Jon Atack (born Jonathan Caven-Atack in 1955) is a British author and artist who is widely recognized as one of the most informed critics of the Church of Scientology. He joined Scientology at the age of nineteen in 1974, and was based largely in the Church of Scientology's British headquarters at Saint Hill Manor in England.

Jon Atack is a leading expert on authoritarian cult groups as well as a best-selling author. He has worked with hundreds of former members and has lectured and written extensively in a career spanning almost four decades.

He was falsely accused of child abuse, attempted murder, rape and heroin addiction. Jon was followed by private investigators, one of whom tricked him out of the manuscript to his book, A Piece of Blue Sky, so that the cult could sue prior to publication. Jon’s book A Piece of Blue Sky, was published in 1990, after a court battle in New York.

Author Jon Atack, along with his son Sam, his assistant Spike, and his amazing guests, show how to spot, avoid, and overcome exploitative persuasion of all kinds and comment on authoritarian ...

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Jon Atack left school at 17 to play drums in various rock bands. He joined the Scientology cult aged 19. Although he was never a live-in member, he took many courses and 25 of the available levels of the ‘Bridge’ – to Operating Thetan Section V. Jon left the cult in 1983, appalled by its aggressive behaviour towards members.

My talks and interviews with author, historian, researcher and former Scientologist Jon Atack.

Jon Atack. Jon is a leading expert on authoritarian cult groups as well as a best-selling author. He has worked with hundreds of former members and has lectured and written extensively in a career spanning almost four decades.

2013年2月5日 · Jon Atack spent nine years trying to tamp down his cognitive dissonance as a Scientologist, even when he was most firmly enmeshed in the cult's airless, blinkered world. But he is telling Scientology's story, as opposed to his own, which he touches on only glancingly, and he does it masterfully.