In the late 1990's, the Flagship US Headquarters of the US Church of Scientology had a problem. How to find menial laborers from within the Church's Community. Where could they find Scientologists willing to be gardeners, maintenance workers, laundry and housekeeping staff for their hotel. Tom Cruise and his fellow Scientologists of the US Church were not going to do it. They could not hire outside laborers since their code of silence would become exposed. So, where could they find Scientologists to do the menial labor? The US Government repeatedly approved the issuance of R1 religious worker...

Secretly, I wanted so much to believe. Secretly, I was so jealous that I was not a part of this wonderful community of believers. Never before had I experienced the comfort of belonging as I did with them. Even though I had not accepted "their" God I was still accepted by them, as one of them. This stirred a jealousy in me and created a sense of loss and separation from the group since I was not able to feel what they felt. I so wanted the Lord to enter my soul and take away the burden and the longing; moreover the emptiness I had lived with most of my life. On the morning of Saturday,...