I love and treasure the little hints and peaks behind the curtain we get from Tony Ortega on his personal feelings and beliefs. The other day he had the op ed piece on lunkheads - Continue reading Scientology: Making fools of your local elected lunkheads since 1952 - that showed his feelings and in interviews lately he has let his hair down a bit and showed his personal opinions. Continue reading Just two blocks from Scientology’s LA headquarters, Paulette Cooper shone In today's piece we get the dig at Hannity .Continue reading John Coale, Greta Van Susteren, and the miracle of Scientology drug technology: A meditation And I loathe the far right hate and fear mongering propaganda the shills at Fox news sell everyday . So , this is particularly amusing to me . Someday someone should write a book about Tony Ortega and they should go over all his articles to get a peak under the surface . I find the idea of a never in who studies Scientology well enough to learn many of the implausible truths fascinating . Especially when that person is not in the " I believe every conspiracy theory I hear" club.
I was in for twenty five years and had to learn the bizarre truth about hypnosis, thought reform, cultic abuses and narcissists and sociopaths as part of cult recovery .If I was not in I would not believe a hundredth of the truth about thought reform and social psychology. It is so vastly different than how cults and the mind are portrayed in education and media. Now some academics get it right , but they are largely unheeded .
But to me the question remains - how do you get a skeptical , scientific person to look deep into Scientology and see the seemingly unreal nature of its influence without that person either being a Scientologist or having a loved one in ? I feel Tony Ortega has done this - and then taken on the cult to boot !
But I think the subject is well worth exploring for others and finding out what draws in the people who put in the time to see past the hype and stereotype . I find them quite interesting myself .
Hear! Hear! Well said.
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