In my opinion the most useful part of Scientology is the things you learn if you are deeply indoctrinated and spend decades in Scientology then leave and learn how to recover. So the post Scientology information is the useful part, not anything actually in Scientology itself.
The deep realization that you were so profoundly fooled, so deeply manipulated and betrayed and so completely duped for decades gives you a deep awareness that you personally have been and can be wrong, wrong about the nature of life, wrong about the world, wrong about the mind and spirit and wrong about the most important things possible.
If you take this realization and deal with whatever negative feelings you have about your experience, about Ronald Hubbard and the Scientology organization, about your own failures and being fooled, and continue to work hard to understand what you experienced and what you went through and how it could happen to people and how it has happened over and over.
The education you can get about a variety of subjects in cult recovery includes psychology, hypnosis, covert persuasion, rhetoric, cognitive dissonance theory, sociology, trauma, mind control, critical thinking, cognitive biases, logical fallacies and far more. This education is extensive because so much is involved in how and why a group can be used by a leader to exploit members in a cultic relationship.
The education is the most useful thing because it is extremely unlikely that I would have pursued such an extensive education on a relatively obscure subject. Cults are not a huge concern in many situations and the media often portray them as vastly different and much less harmful and dangerous than they actually are.
Additionally, the majority of information you have to learn to have a well rounded cultic education requires learning that hundreds of common assumptions about psychology and many other subjects are, well, frankly wrong, and you are likely to be open to this idea if you just left Scientology and realized that your Scientology beliefs were false, so you are open to considering different ways to look at thought, influence, group dynamics and many other subjects.
So, if you leave Scientology and entirely reject or seriously question everything you believed in Scientology then you got the benefit of being open to considering that you got everything wrong.
The drive to spend hundreds of hours learning the subjects necessary to understand cultic relationships is rare usually but if it is instilled after leaving Scientology then that is the most useful part of Scientology.
You can make a new beginning in your life and reevaluate your innermost assumptions and get the benefit of getting tools for better understanding and hopefully use good critical thinking and evaluate each belief as an adult and untangle from false beliefs.
If you pursue the education enough you can gain some degree of expertise and help other people by being able to rapidly answer questions and refer people to references and experts that they may have been completely unaware of.
You also may get the benefit of finding cult critics and experts who are very good at helping people to leave the cult and generally supportive people.
Here are a few blog posts to elaborate on how Scientology persuades people and my experience in undoing the influence and the education I strived to attain as part of my journey out of Scientology.
Getting Into and Getting Out of Scientology - The Lies That Bind
Scientology -The Evidence - What Convinces Scientologists ?
Here is a link to Mockingbird's Nest blog on Scientology with over four hundred posts on Scientology.
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