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Scientology 8-8008
Scientology Books
October 13, 2012    
Great book for anyone truly on the path to freedom
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Reviewed by sommerboy November 17, 2012
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"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

Great book for anyone truly on the path to freedom

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ex-Scientologist

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Pros
When Hubbard describes the labyrinth we are in....its shocking and well written. Page 101, old version. He speaks of the feeling one may have after he , finally, discovers beingness (the lucky ones).... "One might well have the feeling of having narrowly escaped a terrible tragedy when he views the thinness on which he stood to view this brink of oblivion, for it was obviously never intended that anyone should recover from participation or even spectatorship in or of the game called the MEST universe. Dante's inscription above the portals of hell might very well be written best on the gates of the entrance into this universe." (All hope abandon, ye who enter here!" Wow, I hope, one day, I can know that feeling. Must be wonderful and sad to see others still in the trap.
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