Scientology was the ramblings of a narcissist. It emerged from many dubious sources; pop psychology, stage hypnotism, and a wide variety of other bullshit, all

Scientology was the ramblings of a narcissist. It emerged from many dubious sources; pop psychology, stage hypnotism, and a wide variety of other bullshit, all piled together into a reckless mass of bad ideas. What CFAR is doing is based on a reasonably solid foundation of current science. Expensive? Yes. I'm unlikely to ever pay $3900 for the program (though I can definitely see why a company might send its teams to CFAR workshops), but it isn't in any way cult-like. There's so much evidence that they're genuinely trying to evolve their program based on what works and what doesn't (the longitudinal study, the ongoing research, the very frequent sharing of what they do and how across a wide variety of media), I don't see any evidence they want to build a cult and lots of evidence they genuinely want to help people make more rational decisions and be happier because of it.