6/30/2023 0 Comments David miscavige niece book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It 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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