Desteni are contemptuous of the efforts of millions of people all round the world helping the diseased, the starving, the disadvantaged, the war-torn or those struck by catastrophe etc. What do they expect people should do when there is for example, a devastating earthquake? Not offer any help, just ignore the situation, and pay money for the upkeep of a farm in South Africa instead?
Here's something slightly curious from the Desteni Introduction Forum...
In Greg Klette's Introduction [
desteni.co.za] he describes how in
"2003/2004 when I first met Bernard and Esteni" he attended "a demonstration of the educational software programme that Bernard and his gang had developed" and the idea was to "market the product to schools and to then follow up and sell the packages to the students/learners".
So it looks like even back Poolman and Esteni De Wet may have been running some other variation on MLM or network marketing. The software referred to is the vocabulary software Poolman's brother, Ferdi claimed Bernard had stolen from his company, as in this post: [
forum.culteducation.com] and which BP subsequently commented on in some videos, stating that his brother was an ex-con done for attempted murder and his sister mentally ill (links can be found following that post).
Greg Klette goes on to say that in 2003/04:
"Bernard was busy researching, certain aspects of the mind / life and having various experimental sessions with a number of people, so a lot of ill-informed had bad opinions and a lot of negative comments on the whole situation. I even heard some people calling him the devil himself."
Not much has changed then. Klette describes his relationship with Esteni De Wet's sister, Dina, and says that their father, Frans, had moved to the Desteni farm.
It seems that Frans De Wet may have been part of Poolman's original "gang", he lives on the Desteni Farm and is obviously part of Poolman's current "gang" but, unlike other Desteni members, all of whom are required to blog and vlog for the company, he does not have any public profile.