Blown for Good Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology Read Online Free

going to school there.
    The way the schooling was done was different than what I was used to. Each person was allowed to do his or her own thing and you would not have to do what the rest of the class was doing, but could instead study on your own. We had these things called checksheets, and when you did a step on the course, you had to check it off. I had to do a special course on how to study that was created by L. Ron Hubbard. It was called the Basic Study Manual . We had to look up lots of words in dictionaries and make little clay people to demonstrate what we were learning.
    I had made some good friends at my new school. John Peeler lived right up the street from me in Hollywood and we were good friends. Since it was Hollywood, a lot of kids were child actors or children of famous people. Another friend who lived next door to the school was a movie star. His name was Barrett Oliver. He was on a bunch of TV shows like The Incredible Hulk and Knight Rider
. Knight Rider
was my favorite show, so I thought he was pretty cool.
    One day after being at the school for a year or so, my mom told me that I was going to go to a different school. Supposedly, the people that ran the school did not want to have it be a Scientology school anymore and because of this I HAD to go to a different school. I liked the school and could have cared less about the Scientology part of it. My mom said that we did not have a choice. If Scientology said the school was bad, then we had to leave and go to a different school. If I did not leave the school, my mom would get kicked out of Scientology.
    This was my first taste of how Scientology would change my life and how no matter what I did, I had no say in the matter. What could I do anyway? I was just a kid. No one really cared what I wanted. I just did what I was told and went along with the new school idea.
    I ended up going back to public school. The only good thing was I did not have to make any more clay people and was not having to look up words in dictionaries. I did miss my friends but ended up making new ones.
    Whenever I would live with my dad, I would hang out at the apartment building where he lived. There were a lot of cool kids there and some of them had famous parents. One girl that I liked and used to hang out with, Brandy, her dad was an actor. He was in some movie with Clint Eastwood – Geoffrey Lewis was his name. Sometimes Brandy’s sister, Juliette, used to come and hang out as well. Their mom, Glennis, lived in the apartment building, so I would see them a lot when they came to stay with her. Their step dad, Craig, worked for my dad at a roofing company, so we all knew each other. Brandy had a little sister, Dree, who I used to babysit when she was about 2 years old.
    One of the people I talked to a lot was the mother of an actor. Her name was Elaine, and her son was a guy named Michael D. Roberts. He was in the movie Space Pirates and he had been on a bunch of other TV shows. His mom, Elaine, was cool. She would give me advice about stuff and was like a grandmother to me.
    There was this huge castle across the street from my apartment building called The Manor. It was owned by Scientology and I had a few friends who lived there, too. One guy, Sky Dayton, lived there and we went to his apartment all the time to make candles. Another friend was Channing whose dad was some big composer guy named David Campbell. I never really saw his dad, but Channing’s brother, Beck, was around sometimes and seemed to be real cool. They used to shoot movies at the Manor all the time, it was Hollywood after all. They shot a movie there with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte called
48 Hours.
They actually shot this movie on the 7th floor and in the lobby. It was quite exciting as they shot tons of bullets into the reception desk and the hallways on the 7th floor. They also shot a movie with Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito called Throw Momma from the Train
.
    A few months went by and my mom told me