Tag Archives: spirituality

The Things You Find When Cleaning Out Your Hard Drive!

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Spike Robinson

A/N: This is an old piece that I’d honestly forgotten I still had stashed away in the depths of my hard drive. I wrote this back in 1997, just a few weeks after the Heaven’s Gate suicides, and maybe a … Continue reading →

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Don’t give up …

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Spike Robinson
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The Eight Reasons I’m Grateful for the Ex-Scientologists in my Life

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Spike Robinson

  Back in nineteeninetyneveryoumind, I was involved with a small group of mixed-up weirdos and assorted head cases. We called ourselves a “Magick Order,[i]” and our leader, who claimed to be the incarnation of Crowley’s Holy Guardian Angel, was going … Continue reading →

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The Scandal of Ex-Scientology

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Spike Robinson

You can take the person out of Scientology, but getting the Scientology out of the person is, apparently, a tougher order. Continue reading →

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Lifton’s Eight Thought Reform Criteria

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Spike Robinson

Robert Jay Lifton (b. 1926) developed these criteria to identify the actions of coercive groups using manipulative techniques in order to gain total control over their members, clouding their minds to rational thought. Milieu Control – limit the communication, limit … Continue reading →

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A Foul Brew

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Spike Robinson

Here’s a bit of an instructional graphic I cobbled up for the cranberry-drinking one for his upcoming brilliant tome. However, it’s not quite to the style needed for what we’re working on, and although we both liked it, it isn’t going in … Continue reading →

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S.P. Woodstock Interlude – The Basset Hound Howls

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Spike Robinson

[so for various reasons, I’m not able to present my day-to-day re-hash of S.P. Woodstock as planned just yet – I’m working on it, really. In any case, that means you can go and check out what’s new on Huffington, or … Continue reading →

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Dear Perry – Chapter 3: The Grand Tour, 101

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Spike Robinson

Chapters one & two are in the same blog post and can be found here. Dear Perry – So, it’s Easter Sunday, and what a basket of goodies for us Scilon-watchers to awake to! An HBO documentary, a Saturday Night live … Continue reading →

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Dear Perry – Chapters One and Two

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Spike Robinson

I’ve been doing a lot of Anti-Scientology work, as you’ll imagine if you’ve been reading my blog, and also quite active chatting with many, many ex-Scientologists. My dear young friend Perry, who is a talented psychology student in Texas, has … Continue reading →

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Seven Reasons Why You Could *Never* Get Trapped By A Cult

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Spike Robinson

This is the second in a series of articles I’m writing on the nature of cults, and is a direct response to every person I’ve heard say: “Oh, if they’re in [name of abusive cult], they deserve what they’re getting. I would never … Continue reading →

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