From: revpk@cellar.UUCP (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: A Piece of Blue Sky
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Date: 6 Aug 91 03:05:53 GMT
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        I once posted a short list of books critical of Scientology, stating 
that I hadn't been able to find this book (by Jon Atack) to make an 
assessment.

        As luck would have it, I came across a copy of it today. I'm about 
halfway through it, and right now I regard it as the one indispensable and 
accurate source of information about the Church of Scientology. Atack isn't 
much of a writer-- he really just lists facts, without much style-- but the 
book is impressively well-researched, and distills much of the material 
published elsewhere (notably, Christopher Evans's "Cults of Unreason,").

        By the way, apparently the above reference to Synergetics was NOT a 
mistaken reference to Bucky Fuller's insights, but to a Dianetics-like 
movement that existed in the late 40's with the same name.'

        but, see if you can locate Atack's book. Between that and Russell 
Miller's, they constitute a formidable pair of books.

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Brian Siano,                                Delaware Valley Skeptics
Rev. Philosopher-King of The First Church of the Divine Otis Redding
revpk@Cellar.UUCP                     "Ecrasez l'enfame!" - Voltaire
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