Going Clear

This book by Lawrence Wright was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Joe Rogan. The people who vouched for it on air: Joe Rogan. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a legitimate (and legally acknowledged) religion; its vast, secret campaign to infiltrate the U.S.

• “if you read uh Lawrence writes going clear it's a very fascinating book that sort of details the whole history of El Ron herard creating it”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it's a very fascinating book”
  Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 202402:04:19

  Said during "Joe Rogan Experience #2137 - Michelle Dowd". The episode features Michelle Dowd: Author, yoga teacher, and survival-trained survivor born into 'the Field,' a high-control group her grandfather founded in 1931; wrote the memoir Forager. Michelle Dowd recounts being born into the cult-like Field, escaping at 17, and rebuilding a life from scratch.