After 25 years as an active Sc ientologist in the Church of Scientology, I left the organization in August 2009. I wrote up why I left and published it on the Net:

I then started a blog:

After 6 months, I compiled my blog posts into a book called:

I erected a forum for free discussions on Scientology and my activity shifted somewhat from blogging

to discussion on that forum. It became an active venue for many level-headed discussions on the topic,

but after I renewed my blogging efforts,

went rather limp.

In June 2010, almost a year after my dramatic exit from the church, I started a new blog. Although the

topics ranges from the really geek, to art and politics, amazing people I meet, random thoughts, music,

philosophy , and Scientology, I have decided to compile all my Scientology related posts into this book.

It shows my journey from an Independent Scientologist to just me.

It is a tough trip from a Scientology-conditioned mind to a free mind. But, as I am a work in progress, I

am on a continual quest to free my mind. My views here will surely not represent my views in the

future.

Along with the book “Six months in the open”, this book may well be the only consistently running

record of how a long time Scientologist have evolved after leaving the church and landed as what the

person considers as “himself”.

At first I thought it would be a good to write a short summary before each month worth of blog posts.

But after a few attempts, I decided the posts should stand just as they were published – with no

explanations or additives.

Bear in mind that there are many blog posts on other subjects than Sc ientology in between the ones

compiled in this book. I have included some posts that are not strictly Scientology-related to give a

more complete picture of my changing viewpoints along the way. An example of such posts are the

“Amazing person”-series that I wrote during November 2012. I wrote one new blog post every day

about an amazing person I have met in my life. I have included a few of them to give you a more

complete view of my evolution during that very busy month of blogging.

My blog gathers more comments than any other Scientology-related blog. Y ou may find the discussions

there intriguing, inspiring and certainly thought provoking. I owe much to the contributors on my blog.

I hope you find this book useful or inspiring.

Dedicated to my boys, Anette.and Brendan

Oslo, May 2013; Copyright 2013, Geir Isene. Licensed under the GPL license version 3.