Your Friends vs. The Truth
Truth changes. If the experience of having gone through Scientology should teach you something, it’s that. Are your friends more important than the truth?
Messages to Exes
For my fellow Exes
Recovery: 2 Steps to Stop Thinking With Anti-Scientology
A message to Ex-Scientologists who have woken to find they’re thinking and feeling with the Anti-Scientology mindset. Here are 2 steps you can take to recover.
An Example of What Post-Ex Is Not
I am presenting this piece of writing which appeared on ESMB recently as an example of what I believe to be a pathological state of mind for an Ex-Scientologist to develop. This particular Ex-Scientologist has … Read more
The Incomparable Miss Tia on Having Been a Denizen of The Underground Bunker
If I were to pinpoint exactly when my disillusionment began with Scientology watching, I’d have to say the seed was planted with the Going Clear premiere.
Lawrence Wright’s Questionable Metaphor – A “Prison of Belief”
There is a point at which this metaphor becomes an exercise in thought-stopping: A person accepts it as an explanation for why Scientologists do what they do in the way that Larry and other anti-Scientologists describe, and that’s all you need to know. It seems to explain everything when, in fact, it explains very little.
After Scientology, It’s a Choice
When I was first getting out of Scientology around 13 years ago, I was talking to an ex-Scientologist who worked at the Lisa McPherson Trust. She received phone calls and emails from people getting out … Read more
Internalizing the Criticisms of Shallow Assholes
Self-invalidation and self-disgust for having been a Scientologist is a common result of trying to graduate from Scientology. In some places on the post-scientology Internet, it becomes an unspoken penance to be endured before we can truly be considered by others to be “out” and no longer a stupid and deluded cult moron.
FOR THOSE LEAVING THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
After leaving the Church of Scientology, seek to live with the truth. I’ve concluded you can’t seek to live with the truth in a group of Anti-Cultists.
The ESMB Thread on AlanzosBlog!
It’s the AlanzosBlog discussion of ESMB discussion on AlanzosBlog!
Good Grief
My best friend died last November. Yesterday, I was in a business meeting with a new client at her business. A person from my friend’s old workplace stopped in to call on my new client. … Read more
The Insidious Cognitive Distortion That Fools You Into Thinking You Understand Someone When You Don’t
There is no substitute for being willing to see things from someone else’s perspective when you are in a disagreement or dispute with them.
Aaron Smith-Levin Talks to Geir Isene on Post-Ex Scientology
Geir Isene, Ex-Scientologist extraordinaire, talks to Aaron Smith Levin about his journey through Scientology and Ex-Scientology, and out the other side.
Ex-Scientologists: Don’t Let Shallow Assholes Re-Define You
Julie Mayo, wife of David Mayo, makes a statement about moving on from Scientology on ESMB in 2018
One Moon | AlanzosBlog – Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
It is said that there is only one moon. It is also said that there are as many moons as there are individuals who are looking at it. Maybe there is one objective reality called … Read more
Sacred Cows + Siege Mentality = Sheeple
Sheeple. An actual mathematical formula for them. I’m not kidding. I think Carl Sagan wrote about it once: Ask Neil Degrasse Tyson. It describes a fundamental property of all human groups: not just Scientists and … Read more
4 Steps to Stop Thinking and Feeling With Scientology
Scientology, as created and maintained by L Ron Hubbard, seeks to take over and dictate every thing that the Scientologist thinks and feels. If you were ever a fervent, KSW believing Scientologist, then you probably … Read more
Dr. John Gordon Clark on Scientology Auditing
The best, most succinct description of Scientology auditing ever by Dr. John Gordon Clark of Harvard Medical School: “Auditing is a simple, thoroughly designed means, of concentrating the mind to the state of a controlled … Read more
To Fully Understand Scientology, You Can’t Use Scientology to Understand It
Sounds kind of circular, doesn’t it? Well it is. Most Scientologists are stuck in the circular trap of trying to use Scientology to understand Scientology. You can see them on the Internet, using an LRH … Read more
Recovery From Scientology: What is That, Exactly?
I hear people talking about recovering from Scientology. What does that mean? Is there an “End Phenomenon” to that? I have definitely changed quite a bit since getting out of Scn 13 years ago. At … Read more