1444: Recovering Agency - Examining Mormon Mind Control Pt. 2 w/ Luna Lindsey Corbden

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Summary

Luna Lindsey Corbden is the author of "Recovering Agency - Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control." In this multi-part Mormon Stories Podcast series, Lindsey employs the tools of social psychology to identify ways in which the Mormon church uses various coercive techniques often associated with high demand religions (also referred to as cults). Throughout the series we will be asking, "In what ways does the Mormon church behave in ways similar to other high demand religions (or cults), and what can it do to become less cult-like?"

The primary goal of this series is to help people raised within the Mormon Church unpack and separate their own identity from church doctrine and policies. In their book. Luna explores 31 different mind control techniques used by high demand religions generally, and by the Mormon church specifically.

In Part 2, we will cover the 2nd set of methods (of the 31 in total): Love Bombing, Destabilization, Deception, Belief Follows Behavior, Public Commitment, Creating Dependency, and Emotion Over Intellect.

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Luna Corbden (who also writes as Luna Lindsey) was born into the LDS Church and left the faith in 2001, at age 26. They now live in Washington state and write about topics of interest to them, including psychology, mind control, culture, and autism. They also write science fiction and fantasy novels, and write short stories for speculative fiction publications like the Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Crossed Genres, and the Recognize Fascism anthology. When they're not busy traveling to improbable worlds, they're thinking hard about this improbable world.

Luna's book can be found here.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It's May 14th, 2021 and today
0:07.6	We are
0:09.2	Following up with part two in a very important five-part series with a newly not not newly discovered but kind of a
0:18.6	newly met for the first time and discovered in terms of their brilliance Luna Lindsay Corbdon
0:25.0	The book that we are reviewing in a five-part series is this phenomenal book
0:30.8	recovering agency lifting the veil of Mormon Mind Control available on Amazon and elsewhere
0:36.3	We spent three hours with with Luna earlier this week
0:40.3	Luna, I forgot to ask you about your second COVID vaccine
0:43.4	So I'll ask you about that in just a second, but
0:46.2	What Luna has done is something really important Luna has spent a lot of time immersing themselves in the social psychology
0:53.8	literature to understand how high-demand organizations
0:58.5	wheeled or illicit undue influence on their followers and
1:03.3	Luna has pulled together what Luna calls the 31 flavors of undue influence or at least that's what I'm calling them and
1:10.4	It is just so powerful
1:12.4	We covered about six of those in part one and in each of those these five parts we're gonna be covering
1:19.5	five or six of these elements that Luna has
1:24.4	Uncovered and I I ended my last episode by saying we know about Grant Palmer
1:29.4	We know about Michael Quinn. We know about Joanna Brooks and
1:33.2	Fond Brodie and
1:35.0	R.F.M. and Bill Reale in Lydianza Park and there's so many people that have been very influential on us in the Mormon Mind Space
1:42.7	And I think Luna without attempting to love bomb which we'll describe later or flatter Luna
1:49.0	I think the work that Luna has done here belongs in that realm of of importance
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