also, these days another can buy a tiny micro-camera the size of a pen, and use it to record anything. And One Taste is deliberately using viral marketing of the "sex-cult" angle, so that is going to attract people to pay to engage in the One Taste "group sex". Of course, One Taste doesn't call it that, they try to reframe what they do as some New Agey sex therapy, whi
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Another point. If you become involved with OT, how can you be sure your confidentiality will be protected? Later in life, you may be offered job opportunities that require security clearances. You may be engaged to be married and your past flirtation with One Taste might become an embarassment. Another point. Suppose you yourself are famous and or have brag worthy connection
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Another warning sign from the One Taste "marketing" is how they have dealt with the allegations that One Taste by Nicole Daedone, Reese Jones, and others, are using manipulative and "cultic" techniques to lure people in, and exploit them. Instead of looking at it objectively, the One Taste owners have decided to use it as viral marketing. so One Taste has cynically embrace
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Notice this thread identified the Victor Baranco sex-cult roots of One Taste years before the media. And also identified the bald-faced lies by the leader of One Taste on that issue. Bald-faced brazen lying is generally a "clue" something is amiss...ya think? Its shocking and unbelievable the level of brazen propaganda being sold by One Taste to the credulous "media" in v
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Here is a post quoted from a former member of One Taste. ------------------ OneTaste Posted by: CuriosityKilledTheCat () Date: July 20, 2013 04:07AM As a former member a particular chapter of the OneTaste cult, my advice to anybody joining would be to steer clear of the faculty. If you want to try out the techniques then that's fine, but define your boundaries at the outset and
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All of the warning signs for the One Taste sex-sect were there in neon-lights. Here is a link to the main thread on Victor Baranco, Lafayette Morehouse,Nicole Daedone, One Taste - cults? Nicole Daedone, founder and CEO of OneTaste, San Francisco, Reese Jones
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Note: found on Yelp. This is Google's cache of . It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Mar 31, 2014 11:40:33 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ?-F (Mac) and use the find bar OneTaste 3.5 star rating 45 reviews · Wil J. Before judging OneTaste based on some
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Corboy note: What follows may not be safe for work and not for minors. Graphic content. The Snatch: Special "Orgasmic Meditation" Edition A A A Comments (0) By Staff, SF Weekly Wednesday, Apr 2 2014 Over the weekend, people passed through the doors of the Oakland Scottish Rite Center and entered what is possibly America's most energetic conference this side of Comic-Co
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An additional page of earlier entries from this thread
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Is confidentiality protected in these kinds of 'cutting edge' groups? Are you given signed statements that your confientiality will be protected. That you will not be filmed or voice recorded without your permission? 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 sexua
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Some old but informative posts earlier in this thread and this
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All kinds of projects are out there. These days one can be made to feel inferior if one doesnt want to follow a dare.
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July 19th 2013, a post was made by a new visitor to the Ross Instiute message board on this topic.
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More information on purchasing power around 1970-1972. In his biography, Sammy Hagar tells us his expenses in 1973 in the San Francisco Bay Area -- right where Baranco was purchasing houses and charging $200 a month room and board to those wanting to live in his communes--plus expecting them dibate labor fixing up his properties. (See above) Hagar tells us: Quote"I got my $ 5,000. I
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According to the article in Mindfuckers, (page 112) "full time residents pay $200 a month rent, wgucg entitles them to room and board, parties, affection, and the opportunity to restore dilapidated houses for Victor." Besides rental fees, $384,000 a year, the Institute also collects money from some 70-odd weekly courses at $45 each." (Mindfuckers was published in 1972.) So
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QuoteIt is clear, further, that (the function of rhetoric) is not simply to succeed in persuading, but rather to discover the means of coming as near such success as the circumstances of each particular case allow Aristotle "He'd sell you a rat's ass for a wedding ring." Attributed by some to Damon Runyon. Rhetorical Situation: You are in possession of the nether
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Many, including Baranco's young disciple, assume rhetoric is the "art of persuasion". Here is what Aristotle says. Baranco may have given that young man partial information about rhetoric and let him believe that was complete information about rhetoric. Here is what Aristotle, the most influential classical authority on rhetoric said about the subject. And Aristotle would ha
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Sounds like these alleged "writers" at whimsymedia.com are either totally naive, completely incompetent in "journalism", or simply work in advertising directly, (or through brown envelopes full of cash), and publish the press release of whoever pays. When cults use sex to manipulate people, that is very dangerous territory. Worse, when they use sex to lure vulnerable peopl
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Definition of perfect is no need for further change. Complete. Going by this text, Baranco re-defined 'perfect' as capable of further change. Which loaded the language by taking a word (in this case perfect) and redefining it to mean its opposite. In this article, The Siren Call of Modern Pied Pipers Quotehttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iaT3QtodOIwJ:
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Victor Baranco's Flash to Perfection May 1966 Vic, realizing he was the perceiver and judge of his experiences and thereby the creator, concluded that he was perfect, and everybody and everyone else was too. Further that perfection includes the potential for change. Note that this is a twist on language. The commonly accepted definitions of 'perfect' imply completion,
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Nearly forgot. Here is information about a co ed Naked Yoga class. Dunno if its still being offered. This two posts were from 2008. To get the live URLs click on the thread. Quote The Anticult wrote: 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. ______
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Send a message to Bay Area Reporter and Tell 'Em to Read Rick Ross Message Board Nothing Mentioned About Victor Baranco ---------------- Slow Sex author reveals tips for womenNEWS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published 02/09/2012 02/09/2012 by Heather Cassell heather@whi
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Why is it those of us with blogs can’t trust anything those who have editors, and fact-checkers, and legions of writers who went to school for this shit, write? From The Macho Response : It's Really Over Now (Read All About It) Blogging, Cultism, NewAge, Quackery, Science Jun 16 2011 QuoteToday, The Atlantic Magazine joined their ranks with a spiffy bit of conjuring called
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QuoteQuote from above reader: "Much of what is on Rick Ross' website, and here on Yelp, is based on experiences derived from the first year or three of OneTaste's existence. " This statement is naive and sounds exactly like something that would be told to a current resident to get them to dismiss what people who have managed to leave the group and are now trying to heal fro
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Quotethe members are sketch and often playing peek-a-boo out the windows flashing passersby on the street with their boobs or junk when they aren't outside chain smoking on the benches. and they are ALWAYS outside chain smoking on the benches!!! If this observation, quoted from Yelp is an accurate description, it is quite interesting. Chain smoking? Not a good sign. People chain smoke
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Yelp SF has some very blunt but truthful reviews of the reality of OneTaste, that even with the wealth of Reese Jones and his connections, One Taste haven't been able to get removed. Yes, they can control and influence Wikipedia, but not Yelp, not yet anyway. And of course, One Taste members try to fill up Yelp with their nauseating shill advertising posts. Some truthful reviews ar
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Reese Jones still shilling for the bogus orgasmic meditation, and shilling for Nicole Daedone to get her own TV show on the OWN Oprah network. Yeah, Oprah needs to foist even more crazy cultic garbage down people's throats. James Arthur Ray, recently convicted in the deaths of his own seminar attendees, also got his big break on Oprah. Nicole Daedone, still selling it with Robert K
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What a farce. Reese Jones, the gazillionaire internet venture capitalist investor, who lists in the fine-print, that he has interests/associations (or something) to Wikipedia, is still completely expunged from OneTaste and Wikipedia in general. Why? He has be taken out repeatedly. Why and how? As shown here, Reese Jones has now admitted in the fine-print that he is somehow involved with Wi
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Unfortunately, that always happens with Wikipedia with these cultish sects. Because members of the sect are assigned the task of cleansing Wikipedia by the Guru, or just take it upon themselves. They will spend months constantly trying to delete any criticism of their Guru. So Ching Hai most likely assigned a group of her people to monitor the Wikipedia entry. There is one way to deal wit
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To add to our portfolio, get and read a book review published a couple of weeks in the Wall Street Journal. UC Berkeley Professor Thomas Laqueur was right--the One Taste people are rehashing material that has already been peddled out before--except they are tarting it up with a glaze of rhetorical feminism. Its only appealing to people who have enough money and free time to fret about this
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