A review of “Commodore’s Messenger : A Child Adrift In the Scientology Sea organization” Book One 1953-OCTOBER 1970 BY Janis Gillham Grady Janis Gillham Grady, very ably pulls her readers into the adventures of the true first family of Scientology-the Gillham family. Her book, written in the first person, is chronicled from the perspective of Janis as a young girl embarking into the unknown world of the sea, sailors, and salt water. The first of a series, this book offers

A Book Review At the Eye of the Storm The remarkable expansion of L.R. Hubbard’s Church of Scientology between 1960 and 1975 was tumultuous, a heated, pressured, stormy growth that gradually gave birth to the multi-million dollar operation known as today’s Church of Scientology. At the core of that explosive expansion stood Hubbard himself, a prolific, high-energy autocrat with a passion for building his subject and his organization into a towering modern religious edifice e