One wonders why on earth the NYT fell for the Vetterlein(sp?) connection, when there's an abundance of material, complete with citations, linking Daedone with Baranco. Ten years ago, at a class in journalism, the instructor told us that many print media publications no longer paid to have a full time fact checker on staff, and instead would hire free lance fact checkers, or expected jou
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Daedone's biography on the personalifemedia.com page was scrubbed of references to Baranco very recently. This is what it used to say, courtesy of Google cache: "Daedone left her career as owner of a successful art gallery in San Francisco and began a spiritual path that started with the study of theosophy. After three years, Nicole realized she no longer wanted to practice a discipli
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Another thing that is comical, is that Daedone stated to the NYT, that her Guru was in fact Ray Vetterlein, and not Victor Baranco. Well, do a Google search for... Vetterlein Daedone See if you can find ONE SINGLE reference of Vetterlein's Guru connection with Daedone before the NYT article of the last week. Nothing comes up at all. Zero. Its all from this week. Before that, Robe
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Plug and Play People by By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. Posted January 22, 2002 Quote 'Lately I've noticed that the concept of "plug and play" has extended into the realm of human interaction. 'People talk about wanting to hire a "plug-and-play engineer" who can churn out uncreative but stable bits of Java, C++, or whatever. Or, describing somebody who
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well, Reese Jones is officially out of the closet when in comes to OneTaste. He promoted a link to the NYT article on OneTaste, in the cleverly chosen "Style" section, on his Twitter account. Anyone can access Twitter tweets on the web from searching google for the name and Twitter. Reese Jones twitter Amazingly, Mitch Kapor, another internet bigshot, is also linking to OneTaste
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OneTaste has gotten a lot of blog-press from their NYT article. Unfortunately, some of the analysis of it, is not too deep! Like many things, they seem to take what is said at face value. OneTaste says its all about the female orgasm and sensuality. Is it? Or is it much more complex than that? OneTaste is a for-profit business corporation. But they market it like a "commune". Its
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Spread it wide...spread it wiiiidddeee.... (Your wallet)
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there is some harsh and funny criticism of this puff-piece in the NYT about OneTaste. Many people do see through this level of blatant bullshit and obvious dishonesty quite quickly. (original article on OneTaste in NYT) The Pleasure Principle New York Times | March 15, 2009 | Patricia Leigh Brown and Carol Pogash _______________________ GAWKER parody "This Sunday the Times
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there are quite a number of connections and links between OneTaste and Andrew Cohen and "Evolutionary Enlightenment", EnlightenNext. Going back a year or two, they were even conducting "Evolutionary Enlightenment" seminars right inside the OneTaste Urban Retreat Center in San Francisco. Followers of Andrew Cohen (Bay Area Andrew Cohen Community) have met at OneTaste SF as
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The OneTaste wikipedia entry (lie) that said Daedone studied "briefly" with Vic Baranco has been undone, which is good. But it does prove, there are OneTaste members who are trying to rig the Wikipedia entry for OneTaste with false information, as much as they can get away with. Why are they so dishonest? What is their problem? Aren't they supposed to be about "honesty&q
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wow, big mistake by OneTaste. OneTaste has even aquired another simultaneous "article" in Andrew Cohen's magazine What Is Enlightenment, rebranded as EnlightenNext. Andrew Cohen is notorious in his serious abuses and cult practices, as documented in many complaints. EnlightenNext Issue 43 / March–May 2009 SEX, The Good, the Strange, and the Sacred Their S
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OneTaste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources. (March 2009)"
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and of course, right BEFORE this fake-article was released, there were about 50 edits done to the Wikipedia entry for OneTaste. (someone linked to this thread, which the Wiki fixers deleted, of course). They also deleted the Criticism section of OneTaste, which is complete nonsense, since even at Yelp SF there is tons of criticism of OneTaste. They also have the outright lie in wikipedia, th
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also notice how they deliberately ignored...the cost, the pricing. Notice how expensive the prices were listed in this thread for some people, where others could "donate their labor" whatever that means. They make it sound like the Pope approves of OneTaste, like its some type of marriage counselling, when its nothing of the sort. Its obviously a type of Swingers Open-Sex philosphy,
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well, well, well...the grand old lady the New York Times has reprinted a infotainment "article" advertisement on OneTaste and Nicole Daedone. Its like reading this forum, but without hard facts, and more advertising copy. Clearly, this is one of those "articles" where some PR company, well connected and VERY expensive, mines their Rolodex to get a story done, to shape the P
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San Francisco Society Photographs BARDESSONO Inn and Spa, Napa Valley Open House: Date: 02 February 2009 Reese Jones, Nicole Daedone 8T9H8308.jpg Reese Jones, Nicole Daedone 8T9H8307.jpg
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SFBMoore, thank you for the info. Its helpful when former people of a group are able to take the time to write out some of the details of a group. That will help a lot of people over time. This is the best way to combat these various cultlike groups, to expose the facts of what is going on. People have a RIGHT to know what is going on in these groups, when it is deliberately kept secret by
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yeah, if you read those threads, its very clear that HAI teaches people to conceal and lie to the "outside world" about what is going on in there. That is a common tactic in these groups, of course. also, all these "levels" with these groups, just serve the purpose of repeat business, bring people back for more workshops. Again, a common structure to make more $$. Its pr
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There are some new critical reviews of OneTaste Urban Retreat Center at Yelp. A recent one is archived below, as they seem to be getting some negative reviews censored and removed from Yelp. Its interesting that the "homeless people" work is identical with Vic Baranco and Lafayette Morehouse years ago, as mentioned previously in the thread. There are many people who appear quite i
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This from the OneTaste Wikipedia entry: Quote..."orgasmic meditation" — involving partially-clothed, i.e. pantsless, mutual masturbation in a large group — and naked yoga. Many of OneTaste's longer-term members appear to be in open relationships with their boyfriends or girlfriends to leave room for opportunities of fully-involved and guilt-free sex with other people. How
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From the above VC list linked allegedly with Wikipedia, Reid Hoffman and Mitch Kapor have a few links with Reese Jones, who seems to be involved in all sorts of VS groups. "Reese is a strategic partner in several venture capital groups, including Telesoftvc, Accel, and August." This link also appears to state that Reese Jones was a "brain researcher". ____________________
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Just as an aside, Jimmy Wales, and the other owners of Bomis.com were behind Wikipedia until 2003. "Bomis.com produced a free soft-porn site titled Bomis Babe Report[2] and a membership soft porn site at . They are no longer online" Clearly, wikipedia has serious cultish group Admin problems, and some secret venture capital investor questions. Who knows which people are behind th
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One also must notice that Reese Jones does NOT have a Wikipedia entry. Why not? He owns and runs many companies and has been very active in the internet for decades in dozens of areas. Netopia, his former company he founded, has a Wikipedia entry. But they don't mention Reese Jones. Its the same Wikipedia entry as Farralon Computing, which was Reese Jones company, but they don'
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ALL OF THESE LINKS ARE NOW DEAD, and the cache has been wiped. Since posted in the last couple weeks, they have gone dead, and the Nicole Daedone entry appears to have been deleted. QuoteGuruphobiacQuoteThe AnticultThere are also some links at this site, Mobissimo. It looks like Reese Jones is Nicole's one and only MobiFriend. Press PEOPLE. Nicole Daedone and Reese Jones Sam
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regarding Wikipedia being rigged by OneTaste, and also Lafayette Morehouse. Wikipedia seems to be moving toward being controlled by members of these types of cultish groups, so they can control related entries. As mentioned already, Jimmy Wales and Reese Jones seem to have a connection too. ___________________________________________________ 'Lord of the Universe' disc
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Just wanted to say "great work!", AC. You are really digging into some core stuff here. It is a bottomless pit. Keep it up. Several tips: the Norcal fusion of the military/industrial complex, the psychedelic counterculture, and "sex cults" of the One Taste variety is a long and sordid history. You are not finding something "new", but simply the way things work i
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That message from the PSI member above, is a very standard technique. Verbal shaming. This is the reason the leaders of LGAT groups like PSI, Landmark, Vic Baranco (OneTaste, Nicole Daedone), Scientology, Byron Katie, and many others, all do so-called "charity" work for children, or food for homeless people. It has many pay-offs for them. Its good PR, it keeps people busy, good
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The People Farm reference is important in this story. On the People Farm homepage, there is the quote that the Ranch is a "human relations laboratory." That is the exact same language as Nicole Daedone, and Vic Baranco. There is so much going on its hard to sort it out. But they claim they are doing "sexual research" for many reasons. One is to try and give everything a
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Red Flag List from Heartless Bitches International Website The devil is in the details. This list gives 156 Red Flags. Scroll down and read #156. Then, go to the top and read your way down.
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A tip to researchers: Anyone who wants to educate themselves as to the kinds of questions to ask when researching any sort of in-group that claims it is cutting edge, and re-arranges sexual boundaries as a way to create a new society, should get and read People Farm by Steve Susoyev. The events described happened thirty years ago and the group no longer exists. Half the battle is learn
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