Cognitive Distortions on Scientology

Critical Thinking on Scientology & Anti-Scientology

by Alanzo | Apr 28, 2021 | AntiCults, Cults, Social Science | 2

I used to think that as long as I was not in the cult of Scientology any more, I would never fall into the unquestioning, partisan mindset that I had adopted when I was a Scientologist.

How the Anti Cult Movement Harms Ex-Members

by Alanzo | Jun 24, 2020 | Alanzo's Bio, AntiCults, Social Science | 13

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?

Why Leah Remini Will Never Get Her Federal Investigation

by Alanzo | Jul 5, 2019 | AntiCults, Social Science | 21

Social scientists who study minority religions have observed that the main activity of the...

Alanzo’s Top 5 Criticisms of Tony Ortega & His Underground Bunker

by Alanzo | Jul 2, 2019 | AntiCults | 37

Tony Ortega is one of the most valuable critics of Scientology ever. But is he so biased that, over time, you can start to live in a delusional world about Scientology? I think so.

Pushing “All or Nothing” Thinking on Exes By Never-ins

by Alanzo | Jun 24, 2019 | AntiCults, Social Science | 0

Angry Gay Pope tells an Ex-Scientologist what to think about their time in Scientology. This time with a major cognitive distortion.

Can Chris Shelton The Critical Thinker At Large Distinguish Between a ‘Cult Recovery Paradigm’ and Therapy?

by Alanzo | May 26, 2019 | AntiCults, Social Science | 0

Is Chris Shelton The Critical Thinker at Large the Stuart Smalley of Celebrity Anti-Scientology?

Is Chris Shelton Waking Up From His Anti-Scientology Fever Dream?

by Alanzo | Apr 14, 2019 | AntiCults | 6

There’s a point in your evolution as an Ex which is exactly like when you woke up from all the untrue things in Scientology: As an Ex, it’s that point when you wake up from all the untrue things in Anti-Scientology, as well.

Embrace Your Inner Scientologist

by Alanzo | Feb 23, 2019 | AntiCults, Social Science | 4

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

by Alanzo | Feb 23, 2019 | AntiCults | 17

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

by Alanzo | Feb 20, 2019 | AntiCults | 15

The human mind has certain biases which routinely, and falsely, color the perceptions of people called cognitive biases. One of the most important for a former cult member to know about is called the “hindsight bias”, or the “I knew it all along” effect.