Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
Views: 4Kindness to yourself and to others – but especially to yourself – finds your way after Scientology. You were not brain-damaged by Scientology, no matter how hard you believed or how much auditing you … Read more
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?
It is rare to watch an Ex-Scientologist deconstruct Dianetics and Scientology in an intellectually honest way after getting out of Scientology. I think a few Exes and Antis can learn a thing or two from Jason Horvatic here.
YouTuber Toddie1Skip provides important critical thinking points on Aaron Smith Levin’s arrest last night in downtown Hollywood. Please do your own research, consider all viewpoints, and make up your own mind.
If you are a victim who comes forward and resolution through the court provides a conviction, it will not undo what happened to you. You will still have to heal…
Ex-Christian Kristie Burke has an incredibly valuable YouTube Channel for anyone who has experienced a catastrophic loss of faith in the way they have made sense of the world. For me, it’s been pure gold.
After 16 years in a cult, 15 years in an Anticult, and 9 years out of both, I know what it means to recover from a cult.
Mike Rinder’s Book Release is Less Then a Month Away, Squeals Rinder Apologist and Propeller-Headed Control Freak Karen de La Carriere
“Ex” is not “Anti”. Anti is a stance against. Ex is simply a former member, having many different stances about their former religious pursuit.
The recovery paradigm of Ex-Scientology sets up a whole bunch of things you think you need to “recover” from because you were in a cult.
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.
Don’t catastrophize Scientology or your experiences in it. Always work to keep your experiences in Scientology in perspective.
Elizabeth Moss a marauding work of art. In any production, she chews up anything and everything in her path. All that’s left is the soul of the character she presents to you.
That’s why none of this has anything to do with Scientology.
Views: 1 Carmen K. Sisson | Photographer Here’s the recipe which has been followed by 1000s of people before you: Make the harm 100 times worse than it actually was. Keep repeating the harm you … Read more
A talk by Rupert Sheldrake, who is a biologist by training from Cambridge, and a graduate of Philosophy and History of Science from Harvard. He worked with Francis Crick, one of the fathers of genetic research, and has published many cited papers in the field of biology.
If you can’t believe in Atheistic Materialism, what can you believe in? Not much, if the withering skeptic Rupert Sheldrake has a crack at it. My God, if we can’t believe in Atheistic Materialism – IS THERE NOTHING SACRED??
Most Exes have heard about the thought-stopping cliches that kept them thinking inside a cult mindset. Anti-Scientology has its own thought-stopping cliches. Here are the top 5.
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?
I wielded a rage that was compounded by every horror story, ridiculous sermon, and outrage I intentionally sought out.
Views: 2I 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 … Read more