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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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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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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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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A summary from Nymag, and they make the point that OneTaste and Daedone are "monetizing orgasms", and making people dependent on an external organization and external people, instead of themselves. (which of course is how they make money off it). Except that they say cult experts have linked Daedone to Baranco, which is false. OneTaste's own PR people stated... "...OneTa
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(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". Lafayette Morehouse, Inc. v. The Chronicle Publishing Co. (“Morehouse I”) Cite as: 37 Cal.App.4th 855, 44 Cal.Rptr.2d 46 LAFAYETTE MOREHOUSE, INC.,
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Google is quite useful...Using the Google date-specific advanced search, you can see that there seems to be only one mention of Nicole Daedone being a follower of Victor Baranco before October 2008 when it was posted in this thread. Re: One Taste, Nicole Daedone, Victor Baranco Date: October 23, 2008 08:24AM "She segued into the sensual realm in 1998 when she joined a community t
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How many pieces of shill viral marketing are there online for One Taste? dozens? There seems to be no end to them. Even Vice.com is doing its free advertising for One Taste. Or is it free? Its beyond shameful that these ridiculous marketing pieces appear online, with not one word about the tactics and techniques being used on people's minds manipulate them on the deepest level. What abo
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as well, if you go to Google and press the IMAGES link and search for her name.. nicole daedone at the top, Google again brings forward the words "cult" and One Taste cult. The images being used by OneTaste to sell themselves, are very revealing. They are putting out photos of women naked from the waist down, with men dressed in black (like a parody of a cult) all with their
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Besides the fringe benefits... ...perhaps One Taste is also an extended biological experiment, using humans as the live experimental guinea pigs. -----------quote excerpt--------------------- Members Reese Jones About me Brain chemistry, biophyisics, theoretical biology, electronic life, astrobiology, lunar asteroid mining, international policy, Wikipedia, EFF, UC Berkeley and Singular
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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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