I really do apologize for the lateness in getting this posted. We went live mid-week to breakdown in one episode all the major science fiction beliefs that exist throughout Scientology's dogma and it's a lot. I hope you have as much fun with this as I did putting it together. Enjoy!

Sorry for the delay this week in posting this, but we did a live podcast this week to discuss the toll that it can take to challenge or try to expose your abuser, whether a cult, domestic partner, gang or something else. I hope you'll give this one a watch as it was really from the heart and I think there's something in here for every cult survivor. Enjoy!

This week we are very happy to feature Ashlen Hilliard, a fellow alumni of the Salford Coercive Control program and fellow cult fighter. She has a lot to share about her own motivations for doing this work, what our education did for our work, what ICSA is (and isn't) and forming support groups for ex-members. Enjoy!
Ashlen's website: https://peopleleavecults.com

This week we are covering the topics of cyberstalking, cyber-harassment and digital coercive control, all very real and related activities that occur daily on the internet and especially in destructive cults. We're covering some of the key points of research and statistical information and what the problems are in dealing with these things in the real world. Enjoy!

This week I am joined by Chad Harris, a man who grew up under the religious homeschooling program of Bill Gothard and the IBLP, infamously connected to the Duggar family and featured on the recent documentary Shiny Happy People. Chad has quite a bit to share with us about how religious homeschooling can be done very wrong, how this can lead to other abuses and how he broke away. Enjoy!
Chad Harris on TikTok: @archradish

This week I am joined by Cass Filetti, aka Theta Novis, a very recently escaped ex-Scientologist from Brisbane, Australia who has a lot of updates and an interesting story to share of her experience with Scientology in Australia and its connections to the US and Sea Org. Enjoy!
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This week I am joined by Dr. Jessica Schleider, a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist, to discuss her new book, "Little Treatments, Big Effects" and how single session interventions and recognizing the power of psychoeducation and epiphanies may help revolutionize mental health care. Enjoy!
Dr. Schleider on Twitter: @jschleiderPhD
Her book on Amazon: https://shorturl.at/itV69
Some of Dr. Schleider's work: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcpp.12811
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0890856716319335
 

This week I am joined by Dr. Yuval Laor to discuss in detail the symptoms and characteristics of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and why we believe that L. Ron Hubbard (as well as many other cult leaders and historical figures) suffered from this condition. We go deep in this one because this has more relevant and importance of cultic studies than most people realize. Enjoy!
Yuval Laor: YuvalLaor(@)gmail.com
Here are some academic research papers on TLE: Temporal lobe seizure https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/temporal-lobe-seizure/symptoms-causes/syc-20378214
Hypergraphia in temporal lobe epilepsy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1525505004003671
TLE, Dostoyevsky and Irrational Significance https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/neurology-and-religion/temporal-lobe-epilepsy-dostoyevsky-and-irrational-significance/FD2F6D1B35BB2107FAFA3B8B4CBFCFA3
Specificity of psychopathology in temporal lobe epilepsy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1525505012007846
Comparative study of personality characteristics https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11020039