Episode · The Megyn Kelly Show · 2022-09-28
Books mentioned on Escaping Scientology, Tom Cruise's Impact, and a Prison of Belief, with Mike Rinder | EP. 400
Megyn Kelly is joined by Mike Rinder, former senior executive with Scientology and author of "A Billion Years," to discuss the ban on Scientologists reading negative press about Scientology, how Scien
Megyn Kelly discussed A Billion Years by Mike Rinder. Mike Rinder recommended The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, and discussed Dianetics, the modern science of mental health by L. Ron Hubbard and Going Clear by Lawrence Wright.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Billion Years
A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder is a memoir detailing the author's upbringing in the organization and his decades-long career working closely with its leadership.
Discussed“in his new book out today called a billion years my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology he details it all including incredible stories about Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman John Travolta and what happened the one time he tried to lure Michael Jackson into the church”
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The Sociopath Next Door
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout is an eye-opening psychological examination of the hidden individuals among us who lack a conscience and how their behaviors impact the unsuspecting people around them.
Recommended“that's a you know I I promote this book that I read when I left by a professor at Harvard called Martha Stout called the sociopath next door a wonderful book by the way”
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Dianetics, the modern science of mental health
Discussed“because there is a concept that Hubbard had in his fundamental book Dianetics the modern science of mental health that you have these incidents that occur that cause you to have negative emotions reactions pains upsets whatever”
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Going Clear
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright is a meticulously researched investigative book that exposes the inner workings, history, and controversial practices of the Church of Scientology.
Discussed“and you know I think that Lawrence Wright when he titled his book going clear Scientology in the prison of belief was so prescient that the prison is a mind prison and you don't need walls and barbed wire to keep people in a mind prison”
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