Essential Scientology Information

I previously published Mockingbird's greatest hits, with the twenty most popular posts from the Mockingbird's Nest blog regarding Scientology.

Here's several more posts that have been popular on Scientology and have lots of info that you may not get elsewhere that I think is informative.

Scientology Was Ron Hubbard's Private Game
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Crimes That Never Were
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...

I wrote a very detailed analysis of Scientology through the lens of the BITE model Behavior Control, Information Control , Thought Control and Environment Control) created by Steven Hassan, cult expert and counselor.

Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 1 The BITE Model
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 2 Behavior Control
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 3 Information Control
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 4 Thought Control
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 5 Emotional Control
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

After The Cult Part 1 Scientology Acceptance And Denial
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...

Cognitive Dissonance Theory In Scientology
Here's an entire series of posts on the book A Theory Of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger. The series takes the ideas in Leon Festinger's essential book and explores the twenty five years I spent in Scientology to show how cognitive dissonance occurs in Scientology.

Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 1
Cognitive Dissonance
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 2 Magnitude, Reduction And Avoidance Of Dissonance.
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 3 Dissonance And Decisions
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 4 An Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 5 Explosive Dissonance
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 6 Overcoming Denial And Counterarguing
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 7 Social Support And Dissonance
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 8 Reducing Dissonance Socially
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 9 Group Priorities
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 10 Mass Phenomena
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Part 11 The Weakness Of Non Reality Based Belief Systems
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

The Pulling Back The Curtain series is centered on the book Age Of Propaganda by Anthony Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson. It covers many aspects of social psychology in Scientology.

Pulling Back The Curtain Part 1- Repetition And Variation In Scientology

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Pulling Back The Curtain Part 2- Deception By Distraction
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...

Pulling Back The Curtain Part 3 Self Influence And Vividness
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...

Pulling Back The Curtain Part 4 Ethos And Obedience
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...

Pulling Back The Curtain Part 5 Fear Appeals
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Pulling Back The Curtain Part 6 The Granfaloon Technique
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Pulling Back The Curtain Part 7 How To Become A Cult Leader
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Rhetoric In Scientology
Here's a group of posts on Ron Hubbard's study and use of rhetoric in Dianetics and Scientology.

Gib's Great Find - Rhetoric
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Rhetoric In Scientology- A Few Brief Examples
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

A Brief Rhetorical Analysis Of Keeping Scientology Working Series 1: KSW Keeping Slaves Willing
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/201...

Mass Murder In Scientology - Standard Tech

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Hypnotism - Science Or Pseudoscience ? Not So Fast
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...

Scientology And Margaret Singer's Six Conditions For Thought Reform
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Dr Robert Jay Lifton's Eight Criteria For Thought Reform
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Hubbard And Hitler
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...

Mockingbird's Greatest Hits
I have reached nearly two hundred posts online and thousands of comments as well. In looking back at all that I realized a very small number of posts have been consistently the most viewed and likely most helpful for people seeking to understand Scientology.

I certainly hope they are helping people. Here I will try to present the short list of the posts that best explain my ideas and can introduce you to information that I hope will help begin beneficial examination of Scientology.

1)Insidious Enslavement: Study Technology
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/01/i...ology.html?m=0

2)Basic Introduction To Hypnosis in Scientology

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/01/b...is-in.html?m=0

3)Pissed It's Not Your Fault !!!

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/01/p...fault.html?m=0


4)The Secret Of Scientology Part 1 Control Via Contradiction

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/01/t...art-1.html?m=0

5)Burning Down Hell - How Commands Are Hidden, Varied And Repeated To Control You As Hypnotic Implants

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/02/m...-hell.html?m=0

6)Why Hubbard Never Claimed OT Feats And The Rock Bottom Basis Of Scientology

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/02/m...never.html?m=0

7)A Million Years In Hell

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/02/a...-hell.html?m=0

8-10)OT III And Beyond: Sources Plagiarized From Part 1, 2 and 3
Part 1
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/03/o...rized.html?m=0

Part 2
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/03/o...ed_14.html?m=0

Part 3
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/03/o...ed_17.html?m=0

11)Propaganda By Reversal Of Meaning In Scientology

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/03/p...ng-in.html?m=0

12)Scientology's Parallel In Nature - Malignant Narcissism

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/05/s...ure_3.html?m=0

13)OT VIII Delusion Fulfilled

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/05/o...ed_30.html?m=0.

14)There Is No Irony In Scientology

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/08/t...ology.html?m=0

15 - 16)Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology part 1 and 2

Part 1
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/10/w...ed-in.html?m=0

Part 2

http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/10/w...in_26.html?m=0.

Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology part 3
http://mbnest.blogspot.com/...


17)Unraveling Scientology - A Missing Vital Ingredient


http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/11/u...vital.html?m=0.

18)Loving A Lie


http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/12/loving-lie.html?m=0.

19)Two Roads


http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/12/two-roads.html?m=0.

20)Orders Of Magnitude Part 1


http://mbnest.blogspot.com/2015/11/o...art-1.html?m=0.

These twenty posts have been both popular and give a very good grounding in many of my ideas on Scientology