Always trying to play the "cult" word game. Misrepresenting and distorting. And trying to play the "benign cult" game as well, that is another standard comment. (a benign cult is really an oxymoron for this website). As well as the tired cliche about Church ____ is a cult. Why even talk about a Church, when HAI tries to market itself as group sexual psychotherapy? Read
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Its interesting to see some of the thoughts of an apparent former member of OneTaste. First off, this is not a personal criticism of a former member of OneTaste, who has their own view of what may or many not have happened to them. But it is very interesting to see those views, and to compare them to the objective known facts, and other knowledge about these kinds of groups and sects. People
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Just to clarify, when I wrote, "The organization was in its very early days when I was there and it was going through many growing pains." and everything written after that is about Nicole's organization, not the one to avoid. Also, to clarify about the one no vote. I did not give a no vote when I felt like giving one and I created quite a mess for myself. I was the one that su
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What's the deal with this? Is Desteni trying to create controversy to attract attention to themselves for marketing? There is a group called OneTaste in SF who also likes to market themselves in the underground as a "sex cult" for "viral" marketing. Victor Baranco, Lafayette Morehouse, Nicole Daedone, One Taste - cults? Having looked at many sects, this one is
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Anyone know who ACTUALLY owns that OneTaste building on Folsom Street? Where are they moving to? They had some health code violations ___________________________________ 024 (Ready-To-Eat-Food) Food Contact surfaces not cleaned/sanitized Violation descriptions: 024 Ready-To-Eat-Food - Exposed to Possible Contamination from Raw Meats/Poultry/Fish/Eggs All food shall be manufactured, pr
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If bored, do a Google search on evolutionary spirituality.
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This might be of interest. On my way to work today I noticed that the One Taste building had a big old For Sale sign on the side of it. Two different prices- have they had to come down? This is my first post- I came hear over a year ago to read about Landmark, then stumbled onto this thread. I had experience with the One taste people years ago- an outside company was using their spa
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Its better if the new Trellis House information goes into the OneTaste Victor Baranco thread, otherwise it gets lost over time. Also, that thread was merged, so it begins with posts by Marc Beneteau about Baranco and Daedone, where Beneteau is putting out all sorts of false and self-serving disinformation. Victor Baranco, Lafayette Morehouse,Nicole Daedone, One Taste - cults? The tit
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It appears that the same Trellis House that was run by Marc Beneteau who posted in this very forum has been shut down by the authorites His wife Rebekah Beneteau is mentioned in the article. Here is Marc Beneteau running his Victor Baranco apologetics and deceptive tactics. Notice how Marc Beneteau was directly identified for what he was doing, and challenged right here in this for
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Fascinating how Reese Jones bio at Singularity University, states he actually is connected with Wikipedia. As shown in this thread, Wikipedia does NOT have an entry on Reese Jones, which is outrageous, as he is a huge player in that industry. So he appears to be just unfamous enough with the general public, for a wikipedia entry under his name to somehow NOT be allowed, to keep away the nosy p
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and the OneTaste folks, are trying to do some other sneaky things on Wikipedia. There are 2 articles...where much of the deleted content from the main OneTaste article has been placed. Orgasmic Meditation Slow Sex Movement Notice how Nicole Daedone's name and OneTaste is slipped alongside other "big names" in preparation to try to launch her as a media sexpert. T
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Wikipedia is cracking down on Scientology and their behavior on Wikipedia. Good info from wiki-watcher Cade Metz. Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology By Cade Metz in San Francisco But is Wikipedia only going to crack down on the cultish groups that Wikipedia doesn't like? How about the cultish groups, that happen to have members and friends, that are buddies and perhaps even b
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As I recall, in the movie, A Fish Called Wanda the female protagonist has a boyfriend who is into extreme machismo, a martial arts fanatic, goes around quoting Nietzsche, and practices his kata and power chops with soulful classical music playing in the background. One day, they quarrel, and this intelligent lady snaps: 'And one more thing, contrary to what you believe, Buddhism is not
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and the well-financed OneTaste national PR advertising/propaganda campaign is gaining speed. this "blog" by "Ashley Harrell" even goes beyond even the recent PR. The only accurate thing in it, is the category...SF Oddities Slow-Sex Movement Picking up Speed: Documentaries, Books, and an Upcoming Lecture Series from SF's One Taste The entire blog, is literally a
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QuoteThe AnticultThat 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 p
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a college paper Spartan Daily, has spoken out criticizing OneTaste, and quoting Reese Jones, and Nicole Daedone. "Thinking with your head, and not with your pants" The connection to colleges, students and OneTaste, is not a random one. For example, are these associations connected to youth, appropriate with the controversial XXX-rated sexually exploitative OneTaste, with its dire
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The outstanding news source, the New York Post did a deep investigative report into OneTaste recently... TOUCH-AND-GO SITUATION ORGASMIC MEDITATION COMES TO NYC JUSTIN ROCKET SILVERMAN uh, not. They ran one of the worst shill-jobs you could ever imagine. Newspapers are going broke as they have no ads, so now they obviously sell space as "stories". Notice on the NY Post webs
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notice also in the Wikipedia article, that OneTasters have deleted the body-text references to Victor Baranco, which have been PROVEN, and referenced. She has said so previously in her PR statements, which have recently been changed. It was posted in numerous places by Robert Kandell, that Daedone studied Baranco for 7 years. why hide this now? Why lie so openly and brazenly? Do they t
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also, they are trying to turn Nicole Daedone into some type of national sex Guru, with this new PR offensive, apparently there is a book coming out. One assumes at least half of the book will be about all the things she learned studying Victor Baranco's methods for 7 years? No? Ironically, these sex groups seem to represent themselves as being more "honest" than society. Bu
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also, Victor Baranco, Lafayette Morehouse, Nicole Daedone, OneTaste, San Francisco, NY
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uh, karenb: Why would you so openly misread what I have said? Have you read any of the thread, or just a couple of posts? Glib superficialities are not the solution, they are the problem. I never said anything about the youth of america being sexually brainwashed. That is ridiculous and stupid. I said the exact opposite, that consenting adults, when properly informed, what they do is thei
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Anticult, I really appreciate the hard work you've done documenting the wikipedia abuse. But you need to chill about One Taste being poised to go national and sexually brainwash the youth of America. This will never happen. They're all going to give each other finger herpes and the place is probably crawling with scabies and bedbugs. Physical reality will always be a curb on this
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Each day they add a few more misleading promotional statements, and even actual lies to the OneTaste wikipedia promotional advertisement. For example, trying to distance themselves from Victor Baranco, when Robert Kandell has been proven to have said Nicole Daedone studied Victor Baranco for 7 years. Now they are trying to pretend that never happened. That is called a lie, in the world of reali
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its interesting about the Plug-n-Play people, even the NYT fluff-piece referred to Baranco as an "appliance salesman". Plug and Play indeed. Its amazing the scorn that NYT article has met from most objective people, scorn for the NYT to run such a puff-piece, and ridicule of even the basic "concepts" put forward by their OT advertising. You can already see female sexologi
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Here is the text from Jan. 2006 where Robert Kandell from OneTaste states that Nicole Daedone studied Victor Baranco for 7 years. "She has spent the last seven years devoting her energy to the work of Dr. Victor Baronco, founder of More University." (Quote by Robert Kandell, Jan 10, 2006) This is the same text that was removed from the main Tribe.net website after it was deemed da
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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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