I would also see people who'd once been incredibly dear to me but with whom, since leaving the Church, I'd lost contact.
Because I'd been examining what had come of meeting and then marrying Jamie, it seemed imperative to attend his memorial, even though it meant putting myself back in the maw of what I'd first found scary, then intriguing and even engrossing, and then, during the awful time of leaving, terrifying. A memorial was planned for him in Los Angeles, a city I'd fled decades before and since visited just once―and then only because a book tour took me there. Eventually, I began to peer and prod and then write about those years, and just as I'd completed a shaggy draft of this memoir, I found out that Jamie, the man who'd introduced me to the Church, had died. Those "lost" years included the seven I was involved with the Church of Scientology, and the three it took to be certain I wouldn't, again, return. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.įor a decade, I pretended that a decade of my life hadn't happened. explores how she has found meaning and purpose within that decade that for so long she thought of as lost how she has faced the “flunk” represented by those years, and has embraced a way to “start” anew. However, as Hall begins to grasp how purposefully Hubbard has created the unique language of Scientology―in the process isolating and indoctrinating its practitioners―she confronts how language can also be used as a tool of authoritarianism. In this candid and nuanced memoir, Hall recounts her spiritual and artistic journey with a visceral affection for language, delighting in the way words can create a shared world. In the secluded canyons of Hollywood, she finds herself increasingly drawn toward the certainty that Scientology appears to offer. Hall compellingly reveals what drew her into the religion―what she found intriguing and useful―and how she came to confront its darker sides.Īs a young woman from a literary family striving to forge her own way as an artist, Hall ricochets between the worlds of Shakespeare, avant-garde theater, and soap opera, until her brilliant elder brother, playwright Oakley Hall III, falls from a bridge and suffers permanent brain damage.
Ron Hubbard, and the ascension of David Miscavige. Her time in the Church, the 1980s, includes the secretive illness and death of its founder, L.
Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. It is a necessary book for our time." ―Karen E. "I could not put down this book―it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight.
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