Tag: Cognitive Distortions on Scientology

How Anti Cult Movement Ideology Harms Ex-Members

Posted by Alanzo | Oct 24, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 13

Critical Thinking on Scientology & Anti-Scientology

by Alanzo | Dec 28, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 Anti Cult Movement Ideology Harms Ex-Members

by Alanzo | Oct 24, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Critical Thinking, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Critical Thinking, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Analyzing Scientology, Critical Thinking, Life After Anti-Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 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 | Critical Thinking, Life After Scientology | 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.

You Still Have Control

by Alanzo | Feb 9, 2019 | Life After Scientology, Post Ex-Scientology | 0

An interesting article written about victims of abuse from Slate.com on February 8th 2014 by...

Healing From Scientology Abuse is Not a Social Media Activity

by Alanzo | Jan 29, 2019 | Alanzo's Scientology Biography, Life After Anti-Scientology, Life After Scientology | 3

If you were not abused in Scientology, and you say so in the various social media platforms on the...

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Policing of social media & who you can & can't be friends with is completely normalized in #AntiCults too.

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Here's @sheltondesigner calling every member of a minority religion "mad".

Is this an attempt to dehumanize all adherents of a religion as dangerous & irrational?

Yes it is. Yet another one.

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Vulnerable: #Cult Stereotypes rule mainstream society.

And everyone loves it.

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RIP Paul Adams

Hello all, I have just become aware that sadly, Paul Adams passed away in hospital two weeks ago after a sudden illness. Paul and I had somewhat lost touch over the past two or three years, but we used to be close and I'm aware he was very involved in this community, so I thought I'd check...

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What it's like to deal with #LeahRemini & #MikeRinder's clueless Twitter Trolls.

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"The judicial system failed Kyle, but at that moment I realized we weren’t out of options. If the Church of Scientology expected us to limp away broken and beaten, they were sorely mistaken."

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The Power of the Written Word

“Don’t tangle with journalists, they get the last word.” We descended into Jacksonville, Florida, through dark clouds laden with rain. Maybe it was our mood or the reason we were there, but the ci…

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People don't realize that getting yourself into & out of a cult is one of the most valuable lessons in #CriticalThinking ever. People don't get that if you haven't experienced this, then you've never had your worldview collapse on you.

You've never picked yourself up from that.

The process of getting out of a 'Cult' is one of the most valuable experiences a human being can have.

Sure. Your whole life is ruined.

Sure, all your friends & business contacts abandon you.

How else will you find out what's important, and meaningful, in life?

If you got into a 'cult' to find out what life was all about, then getting out of a cult and being thrust back into Mainstream Society - with all it's guilt-tripping 'told-you-Sos!' - will teach you real quick.

The trick is not to learn too hard from that.

Remember who you are & who you were.

You're the same person you were before, during, and after the 'cult'.

Don't let mainstream society beat you out of your rebellious individualism.

Don't let them stop you from your search for a meaningful life.

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A pandemic is a great time to re-think things.

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