Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
For my fellow Exes
Andreas Heldal-Lund, creator of XENU.net and the Operation Clambake Message Board has passed. What will be the fate of those historic Internet properties? Will Jeffrey and Karen destroy them?
Serge Del Mar has got me in a lather. After all these years being beaten down as an “OSA Agent” by all of these peoples’ flying cradlers & monkey canoodlers, Serge has rekindled my purpose.
Jason Horvatic Has a Request. But is it possible these days to have civil discussions on “cults” and minority religions on the Internet?
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
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.
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.
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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
You would never know it, but since getting out of Scientology 24 years ago, I’ve practiced Buddhist meditation. I was just beginning to study it while I was in college and came across Scientology. They … Read more
What if you were the triage nurse in the emergency department overflowing with all the various victims seeking justice for the crimes and abuses of Scientology? Who would you prioritize? And why?
Elizabeth Gale and Cassie Marie discuss the problems of the Aftermath Foundation which have been simmering for a long time, and which we have recently seen explode. These two break it down.
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?
After 16 years in a cult, 15 years in an Anticult, and 9 years out of both, I know what it means to recover from a cult.
I’ve been practicing Basic Skepticism on marauding Anti-Scientologists on the Internet. It’s pretty much unstoppable. Here’s how it works.
With so many people stuck in the most negative views on ESMB, is this a place where an Ex-Scientologist can productively evolve & grow after their experiences in Scientology?
When I first got out of Scientology 21 years ago, I’d have made the same doco India did. That would have been a huge mistake.
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?
“Ex” is not “Anti”. Anti is a stance against. Ex is simply a former member, having many different stances about their former religious pursuit.