Speaking of Cults

Today I welcome back Jon Atack to continue our series of podcasts to debunk the "basics" of Scientology, one bit at a time. This week we didn't make a lot of progress in our book review as we kept it short and mainly addressed Hubbard and his very outmoded ideas about the human brain. Enjoy!

Roehampton University in London is conducting a survey into the effects of mandated shunning—or enforced
disconnection—with the aim of introducing new legal provisions to the UK's existing coercive control law. This
important study will help shift public opinion, offer protection and safeguarding to former members, and encourage
education in our schools about the dangers of high-demand groups and their authoritarian practices. The survey is
anonymised. It takes about an hour to complete, but can be done in stages at your own pace. Windy and Savin would also like to talk with people who have suffered disconnection. Please take the survey and let others know about it.
Take the survey here: https://stopmandatedshunning.org/survey/ And here's the information page:
https://roehamptonpsych.az1.qualtrics... or you may contact the researchers directly: Dr Savin Bapir-Tardy Senior
lecturer in Counselling Psychology Roehampton University (s.bapir-tardy@roehampton.ac.uk) Dr Windy Grendele,
Senior lecturer in Psychology, Roehampton University (Windy.grendele@roehampton.ac.uk) Thanks!

Sorry for the delay in getting this posted this week. In this week's special live podcast episode, I am exploring where we derive meaning and order and morality, which are not ivory tower concepts relegated to an academic education but are in fact, the stuff of our daily lives. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

This week I welcome Anne Peterson back to have a very loose discussion around the things that all cults do or the beliefs/ideas that seem to echo from one to the other. This being our first time on this topic, we cover a lot of diverse ideas rather than have a bullet list of things to discuss, but I hope you find this as fun as we had doing it. Enjoy!

Anne's channel:  @ConfrontingTheLine 

The workshop page: https://ilumn8.life/op/reclaiming-your-mind-and-life-chris-shelton/

This week I welcome back Bryce Blankenangel and Shannon Grover to help me understand what happens when people want to leave the faith of the LDS Church in terms of repercussions both personally and/or professionally. As always, we go wide on this topic and hope it brings some more clarity to why cults like the Mormon Church act the way they do. Enjoy!

Glassbox podcast: https://glassboxpodcast.com

Today I welcome back Jon Atack to continue our series of podcasts to debunk the "basics" of Scientology, one bit at a time. This week we are taking on some of the very basic ideas of Scientology with theta and the simpleton approach of Scientology's philosophic foundations. This is a wide-ranging and hopefully interesting discussion where we pull no punches on how we see Scientology. Enjoy!