The Phases In and Out of Scientology & Ex-Scientology
Many people have listed the parts of Scientology involvement, especially Arnie Lerma at his seminal Lermanet.com blog. This is one I developed for a project I am working on.
Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
Alanzo first began writing about Scientology in the mid-1980’s on the Religions & Ethics section of the GEnie Bulletin Board using a 2400 baud modem. He’s been writing about Scientology, both in and out of the subject, since then.
When Alanzo left Scientology in 1999 and became a critic of them on the Internet, Scientology sought to redefine him as a “Suppressive Person” and an overall low-life scumbag.
Since waking up a few years ago, from the tribal environment of Anti-Scientology and applying critical thinking to that, too, AntiScientologists have sought to do the same.
Alanzo has seen the tribalism that makes Scientology a cult in Anti-Scientology, too – simply at a less intense volume.
Because of his long experience both in Scientology and in Anti-Scientology, Alanzo feels a somewhat lonely & quixotic duty to be an asshole in these matters.
The following posts have been published on AlanzosBlog, and have biographical information in them.
Views: 1For anyone not intimately familiar with Hubbard’s writing and the early history of Scientology, you should know that almost every word that Hoffman’s Lancaster Dodd speaks in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is either … Read more
Views: 0I left the Church of Scientology after 16 years, becoming an outspoken critic of them in 1999. I’ve been thinking and writing about Scientology and cults for 36 years, in and out of both. … Read more
The anticult movement is destructive to Ex-Scientologists & to any Ex of any minority religion slurred as a “cult”. It’s just belief. Not facts.
Views: 2When I got out of Scientology and began exposing them on the Internet 19 years ago, it was because I had discovered how cruel that the leadership in the Church of Scientology had been … Read more
Views: 0When I was young and dumb, I worked with OSA in Illinois. Randy Kretchmar, Carol Brookes and Mary Ann Ahmad were the Office of Special Affairs at the Chicago Org at that time. The … Read more
Because Scientologists & anti-Scientologists hold emotionally founded beliefs, expect these ideals to be violated on any Blog, Youtube Channel or Facebook group.
Views: 0There are some very common ways that you can become a hypocrite as an anti-Scientologist. After being an anti-Scientologist myself for so long, I have identified a few of those ways of thinking so … Read more
Of all the books that have been written about Scientology, if you had only one shot to communicate to someone what Scientology was all about, I would give them John Sweeney’s “Church of Fear”.
I learned that someone – not Church OSA – was taking creepy screenshots of everything I write on my blog, like every day, multiple times per day.
Charles Lakes was the Number 1 qualifier for the US Olympic Gymnastic Team in ’88. He used Scientology to do it. How do I know? Because I helped him.
Views: 1The other day, more than 14 years after leaving Scientology, I realized that one of the biggest wins I had in Scientology might not have been as valuable as I’ve been thinking it was. … Read more
Views: 0After unpacking my bags in my room, I sat down at the little round table next to the window and looked out onto the parking lot. People were streaming in to the front doors … Read more
Views: 0The bar was packed. My beer was gone and someone was sitting on my stool. Yellow Badges were everywhere. I walked up to a space next to the busy waitress station and ordered another … Read more