oh my that is a horrifying story, as stated the alcoholic man could have easily choked to death right on the bus. That could have meant charges against the SGI people who brought the man on board. Where did they dump the guy off? At a hospital? Or did they leave him at a bus station with $10? This is when "SGI chanting" really goes off the rails, and becomes dangerous. and the pos
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AS far as police shootings, there is a pattern where police are trained that if they are going to shoot, then shoot to kill with a dozen bullets, likely for legal reasons. It seems the mentally ill repeatedly pay the price, as they are not behaving in a way that makes sense. Many people with problems with mental illness get hooked into SGI, as if you are suffering from delusions, then the SG
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Yoo Byung-eun and Ikeda are cut from the same cloth, religious swindlers turned into multimillionaire businessmen and investors using Other People's Money, then followed by using others money to promote themselves as 'artists" and even both calling themselves photographers. Where are the investigations into SGI, and where have the Ikeda family put the SGI billions? Has SGI used t
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Its a good list of some of the Tech basic NLP salespeople will try to use on you...Rapport, Matching Mirroring, Eye Cues, Anchoring and the rest of the list. And its not so much that all of that stuff actually works as advertised, its that by seeing someone is trying those techniques on you, it shows they are trying to manipulate you. And of course, most of that stuff is decades old, so the a
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Very good advice to immediately and permanently stop any communication with anyone who practices overt NLP-Hypnosis for profit. Especially anyone associated with the Tony Robbins companies, as they are constantly messing with your mind using very advanced techniques of persuasion. Of course these days people are doing it COVERTLY so its difficult to know who is doing what, which is their poin
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Right, SGI has DELIBERATELY told its followers that SGI-Chanting is the only way to achieve their goals. So then that ACTIVELY BLOCKS people from achieving their own goals and having a happy life! This way it makes people addicted to SGI, and the more they chant, the worse their life gets, and then they go back to SGI, and SGI tells them to chant harder and faster and to give SGI more money.
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Just another point, in case the above seems too blunt. Classical Buddhist chanting, and things like that, were not about "getting stuff" like new cars and bigger house to show-off to make others think you are a big-shot, etc, they were about the exact opposite. So you had problems, and you said a chant and spun the prayer wheel, and maybe you felt a release, which would be good.
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Its helpful to just keep getting the message out there that SGI-USA is not what it seems, that it has cultish tendencies. This way thousands of people will hear that, and at least their radar will hopefully go up. Similar to Scientology, most people know they are a "cult" these days, so one would think that would make it a bit harder to recruit. Another way to help people, is to sh
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www.reddit.com/r/sgiwhistleblowers/comments/21lf8v/this_practice_does_not_work/ This is a useful thread. That's a good idea, take the SGI storytelling persuasion tactic, where they tell you some SGI Tall Tale/lies about how SGI works miracles and makes you rich instantly, but turn it around, and tell how SGI does not work. Point out the FACTS about how it didn't work for Ikeda, i
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This thread has 733 pages, at about 10 posts a page that is over 7000 posts. Also, almost 400,000 views, and there were probably more views as the view counts were probably reset. So that is a lot of information that is very valuable for public education. www.reddit.com/r/sgiwhistleblowers That is an interesting site with lots of readers. Its very useful to cross-post links from sites l
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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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You can see where in the past Reese Jones was blocked from the OneTaste wikipedia entry, even though he is mentioned in the New York Times, and many other articles. Also, it looks like the first place where Reese Jones was identified as being the man behind the curtain in OneTaste was in this forum. Robert Kandell, OneTaste, SF, NYC, Daedone, funded by Reese Jones? Date: December
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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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Its very clear, that somehow guys like Reese Jones are able to use their insider influence of Wikipedia to keep themselves out of Wikipedia. If you search Google for "reese jones" wikipedia you will see various posts where Reese Jones says he "supports" Wikipedia, and that does not mean moral support. Obviously that is financial support. Quote from Reese Jones pages
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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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Right, imagine getting up before the SGI bigwigs, and saying...."I've been chanting my buns off for years, and doing all of it, and life still is crappy or more seriously...my wife still died of cancer..." Both of those have happened for SGI people, many of their lives still suck. And many in their families have unfortunately died, just like the rest of the population. If yo
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There is another group called OneTaste which sells OM "meditation" linked with public sex activity, and the LGAT kitchen sink thrown-in. You could call it a sex-LGAT. OneTaste, Nicole Daedone, sex-LGAT warning One part that reminds of SGI, is that after their "experience" the OneTaste members go on the microphone, and "brag" about what an amazing experience
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and that is another sad example of a writer who is completely unable to "investigate" OneTaste as the Gawker article claims. (of course Gawker is doing it simply for 'clicks' for their business). One has to wonder, why only people with absolutely no experience and no training in the new "persuasion techniques" write these pieces on OneTaste, and other groups like
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It continues to be amazing how someone like Reese Jones can continue to have his name "blacklisted" from Wikipedia. A notable Silicon Valley venture capitalist, who actually seems to DONATE MONEY to wikipedia, has been able to keep himself out of Wikipedia, except for one mention? Someone in the actual media should do an experiment, try to get a Reese Jones entry into Wikipedia, and n
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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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No mention of OneTaste? AngelList Reese Jones Trustee @Singularity University I like building infrastructures: mobile, media, wireless, broadband, internet, health, synthetic biology; silicon valley veteran VC Accel Partners Cambrian Genomics Founder August Capital Employee Accel Partners Employee Jobvite Investor Founder Cambrian Genomics, Smaato, Netopia, Farallon C
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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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To see some photo's of Vic Baranco, search google images for: Victor Baranco to see a very apparent used-appliance salesman who decided instead of selling appliances, he's sell access to sex. WARNING: be aware that you will see disturbing images of a middle-aged man posing in Guru pajamas, tracksuits, and shirtless on pillows with young women.
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STATE v. BARANCO NO. 16911. 884 P.2d 729 (1994) 77 Hawai`i 351 STATE of Hawai`i, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Victor W. BARANCO and Cynthia A. Baranco, Defendants-Appellants. Supreme Court of Hawai`i. November 15, 1994. Peter C. Wolff, Jr. of Hart & Wolff, Honolulu, for defendants-appellants. Don Fudo, Deputy Prosecuting Atty., City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu, for plaintiff-
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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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Its very clear that OneTaste targets people like "music bloggers" to come and write articles, because those folks have no awareness, knowledge, experience or education in these areas of psychological persuasion. So they are easy Marks. And its not like OneTaste is openly setting up a sex-club or swingers-group or something like that for consenting adults. Any adult would realize that
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