In her preface to From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir, Riley Keough explains that her mother Lisa Marie Presley had tried to write an autobiography, and that she had recorded herself talking about her past on audiotapes, but she had been unable to complete the project.
"they're just looking to make as much as they can with the least amount of effort,” he said." The American way explained.
Yeah, Lisa's interactions with the CO$ have been glossed over and hidden. Riley and her editor took the easy way and avoided what could become a lot of questions on any book tour. I do hope that the remaining family avoids the Clampire and drug addiction. Drugs have killed enough of them and $cientology can never help you with that ruin.
If there was ever a question that Riley was back in Scientology, she basically says it without saying at the end of the Ten Years chapter. “At the end of that idyllic ten years, virtually overnight, my mother had let everybody go … friends, security assistants, people she had known and loved for years. Her religion. She just suddenly wanted everything gone.”
Riley, in the book, blames it on Lisa Marie discovering some of her employees may have misused credit cards. No mention of the showdown with Miscavige. Scientology is referred to so obliquely in the book a lot of times you would have had to have been a Scientologist to have understood that this entire thing is a testament to how bad Scientology messed with her mind.
But even Riley doesn’t get that. The two most gut wrenching chapters, and the only ones that seem honest are He’s Gone, which left me in tears. I had to stop reading for a while. Then there’s Ben, Ben, Ben, which is just tragic.
Riley is in. So is Priscilla. It’s a shame. They both need mental health help that Scientology can’t offer. It’s a shame Lisa Marie didn’t get to tell her truth.
“Mental health help” is euphemistic in my book. The traumas are extreme. They need interventions.
Course that won’t happen. Lisa Marie did not have a happy life, and Scientology was like bacteria on a wound. The book could have been honest. It was a whitewash. Thank you Scientology for again revising history.
my thought is that the keeping of Ben's body in the home for two months is like the Scientology mantra: "return to your body!" I wonder if that was being practiced?
The best honest meticulous review of this book that will ever be done, by the most capable journalist on the Scientology beat.
This review needs to be preserved.
Tony, honestly, your reporting needs be put into a Silvertails new book, because all the incredible history you've put on this blog, NEEDS to be preserved.
Your expert first hand reporting and info gathering needs to be in a book for the future gens who need close evidence of the nastiness evilness of L. Ron Hubbard's brainwashed followers covering up their alteration of history.
Elvis knew best, I wish what he said gets most highlighted, his saying "these people only want my money" (paraphrased) quote.
Scientology got a lot of Elvis' money in the end, and so many other high flying Scientologists have lost millions and millions to the Hubbard quackery Scientology cult. And it's evil "genius" L. Ron Hubbard's constraining regulations and never to be questioned or overturned policies that cause continuous rightful backlash on the Scientology followers who follow the Hubbard path.
"they're just looking to make as much as they can with the least amount of effort,” he said." The American way explained.
Yeah, Lisa's interactions with the CO$ have been glossed over and hidden. Riley and her editor took the easy way and avoided what could become a lot of questions on any book tour. I do hope that the remaining family avoids the Clampire and drug addiction. Drugs have killed enough of them and $cientology can never help you with that ruin.
If there was ever a question that Riley was back in Scientology, she basically says it without saying at the end of the Ten Years chapter. “At the end of that idyllic ten years, virtually overnight, my mother had let everybody go … friends, security assistants, people she had known and loved for years. Her religion. She just suddenly wanted everything gone.”
Riley, in the book, blames it on Lisa Marie discovering some of her employees may have misused credit cards. No mention of the showdown with Miscavige. Scientology is referred to so obliquely in the book a lot of times you would have had to have been a Scientologist to have understood that this entire thing is a testament to how bad Scientology messed with her mind.
But even Riley doesn’t get that. The two most gut wrenching chapters, and the only ones that seem honest are He’s Gone, which left me in tears. I had to stop reading for a while. Then there’s Ben, Ben, Ben, which is just tragic.
Riley is in. So is Priscilla. It’s a shame. They both need mental health help that Scientology can’t offer. It’s a shame Lisa Marie didn’t get to tell her truth.
“Mental health help” is euphemistic in my book. The traumas are extreme. They need interventions.
Course that won’t happen. Lisa Marie did not have a happy life, and Scientology was like bacteria on a wound. The book could have been honest. It was a whitewash. Thank you Scientology for again revising history.
my thought is that the keeping of Ben's body in the home for two months is like the Scientology mantra: "return to your body!" I wonder if that was being practiced?
The best honest meticulous review of this book that will ever be done, by the most capable journalist on the Scientology beat.
This review needs to be preserved.
Tony, honestly, your reporting needs be put into a Silvertails new book, because all the incredible history you've put on this blog, NEEDS to be preserved.
Your expert first hand reporting and info gathering needs to be in a book for the future gens who need close evidence of the nastiness evilness of L. Ron Hubbard's brainwashed followers covering up their alteration of history.
Elvis knew best, I wish what he said gets most highlighted, his saying "these people only want my money" (paraphrased) quote.
Scientology got a lot of Elvis' money in the end, and so many other high flying Scientologists have lost millions and millions to the Hubbard quackery Scientology cult. And it's evil "genius" L. Ron Hubbard's constraining regulations and never to be questioned or overturned policies that cause continuous rightful backlash on the Scientology followers who follow the Hubbard path.
Thanks, Tony. Sad.