For all the enquiring minds out there, the co-founder of OneTaste Urban Retreat Center, Robert Kandell has a blog. Robert Kandell’s Blog Ladies, start your engines...The Ladies Man is back. But other than lists of his sexual conquests of the ladies by initial, and angst about going to sex parties, there is some info about OneTaste. It seems there is some trouble in paradise, people qui
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NEW FIND!! Nicole Daedone attended More University and also "Nicole Daedone, founder of One Taste Urban Retreat Center and the Insight Institute's Sensual Research Center" but according to Robert Kandell "She has spent the last seven years devoting her energy to the work of Dr. Victor Baranco, founder of More University". Notice how her partner Robert Kandell
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one other thing...Marc Beneteau and Nicole Daedone, and Layfayette Morehouse...are all very skilled at smooth sounding Double-Speak. They speak publically in one way, and for some of them, its proven their private language inside the group is very different. They even use a phrase like Urban Monk, while at the same time using the words Sex Cult. Its a Mindfuck, is what they are really doing, s
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Marc Beneteau, in your own blog you have mentioned some problems you have had with others who were challenging you on your desire to be a "Guru". Blunt talk, based on reality and facts is not something Gurus tend to enjoy, so they run. You also speak softly, but seem to be quite skilled at word-warping. For example, you claim to talk about OBJECTIVE INFORMATION. Well guess what? T
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Just one last thing I would like to add. I am not claiming that Baranco was a saint. He was obviously involved in a lot of lawsuits and confrontational situation, which resulted in him being "creamed" by the court system on multiple occasions (there is no reference anywhere to a lawsuit that he won) and it seems that a safe assumption based on that , is that he enjoyed a "good fi
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Guys, First off I want to thank the administrators for merging the two threads. That is a nice piece of forum wizardry. Reading some of the new posts here, it seems clear to me that the thought of having a courteous and respectful conversation on this issue, driven by objective information, was a bit delusional on my part. Since I have no desire to engage in forum wars, I am going to ma
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The question has to be asked. Is One Taste Urban Retreat Center in San Francisco a type of 'front-group' for Lafayette Morehouse? Is it being used as new branding, as the More University and Lafayette Morehouse brands are so damaged due to their past activities? Are they just trying to rebrand themselves as more urban and cool with the OneTaste brand, and move away from the dated
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another interesting thing about the OneTaste.us website. www.OneTaste.us There are no links anywhere on that site to Victor Baranco, More University, Lafayette Morehouse, Institute of Human Abilities, or any of these other groups its based on. Not a single word comes up on their site. The info about Baranco came from other sites, it probably slipped out in earlier interviews that Daedone did
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ok, it looks like the original thread about OneTaste has been merged with the other thread. So its all in one thread now... Victor Baranco, OneTaste, Lafayette Morehouse, More University, Trellis Community House...
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in Philadelphia, Marc and Rebekah Beneteau are running TRELLIS HOUSE, which is another clone group of Lafayette Morehouse (previously More University), which is basically the same structure as One Taste by Nicole Daedone. Both are based on Victor Baranco. (how many other groups like these are out there??) Notice how Trellis House uses the word TRANSFORMATION constantly, and that Marc Beneteau
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ One last post here... Marc Beneteau says that almost no one pays the $2,000 a week at OneTaste? HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT? Has he seen their private accounting and payment books? Is that a sucker-price for guys who are losers? Do young women get in for free and guys pay triple? Or is he just making it up? Or writing what OneTaste asked him to write? Its either a false statem
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As predicted, as the google alerts get out there, they come to try to do some PR. Someone named Marc Beneteau has started another thread about OneTaste and Victor Baranco, to try and defend their methods. Why is Marc Beneteau starting a "new thread" when there already is a thread going? What is the purpose in that? To derail that train of analysis? Marc Beneteau has also state
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As predicted, as the google alerts get out there, they come to try to do some PR. Why is Marc Beneteau starting a "new thread" when there already is a thread going? What is the purpose in that? To derail that train of analysis? Marc Beneteau has also stated he is going to come back and make more posts in this thread. Its just an attempt to bury the other thread with the criticism
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First off, I want to say that I have found much of value on this site in general, in fact I have quoted one of the RickRoss threads in my own expose of self-styled "guru" Andrew Cohen, on my blog: I want to start a new message for the following thread: In order that it not get lost in the shuffle, as I am finding much misinterpretation of otherwise accurate information in this
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In the words of Stephen Colbert, Nicole Daedone has been NAILED. The Victor Baranco connection is very important. Victor Baranco was the founder of The Institute of Human Abilities, where some of the initial staff of OneTaste came from. You can see that Nicole Daedone just copied their course model, language, structure, and everything else. OneTaste is a clone. Victor Baranco was runn
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someone reminded me of that old punk-rock anthem, "California Uber Alles". California Uber Alles Uber Alles California ...Your kids will meditate in school Zen fascists will control you, 100% natural You will jog for the master race And always wear the happy face Close your eyes, can't happen here Big Bro' on white horse is near The hippies won't come back
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Elana Auerbach, a former member of OneTaste, shows some insight into what's going down, from 2004-2007. April 2007 | Letters to the Editor From Our Readers One Taste Not So Spiritual One Taste of the Spirit All your California needs -- from yoga and raw foods to meditation, massage, and gem-stone therapy -- in a sensual, theosophist setting By Silke Tudor published: August 0
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Its invariable that whenever Google alerts cue members of a group, they come and start their PR. The same thing has happened on other websites where criticism of OneTaste was posted, so at some point they will probably come and post here too. The bottom line is that Nicole Daedone has no training or credentials to be fooling around with live-in sex groups, therapy, experimental communities, M
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QuoteSageGreenQuoteThe Anticultjust a little digging brings up lots of info. No wonder a young woman can disappear into this netowrk of groups. ONE TASTE could easily be a front-group, or just an off-shoot. The root of ONE TASTE comes from what is now called Lafayette Morehouse. Even their biased Wiki page points to blogs and articles about how its a fenced off community with guards, who call
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QuoteThe Anticultjust a little digging brings up lots of info. No wonder a young woman can disappear into this netowrk of groups. ONE TASTE could easily be a front-group, or just an off-shoot. The root of ONE TASTE comes from what is now called Lafayette Morehouse. Even their biased Wiki page points to blogs and articles about how its a fenced off community with guards, who call themselves Pur
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QuoteThe Anticult <snip> Nicole Daedone joined the former More University, sounds like a sex commune? <snip> As far as I know, Nicole Daedone took many courses from Lafayette Morehouse ( the former More University) and lived in the Hawaii Morehouse for several weeks. I don't think Lafayette Morehouse has a concept like 'membership', you live there or you
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This is a bizarre little new group, with lots of deception going on. Nicole Daedone is marketing the group as Naked Yoga, as that is a great marketing tool. But that is obviously not what is going on, that is just the salespitch for the media. There are many serious problems with this group. 1) cultic commune techniques: Daedone has learned the methods to manipulate people while in a cultic
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Below is a link to a blog post that does possibly seem legit. Notice how this young female's gut feeling that she is being GROOMED is being triggered, but she seems to discount it. (trust your feelings of unease and wariness!! They are trying to lure you in) Its interesting that OneTaste has lots of programs costing thousands of dollars, and their customers are 70% male. Imagine that. Its
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notice how in their advertising they use deception, they don't talk about what is really going on in there. Its amazing this has slipped under the radar so far, this is a Rajneesh group in the making. Its an extension of what Victor Baranco was doing, but taken into the city. Notice how she calls it a Research Community, which is the exact same language as Victor Baranco, its the same thing,
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search Google for these words just like this... "One Taste" cult and a number of entries come up. Clearly there is something going sour. There seems to be serious danger for young women. Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: One Taste Is a Cult OneTaste Urban Retreat Center ___________________________ 07/26/2008 This place IS A CULT. Women bware do not go
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just a little digging brings up lots of info. No wonder a young woman can disappear into this netowrk of groups. ONE TASTE could easily be a front-group, or just an off-shoot. The root of ONE TASTE comes from what is now called Lafayette Morehouse. Even their biased Wiki page points to blogs and articles about how its a fenced off community with guards, who call themselves Purple People, even
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on a very serious note, Victor Baranco is in the title of this book called MINDFUCKERS from 1972. The "One Taste" group ain't about naked co-ed yoga folks... ____________________ Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America, Including Material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco, and Their Followers The publisher may have tried to conceal i
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yikes, her Guru Victor Baranco sounds like he was a real piece of work. (search google for his name) Nicole Daedone joined the former More University, sounds like a sex commune? "Lafayette Morehouse, formerly known as More University, is an experimental community originated in 1968 by Dr. Victor Baranco and his wife and lifelong friend, Dr. Suzanne Baranco. They designed a lifestyl
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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. ___________________________ Nicole Daedone: Founder, OneTaste™ Urban Retreat and Insight Institute Taste of Sex - Reality Audio Under Nicole’s guidance, One Taste quickly made its mark in San Francisco as the f
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