About this episode

Jon Atack returns to discuss Scientology's concepts of self-determinism, pan-determinism, and games theory.

Today I welcome back Jon Atack to continue our series of podcasts to debunk the "basics" of Scientology, one bit at a time. This week we are taking on self-determinism, pan-determinism and "games" theory in Scientology. This is a wide-ranging and hopefully interesting discussion where we pull no punches on how we see Scientology. Enjoy!

People in this episode

Host: Chris Shelton

Guest: Jon Atack

Topics covered

• Scientology
• self-determinism
• pan-determinism
• games theory
• abuse
• debunking

Keywords

• Scientology
• self-determinism
• pan-determinism
• games theory
• abuse
• Jon Atack

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scientology

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