134. Authoritarian ideologies and cult thinking | ex-scientologist Jon Atack

Jon Atack is one of the biggest names in the ex-scientology community, known for his work A Piece of Blue Sky, which in 1990 was pretty groundbreaking in exposing the founder of Scientology. Since then, Jon has gone on to write many books about the ways that people are swayed and brought in by cults. Jon Atack: https://twitter.com/atack_jon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jon-Atack/e/B000AQ53YC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI4tcSMV2kEh3BooY_XFSYQ Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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