In this clip from my interview with Rachel Bernstein, I bring up the best example I have of how someone can talk effectively to a cult member in such a way as to maintain a solid and loving relationship despite the cult. Enjoy!
This clip was excerpted from Rachel Bernstein: How to Talk to a Scientologist (Part 2), first published on February 25, 2016.
Excellent tips, thankyou so much Chris, and Rachel you have just added so much good advice, I can’t thankyou both enough.
Rachel, How should writers/researchers debate and argue then with Scientology? The technique is good on the actual customer of a cult, but when taking the theory of the cult on in a paper or writing, or exposing the details in protest in letters to editors, etc, that type of countering a cult’s institutional hardbound rules or repeat behaviors need communicating, to someone. I guess that is not on the menu when trying to convince a cult member to jump ship.
I’ve found that cult members with their one foot out of the cult, you can for sure talk cult shop inconsistencies talk with them, they have a foot out of the door, and are receptive.
So the point is, a cult member still in, yes, that “and…..” method sounds so good and right.
To a cult member with their foot or several steps out the door, those doing talking with the cult member, can they then add some debatable observations into the conversation?
When and what guidelines do you use Rachel to enter into, or as a pro therapist you don’t do that?
In the many years I talked hundreds of hours on the phone with ex members, they had several feet or both feet all the way out the door, thankfully.
Chuck Beatty
x (never real world trained in psychology/cult member therapy, so granted most of my opinions are still very bogus, I realize)
75-03 mainly I was in the cult bureaucrat training department, and in the theoretical administrative rules/policies/programs/strategies units in the Scientology Sea Org all those years, up to ASI level, the for profit final solution fake literary agency which made it legal to flow the profits to Hubbard in the final years of Hubbard’s life