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🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In today's episode of Mormon Stories Podcast we talk with Chris Shelton about the complexities of leaving Scientology, and how he became an ex-Scientology activist.
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0:59.2 | Okay, so in terms of my story, so I had during this time or around this time, I had posted |
1:16.8 | a couple articles on Mike Rinder's blog under a pseudonym. |
1:22.9 | I think I was calling myself Galactic Patrol or something from the Lensman series. |
1:28.3 | I posted a couple of critical essays about the Church of Scientology because I had given |
1:35.7 | up on the hold, get back in their good graces thing. |
1:41.0 | Then I realized, okay, now I'm declared. |
1:42.9 | Now there is no reason for me to hide what I'm doing or who I am or what this is all about. |
1:51.0 | How did this happen? |
1:53.2 | I was in touch with a woman named Karen Delacarrier out in Los Angeles. |
1:59.4 | She is an XC org member at work directly under L.R. and Hubbard for many, many, many years. |
2:06.0 | She had a channel, a YouTube channel called Surviving Scientology. |
2:11.0 | She heard about what had happened. |
2:14.4 | I can't remember exactly how I think I got on forms or I got on the phone with her somehow. |
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