Cults in our Midst - Margaret Thaler Singer

[Happy Days]

You may or may not consider this essential reading however there were certain points in this article that I/we found helpful and somewhat eye opening as we continue to peel back the layers of indoctrination.

I apologise in advance if this has already been posted

http://www.rickross.com/reference/re...recovery3.html

[LongTimeGone]

Sounds familiar
LTG

[Jquepublic]

You may or may not consider this essential reading however there were certain points in this article that I/we found helpful and somewhat eye opening as we continue to peel back the layers of indoctrination.

I apologise in advance if this has already been posted

http://www.rickross.com/reference/re...recovery3.html

I read the book this article was excerpted on years ago and found it very helpful. If you haven't check out the book. Much of it directly addresses Scientology's indoctrination process.

[Idle Morgue]

Thank you for posting this. It is VERY helpful. Part of the healing process for me is to understand how this CULT works, L R H's real biography and his affiliation with Aleistar Crowley (quite a different scene than the events shown at the Org's). I needed to understand just how EVIL and destructive the Church of Scientology truly is.

Anyone that has been in this Cult has had their lives damaged in some way. There is hope that healing can happen. I found "Cults in our Midst" extremely helpful for me! It really validated my experiences once Out of the Cult of Scientology. It helped me understand that I was vulnerable, I trusted and never could conceive it to be as EVIL as it really is!

I believe it is important that this site helps us all vent and then share information to help heal the pain caused by the SCAM that is Scientology! Thank you very much!!

[Boojuum]

This book was extremely helpful in getting me out. She was a pioneer. And the book is great!

Thank you for posting this. It is VERY helpful. Part of the healing process for me is to understand how this CULT works, where Hub Turd did this and kept it going and how EVIL it truly is. Anyone that has been in this Cult has had their lives damaged in some way. There is hope that healing can happen. I found "Cults in our Midst" extremely helpful for me! It really validated my experiences once Out of the Cult of Scientology. It helped me understand that I was vulnerable, I trusted and never could conceive it to be as EVIL as it really is!

I believe it is important that this site helps us all vent and then share information to help heal the pain caused by the SCAM that is Scientology! Thank you very much!!

[Lermanet_com]

I had the pleasure of meeting, sitting and chatting with Dr Singer for several hours at a conference in 95. (and she was sitting with Dr Jocyln "Jolly" West who was astounding to meet and chat with in his own right). I was totally blown away - (in light of their prior demonization) to find them both to be brilliantly insightful, intensely caring and compassionate human beings...instead of the monsters they were cast as by $cientology..I was honored by Dr singer who had already known of me, and who thanked me, for what I had done to expose scientology... This was shortly after the August 5th 1995 Raid and the resulting media storm LINK

Dr Margaret Singer PhD, who literally wrote the book on mind control and thought reform, see LINK, in I think 1985, gave a lecture titled

Coping with Post Cult Trauma

A copy of that tape from the 15th annual real, original, before the scientology takeover CAN conference is webbed here on Lermanet in the audio directory, in two parts - Part1 Part2

A mind blowing lecture, by Dr Jolly West who lectures on "Cult Phenomenon - Mental Health, Legal and Religious Implications"
Audio lecture part ONE - Part TWO

Both of these tapes were given to Lermanet.com by the Bethesda Cult Awareness Network before that local, separately incorporated entity, dissolved the corporation, after the National organization was being taken over by scientology....

[GoNuclear]

So what's worse ... cults in our midst or gorillas in the mist?

Pete