This forum helped me escape from a cult

[jacknine119]

About three years ago, I found some courses on Facebook and signed up for one. The organisation was Scientology.

They called me and asked about my problems and which areas of my life I wanted to improve. I thought, “Oh, this is a self-help group, kind of like Leo’s content!” I was genuinely excited to have discovered them.

For about two months, I attended their courses. The funny thing is that I actually enjoyed being there. I even considered buying their $2,000 course, which would have taken me much deeper into Scientology.

Fortunately, I came across a post on this forum and also watched Leo’s video about cults. That helped me recognise what I was getting involved in, and I managed to get out.

Looking back, I spent only two months there, so now it’s more of a funny story than a painful experience. But things could have turned out very differently if I had continued.

So, thanks to this forum. 

 

Edited 23 hours ago by jacknine119

[Sincerity]

Good!

[jacknine119]

 

[bazera]

@jacknine119 Was that a local Georgian group? Do we really have scientologists in the country? 

[Leo Gura]

22 minutes ago, jacknine119 said:

 

Haha, that was you? I remember that.

Good advice-following.

[Ramanujan]

i got scammed pretty badly by a discord cult.  i got emotionally abused pretty badly . it took 7 months to recover
didnt watch leos material on cult

[Leo Gura]

47 minutes ago, Ramanujan said:

i got scammed pretty badly by a discord cult.  i got emotionally abused pretty badly . it took 7 months to recover
didnt watch leos material on cult

Oh man

Sorry to hear it.

[Ramanujan]

16 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Oh man

Sorry to hear it.

yeah . its full of NFs. spiritual paths are dominated by NFs . i got emotionally addicted. and once i got addicted , they start asking for my self improvment knoweldge. took 7 months to recover.
need to read you book on cult and your videos. 
fucking hell spiritual paths are dominated by NFs. they are smooth talkers

[jacknine119]

This is my certificate of Scientology course  

[jacknine119]

@bazera They are Russian mostly.😄 but one of the “teacher” is Georgian speaking.

[SOUL]

This cult is cheaper and you still get the aliens....

[Jodistrict]

Many years ago I had two roommates who were scientologists.  They were trying to get me into it but I was trying to show them that the stuff they were learning wasn’t anything special.  They were deep in the organization and something happened and they both suddenly realized it was a cult and got out.  They then shortly thereafter disappeared so they couldn’t be tracked by the church.  The church actually sent detectives to my door that I had to deal with.  But the interesting thing is even after all of that, my  one roommate told me that the scientology auditing actually helped him and was real.  There are ex-scientologists who still audit each other outside the church. 

[OBEler]

20 hours ago, jacknine119 said:

About three years ago, I found some courses on Facebook and signed up for one. The organisation was Scientology.

They called me and asked about my problems and which areas of my life I wanted to improve. I thought, “Oh, this is a self-help group, kind of like Leo’s content!” I was genuinely excited to have discovered them.

For about two months, I attended their courses. The funny thing is that I actually enjoyed being there. I even considered buying their $2,000 course, which would have taken me much deeper into Scientology.

Fortunately, I came across a post on this forum and also watched Leo’s video about cults. That helped me recognise what I was getting involved in, and I managed to get out.

Looking back, I spent only two months there, so now it’s more of a funny story than a painful experience. But things could have turned out very differently if I had continued.

So, thanks to this forum. 

 

So you never heared of scientology before? I am really curious how could this even happen. You have internet access, why didn't you came to the Idea to google them just for a second. You instantly would read they are a cult everywhere on the internet.

[meta_male]

1 hour ago, OBEler said:

You instantly would read they are a cult everywhere on the internet.

You underestimate what the mind can block out when you're emotionally invested, it's a big blind spot.

You can read actualized is a cult on the internet too, does that make it one? Or is it possible that things aren't so obvious when you're involved in something?

[Leo Gura]

Scientology and cults in general are designed to love-bomb and ease new recruits into to. They boil people alive slowly like frogs. Their early trainings are designed to have wide mainstream appeal. They are designed to be useful and offer genuine self-help value. Scientology courses can feel genuinely good at the start. It is a devious trap.

Cults usually don't seem harmful until you get deep into them. It is a classic sort of marketing funnel.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Heaven]

Wow brother very good job for getting the right decision💪🏻

[Davidess]

In my country (Slovakia), I saw an advertisement of interesting self help event FOR FREE. I was interested, but after l looked deeper into it I found out it was Scientology and I was like, "no no, it's suspicious"😂😂Thank God I didn't go

[meta_male]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Scientology and cults in general are designed to love-bomb and ease new recruits into to. They boil people alive slowly like frogs.

Yep. It's almost impossible to recognise love bombing if you've never experienced it before.

[bazera]

This is what Scientologists actually believe, lol.

[Leo Gura]

You can find many YouTube videos documenting the evils of Scientology. Interviews with ex-members.

Edited 1 hour ago by Leo Gura