📗 The book’s title: DANTE’S EIGHTH CIRCLE is from a poem — “Dante’s Inferno” about the nine circles of Hell — the ‘Eighth’ being FRAUD. That’s really what much of this book is about, all nine circles, but mostly the conscious fraud in the eighth circle. In my opinion, Scientology and their Narconon rehab centers are the image of fraud. The malicious damage caused to innocent victims is insidious. The fraud and those guilty of evil are surrounded by fraudulent advisers or evil counsellors. Of course, this book will touch on the “Fourth Circle — Greed” and the “Ninth Circle Treachery” — the latter being betrayal of special relationships and disconnection/shunning.So how did I fall — hook, line and sinker — for the “drug treatment” scam known as Narconon, operated by the Church of Scientology to bilk its “students” of tens of thousands of dollars and to indoctrinate new members into “The Church”?As I unravel the answer to this question for myself, I will explain my personal nightmare to you in vivid detail . . . The hellish incidents of brainwashing and mind control, the lost sense of personal identity and a haunting period of post-traumatic stress. I hope that you might comprehend the pain, the nightmares, and sleepless nights.My involvement with the cult known as Scientology’s Narconon changed something inside me to a degree that sometimes I doubt my mind will ever be the same. My negative experiences continued on for more than five years after my escape. I was informed by a the...