doubt-blocking

Updated: June 11, 2025

Atmananda failed to appreciate that my doubt-blocking efforts were largely successful, except for the time that I spent with him. It was then that I saw him not as a divine incarnation with a bright golden aura, but rather as an opportunistic Ph.D. with smooth social skills.

Mark Eliot Laxer - Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult