Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill ISBN 13: 9780062248473. Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape. Hill, Jenna Miscavige ; . This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of leader , was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief , she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member —the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape. In this tell-all memoir, complete with family photographs from her time in the Church, Jenna Miscavige Hill, a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization, offers an insider's profile of the beliefs, rituals, and secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions, including some of Hollywood's brightest stars such as and John Travolta. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2013: No one would ever accuse Jenna Miscavige Hill of being an "objective reporter" about Scientology, the religion in which she was raised and from which she escaped in 2005. But unlike other books about the controversial sect, this one offers up personal daily details--sometimes maybe a few more than we want to know--about what it was like to be a seven-, eight-, nine- year-old separated from family (even though her uncle, David Miscavige, is the church's leader, and her parents were, for a time, high up in the organization) and forced to spend days scrubbing bathrooms and pondering "misunderstood words." -- Sara Nelson. From the Back Cover : Jenna Miscavige Hill was raised to obey. As the niece of the Church of Scientology's leader David Miscavige, she grew up at the center of this highly controversial and powerful organization. But at twenty-one, Jenna made a daring break, risking everything she had ever known and loved to leave Scientology once and for all. Now she speaks out about her life, the Church, and her dramatic escape, going deep inside a religion that, for decades, has been the subject of fierce debate and speculation worldwide. Piercing the veil of secrecy that has long shrouded the world of Scientology, this insider reveals unprecedented firsthand knowledge of the religion, its obscure rituals, and its mysterious leader—David Miscavige. From her prolonged separation from her parents as a small child to being indoctrinated to serve the greater good of the Church, from her lack of personal freedoms to the organization's emphasis on celebrity recruitment, Jenna goes behind the scenes of Scientology's oppressive and alienating culture, detailing an environment rooted in control in which the most devoted followers often face the harshest punishments when they fall out of line. Addressing some of the Church's most notorious practices in startling detail, she also describes a childhood of isolation and neglect—a childhood that, painful as it was, prepared her for a tough life in the Church's most devoted order, the Sea Org. Despite this hardship, it is only when her family approaches dissolution and her world begins to unravel that she is finally able to see the patterns of stifling conformity and psychological control that have ruled her life. Faced with a heartbreaking choice, she mounts a courageous escape, but not before being put through the ultimate test of family, faith, and love. At once captivating and disturbing, Beyond Belief is an eye-opening exploration of the limits of religion and the lengths to which one woman went to break free. Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape, by Jenna Miscavige Hill: Review. This hasn’t been a great year publicity-wise for the Church of Scientology. In January, long-time New Yorker contributor Lawrence Wright published Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (the book’s release has been delayed in Canada pending a legal review by publisher Knopf but is available from amazon.com). Now comes a sober, well-written memoir by ex-Scientologist Jenna Miscavige Hill, Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape , that dovetails, damningly, with Wright’s. The church has accused past whistle-blowers of lacking credibility; that will be a harder sell this time. Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed book on Al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower , and Miscavige Hill is the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige (her co-writer is Lisa Pulitzer, a former New York Times correspondent who apparently won the name lottery). Still, , Church of Scientology International’s official spokesperson wrote to the Star that allegations in Miscavage Hill’s book about famous parishioners “are false and absurd,” and that if she had contacted Scientology they “would have been able to correct the many documented factual errors contained in it.” (For the full story on Scientology’s rebuttal of the books allegations, go to thestar.com/books. Hill has deep roots in the church, her paternal grandfather having joined when he discovered the writings of L. Ron Hubbard — or LRH (Scientologists’ love of acronyms makes the military seem florid) — in the ’60s. Her uncle David took the helm shortly after Hubbard’s death in 1986. As members of Scientology’s highest echelon, Sea Org, Hill’s parents, according to the book, worked around the clock at mysterious jobs in Los Angeles and Florida. At six, Miscavige Hill claims she was sent to live on an isolated ranch outside L.A. with other Scientology children, where she was made to perform long hours of manual labour interspersed with schooling in church doctrine and made to sign a billion-year contract with the church. Access to her parents was limited or non-existent. Scientology’s precepts are by now well-known, and though easy to mock, often resemble those of other religions. “Thetans,” the church’s term for spiritual beings, must be “cleared” of “overts,” or sins, in a process akin to Catholic confession called “auditing.” Scientologists believe in multiple lives, like some Eastern religions. Scientology terms can be amusingly anachronistic. Leaving without permission is called “blowing the church,” while non-Scientologists are called “wogs.” When Miscavige Hill was suspected of withholding overts, she claims she had to undergo the church’s version of a polygraph test using a device consisting of two soup can-like tubes connected by a wire, called an E-Meter, that sounds rather like a prop from an early Batman episode. Miscavige Hill’s account claims the church manages to exert absolute control over its members through a combination of incessant indoctrination, limiting contact with naysayers, and a culture of paranoia in which members are given strong incentives to rat each other out for not toeing the line. Despite living in a major metropolis, Miscavige Hill’s memoir claims she had virtually no contact with wogs or with technology. In contrast to the freedom of so-called public Scientologists — a group that includes celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta — she allegedly lived an Orwellian existence in which individualism was touted while being suppressed in every possible way; that the church calls someone who speaks out against it a “suppressive person” thus becomes the ultimate form of doublespeak. It wasn’t until she was married and in her 20s that she found criticism of Scientology on the Internet that gave her pause. By then, however, she says she felt so brainwashed that she elected to stay in Scientology even though her parents and brother had already left. Though he seemed kind when she was a child, Hill later felt that “Uncle Dave” was a shadowy puppet-master who personally manipulated almost every aspect of her experience in the church leading to her departure in 2005. Many ex-members allege that the church actively seeks to divide families, and Miscavige Hill says she would have left earlier were it not for the knowledge that her husband’s Scientologist family would be forced to disown them. Courting celebrities for their public visibility has purportedly been another key church strategy. Hill and Wright’s high-profile exposés, along with the recent defection of Canadian director Paul Haggis, however, are already demonstrating what the flip side of that coin can be. Beyond Belief. My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape. 4.7 • 25 Ratings £5.49. £5.49. Publisher Description. Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape. Piercing the veil of secrecy that has long shrouded the world of Scientology, this insider reveals unprecedented firsthand knowledge of the religion, its obscure rituals, and its mysterious leader—David Miscavige. From her prolonged separation from her parents as a small child to being indoctrinated to serve the greater good of the Church, from her lack of personal freedoms to the organization's emphasis on celebrity recruitment, Jenna goes behind the scenes of Scientology's oppressive and alienating culture, detailing an environment rooted in control in which the most devoted followers often face the harshest punishments when they fall out of line. Addressing some of the Church's most notorious practices in startling detail, she also describes a childhood of isolation and neglect—a childhood that, painful as it was, prepared her for a tough life in the Church's most devoted order, the Sea Org. Despite this hardship, it is only when her family approaches dissolution and her world begins to unravel that she is finally able to see the patterns of stifling conformity and psychological control that have ruled her life. Faced with a heartbreaking choice, she mounts a courageous escape, but not before being put through the ultimate test of family, faith, and love. At once captivating and disturbing, Beyond Belief is an eye-opening exploration of the limits of religion and the lengths to which one woman went to break free. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MAR 4, 2013. Hill s candid memories of growing up inside the Church of Scientology are notable not just for their detail but for the light they shed on an environment that fosters isolation, powerlessness, and privacy loss. The Church takes precedence over family to the extent that Hill whose parents were Church executives spent just one hour a day with them, decreasing as they moved up in the Church hierarchy. Although most of Hill s extended family has left Scientology, her uncle, David Miscavige, is currently head of the Church. Hill recalls she "didn t know what normal looked like," and that her life was "owned by the Church." In fact, after her engagement to a fellow Scientologist one that Church officials tried mightily to prevent her desire to have children motivated her to leave the Church. (As "thetans," many members "can t really be the parent" of another thetan). Those looking for a glimpse into the celebrity side of Scientology will be disappointed; Hill primarily relates how celebrities are treated differently from the rest. Some readers may have difficulty believing such insular Scientology communities can exist in this age of access, but memoirs like Hill s cast light on their internal practices. Beyond Belief : My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape. Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape. In this tell-all memoir, complete with family photographs from her time in the Church, Jenna Miscavige Hill, a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization, offers an insider's profile of the beliefs, rituals, and secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions, including some of Hollywood's brightest stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Die größten Hörerlebnisse nur bei Audible. Erlebe Audible auf dem Smartphone, Tablet, am Computer oder deinem Amazon Echo. Auch offline. Die größten Hörerlebnisse. Entdecke genau das, was du hören willst: Wähle aus 200.000 Titeln und inspirierenden Audible Original Podcasts. Natürlich werbefrei. 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