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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Blech, what terrible "articles". Not a shred of insight in them. And full of deception about OneTaste is really about, all these things are talking about is the "bait" and not the "hook". They are misdirection and marketing. But that is what old fashioned bags of money for marketing buys. Looks like ole moneybags who is bankrolling OneTaste, is using OneTaste
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It never hurts to return to the old classic, preserved only here, from the Dont Date Him Girl site
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comments from the Salon article Saturday, May 21, 2011 02:24 PM ET The worship of female pleasure Nicole Daedone is trying to spread "orgasmic meditation" beyond alternative circles. Can America handle it? Tracy Clark-Flory Read The Article Post a letter about this article View: Newest First Oldest First Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next Page » Saturday, May 21, 2011 08:28 P
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An article from Salon The worship of female pleasure Nicole Daedone is trying to spread "orgasmic meditation" beyond alternative circles. Can America handle it? By Tracy Clark-Flory iStockphoto/chaossNicole Daedone pulls her long dirty-blond locks into a bun, rolls up the sleeves of her crisp white dress shirt and readies her lube. On the table in front of her there is a w
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Nicole Daedone's mission of orgasmic meditationNicole Daedone says her orgasmic meditation classes teach women how to harness ancient techniques to heighten sexual awareness and pleasure June 12, 2011|By Nellie Bowles, Chronicle Staff Writer Nicole Daedone in the Russian Hill home office of OneTaste, which she founded in 2004 and recently relocated from its Folsom Street site.Cre
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Here is the full text of the 1994 article: UNIVERSITY OF SEX I know it is going to be a distinctive academic experience when the woman who answers the door at the suburban San Diego house tells me to leave my shoes at the door. I paid $7 to join this "Mark Group" and am not sure what to expect. Some guy is practically dry-humping a woman on the couch, although the pair attract l
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To refresh our memories, get and read 1995 article on Sex University from Heterodoxy magazine. It is available here on PDF
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"I learned of a student being forced—against his will and his moral compunction—to engage in daily visits to prostitutes in Amsterdam for weeks on end as a kind of penance for past sexual indiscretions" (Hal Blacker, former Editor of What Is Enlightenment magazine, now currently titled EnlighteNext) QuoteMonday, April 16, 2007 A Farewell With Deep Gratitude by Hal Blacker
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And of course, One Taste is being promoted in the magazine of Andrew Cohen EnlightenNext. These forums have countless threads on the abuses done by Andrew Cohen, with his LGATs and years of abuses. Anyone who knows the links to key threads about Andrew Cohen please post them. So then, One Taste is a live experiment, using humans as guinea-pigs? And there is nothing "new" about On
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Walter Maksym and Werner Erhard -----------------quote------------------ Not to stray too far off track, but this is the University where Maksym got his masters degree. Walter, a long time advisor to More University, the late Dr. Victor Baranco, its founder and creator of the “More Philosophy,” the late Dr. Bob, and The Institute of Human Abilities is a Master of the “More Philo
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A few minutes research, exposes the deceptions and frankly, the outright lies of these folks. They are smart people, they know what is going on, they are doing it. That makes it far far worse, to "intentionally" mislead and deceive people. Posted on a blog recently, a soft-sell for One Taste with apparently boundless naivete, total ignorance or arrogance, trivializing the massive amo
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--------------quote excerpt for educational analysis------------ Rolling Stone #114, pp 14-16, Aug. 3, 1972. Beyond Shazam at Guru Gulch by Robin Green San Francisco — If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. Mel Lyman and Victor Baranco, founders and father figures of two nationwide chains of communes, are currently engaged in a guru showdown over
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Google has scanned this book, so some of it can be read online. Mindfuckers: a source book on the rise of acid fascism in America, David Dalton, Robin Green - Medical - 1972 - 324 pages
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The out-of-print book Mindfuckers (Victor Baranco) has gone up in demand like crazy, over $150 for a used copy? If anyone finds a PDF scan of this out-of-print book, please post the link, as info on Victor Baranco is essential. Mindfuckers: A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America, Including Material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco, and Their Followers by David Fe
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The NYT says this about Nicole Daedone: Quote: "But at 27, her world came crashing down when she learned that her father, from whom she was largely estranged, was dying of cancer in prison, after being convicted of molesting two young girls." They don't say which year the sex crime conviction was, or give more details about it. But a person doesn't have to be Freud
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"People don't know that I'm good at Cortex to limbic system inter-net-working and inter-personal dynamics. " Who are the people who do not know?
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For the record, below is some info that first appeared in this thread, then later in the NYT, and is censored from Wikipedia. -----------NYT quote------------- "Reese Jones, a venture capitalist-slash-geek-slash Ms. Daedone’s boyfriend, likens orgasmic meditation to massage. “It’s a procedure to nourish the limbic system, like yoga or Pilates, with no other strings attached,” he said.
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And amazingly, "Reese Jones" is still expunged from Wikipedia. He's listed as a trustee for Singularity University, but no page about this powerful silicon valley internet entrepreneur. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese_Jones Is Reese Jones really such a non-notable nobody that Wikipedia finds him irrelevant? Guess its useful to be a possible buddy or possible investor with
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Quote: "Bottom line, it isn't the practice or any of the surface claims. It is the underneath stripping of your connection to yourself and plugging you into the group think that can be dangerous. If you are at all in doubt about your OneTaste experience, read the book Combating Cult Mind Control. Believe me, it opened my eyes. OneTaste techniques are on every page. "
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And in this case, anyone can see that photos of everyone were taken, but just the woman's faces were cropped out of that particular photo. But like any photo shoot, there would be countless other photos taken, which the photographer holds forever in their computer or website, and can do what they want with. So if the photographer has taken close-ups of the people, then they have that for
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Thats another thing about any sex group or LGAT--and something for happy graduates to consider. How can you be sure you were not recorded or your picture taken? That is something all young people need to be aware of when approached for any of these ventures--the danger of blackmail. These days it is only too easy for a stranger to photograph you during an intimate moment. It could c
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There is also controversy about a website called: News Making News www.newsmakingnews.com ReeseJones.com directs to NewsMakingNews.com Someone did a WhoIs search here. --------------------------------------- For reesejones.com, WHOIS wrote: Domain Name.......... reesejones.com Creation Date........ 2001-09-24 Registration Date.... 2001-09-24 Expiry Date.......... 2011-09-24
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Interesting, that again, still, Wikipedia seems to be edited to take out the name of Nicole Daedone's (powerful, connected, wealthy, internet mogul) partner? Even wikipedia lists the numerous problems with the article, which is just an advertisement for One Taste, constantly manipulated by those in the group. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneTaste Search Google for: "reese jones&q
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And of course, to counter the negative reviews of One Taste, One Taste is shilling reviews on sites like Yelp with their own people, and people directed/suggested to write there. You can see the pattern. The so-called reviewer says something like: ...a friend invited me, I knew nothing about it, everyone was friendly not creepy, they are not a cult, there was no orgy, its all about women&
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A recent photo marketing the sex-LGAT seminar system, (which in that case is actually more of a group around the cultish personality of their leader) called One Taste led by Nicole Daedone. Thursday, March 3, 2011 Nicole Daedone / One Taste SF [4.bp.blogspot.com] You have Ms Daedone, smugly supervising 3 men all dressed in black (on purpose), with 3 women naked from the waist down, one as
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Check out this recent photo marketing the sex-LGAT seminar system, (which in that case is actually more of a group around the cultish personality of their leader) called One Taste led by Nicole Daedone, and explained at those other links above. [4.bp.blogspot.com] You have Ms Daedone, smugly supervising 3 men all dressed in black (on purpose), with 3 women naked from the waist down, one ass
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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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