{"id":12850,"date":"2020-11-13T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2020-11-22T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T02:04:06","slug":"2020-11-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-11-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up with, and leaving, Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Doug Kramer<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., November 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this Sunday\u2019s Humanist Forum, Doug Kramer will discuss \u201cGrowing up with, and leaving, Scientology\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Kramer was raised in a Scientology-indoctrinated family. While he initially rejected it, and instinctually knew as a kid that something was wrong with it, in his 20s he ended up becoming a fully-believing and totally dedicated member for about 15 years &#8211; before literally &#8216;snapping out of it&#8217; through a chance event on a single day.<\/p>\n<p>Waking up from the spell and leaving the cult cost me everything in the end; yet getting out and free of the mind-control was the best gift I&#8217;ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p>He will show a 6 minute video that he made (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sE1OK8K9GOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/sE1OK8K9GOA<\/a>) which gives a pretty raw overall description of the topic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you don&#8217;t intend to ask any questions or make any comments during this Forum<\/strong>, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view the Forum as it occurs (in real time):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.echoplexmedia.com\/humanist\">https:\/\/www.echoplexmedia.com\/humanist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you may want to ask a question or make a comment during this Forum<\/strong>, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view, and possibly take part in, the Forum as it occurs (in real time):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Note: this is a different link than has been posted here previously.)<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have the Zoom app installed on your desktop computer, then joining the meeting via the above link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer, and then take you to the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:<\/p>\n<p>314247393<\/p>\n<p>as the meeting number, and<\/p>\n<p>255787<\/p>\n<p>as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/482163532\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/482163532\">Growing up with, and leaving, Scientology &#8211; Doug Kramer<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/274572338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/<\/a>) of the Humanist Community.<\/p>\n<p>Do your online shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979<\/a>, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Kramer 11 a.m., November 15, 2020 At this Sunday\u2019s Humanist Forum, Doug Kramer will discuss \u201cGrowing up with, and leaving, Scientology\u201d. Doug Kramer was raised in a Scientology-indoctrinated family. While he initially rejected it, and instinctually knew as a kid that something was wrong with it, in his 20s he ended up becoming a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-11-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing up with, and leaving, Scientology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12860,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions\/12860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}