She later said of her motivation to write about Scientology: "I had a master’s degree in psychology and had studied comparative religion at Harvard for a summer and what I learned during my research about the group founded by L. Ron Hubbard was both fascinating and frightening.
She later stated that her motivation to write about Scientology stemmed from her background in psychology and comparative religion, which she had studied at Harvard. Her research on the group founded by L. Ron Hubbard was both captivating and unsettling.