1 The early years

As a teenager,
Maureen Bolstad hoped Scientology would help her treat her sick mother: very
soon though, she witnessed the disturbing effects of its therapy.



Maureen Bolstad was only 11 in 1977 when she was first introduced to
Dianetics.



Her mentor was the man her mother was seeing, Bill Ward. “He moved in and he had a bunch of books,” she recalled.



One day, she said, she was bragging