aboard a storm-thrashed vessel from America to Cuba, a young woman (Audrianna) and her mysterious son (Devon) are shipwrecked and left for dead. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Howl allenWorst of all are the HOWLS of mirth from those listening, I guess from “fellow-travellers”, who might not normally go near a poem, but are here to support a sage-guru and are possibly a little embarrassed about it all, when not in awe of the Master. Ginsberg’s delivery is slurring and indistinct. So I won't.įor some reason, Audible won’t let me return this. I rarely watch the new or get involved in politics, because it's mostly noise to me that I can no longer afford to pay attention to for my own sanity. I appreciate it for what it was, but it had no use for me. The kind of emotions a teenager or one who has long been bitter and never healed from trauma might express. But I didn't feel like he contributed much to these topics other than raw anger or disgust. They are at least cohesive in the sense that they swirl around a particular subject war, tragedy, personal and pollical greed, injustice, and so on. All the poems had the feel of someone taking a stab at automatic writing, very free-associative, stream of consciousness stuff. I don't know if it would have been possible, some of the recordings are just so muddy and I didn't like the way in which the audience reactions sometimes drowned out the readings. The audio quality was just bad, nothing done to clean these up. The poems are delivered by the original author and the recordings are clearly taken from his public appearances where he performed these pieces. This was recommended to me by a friend and it clearly resonated with him, so I bought it as we have similar tastes. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Cold Shot by Dani PettreyGriffin soon realizes he’ll need to confront some of the darkest days of his life if he–and those he cares about–are going to escape a downward spiral of murder that crosses continents.Ĭold Shot is a great romantic suspense! This first book in an exciting new series by beloved author Dani Pettrey introduces readers to a cast of complex and intriguing characters. When FBI agent Declan Gray takes over the case, past and present collide. Griffin just wants the case to go away, but charming forensic anthropologist Finley Scott determines that the body is modern–a young social justice lawyer missing since spring–and all evidence points to the work of an expert sniper. The job is mostly quiet–until the day he captures two relic hunters uncovering skeletal remains near Little Round Top. Now Griffin is a park ranger at Gettysburg, having left life as a SWAT-team sniper when a case went bad. But then Luke vanished before graduation and their world–and friendships–crumbled. Declan Gray would head to the FBI and Parker Mitchell would go on to graduate school as a crime scene analyst. Griffin and Luke Gallagher would join the Baltimore PD. In college, Griffin McCray and his four best friends had their lives planned out. Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Christianbook | DeeperShopping As truly nightmarish as her stories very often are, there is something about them that is healing, centering, that cracks us open and lets us see ourselves in a new way. There’s something more than a bit therapeutic in this work. That’s the source of the ever-reappearing Twitter hashtags #OctaviaKnew and #OctaviaTriedToTellUs.īut what did she know? And what did she see, not just for 2020 or 2022, but for farther into the future? On what would have been her 75th birthday, June 22, what knowledge might Butler have had for us about the next 75 years? That’s why in an annus horribilis of pandemic, ecological crisis, and political turmoil, the book (set in a decaying America of the 2020s) felt more like prophecy than ever. The rest of us are still trying to catch up. Butler saw clearly what would actually come next. Out of the dizzy techno-optimism of the 1980s and 1990s, Octavia E. There’s a reason, when reading Kindred with students in two courses last fall, I truly felt the book could have been written last year, as if it were responding to right now, rather than published six months before I was born. There’s a reason Parable of the Sower felt to so many people like a handbook for surviving 2020. Butler – but Butler’s fiction isn’t, not really. I may be a bit older now than I was in 1999 – the year I first read Octavia E. |