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Rick Ross

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
996 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

It supposedly is going to help this person to be a better, more productive member of society, of Scientology. But in reality, people that have been a part of this program, which they become isolated in this facility in Hemet, California, they feel it's like a prison. And there have been people held there for long periods of time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

It supposedly is going to help this person to be a better, more productive member of society, of Scientology. But in reality, people that have been a part of this program, which they become isolated in this facility in Hemet, California, they feel it's like a prison. And there have been people held there for long periods of time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

It supposedly is going to help this person to be a better, more productive member of society, of Scientology. But in reality, people that have been a part of this program, which they become isolated in this facility in Hemet, California, they feel it's like a prison. And there have been people held there for long periods of time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And there have been people that claim they escaped from that program. So I would say that Scientology is a very, can be a very harsh, very controlling organization for people. And this can cause a lot of problems. And I've had complaints about Scientology going back decades.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And there have been people that claim they escaped from that program. So I would say that Scientology is a very, can be a very harsh, very controlling organization for people. And this can cause a lot of problems. And I've had complaints about Scientology going back decades.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And there have been people that claim they escaped from that program. So I would say that Scientology is a very, can be a very harsh, very controlling organization for people. And this can cause a lot of problems. And I've had complaints about Scientology going back decades.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

If someone is put in that camp, it is with their consent, but I would argue, how did that consent, how was that consent obtained? What was the process? Because there have been allegations that it can be quite coercive, quite manipulative to get that person to go to that rehabilitation program. And it's a very, very harsh environment, according to people who have left.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

If someone is put in that camp, it is with their consent, but I would argue, how did that consent, how was that consent obtained? What was the process? Because there have been allegations that it can be quite coercive, quite manipulative to get that person to go to that rehabilitation program. And it's a very, very harsh environment, according to people who have left.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

If someone is put in that camp, it is with their consent, but I would argue, how did that consent, how was that consent obtained? What was the process? Because there have been allegations that it can be quite coercive, quite manipulative to get that person to go to that rehabilitation program. And it's a very, very harsh environment, according to people who have left.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

So I would say that they are acting against their own best interests by being there. And in my opinion, that would be a sign of undue influence, that people are acting against their own best interests, but conforming to what the leadership wants them to do, which is in the leadership's best interest. So in my opinion, Scientology exercises very extreme undue influence over its members.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

So I would say that they are acting against their own best interests by being there. And in my opinion, that would be a sign of undue influence, that people are acting against their own best interests, but conforming to what the leadership wants them to do, which is in the leadership's best interest. So in my opinion, Scientology exercises very extreme undue influence over its members.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

So I would say that they are acting against their own best interests by being there. And in my opinion, that would be a sign of undue influence, that people are acting against their own best interests, but conforming to what the leadership wants them to do, which is in the leadership's best interest. So in my opinion, Scientology exercises very extreme undue influence over its members.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

In my book, I wrote about a Scientologist that I was asked to intervene to get him out of Scientology. He had joined when he was 22. He had been in Scientology for 27 years. He was almost 50. when I met him. And his whole life had been Scientology from the time he was 22. And his wife was not a full-blown Scientologist. His two children had not become Scientologists, but they had not objected.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

In my book, I wrote about a Scientologist that I was asked to intervene to get him out of Scientology. He had joined when he was 22. He had been in Scientology for 27 years. He was almost 50. when I met him. And his whole life had been Scientology from the time he was 22. And his wife was not a full-blown Scientologist. His two children had not become Scientologists, but they had not objected.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

In my book, I wrote about a Scientologist that I was asked to intervene to get him out of Scientology. He had joined when he was 22. He had been in Scientology for 27 years. He was almost 50. when I met him. And his whole life had been Scientology from the time he was 22. And his wife was not a full-blown Scientologist. His two children had not become Scientologists, but they had not objected.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They had done courses. They had kind of placated him in Scientology, though they had concerns. They didn't really want to be all in. And so what happened was, at one point, Scientology wanted him to become a Sea Org member. They wanted him to go to a Scientology facility, live there, become full-time, and leave his family and divorce his wife.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They had done courses. They had kind of placated him in Scientology, though they had concerns. They didn't really want to be all in. And so what happened was, at one point, Scientology wanted him to become a Sea Org member. They wanted him to go to a Scientology facility, live there, become full-time, and leave his family and divorce his wife.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

They had done courses. They had kind of placated him in Scientology, though they had concerns. They didn't really want to be all in. And so what happened was, at one point, Scientology wanted him to become a Sea Org member. They wanted him to go to a Scientology facility, live there, become full-time, and leave his family and divorce his wife.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And he told his wife this, and then his family decided to do an intervention. And boy, that was a tough one. But eventually, he decided to leave Scientology. And I think the point that he kind of had an epiphany that opened his mind to the possibility that Scientology wasn't quite what he thought was when we talked about what's called the purification rundown.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#150 Rick Ross - Inside the Dark World of Cults

And he told his wife this, and then his family decided to do an intervention. And boy, that was a tough one. But eventually, he decided to leave Scientology. And I think the point that he kind of had an epiphany that opened his mind to the possibility that Scientology wasn't quite what he thought was when we talked about what's called the purification rundown.