Taking Leave Published: March 24, 2009 To the Editor: “The Pleasure Principle” (March 15), about the One Taste Urban Retreat Center in San Francisco, described our leaving as being due to a lifestyle decision, to pursue a life that was “heart-focused rather than genital-focused.” This is not the only reason we left One Taste. We found the environment manipulative, unhealthy and di
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a very strange link, no idea if the posted PUBLIC information is accurate. onetaste.info It also lists the same name, as owning over 300 other domains? the name Reese Jones also comes up as Registrant for: OneTaste.us ONETASTE.TV ONETASTE.BIZ ONETASTE.CC (nice work, New York Times. how can someone who says they just give an organization some money, be listed as Registrant/Adm
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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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It seems what has happened, is due to the structure of these companies now, there are almost no journalists on staff, very few. They seem to have a pay-to-print policy worked out. Someone like OneTaste or Reese Jones, etc, hires a big PR company, and they design an article, and they somehow get the paper to print it. Maybe they even pay to have it printed. Or, at least they deliver the art
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There's an article about OneTaste in today's New York Post. Unfortunately it's completely uncritical. What's with journalists these days? [Touch-and-Go Situation]
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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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a link to Reese Jones, from Punctuative! Venture Capital Database VCDB, by Matt Winn, Chrysalis Ventures, Venture Capital & Private Equity. QUOTE: "Rarely is VC mentioned in this context: “Reese Jones, a venture capitalist-slash-geek-slash Ms. Daedone’s boyfriend, likens orgasmic meditation to massage.”
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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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There is another thread parodying the NYT article promoting OneTaste. Ironically, bawdy comments are far more "honest" than the sanitized, misleading and dishonest marketing of OneTaste. But even people joking around clue into the fact that the NYT deliberately promoted the nonsense that OneTaste is a "commune" when its NOT a commune. Its a corporation, for making money fo
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QuoteThe AnticultThe Wikipedia article on OneTaste is getting rigged and bastardized again, obviously by members of the OneTaste group. OneTaste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They just deleted relevant quotes from the NYT about Nicole Daedone. They can't do that, according to their own criteria. So we'll see if a senior Wikipedia Admin, lets that stand. Don't forget
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The Wikipedia article on OneTaste is getting rigged and bastardized again, obviously by members of the OneTaste group. OneTaste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They just deleted relevant quotes from the NYT about Nicole Daedone. They can't do that, according to their own criteria. So we'll see if a senior Wikipedia Admin, lets that stand. Don't forget, there does appe
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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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Plug and Play People by By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. Posted January 22, 2002 Quote 'Lately I've noticed that the concept of "plug and play" has extended into the realm of human interaction. 'People talk about wanting to hire a "plug-and-play engineer" who can churn out uncreative but stable bits of Java, C++, or whatever. Or, describing somebody who
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well, Reese Jones is officially out of the closet when in comes to OneTaste. He promoted a link to the NYT article on OneTaste, in the cleverly chosen "Style" section, on his Twitter account. Anyone can access Twitter tweets on the web from searching google for the name and Twitter. Reese Jones twitter Amazingly, Mitch Kapor, another internet bigshot, is also linking to OneTaste
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OneTaste has gotten a lot of blog-press from their NYT article. Unfortunately, some of the analysis of it, is not too deep! Like many things, they seem to take what is said at face value. OneTaste says its all about the female orgasm and sensuality. Is it? Or is it much more complex than that? OneTaste is a for-profit business corporation. But they market it like a "commune". Its
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Spread it wide...spread it wiiiidddeee.... (Your wallet)
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there is some harsh and funny criticism of this puff-piece in the NYT about OneTaste. Many people do see through this level of blatant bullshit and obvious dishonesty quite quickly. (original article on OneTaste in NYT) The Pleasure Principle New York Times | March 15, 2009 | Patricia Leigh Brown and Carol Pogash _______________________ GAWKER parody "This Sunday the Times
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there are quite a number of connections and links between OneTaste and Andrew Cohen and "Evolutionary Enlightenment", EnlightenNext. Going back a year or two, they were even conducting "Evolutionary Enlightenment" seminars right inside the OneTaste Urban Retreat Center in San Francisco. Followers of Andrew Cohen (Bay Area Andrew Cohen Community) have met at OneTaste SF as
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The OneTaste wikipedia entry (lie) that said Daedone studied "briefly" with Vic Baranco has been undone, which is good. But it does prove, there are OneTaste members who are trying to rig the Wikipedia entry for OneTaste with false information, as much as they can get away with. Why are they so dishonest? What is their problem? Aren't they supposed to be about "honesty&q
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wow, big mistake by OneTaste. OneTaste has even aquired another simultaneous "article" in Andrew Cohen's magazine What Is Enlightenment, rebranded as EnlightenNext. Andrew Cohen is notorious in his serious abuses and cult practices, as documented in many complaints. EnlightenNext Issue 43 / March–May 2009 SEX, The Good, the Strange, and the Sacred Their S
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OneTaste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources. (March 2009)"
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and of course, right BEFORE this fake-article was released, there were about 50 edits done to the Wikipedia entry for OneTaste. (someone linked to this thread, which the Wiki fixers deleted, of course). They also deleted the Criticism section of OneTaste, which is complete nonsense, since even at Yelp SF there is tons of criticism of OneTaste. They also have the outright lie in wikipedia, th
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also notice how they deliberately ignored...the cost, the pricing. Notice how expensive the prices were listed in this thread for some people, where others could "donate their labor" whatever that means. They make it sound like the Pope approves of OneTaste, like its some type of marriage counselling, when its nothing of the sort. Its obviously a type of Swingers Open-Sex philosphy,
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well, well, well...the grand old lady the New York Times has reprinted a infotainment "article" advertisement on OneTaste and Nicole Daedone. Its like reading this forum, but without hard facts, and more advertising copy. Clearly, this is one of those "articles" where some PR company, well connected and VERY expensive, mines their Rolodex to get a story done, to shape the P
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