Nearly forgot. Here is information about a co ed Naked Yoga class. Dunno if its still being offered. This two posts were from 2008. To get the live URLs click on the thread. Quote The Anticult wrote: I don't know, call me old fashioned, but this sounds like a Swingers club for urban yuppies. CO-ED NAKED YOGA. Well these folks know how to sell the people what they want. ______
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Send a message to Bay Area Reporter and Tell 'Em to Read Rick Ross Message Board Nothing Mentioned About Victor Baranco ---------------- Slow Sex author reveals tips for womenNEWS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published 02/09/2012 02/09/2012 by Heather Cassell heather@whi
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Why is it those of us with blogs can’t trust anything those who have editors, and fact-checkers, and legions of writers who went to school for this shit, write? From The Macho Response : It's Really Over Now (Read All About It) Blogging, Cultism, NewAge, Quackery, Science Jun 16 2011 QuoteToday, The Atlantic Magazine joined their ranks with a spiffy bit of conjuring called
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QuoteQuote from above reader: "Much of what is on Rick Ross' website, and here on Yelp, is based on experiences derived from the first year or three of OneTaste's existence. " This statement is naive and sounds exactly like something that would be told to a current resident to get them to dismiss what people who have managed to leave the group and are now trying to heal fro
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Quotethe members are sketch and often playing peek-a-boo out the windows flashing passersby on the street with their boobs or junk when they aren't outside chain smoking on the benches. and they are ALWAYS outside chain smoking on the benches!!! If this observation, quoted from Yelp is an accurate description, it is quite interesting. Chain smoking? Not a good sign. People chain smoke
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Yelp SF has some very blunt but truthful reviews of the reality of OneTaste, that even with the wealth of Reese Jones and his connections, One Taste haven't been able to get removed. Yes, they can control and influence Wikipedia, but not Yelp, not yet anyway. And of course, One Taste members try to fill up Yelp with their nauseating shill advertising posts. Some truthful reviews ar
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Reese Jones still shilling for the bogus orgasmic meditation, and shilling for Nicole Daedone to get her own TV show on the OWN Oprah network. Yeah, Oprah needs to foist even more crazy cultic garbage down people's throats. James Arthur Ray, recently convicted in the deaths of his own seminar attendees, also got his big break on Oprah. Nicole Daedone, still selling it with Robert K
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What a farce. Reese Jones, the gazillionaire internet venture capitalist investor, who lists in the fine-print, that he has interests/associations (or something) to Wikipedia, is still completely expunged from OneTaste and Wikipedia in general. Why? He has be taken out repeatedly. Why and how? As shown here, Reese Jones has now admitted in the fine-print that he is somehow involved with Wi
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Unfortunately, that always happens with Wikipedia with these cultish sects. Because members of the sect are assigned the task of cleansing Wikipedia by the Guru, or just take it upon themselves. They will spend months constantly trying to delete any criticism of their Guru. So Ching Hai most likely assigned a group of her people to monitor the Wikipedia entry. There is one way to deal wit
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To add to our portfolio, get and read a book review published a couple of weeks in the Wall Street Journal. UC Berkeley Professor Thomas Laqueur was right--the One Taste people are rehashing material that has already been peddled out before--except they are tarting it up with a glaze of rhetorical feminism. Its only appealing to people who have enough money and free time to fret about this
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Blech, what terrible "articles". Not a shred of insight in them. And full of deception about OneTaste is really about, all these things are talking about is the "bait" and not the "hook". They are misdirection and marketing. But that is what old fashioned bags of money for marketing buys. Looks like ole moneybags who is bankrolling OneTaste, is using OneTaste
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It never hurts to return to the old classic, preserved only here, from the Dont Date Him Girl site
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comments from the Salon article Saturday, May 21, 2011 02:24 PM ET The worship of female pleasure Nicole Daedone is trying to spread "orgasmic meditation" beyond alternative circles. Can America handle it? Tracy Clark-Flory Read The Article Post a letter about this article View: Newest First Oldest First Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next Page » Saturday, May 21, 2011 08:28 P
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An article from Salon The worship of female pleasure Nicole Daedone is trying to spread "orgasmic meditation" beyond alternative circles. Can America handle it? By Tracy Clark-Flory iStockphoto/chaossNicole Daedone pulls her long dirty-blond locks into a bun, rolls up the sleeves of her crisp white dress shirt and readies her lube. On the table in front of her there is a w
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Nicole Daedone's mission of orgasmic meditationNicole Daedone says her orgasmic meditation classes teach women how to harness ancient techniques to heighten sexual awareness and pleasure June 12, 2011|By Nellie Bowles, Chronicle Staff Writer Nicole Daedone in the Russian Hill home office of OneTaste, which she founded in 2004 and recently relocated from its Folsom Street site.Cre
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Here is the full text of the 1994 article: UNIVERSITY OF SEX I know it is going to be a distinctive academic experience when the woman who answers the door at the suburban San Diego house tells me to leave my shoes at the door. I paid $7 to join this "Mark Group" and am not sure what to expect. Some guy is practically dry-humping a woman on the couch, although the pair attract l
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To refresh our memories, get and read 1995 article on Sex University from Heterodoxy magazine. It is available here on PDF
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"I learned of a student being forced—against his will and his moral compunction—to engage in daily visits to prostitutes in Amsterdam for weeks on end as a kind of penance for past sexual indiscretions" (Hal Blacker, former Editor of What Is Enlightenment magazine, now currently titled EnlighteNext) QuoteMonday, April 16, 2007 A Farewell With Deep Gratitude by Hal Blacker
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And of course, One Taste is being promoted in the magazine of Andrew Cohen EnlightenNext. These forums have countless threads on the abuses done by Andrew Cohen, with his LGATs and years of abuses. Anyone who knows the links to key threads about Andrew Cohen please post them. So then, One Taste is a live experiment, using humans as guinea-pigs? And there is nothing "new" about On
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Walter Maksym and Werner Erhard -----------------quote------------------ Not to stray too far off track, but this is the University where Maksym got his masters degree. Walter, a long time advisor to More University, the late Dr. Victor Baranco, its founder and creator of the “More Philosophy,” the late Dr. Bob, and The Institute of Human Abilities is a Master of the “More Philo
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A few minutes research, exposes the deceptions and frankly, the outright lies of these folks. They are smart people, they know what is going on, they are doing it. That makes it far far worse, to "intentionally" mislead and deceive people. Posted on a blog recently, a soft-sell for One Taste with apparently boundless naivete, total ignorance or arrogance, trivializing the massive amo
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--------------quote excerpt for educational analysis------------ Rolling Stone #114, pp 14-16, Aug. 3, 1972. Beyond Shazam at Guru Gulch by Robin Green San Francisco — If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. Mel Lyman and Victor Baranco, founders and father figures of two nationwide chains of communes, are currently engaged in a guru showdown over
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Google has scanned this book, so some of it can be read online. Mindfuckers: a source book on the rise of acid fascism in America, David Dalton, Robin Green - Medical - 1972 - 324 pages
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The out-of-print book Mindfuckers (Victor Baranco) has gone up in demand like crazy, over $150 for a used copy? If anyone finds a PDF scan of this out-of-print book, please post the link, as info on Victor Baranco is essential. Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America, Including Material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco, and Their Followers by David Fe
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The NYT says this about Nicole Daedone: Quote: "But at 27, her world came crashing down when she learned that her father, from whom she was largely estranged, was dying of cancer in prison, after being convicted of molesting two young girls." They don't say which year the sex crime conviction was, or give more details about it. But a person doesn't have to be Freud
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"People don't know that I'm good at Cortex to limbic system inter-net-working and inter-personal dynamics. " Who are the people who do not know?
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For the record, below is some info that first appeared in this thread, then later in the NYT, and is censored from Wikipedia. -----------NYT quote------------- "Reese Jones, a venture capitalist-slash-geek-slash Ms. Daedone’s boyfriend, likens orgasmic meditation to massage. “It’s a procedure to nourish the limbic system, like yoga or Pilates, with no other strings attached,” he said.
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And amazingly, "Reese Jones" is still expunged from Wikipedia. He's listed as a trustee for Singularity University, but no page about this powerful silicon valley internet entrepreneur. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese_Jones Is Reese Jones really such a non-notable nobody that Wikipedia finds him irrelevant? Guess its useful to be a possible buddy or possible investor with
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Quote: "Bottom line, it isn't the practice or any of the surface claims. It is the underneath stripping of your connection to yourself and plugging you into the group think that can be dangerous. If you are at all in doubt about your OneTaste experience, read the book Combating Cult Mind Control. Believe me, it opened my eyes. OneTaste techniques are on every page. "
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And in this case, anyone can see that photos of everyone were taken, but just the woman's faces were cropped out of that particular photo. But like any photo shoot, there would be countless other photos taken, which the photographer holds forever in their computer or website, and can do what they want with. So if the photographer has taken close-ups of the people, then they have that for
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