Category: Analyzing Scientology

Those Who Have Been Harmed By Scientology Deserve ...

Posted by Alanzo | Mar 21, 2020 | Analyzing Scientology, History of Scientology, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 0

How Anti Cult Movement Ideology Harms Ex-Members

Posted by Alanzo | Oct 24, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 13

A New Critic of Mike Rinder Emerges on ESMB

by Alanzo | May 31, 2020 | Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath | 0

Karakorum, an Ex-Scientologist who spent years in middle management of the Sea Org in Los Angeles, has been posting heresy to the new ESMB.

Those Who Have Been Harmed By Scientology Deserve Justice

by Alanzo | Mar 21, 2020 | Analyzing Scientology, History of Scientology, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 0

All those awards, all those book sales, all those hero-worshipping praises. And still, no justice for the victims of Scientology.

Is the Ex Scientologist Message Board Good for an Ex-Scientologist?

by Alanzo | Mar 7, 2020 | Analyzing Scientology, History of Scientology, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology | 42

With so many people stuck in the most negative views possible on ESMB, is this a place where an Ex-Scientologist can productively evolve and grow after their experiences in Scientology?

Mike Rinder’s History of Running False Flag Operations on Critics

by Alanzo | Jan 2, 2020 | Analyzing Scientology, History of Scientology, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath | 12

Mike Rinder tried to trick Gerry Armstrong by posing as a “loyalist” to LRH who only wanted to rid the Church of David Miscavige in order to restore “true Scientology” once again.

How Hubbard Lied: ReDefining “Individuation” Like It’s A Bad Thing

by Alanzo | Dec 30, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, How Hubbard Lied, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 2

What if being a Scientologist was never a really a disease in the first place that you needed to “recover from”? What if it was just one part of your own much longer spiritual journey that taught you many important lessons, and from which you emerged stronger and wiser than ever?

How would you know?

Critical Thinking on Scientology & Anti-Scientology

by Alanzo | Dec 28, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 2

I used to think that as long as I was not in the cult of Scientology any more, I would never fall into the unquestioning, partisan mindset that I had adopted when I was a Scientologist.

Cult Expert, London School of Economics Social Science Professor Eileen Barker Submits Herself to the Gearty Grilling

by Alanzo | Dec 23, 2019 | Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 23

Why do anti-cultists reject science so much? When they call a social scientist a “shill” or a “quack”, where is their quantitative data that disputes the work of that social scientist? I have never once seen them offer any scientific data to dispute the results of any of the scientists they wish to discredit with this juvenile name calling character assassinations.

Beliefs vs. Facts

by Alanzo | Nov 21, 2019 | Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 3

I’ve written about this before. But there is a whole lot to gain by continually reminding myself of what a fact is, vs what a belief is. Especially with regard to political and religious areas of my life.

How Anti Cult Movement Ideology Harms Ex-Members

by Alanzo | Oct 24, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 13

Adopting the beliefs of the anti-cult movement dramatically changes the views and attitudes of those who experience a loss of faith. Those changes have a profound effect on how Exes make sense of their own past. So we must ask: How helpful is the ideology of the anti cult movement in making sense of your life?

Pounding the Intellectual Honesty Out of Aaron Smith-Levin

by Alanzo | Aug 22, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 129

I recorded my thoughts on the treatment I observed Aaron Smith-Levin getting from his Anti-Scientologist friends. From the ideologue Chris Shelton, to Tony Ortega’s demagoguery, to Leah Remini’s need to create a moral panic around Scientology – can Aaron’s intellectual honesty survive?

The Scientology Brainwashing Defense

by Alanzo | Aug 18, 2019 | Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 3

The anti-cult movement provides the principle ideology almost all Ex-cult members are given to adopt after they leave their minority religions. The foundation of that anti-cult ideology is the belief in “brainwashing”. But does “brainwashing” really exist? Or is it just an excuse?

Gerry Armstrong Details the Scientology Fair Game Operations Against Him

by Alanzo | Jul 24, 2019 | Analyzing Scientology, History of Scientology, How Hubbard Lied | 48

Until the background of these acts have been exposed, detailed and thoroughly condemned by Mike Rider and Marty Rathbun, and amends made to Gerry Armstrong for what they have done to him, there can be little possibility that a person who wishes to claim they are “exposing the abuses of Scientology” fails to expose the some of the worst abuses that they themselves committed.