Personal Responsibility in Scientology
How do cults like the Church of Scientology convince their members that all the abuses and nonsense they have to experience is actually their fault… Read More »Personal Responsibility in Scientology
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Hubbard’s Paranoid Final Years
Over the last years of his life, L. Ron Hubbard lost his mind and got a lot of help from in running Scientology through his… Read More »Hubbard’s Paranoid Final Years
The Cult Leader’s Playbook
Given how we see the same kinds of things from one cult to the next, is there really a cult leader’s playbook that they learn… Read More »The Cult Leader’s Playbook
Critical Q&A #474 – LIVE
This week we had a fun and nice long Q&A show, going over what the CMO is, clarifying maliphanies and cults, what “worker-oriented” means in… Read More »Critical Q&A #474 – LIVE
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Scientology’s Lies about L. Ron Hubbard
Cults inevitably tell an assortment of vast and outrageous lies about their leaders, always needing to make them out to be as gods who walk… Read More »Scientology’s Lies about L. Ron Hubbard
Cults and Scapegoats
Does extremism thinking breed a kind of thinking where scapegoats become necessary to maintain belief in the flawed dogma? In a word, yes and in… Read More »Cults and Scapegoats