Critical Thinking on Scientology & Anti-Scientology
I used to think that as long as I was not in the cult of Scientology, I would never fall into the unquestioning, partisan mindset I’d adopted when I was a Scientologist.
Alanzo’s Scientology Criticism
A lot of anti-Scientologists who haven’t been around for very long accuse Alanzo of never criticizing Scientology. They say he only criticizes Anti-Scientologists for all their tribalism and cruelty.
Yet Alanzo has been one of the most prolific and productive critics of the Church of Scientology in the last 20 years. And he has the real OSA fair game scars to prove it.
Alanzo finds he has to constantly repeat himself because no one who is around now knows who Alanzo is. Most of the rest of the old guard Scientology critics have drifted off or died.
I guess this happens to everyone who gets old.
This page is a collection of all of Alanzo’s criticism of:
the Church of Scientology,
Scientology technology,
David Miscavige,
Mike Rinder,
Marty Rathbun,
L. Ron Hubbard,
and Tom Cruise,
And these are just the blog posts he’s written criticizing Scientology. There is at least 5 times more criticism of Scientology, in terms of word count, on message boards around the Internet.
This collection of Alanzo’s Scientology criticism is presently over 130 posts. It will continue to grow.
So next time someone tells you that Alanzo only criticizes Anti-Scientologists, give them the link to this page.
How L. Ron Hubbard Tricked You: The Scientology OT Levels
Hubbard used this nocebo on Scientologists. Think about the terror this produces, the ways a person’s inner thoughts are controlled by it.
What Mike Rinder Did As The Head of Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs for 22 Yrs
This affidavit, filed in the Ken Dandar case, shows the daily routine that Mike Rinder lived as the Commanding Officer of the Office of Special Affairs for 22 years under David Miscavige.
Victoria Britton Has Been Working for 10 Years to Get Answers – Where Was Scientology and the Aftermath?
So far the series has stayed away from the most important Scientology stories, such as Mike Rinder’s OSA involvement in the cover-up of the Danny Masterson rape cases. So when will Scientology and the Aftermath have an episode on the Death of Kyle Brennan?
A History of Scientology Criticism: Robert Vaughn Young – Mike Rinder’s Predecessor in the Cult of Scientology
Robert Vaughn Young (RVY) was Mike Rinder’s predecessor for many years. He woke up from the spell of Scientology in the 1990’s and contributed some of the best critical writing on Scientology that exists. He died of cancer in 2003.
Leah Remini’s Scientology and the Aftermath Has Still Presented No Evidence of Criminal Activity by the Church of Scientology
Last night’s episode of Leah Remini’s Scientology and the Aftermath was a round table discussion of former Scientologists, and independent Scientologists, exposing the upper levels of Scientology so that people can make more informed decisions … Read more
Contrast What the Feds Did to NXIVM vs Scientology
Law enforcement against NXIVM vs Scientology couldn’t be more different. NXIVM got obliterated, but Scientology & David Miscavige remain untouched. Why?
Mike Rinder’s History of Pretending to be a Critic of Scientology
Mike Rinder tried to trick Gerry Armstrong by posing as a “loyalist” to LRH who 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
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?
How L Ron Hubbard Tricked You: Scientology and Hypnosis
Anyone who has read anything about hypnosis from a source other than L Ron Hubbard can see that auditing produces a hypnotic state and makes a Scientologist highly suggestible. Here’s a good place to start … Read more
Gerry Armstrong Doesn’t Need an Apology – He Wants the Truth From Mike Rinder
Gerry Armstrong & Mike Rinder have a long history. Gerry thinks it’s time for Mike Rinder to come clean about all the OSA Fair Game Operations he ran against him and all the other critics of Scientology when Mike Rinder ran the dirty tricks arm of the Church of Scientology.
Paul Haggis – “I’ve Seen Scientology Ruin People”
Paul Haggis, the brilliant Canadian screenwriter and director, was interviewed about his latest movie, “Third Person” as it is being released in theatres in Europe this week. Go there to read it: Telegraph UK – … Read more
Brainwashing in Scientology: Security Checking & OW Write Ups
Former ED International of the Church of Scientology Bill Franks Reveals L Ron Hubbard’s Efforts to Create Brainwashing in Scientology.
Allen Stanfield’s Leaving Scientology Interview February 2002
Allen Stanfield on Ethercat’s “Through The Door” Friday, 27th September, 2002 08:39:19pm Name or Alias: Allen Stanfield Training and/or processing level: Clear, Exec Status One, GAT Ethics Specialist, Data Series Evaluator Org or location: N/A … Read more
Scientology Sales Techniques From Hell: “Imagine You’re Dead”
Sitting there in that locked room, with two Scientology salespeople, I said, “Wait a minute, Tim. I got into Scientology to win at life, not to lose at it. Declaring bankruptcy is losing at life.”
A Venn Diagram for Scientologists
Ideologies like Scientology are fixed cognitive traps that keep a person from understanding life as it is.
Scientology OT 7 Reverend Rex Fowler Guilty of First Degree Murder
Scientology OT 7 Reverend Rex Fowler was convicted of murdering his business partner on the 25th of February 2011.
Beliefs vs. Facts
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.
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.
Gerry Armstrong Details the Scientology Fair Game Operations Against Him
Until these acts have been detailed and thoroughly condemned by Mike Rider and Marty Rathbun, and legal amends made to Gerry Armstrong for what they did to him, they can’t claim to be “whistleblowers”.
Class 8 Student Tells Story of L Ron Hubbard’s OT Abilities on The Original Class 8 Course
As the Source of the technology of Dianetics and Scientology, L Ron Hubbard was obviously the greatest Scientology OT who ever lived. At Cause over Matter, Energy, Space, and Time, many stories of LRH’s OT … Read more
Enthralling Interview: Leah Remini Tells Her Powerful Story of Leaving Scientology
Leah tells her powerful story about what happened to her in the Church which led to her leave Scientology – the only religion she knew for 34 years.
Arnie Lerma, Whose Website Lermanet.com, Details the Fair Game Actions Waged Against Him
I am very grateful to Arnie for getting that website up in the early days of the Internet, keeping it up, and enduring the legal actions and fair game of Mike Rinder’s Office of Special Affairs.
Documentary “Deprogrammed” Now Streaming on Netflix
This documentary contains a very good discussion of the limits of power that people have over those who make religious and spiritual choices that others don’t like.
A History of Scientology Criticism: Dennis Erlich & “Scientology vs. The Internet”
There are a lot of things about Scientology scriptures and OT levels that we would not have access to today on the Internet without the help of Dennis Erlich.
Gerry Armstrong’s Open Letter to Alex Gibney Regarding Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun
Everyone should know the story of Gerry Armstrong. Because if it was not for Gerry Armstrong, LRH, Marty, Mike and Dave might have gotten away with the whole thing.
Mike Rinder Needs to Come Clean About What He Did to Gerry Armstrong & Others As Head of the Office of Special Affairs
This is the first in a series of videos by Gerry Armstrong, the most fair-gamed person in Scientology history, to Mike Rinder.
Embrace Your Inner Scientologist
To dismiss that part of your life, to wall it off under labels of “delusional Scientologist” or “weak” or “crazy loon” is to remain in a dissociative state – to continue living a fractured life with some of the best parts of you buried underneath a wall of self-hatred and shame.
Post Ex-Scientology
A Post-Ex has integrated the arguments, and “truths”, he made as a Scientologist with the arguments, and “truths”, he made as an Ex/Anti-Scientologist. He has seen the disconnects and the contradictions there, and repaired them. He no longer walks around with an opposite self inside him, with which he is at war.
Scientology & Hindsight Bias: An Ex-Scientologist’s Deadliest Disease
The human mind has certain biases which routinely, and falsely, color the perceptions of people. The most important for a former cult member is called the “hindsight bias”.
Is Scientology a Religion? Leah Remini Now Says It’s Not
When you look at the cosmology of Scientology from the viewpoint of social science – its rituals such as auditing, training, dissemination, and its clearly religious teachings on the thetan, the mind, and even Xenu – it is inescapable that Scientology is a religion.