Breast Massage and Harsh Diets - Universal Medicine - Serge Benhayon Orgasmic Meditation One Taste - Nicole Daedone, Victor Baranco, Sex University Cuddle Parties Human Awareness Institute Sedona Arizona Temple of the Goddess Topic: "Goddess" temples busted in prostitution sting - many arrests & charges -- Four page discussion, thoughtful an
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Monetizing the Orgasm Monetizing the Orgasm Nicole Daedone turns a clitoris-exalting self-help movement into a cash cow. San Francisco Magazine/December 5, 2014 By Lauren Smiley Corboy, here is a big question: Is participants' confidentiality protected? How is confidentiality protected? When people participate in an OT event, do they get any paperwork that descr
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as of approx November 2016 Reese JOnes was declaring bankruptcy. SF Court records
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This article is well worth reading in its entirety. The title and its accompanying graphic may be unsafe for your school or workplace. Here is the URL for Google Cache which will give just the text, no pictures. The article begins: "This was the first night of OMXperience, a three-day August conference meant to "kick off the industry of orgasm," with speakers incl
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Quoted from "Living in an Orgasmic Meditation House" QuoteNicole Daedone, the founder of OneTaste, is definitely revered in an almost idol-istic way. She’s worshipped as a guru who can do or say no wrong. Her wisdom is elevated to an almost mystical level. During one of her programs, she actually told my friend, “You are going to fall in love with a man here.” Now, there wa
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Heads up -- damn. I gotta rephrase this -- Okay, listen up. Here are new key words that indicate Baranco-Daedone's group. "OM community" "Orgasmic Meditation" "Orgasmic Meditation House". Some jargon: "OMs" -- orgasmic meditation "(verbal) stroking" "riling up harsh emotions and dropping uncomfortable “truths” on one an
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Corboy advice: Before you move into an experimental group living situation of any kind, but especially one that pushes the boundaries on sexuality, question them LONG and HARD about whether your confidentiality will be protected and how. You do not know what your life will be like five years from now. Perhaps you want to run for public office. Or become employed in a setting that requires
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One Taste, associated with the Morehouse group (Victor Baranco and Nicole Daedone), offers something similar.
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What Is Orgasmic Meditation? - Daily Beast, March 5th (same article, but text-only from Google cache) What Is Orgasmic Meditation? Answer: OM is something developed and enthusiastically commercialized by Victor "Doctor" Baranco, creator of "More Houses". Baranco was a genius at persuading people to pay him for the privilege of donating their unpaid labor t
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For "doubtful", Feeling "foolish" is part of the recovery process and a positive sign that you are on the right track. I can relate to and understand all of the things that you mentioned. Been thru exactly the same. The gakkai cult.org, at its core, is a toxic environment and its (higher level) "leaders" are (IMO), at their core, psycho, immature, manipulator
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@Hitch OMG. I am so glad to see this forum back in action. I was so glad to read what you wrote since I was thinking precisely the same thing this morning. I am so glad to see this forum back and running since it was really instrumental in helping me break away from SGI after 20 years of practice. Sometimes I really regret most of the experience; others times I regret some of it. Most of the peo
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PUA 'pick up artist' sounds so much more elegant than horn dog. Neuroscientist Marc Lewis tells us how it works. Dopamine. The neurotransmitter that underlies the craving, the yen, the hunting instinct. Get your craved object, and the fun vanishes. Thus you go looking for another one. Another woman, another purse to buy, another political campaign, whatever. And how inte
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and as suspected, the so-called PUA pick-up artist community has picked up on OneTaste. The PUA pick-up artists, are men who's goal is to have sexual relations with as many women as possible. So they have found OneTaste is an easier way to that. Just search for these words, to see many links and connections. OneTaste PUA One Taste pick-up artist
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You can see where in the past Reese Jones was blocked from the OneTaste wikipedia entry, even though he is mentioned in the New York Times, and many other articles. Also, it looks like the first place where Reese Jones was identified as being the man behind the curtain in OneTaste was in this forum. Robert Kandell, OneTaste, SF, NYC, Daedone, funded by Reese Jones? Date: December
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Of course Jimbo Jimmy Wales was busted doing this to his own Wikipedia entry, trying to get rid of the pornographic references in his business history. There is a list of various events. The Reese Jones situation might be another one that has managed to float below the radar so far. Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia
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Its very clear, that somehow guys like Reese Jones are able to use their insider influence of Wikipedia to keep themselves out of Wikipedia. If you search Google for "reese jones" wikipedia you will see various posts where Reese Jones says he "supports" Wikipedia, and that does not mean moral support. Obviously that is financial support. Quote from Reese Jones pages
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Actually...it was obviously a SLAPP to try and censor Allan Steele and the SF Chronicle, which they lost. "Steele maintains that the lawsuit was designed to silence his public criticism. "It was nothing more than that," he said. "They wanted to shut me up." And he said he may sue the university to recoup his $300,000 in tuition fees and his $10,000 in legal bills.&
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Does it stop at One Taste events? Or are young women routed into various and sundry 'intentional communities'?
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Turning persons into action figures.
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Right, imagine getting up before the SGI bigwigs, and saying...."I've been chanting my buns off for years, and doing all of it, and life still is crappy or more seriously...my wife still died of cancer..." Both of those have happened for SGI people, many of their lives still suck. And many in their families have unfortunately died, just like the rest of the population. If yo
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The Anticult Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > (EXCERPT for educational research) > > Quote: "The articles also reported the allegations > of a former student, Alan Steele, who said that > More coerced students into prostitution and > provided them with LSD and other illegal drugs". > My understanding is that Alan Steele bro
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meh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hitch, I note that there's not a number on your > list for studying anything other than ikeda-ism. I > think it's important to be aware that there is no > real Buddhism within sgi; the only thing that's > studied are ikeda's interpretations of nichiren's > goshos. And the whole &
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You're doing great work, much better than the media on this topic, so don't think nobody has noticed. Couple notes: 1. Expecting actual journalism from bloggers is pointless. Not that all bloggers are bad, that is not true. But things like Gawker, and hell Yahoo news, have completely dropped the bar and it is perennial amateur hour. Writing itself has been devalued and in the int
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There is another group called OneTaste which sells OM "meditation" linked with public sex activity, and the LGAT kitchen sink thrown-in. You could call it a sex-LGAT. OneTaste, Nicole Daedone, sex-LGAT warning One part that reminds of SGI, is that after their "experience" the OneTaste members go on the microphone, and "brag" about what an amazing experience
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and that is another sad example of a writer who is completely unable to "investigate" OneTaste as the Gawker article claims. (of course Gawker is doing it simply for 'clicks' for their business). One has to wonder, why only people with absolutely no experience and no training in the new "persuasion techniques" write these pieces on OneTaste, and other groups like
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corboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Once I got to the conference, though, it was > clear that the only way to witness the Group OM > was to participate. " > > > t-1445204953 > > This is Google's cache of > > t-1445204953. It is a snapshot of the page as it > appeared on Jun 19, 2014 06:56:12 GMT.
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It continues to be amazing how someone like Reese Jones can continue to have his name "blacklisted" from Wikipedia. A notable Silicon Valley venture capitalist, who actually seems to DONATE MONEY to wikipedia, has been able to keep himself out of Wikipedia, except for one mention? Someone in the actual media should do an experiment, try to get a Reese Jones entry into Wikipedia, and n
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OneTaste San Francisco, CA www.meetup.com/OneTasteSFBay/members/13664599/ Reese Jones Location: San Francisco, CA Hometown: San Francisco Interests · singularity · Meditation · Sexuality Awareness · Open Relationships · Dating and Relationships · Spirituality · Human Sexuality · Sensuality and Intimacy
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