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ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 20398 • Posted: Tuesday January 22, 2008  

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Steven Alan Hassan, cult counselor and mind control expert, has challenged Tom Cruise to meet with him.

In a message posted to the Freedom of Mind discussion list, Hassan, Nationally Certified Counselor and licensed Mental Health Counselor, writes:

I would like to make a public challenge to meet with Tom Cruise and take him up on his claim that he can “handle” me. I have been an SP (suppressive person) for decades and have been on national television shows exposing this dangerous cult.

As a leading expert on cult mind control, and someone who has been helping people to leave Scientology for over 30 years, I dare him to meet with me on camera and prove that Scientology tech works- that he can communicate with anyone at any time about anything.

What about it, Tom?

Feel free to post this elsewhere.

Sincerely,

Steve Hassan

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Steven Alan Hassan M.Ed. LMHC, NCC center@freedomofmind.com
Freedom of Mind Resource Center Inc. http://www.freedomofmind.com
“I know but one freedom & that is the freedom of the mind”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Source: Steven Alan Hassan, Freedom of Mind discussion list, Jan. 19, 2008

Hassan’s public challenge is a response to videos recently leaked on the Internet, in which Tom Cruise shares his views regarding Scientology.

Steve Hassan — himself formerly a member of a religious cult — has been on the forefront of counseling cult members for over 30 years.

A leading cult expert, he is the author of two popular, critically-acclaimed books on the subject: Combatting Cult Mind Control: “The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults,” (1990), and Releasing The Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves (2000).

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