Is the Ex Scientologist Message Board Good for an Ex-Scientologist?
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?
Messages to Exes
For my fellow Exes
My Message to India Oxenberg Producer & Star of “SEDUCED”
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.
How Hubbard Lied: ReDefining “Individuation” Like It’s A Bad Thing
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?
The Difference Between Ex-Scientology and Anti-Scientology
“Ex” is not “Anti”. Anti is a stance against. Ex is simply a former member, having many different stances about their former religious pursuit.
Religious Persecution of Minority Religions by Dick Anthony
The metaphor of ‘brainwashing’ is best understood as a social weapon for religious persecution which provides a “libertarian” rationale for the suppression of unpopular social movements and belief systems.
Ex-Scientologists – Be Yourself
When a person gets out of a minority religion and is thrust back into mainstream society, he can be bombarded with personal defamation and the destruction of everything he’s built in his life.
Learning & Growing Out of Anti-Cultism as an Ex
When I first heard Scientology stories of abuse, I became very angry. I let that anger permeate my thinking & even my self-identity. Many Exes experience this.
Top Gun: Maverick – Scarred For Life
I’m a perpetual victim of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick. Its success has devastated me. Trying to put the pieces back together, my recovery may take the rest of my life.
The Buddha’s Tooth
The mother told her son, ‘If you forget again, you will see your own mother commit suicide right in front of you.”
The Foundation of Human Genocide
Human mainstream cultures protect themselves against minorities they feel threatened by.
I, Poopsy Carmicheal, Get Deprogrammed From Scientology on ARS in 2001
OSA had probably identified me by this time. Within 3wks my whole life would change: Followed by PIs, fired from my job, family threatened, full disconnection of all my friends & business associates – everything I had built as a Scientologist.
L Ron Hubbard’s “Ron’s Journal 1967” Explains Why He Drastically Changed Scientology
L Ron Hubbard’s 1967 lecture explains why he drastically changed Scientology from something no one will tell you what to believe, especially about yourself, to dictating what you MUST believe about yourself and everything else.
William Drummond’s Message to Ex-Scientologists about Mike Rinder
William Drummond, long time Scientologist, now Ex, from Britain, with family members who used to work for Mike Rinder in the Office of Special Affairs, wants to talk about the things Mike Rinder has NOT exposed in the 11 years he’s been out of Scientology with his own blog on the Internet, and in 3 Seasons of Scientology and the Aftermath.
Anti-Scientology is a Socially Constructed Nightmare
Most Anti-Scientologists will move out of this hysterical phase of their apostasy and will see that it was mostly just a socially constructed nightmare they created for themselves.
Vulnerable: The Degraded Stereotyping of Cult Members
Tony Ortega’s stereotype of you is a ghost that disappears as soon as you focus on it. For some Exes who have accepted this stereotype of themselves, it has become a thought-stopping cliche.
Tribal Ninnies: A Taxonomy
Tribal Ninnies adopt a tribal narrative & let it do all their thinking. AntiCultism is filled with Tribal Ninnies, such as the RinderNinnie & the ReminiNinnie.
Why OSA Wins When Critics of Scientology Don’t Allow Criticism of Themselves
Ex Sea Org Officer Karen Pressley Justifies Her Banning of a Scientology Critic with Very Strong, and Very Tribal, Sea Org Reasoning
Why Legal vs Illegal is Way More Important than Moral vs Immoral in Dealing with Scientology
You do not want to live in a society where the government, or even you, has the power to take away someone else’s religion. This is why the line between legal and illegal behavior is WAY more important than the line between moral and immoral behavior.
Cults of Anti-Cultism by Anton Shupe et al, 1980
This is a paper written in 1980 on the AntiCult Movement, as it existed when the authors estimated when it was 10 years old. Can you see any differences in the AntiCult Movement today? _______________________________________ Cults of Anti-Cultism by Anson D. Shupe, Jr., Roger Spielmann, and Sam Stigall During the mid-to-late 1960s and early 1970s … Read more