Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
AntiCults exist for every Cult.
An out-group of people who were former members of any religion, or minority religion, have always existed to protest their former religious or spiritual belief.
They have simply come to realize a loss of faith.
That loss of faith is colossally disorienting. All people use their ideology or belief system to make sense of the world. So when your sense-making system collapses on you, you feel a certain sense of fuckness for a short, or a long, while.
AntiCults exist where people take up the AntiCult Ideology, mostly promulgated by Lifton and Hassan.
Influenced by anticultism, they deny their own choices made to get involved in their own previous religious pursuit and turn all those personal decisions into things they were ‘brainwashed’ to believe against their will and consent.
AntiCults must be critically examined, and questioned, as closely as Cults.
She has a curious and insightful mind, and appears to be trying to understand Scientology with the data that is available to her through anti-Scientology activists. If that is all she has, she will never be able to get her answer. Here’s her video: Here’s my response to her: I’m going to make a point … Read more
The picture above is from happier times for Dana and Zero Dark Tony. After he’d begged his YouTube followers for weeks to “get Dana on a plane”, the happy couple were united at last. Trouble was just around the corner though, as Dana reports from one of her texts with Zero Dark Tony which she … Read more
NOTE: This post was originally compiled by me in 2015. I am reissuing it today because it sheds light on the advancement, and then decline, in Mike Rinder’s willingness to tell the truth, and to give his victims the information they need to undo the damage that he and Marty Rathbun and David Miscavige have … Read more
It’s 2024. Serge Del Mar Exposes Kids That Go Missing in Scientology and That No Present or Former Scientology Executive is Safe From Prosecution.
Dianne Etex speaks about her own experience when, as an Ex-Scientologist, she exposes criminally indictable acts that Mike Rinder has covered up for Scientology
NOTE: This post was first written in September of 2017. I am reposting it now because the information control in anti-Scientology has only gotten worse. This report from Angry Gay Pope also exposes the “Where’s Shelly?” hoax and Ortega’s collusion with Rinder & Remini in it. It also raises questions about whether Andreas was in … Read more
Philosophie was one of the most insightful commenters on Doug Kramer’s Dazed But Not Confuzed Youtube Channel. She’s started her own channel now, being just as insightful as ever.
Ex-Scientologists sometimes get stuck in simplistic explanations for Scientology because it’s too much work to understand it. They just want it to be a cult & Hubbard to be a con man.
In my almost 40 years of writing about Cults & Anticults, the FrankReport.com was one the wildest lessons I’ve ever learned.
In Serge Del Mar, we are witnessing a very experienced critic of Scientology, having lived it since childhood, in his absolute prime.
Was Bill Franks, the Former Executive Director of Scientology, under some pressure toward the end of his life to walk back his claims of Scientology murders?
Would Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs use your own fear of the Office of Special Affairs to control you? You bet your ass they would – and do every day.
Zero Dark Tony’s profane rant against Nora Ames shows he’s incapable of rationally evaluating anything that stokes his anger. It’s his Achilles heel – which OSA will use against him.
Chris Shelton wants us to look at his content to see what kind of person he is. Let’s look at that time when he trashed Steven Mango for Karen de la Carriere.
India Oxenberg is a former member of NXIVM and the daughter of Catherine Oxenberg. India was the star and producer of the 4 part documentary called “SEDUCED”. In this interview, on her podcast called “Still Learning”, she discusses her deprogramming from NXIVM by her deprogrammer. They discuss the deprogramming techniques that Diane Benscoter used on … Read more
Doug Kramer was working on the 2nd Episode of the Scientology Controlled Opposition. He died before he released it. I was working with Doug on it. I will make sure it is released.
1st in a series on the Ex-Scientologist Message Board, one of the most effective hotbeds of Scientology criticism in its day, and thoroughly obliterated by Mike Rinder et al AFTER they ‘left’ Scientology.
I answered a poll that Anthony RR Mills created on his youtube channel, and I wrote a comment in response to this. Anthony answered my comment. This is my response to him.
Doug Scott Kramer and his YouTube Channel, Dazed But Not Confuzed, was/is very popular with thousands of people who follow the goings-on of Scientology, Anti-Scientology, Cults and AntiCults. When Doug didn’t show up for a scheduled Live of his weekly “Ask Me Anything” show on 4 December 2023, people began to worry. And that worry … Read more
In a federal criminal trial that, believe it or not, had a huge impact on the landscape of Anti-Scientology vs Scientology, the 1 surviving owner of BackPage.com, and Tony Ortega’s old boss, was convicted of one count of money laundering while the jury deadlocked on 84 other counts – mostly involving sex trafficking. The clue … Read more