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The Development of Dianetics and Scientology

I’ll be doing a series to breakdown the various fundamental beliefs and techniques of Dianetics and Scientology but it occurred to me that before I do that, it might help to first break down some even more basic points about how Dianetics and Scientology work, so this is the first of the videos I’ll make to do that. Here, we’re going to look at the basic and key materials of Dianetics and Scientology, the books and lectures that make up the body of work that is Scientology.Read More »The Development of Dianetics and Scientology

Scientology’s Totally Insane Recruitment Methods

Today we are going to talk about two of my favorite subjects: Scientology recruitment and conspiracy theories. Now by Scientology recruitment I don’t mean getting people in to do their silly personality tests or sign up for their courses, but I mean the actual recruitment activities to get people to join Scientology staff or to sign a billion year contract of committment for Scientology’s elite core group, the Sea Organization. We’re actually going to concentrate on Sea Org recruitment specifically, but all the methods I am going to describe here are used to a greater or lesser extent to recruit Scientologists for staff at local, city-level churches as well. I’m pretty sure some of you watching this may find a lot of what I’m going to talk about unbelievable, but I swear it’s all true. We really used to do this stuff and as far as I know, Scientology recruiters still do. A lot of people think that the Xenu narrative is the most crazy part of Scientology but I think you may change your mind after you hear all of this. Not every Scientologist falls for Hubbard’s conspiracy theories, but most of them do.Read More »Scientology’s Totally Insane Recruitment Methods

Mormonism vs Scientology: A Talk with Jonathan Streeter

I have been asked many times whether Mormonism is a destructive cult. I have a couple of Mormon friends, watched the South Park episode about it and have read a few articles but never really dug in to deeply but I’ve been wanting to interview an ex-Mormon to find out more about it. The opportunity finally afforded itself and here is the result. Jonathan Streeter does ex-Mormon advocacy like I do ex-Scientology work and we had a great chat about both subjects. I think anyone who is curious about this will find this interesting.Read More »Mormonism vs Scientology: A Talk with Jonathan Streeter