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HOW CULTS RECRUIT, BRAINWASH & TRAP PEOPLE IN THEIR WEB OF CONTROL

If You Think YOU WOULD NEVER Join a CULT... Watch This! Natalie of Life After a Cult interviews Jon Atack
https://youtu.be/SbW8QRpc1YU


MAIN POINTS:
* Cults are specialized to use your pride and arrogance against you
* It's easy for cults to induce a state of euphoria
* Cults introduce contradictions to confuse their targets
* The targt can't think clearly when they are upset
* Therapists apply their model to the patient rather than understaning the patient
* If a therapist doesn't understand the system, they can actually make it worse
* Existential therapy of the 50's may be a possibility


#Scientology #Scientologist #Cults #Skeptic #Freespeech #Freethinkers #CoerciveControl #MindControl #Brainwashing #

Wealthy #Scientologist heading the #AmericaFirst Policy Institute neo con think tank joins #KennedyCenter oversight board alongside #DJT himself and his longtime #TopTwit #DanScavino in apparent #hostiletakeover. Bookings cancelled, staff resignations occur at #DC's heralded #ArtsCulture outpost along #Potomac as tensions and turmoil rankle #arts center.

tonyortega.substack.com/p/whit

yahoo.com/entertainment/cancel

Saw that revamped version of #LinkinPark tour tix were on sale with blond female replacement singer after #ChesterBennington's suicide. Then today I read the news that the replacement vocalist comes from the family of a high-ranking #SeaOrg #Scientologist . The new singer #EmilyArmstrong has long floated around #Scientology HQ, supporting #DannyMasterson at his high profile #Hollywood rape trial , and seen posing with #MarsVolta singer #CedricBixler in red carpet shots...

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tonyortega.substack.com/p/marc

#Jurors concerned they were contacted out of court by aggressive attorneys for high profile #Scientologist #Hollywood TV #sitcom star on trial for violent #sexcrimes who eventually was given life in #California #prison.

One #jury member wrote to the court that she had been contacted by defense attorney Shawn Holley. She expressed confusion about whether she could talk to him, and she didn’t understand how Holley had figured out who she was.

The court received an email from another juror. "Some of the #jurors have been visited at their homes by #DannyMasterson's Appeal team. We thought our information was going to be #sealed," the email said, adding, "We are concerned."

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Scientology protesters make local news in LA
Angry Gay Pope
https://youtu.be/q-cvLUd78_8

Anonymous protested a LA restaurant named in a sexual assault case that Danny Masterson.


"Scientology protesters at the Celeb Centre in Hwd made local news after absurd arrests by the LAPD outside La Poubelle restaurant, owned by Scientologists."


#Scientology #Scientologist #Cults #Skeptic #SexualAssault #DannyMasterson #Protest #AnonOps

A man who looked not too unlike Enoch Burke approached me and forced a leaflet into my hand at the foot of Nano Nagle bridge in summer 2008. From watching so much Tom Cruise YouTube content I could tell this was an encounter with a #scientologist. The leaflet was for an 'exposé' on psychology in Cork City Hall. I didn't go but two close friends with serious mental health struggles did.

They told me how they recognised folks who they knew to see from their own psych appointments in CUH.

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Court documents also said that #Masterson had raped another woman, identified as Jen B., in April 2003 after he gave her a drink. Jen B., who sought the #Scientology church’s permission to report the #rape, later received a written response from the church’s international chief justice that cited a 1965 policy letter, which for her raised concerns she could be ousted from her family & friends if she reported a fellow #Scientologist to the police. Still, she reported the rape in 2004.

Suppressive Ex-#Scientologist actress #LeahRemini sues #ReligiousCult leader #DavidMiscavige for 17 years of psychological #torture ,
defamation, #surveillance, #harassment, and intimidation. She seeks to protect her own #ConstitutionalRights and end #unlawful #FairGame activities targeting ex-members by purported #church operatives she left behind a decade ago and has since exposed via widely viewed TV #documentaries.

salon.com/2023/08/02/i-intend-

How You Know You're In a Cult
https://youtu.be/EukUyGCw8RU

1. Love Bombing - Cults treat recruits like royalty and promise them unconditional love. Over-promising love, acceptance and community without revealing the conditions the cult will later demand for that unconditional acceptance.

2. Code switching - the cult leader can adapt their language and use slang to appeal to various groups of people.

3. Prey on the vulnerable - Cults look for members who are in mourning, in crisis, depressed or at other times of extreme stress.

4. Cut members off from their families - If the family isn't 100% supportive of the cult's agenda, the family member is demonized and made to look like they are

5. Faith based reasoning - Once you relinquish your thoughts & are willing to take a brief system without any evidence, groupthink is potent & literally can shape your worldview.

6. Us vs. Them mentality - If an organized group that seeks power ensures that “only they get you” question this.

7. Collective shame/humiliation for non conformance. Cults know there is strength in numbers create a specific worldview that is myopic and is built on repercussions. If a member deviates from the group's dogma, the group will deal out repercussions.

8. Shunning - the day you say something bad about the group or refuse to accept the cult dogma 100%, you are socially isolated, kicked out, shamed ...

9. Gaslighting - cults lie to members so much that they lose self awareness and cognitive ability. Members lose their perception of reality and become trapped in the cult because they can't think their way out of the situation.


#Cults #TransCult #Scientology #Scientologist #CoerciveControl #MindControl #BrainWashing #Skeptic #freethinker #freespeech

Los Angeles Times, Andrew Blankstein reported, based on anonymous sources from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) that the department had closed investigation missing-persons report former #Scientologist and actress #LeaRemini, having "located and spoke" to Shelly Miscavige. The LAPD declined to answer questions about the details of the report.[115] Lawrence Wright reports that "former #SeaOrg members" say Shelly is being held under guard at Gold Base. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mi

en.wikipedia.orgDavid Miscavige - Wikipedia