It would be interesting for some folks in SF to do some research on whether or not, or to what extent Reese Jones may or may not be involved in financing OneTaste. Anyone out there have any info either way? for example, a journalist could look into the leases related to OneTaste, the Folsom Street SF site, warehouse and adjacent spaces where massages are offered, spaces around the Blue Chalk C
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Someone from OneTaste NYC has just gone and rigged the Wikipedia entry for OneTaste on 21 December 2008. It was done by someone in New York City, their ISP, location, and other information is available through checking the IP address on Wikipedia. Notice how the Wikipedia entry was changed on Dec 21, the same day the information came out that a certain person named REESE JONES was alleged
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Its interesting on the now "secret" Robert Kandell blog, he talks about how his relationship with his own father has gone down the crapper due to OneTaste. [74.125.95.132] There does not seem to be any sense that Kandell might even consider that the criticism he is getting from his family is valid. His own family appears to be telling him that what he is doing is so wrong, they don�
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A little bird has dropped some info about OneTaste and Robert Kandell, and who may be the moneybags behind the scenes. of course, at this moment its not proven, but it could be researched. word is that money for the Stinson house and the Onetaste NYC expansion came from someone named REESE JONES. (founder of Netopia (sold to Motorola), board member of Chabot, and limited partner in the
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Fred, thx for the enlightening post. I hope everyone takes the time to read the excellent post right above this one!
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For all the enquiring minds out there, the co-founder of OneTaste Urban Retreat Center, Robert Kandell has a blog. Robert Kandell’s Blog Ladies, start your engines...The Ladies Man is back. But other than lists of his sexual conquests of the ladies by initial, and angst about going to sex parties, there is some info about OneTaste. It seems there is some trouble in paradise, people qui
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There are also links to these Cuddle Parties, which are also being used by other Landmark grads as a way to find new 'marks'. a Cuddle Party is a Mark Group, which is a way to have an intro meeting to look for new recruits aka 'marks'. also, Trellis House is not a passive group. They are constantly recruiting. They have a Mark Group coming up. Notice the deceptive
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NEW FIND!! Nicole Daedone attended More University and also "Nicole Daedone, founder of One Taste Urban Retreat Center and the Insight Institute's Sensual Research Center" but according to Robert Kandell "She has spent the last seven years devoting her energy to the work of Dr. Victor Baranco, founder of More University". Notice how her partner Robert Kandell
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one other thing...Marc Beneteau and Nicole Daedone, and Layfayette Morehouse...are all very skilled at smooth sounding Double-Speak. They speak publically in one way, and for some of them, its proven their private language inside the group is very different. They even use a phrase like Urban Monk, while at the same time using the words Sex Cult. Its a Mindfuck, is what they are really doing, s
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Marc Beneteau, in your own blog you have mentioned some problems you have had with others who were challenging you on your desire to be a "Guru". Blunt talk, based on reality and facts is not something Gurus tend to enjoy, so they run. You also speak softly, but seem to be quite skilled at word-warping. For example, you claim to talk about OBJECTIVE INFORMATION. Well guess what? T
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Homeless Camp in Jeopardy / Judge tentatively rules against Lafayette Morehouse; Erin Hallissy, Chronicle East Bay Bureau San Francisco Chronicle 08-18-1994 A Lafayette sensuality school that has taken in homeless people for more than two decades must stop letting people live in tents on its property, a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled. Judge Robert McGra
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Lafayette School Drops Suit Against Ex-Student; Dan Reed, Chronicle Correspondent San Francisco Chronicle 10-30-1992 More University, the Lafayette sensuality school that is battling county officials over its homeless encampment, has dropped its libel suit against a former student who claimed university officials encouraged students to take drugs and coerced them into prostitution. In
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Sensuality School Defies County / Counterculture campus refuses to remove homeless encampment; April Lynch, Chronicle East Bay Bureau San Francisco Chronicle 06-23-1992 Longtime residents of an embattled Lafayette sensuality school refused to comply with a Contra Costa County order to remove a homeless encampment from the campus yesterday, saying that they would rather sell the property t
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Academy of Carnal Knowledge / Lafayette's More University class gave students 'sex currency'; Dan Reed, Chronicle Correspondent San Francisco Chronicle 06-17-1992 More University, the Lafayette sensuality school that is battling neighbors over its homeless encampment, offered a unique course in carnal knowledge in which "More currency" was exchanged for sexual f
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Sensuality School Must Seek Permits For Charities, Shelter / More University upsets Lafayette neighbors; Dan Reed, Chronicle Correspondent San Francisco Chronicle 06-10-1992 Sensuality School Must Seek Permits For Charities, Shelter / More University upsets Lafayette neighbors Byline: Dan Reed, Chronicle Correspondent Section: NEWS Charity corporations affiliated with More University
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hey, a little bird just sent out those articles from 1992 on More University...excerpts will be posted soon.
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Well, fair enough, but that is a bit of a wordgame, it seems to me. I had never heard of Victor Baranco until this thread, never heard of the guy. But in minutes one can find out quite a bit about the guy. Now some web page might say he was "serving time", and it might have been at the time the article was written he was being prosecuted for the LSD, or there may have been other cas
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The main "reference" for the wikipedia entry on Lafayette Morehouse is an article by Laurie Rivlin Heller, called. Basic Sense: The More Philosophy of Victor Baranco and the Institute of Human Abilities. This article is linked back to the homepage of Lafayette Morehouse, and there is no article! So the wikipedia article is rigged, by someone at LM, and that's probably why
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another interesting thing about the OneTaste.us website. www.OneTaste.us There are no links anywhere on that site to Victor Baranco, More University, Lafayette Morehouse, Institute of Human Abilities, or any of these other groups its based on. Not a single word comes up on their site. The info about Baranco came from other sites, it probably slipped out in earlier interviews that Daedone did
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ok, it looks like the original thread about OneTaste has been merged with the other thread. So its all in one thread now... Victor Baranco, OneTaste, Lafayette Morehouse, More University, Trellis Community House...
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EXCERPT QUOTE for research: HETERODOXY, VOLUME 2, NO. 7 MARCH 1994, —BY K.L BILLINGSLEY 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 co
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[64.29.92.27] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF HAWAI'I ---o0o--- STATE OF HAWAI'I, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. VICTOR W. BARANCO and CYNTHIA A. BARANCO, Defendants-Appellants NO. 16911 APPEAL FROM THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT (CR. NO. 90-1745) NOVEMBER 15, 1994 [...] I. FACTS Victor Baranco was a co-founder of More University, a private educational institution involved in ex
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States Have Moved to Keep Plaintiffs From Using Courts to Muzzle Critics By JUDITH MILLER Published: June 11, 1996 A university that offers a doctorate in sensuality, including courses in "niceness and meanness," "teasing" and "mutual pleasurable stimulation of the human nervous system," was an irresistible story to The San Francisco Chronicle. So in 199
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some other info turns up about Lafayette Morehouse. (which is a cynical organizational name meant to confuse people with other decent entities named Morehouse and Lafayette. Victor Baranco was such a cynical s.o.b). But they were involved, and appear to have lost cases involved in the anti-SLAPP legislation. It looks like More University tried to so a Scientology style libel-chill lawsuit again
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As soon as I heard this "One no-vote" idea from Trellis Community, it sounded like a bogus group mind-fucking concept from Victor Baranco. Well... One no-vote "If you have one no-vote, that means the rule doesn't allow you to act in a way so extreme as to have one of the participants vote no. But 'love one another' means the one no-vote is superfluous."
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in Philadelphia, Marc and Rebekah Beneteau are running TRELLIS HOUSE, which is another clone group of Lafayette Morehouse (previously More University), which is basically the same structure as One Taste by Nicole Daedone. Both are based on Victor Baranco. (how many other groups like these are out there??) Notice how Trellis House uses the word TRANSFORMATION constantly, and that Marc Beneteau
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ One last post here... Marc Beneteau says that almost no one pays the $2,000 a week at OneTaste? HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT? Has he seen their private accounting and payment books? Is that a sucker-price for guys who are losers? Do young women get in for free and guys pay triple? Or is he just making it up? Or writing what OneTaste asked him to write? Its either a false statem
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As predicted, as the google alerts get out there, they come to try to do some PR. Someone named Marc Beneteau has started another thread about OneTaste and Victor Baranco, to try and defend their methods. Why is Marc Beneteau starting a "new thread" when there already is a thread going? What is the purpose in that? To derail that train of analysis? Marc Beneteau has also state
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As predicted, as the google alerts get out there, they come to try to do some PR. Why is Marc Beneteau starting a "new thread" when there already is a thread going? What is the purpose in that? To derail that train of analysis? Marc Beneteau has also stated he is going to come back and make more posts in this thread. Its just an attempt to bury the other thread with the criticism
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In the words of Stephen Colbert, Nicole Daedone has been NAILED. The Victor Baranco connection is very important. Victor Baranco was the founder of The Institute of Human Abilities, where some of the initial staff of OneTaste came from. You can see that Nicole Daedone just copied their course model, language, structure, and everything else. OneTaste is a clone. Victor Baranco was runn
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