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AlanzosBlog: The Last Kool-Aide Stand on the Road Leading Out of Scientology
There is a lot of talk about “decompression” after Scientology. Decompression is the period where a person finds himself outside the socially coercive cult environment of the Church where Ethics...
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Great Comments From the Post-Scientology Internet: “ThetaClear” on the...
This is a great comment, in response to the Scientologists Back in Comm moderators posting an OSA Program written in 2007 to handle the “squirrels”. “thetaclear on November 22, 2014 at 7:27 am said:...
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Tom Smith’s “The Ex-Scientologist Forum”
Tom Smith is an Ex-Scientologist who for years interviewed many thought leaders in the world of Scientology criticism and cult recovery on Hawk Radio’s “The Edge” from Tampa Bay, Florida. He has also...
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“Radical Corporate Scientology” Isn’t That Just Plain Ole “The Church of...
A lot of really good discussions about Scientology take place in the comments section of Mike Rinder’s Blog. This is one that took place in March of 2014, and you can find it HERE:...
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Scientology Book Club on Facebook
The Scientology Book Club on Facebook is a great place to discuss the ideas that need to be discussed about Scientology. I joined there and they accepted me right away. Which, I know, makes the whole...
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Great Posts From the Post-Scientology Internet: Mimsey Borogrove on ESMB
In keeping with not forgetting the positive and constructive parts of Scientology in order to seek to live with the truth, I found Mimsey Borogrove’s opening post on ESMB to be highly relevant. So I...
View ArticlePete Griffiths is a Major Badass in the Fight to Expose Scientology’s Fraud...
Pete Griffiths is a major badass in the fight to expose Scientology’s fraud and abuse. So, predictably, Pete has become a target for fair game by the Church of Scientology, just as L Ron Hubbard...
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Dogs Annoying Cats With Friendship
On this, L Ron Hubbard’s 104 Birthday, and with the premier of Alex Gibney’s documentary “Going Clear” in theaters around the country, I post something L Ron Hubbard had nothing whatsoever to do with:...
View ArticleMarty Rathbun: How People Change After Scientology
This is an example of only one exchange I had on the Marty Rathbun Scientology blog back in 2010, when he was the leader of the second Independent Scientology Movement, and Mike Rinder was helping to...
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Read Plato
Another excellent discussion over on Mike Rinder’s blog prompted me to post this solution to the endless tribal warfare between “spiritualists” and “scientists”. Although I almost always disagree with...
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Interest in Scientology Dying Over the Last 10 Years
Never has there been better news for a free society: The above was taken from a Google Trends search on the search term “scientology”. Even an OEC/FEBC Grad can read the writing on this wall. The post...
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Hypothesis Testing
There’s a really good book, written by a former CIA analyst, called “The Thinker’s Toolkit”. This book contains 14 tools of structured analysis which can be used to help you figure things out. A...
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Sacred Cows + Siege Mentality = Sheeple
Sheeple. An actual mathematical formula for them. I’m not kidding. I think Carl Sagan wrote about it once: Ask Neil Degrasse Tyson. It describes a fundamental property of all human groups: not just...
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Scientologist Haydn James on Why Scientology Does Not Work
Mike Rinder posted an article on his blog today that Karen DeLacarriere gave to him from “The Outer Banks”, a super-secret Facebook group that I was joined into without my permission, and then kicked...
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Great Comments From the Post-Scientology Internet: The Change in Mike Rinder
The legendary critic of Scientology who posts under the name “Veda” on ESMB has unearthed a couple quotes from Mike Rinder which show the change he has undergone in the last few years as he continues...
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One Moon
It is said that there is only one moon. It is also said that there are as many moons as there are individuals who are looking at it. Maybe there is one objective reality called The Moon. But I don’t...
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The Leftovers: It’s a Dessert Topping AND a Floor Wax!
Need Meaning After the Cult? Free Hugs! This week’s episode of The Leftovers on HBO went in a direction that was very close to home for me, and probably would be for a lot of people here. Last Season,...
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More on Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs by Mike Rinder
This discussion about Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs occurred on Mike Rinder’s blog yesterday: Alanzo says October 31, 2015 at 12:01 pm Well done on 20/20 last night, Mike! Talking to you is...
View ArticleScientology: It’s Always Worse Than You Think
The exposure of Scientology is a repetitive business. Every year, there are new people coming out of the Church who, no matter how highly trained as an auditor, no matter how many years they’ve spent...
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Scientology Finally Makes the Cover of People Magazine!
It is the goal of every Scientology Celebrity to get Scientology onto the cover of People Magazine. Leah Remini has now done it. This is an interview with the journalist who spoke to Leah for People...
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