That's Rich

It's wild to remember Elon Musk was popping a Nazi salute - while complaining about a NewAge "mind virus" - when Naziism sprang from the NewAge beliefs of the Thule Society, and the teachings of Madame Blavatsky.

 

Mystic Mayhem™ Amid The Luminance Of Our Lunacy

 

If the Nazis returned, the only thing about a Whole Foods, that Adolf Hitler would object to, is it's staff diversity. 

Himmler would see all the yoga studios and feel totally validated, knowing any nation - attempting this much de-stressing - must be killing a lot of innocent people (and we are). 

Hess would be over the moon after hearing of RFK, Jr's appointments. 

Reinhard Heydrich would think, if President Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception, that makes sense. 

Our fleet of B-2 bombers - and, especially, using them to hurt poor people - would leave Goering wondering where he and his crew went wrong. 

And Joseph Goebbels would find the American government's almost-complete control - over the world's public - most impressive. 

 

They'd all be able to see their influence on America, clearly, but America can't see anything. Not in our super-religious, militarized nation, that educates it's citizens so well a married man can think he's "Jesus" and yoga-promoter Jennifer Aniston is his "Queen," but nobody (beyond his wife who speaks, Oprah-like, of something "manifesting") can spot much is out of order, until he's ramming Aniston's gate with his car.

And it's not just us gone batty - or, rather, Blavatsky. In 2025, Helena could've been an editor for Britain's Daily Mail, approving headlines like this:

Diana Nostradamus who foresaw her death reads Royal charts and makes stunning predictions about a Meghan 'reality check', 'lost' Harry... and their marriage

This is "news," People. As we, currently, starve Palestinians to death, instead of out-right murdering them. The world's lost its stomach for it. The Nazis, too - from top to bottom - found their own actions distasteful, when finally directly confronted with them. That's never stopped anybody from anything, then until now. The Third Reich's ultimate legacy - obviously - is we just keep marching on.

 

Sigh: Nobody Listens To Me

You can't get from whatever NewAgers think they're doing - to Madame Blavatsky who made it up - without going through Adolf Hitler 

   

 Like Voltaire said, you gotta believe some crazy shit to wind up putting Jews in ovens

We're in one of those crazy periods now, when people are retreating into madness, rather than relying on reality, so anything can happen - and will - if you don't count slaughtering Palestinians as anything unusual for the Oprah-loving United States of America to be part of

 

Hitler Was A Vegetarian

 

This is Emily Kohrs, the NewAge Jury Foreman for Trump's Georgia indictment. She doesn't look like much, but she is a reminder, even waifs are a mixture of good and evil: no different than the Nazis. If that seems like an extreme turn to take, I'll remind you it's one of the main lessons of World War II: humans accept what's not true (usually without challenge). They ignore or dismiss evidence, many times for mysticism. They're weak to dogma, mythology, and propaganda. And they act on what beliefs they form from terrible sources. Myself included. So, it's not a stretch for me to picture this young lady like this.

As someone who doesn't fit the ideal they purport to represent, but appreciates New Thought, Madame Blavatsky, and studying all the world's belief systems, and maybe even creating something of their own for today. A power in a fallen land, now under the influence of the NewAge movement, becoming so unethical, and so illogical, other citizens are rendered immobile. We feel little need to comment on it. We feel little need to do anything. Why demand anything of evil people who don't understand the concept of Do The Right Thing? They've already got what they wanted, as no one's punishing them for anything, and that's all that matters (to them) so there's nothing to be gained from wasting words. Especially when we'll be dead soon enough, anyway. Let them have what they've created. We know where this leads.

Putting distance between us, and allowing the fanatics as little opportunity to get near as possible, seems to be the only way to live out our later years, that are now, solitary, brutish, and - despite few trusting science anymore - longer than expected. 

An extension to this, so someone can exploit and abuse us - holistically - what a concept.

The U.S. is now MLK's American Dream, experienced as food poisoning.

 

In The Comments

"New Age teaches that Hebrews are the descendants of aliens from another planet 4000 years ago. The Jews will rebuild the Temple on the ruins of the Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount just as described in Ezekiel 40-48. The US dollar will collapse just as it was designed to do cause it's nothing more than a pyramid scheme, causing the world to establish one currency because all currencies are tied to the dollar and the Federal Reserve, and unite as one global government divided into 10 states" 

Someone added that quote, below this particular video, to no surprise, because NewAge is Madame Blavatsky's "New Thought" the Nazi's "New Man" was trippin' on (Some NewAgers know it, but most NewAgers don't - which is why blacks are into it - which blows my mind: all they'd had to do, to make it more relevant to what's happening today, would've been to change the Bible verse to Ezekiel 25:17, but, I ask too much). 

Man, I swim in this shit, but - for me it's impossible not to - as I'm watching the rest of 'em DROWNING in it. And I don't know which is worse. BEING A NEWAGE IDIOT DON'T HAMPER ANYBODY'S SOCIAL LIFE. Why would it? They're surrounded by idiots. So they got THAT going for 'em.  Meanwhile, I'm limited to chit-chat at the supermarket, and that's it. Then I got to get away from people - fast - before something bad happens, like they ask my "sign" or intimate "karma" is at work in our lives. 

Once that happens, I'll have the smallest social circle in America.

Which won't be so bad, considering.

 

America Is Still "As Pure As The Driven Snow" (But It's Cults Are Doing The Driving - And It's About To Crash)

So, it takes Kalyan Sachdev, the medical director of Privat Hospital in New Delhi, to finally admit what all these "it's only exercise" cultists aren't saying:

"There's the physical side of yoga and the psychic side, and sometimes people get it all out of order. Peaceful people can get aggressive even if they haven't taken any drugs."

"Peaceful people can get aggressive," huh? Gee, I wonder how far they'll go? I'll get back to that. That quote is from an article on India Syndrome, or what happens when spiritual journeys take a "tragic turn." Here's another bit:

These techniques have become so mainstream that most bookstores carry meditation manuals in the self-help section. Many cite the extensive body of research on the benefits of meditation, like MRI scans of Tibetan monks in deep trance states that show how the exercise improves cognition. Dr. Oz and Oprah have both endorsed meditation, and some physicians recommend it as a method of combating hypertension. 

Less discussed are the disorienting and damaging side effects of meditation. Neophytes have reported seeing walls move or rooms change color. The introspective state that is one of the goals of meditation can induce feelings of paranoia and terror. According to Willoughby Britton, a neuroscientist at Brown University who studies the effects of meditation on the brain, practitioners can perceive small sounds as cacophonies and lose the sense that they are in control of their own actions. Britton has claimed that this experience, which some refer to as the "dark night," has caused numerous people to wind up on psych wards under suicide watch. Guided visualizations,…can produce even more profound reactions. These meditation techniques are "designed to completely psychologically rearrange you," says Paul Hackett, a lecturer in classical Tibetan at Columbia University. In a foreign setting, that kind of experience can be even more traumatizing, especially when you take into account the way some Westerners in India tend to snack at the country's spiritual smorgasbord—a little Ashtanga yoga here, some Vipassana meditation there. "People are mixing and matching religious systems like Legos," Hackett says. "It is no surprise that people go insane."

Dr. Mehmet Oz is a regular winner of the Pigasus "Quack" award, and Oprah - I don't have the language for what Oprah Winfrey is, except to say the electric chair wouldn't be good enough for her. And just this morning I was writing about that kook the Nazi's loved who started it all:

India syndrome might not even exist if not for the concerted marketing of Eastern religion to the West, and for that we can thank a 19th-century Russian-born mystic named Madame Blavatsky. In 1875, she founded the Theosophical Society in New York City (it later moved to colonial India), using a quasi-scientific methodology to construct a new school of religious thought by packaging ideas and texts from disparate faiths, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism, for enthusiasts in Europe and the United States, making a fortune in the process. A quick inventory of American approaches to Eastern religion—from Emerson and the Transcendentalists to the Beats and the Beatles to David Lynch's Transcendental Meditation foundation—shows the same tendency to bowdlerize enlightenment philosophies to suit Western tastes. 

To be sure, many contemporary practitioners of meditation really are seeking inner peace. But some of them may also be looking to unlock something akin to the Jedi powers of Luke Skywalker (many Star Wars aficionados believe Yoda to be based on the Dalai Lama). The Yoga Sutras, a more-than-2,000-year-old text that can be found in almost every yoga studio in the world, devotes an entire chapter to cultivating supernatural abilities. Other books tell not only of yogis' physical feats but also of mental tricks like conversing with the dead and seeing into their students' past lives. Transcendental Meditation promises that, with enough concentration, earnest practitioners can levitate. At Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, followers have spent nearly 40 years practicing "yogic flying," which involves hopping into the air while cross-legged in an effort to become permanently airborne; the maharishi once claimed that thousands were successful.

No, no, no - it's just exercise, right? Sure. I've been over all this many times, only to be told I'm the liar, it's harmless, or any number of other stories designed to keep the cult "spiritual" charade going. The truth is people are going crazy - and getting killed. Two last things:

Included in this article is the story of Jonathan Spollen, a young man who disappeared trying to find "spiritual enlightenment." Above are two photos of him, with the one at three months taken after he was "on the path." Which looks like a healthy, sane, human being to you?

And second, as I keep telling you of the Nazi connections to the NewAge, I want you to "never forget" what it can - and does - make possible. The NewAge "alternative" medicine cult is still openly using the Hitler Youth slogan, "Mind/Body/Spirit" to promote itself - and no one seems to notice - how sick is that?

A German historian has discovered how the SS in Nazi Germany recommended its members - including death camp guards - practice yoga to enrich their 'mind, bodies and spirits.' 

The first ever book probing the Third Reich's fascination with the ancient discipline - intended to attain 'perfect spiritual insight and tranquility' - was published this week, entitled Yoga In National Socialism by historian and yoga expert Mathias Tietke.  

It shows how S.S. overlord Heinrich Himmler was fascinated with the discipline and perverted it and its ancient roots into a philosophy to justify the Holocaust. 

'Whoever thinks about yoga,' said the author, 'thinks of  people sitting in the lotus position, greeting the sun in order to reduce the stress of everyday life. 

'It is associated with mental equilibrium, the search for wisdom and inner peace and is not considered to be about force or persecution. Nevertheless, there is also this side to the history of yoga.'

Indeed there is. And I've seen it with my own eyes. Yes, indeed there is,... 

Can't Wipe Me Out? Then Go For The Next Best Thing,...

You've gotta love Helena "Big Eyes" Blavatsky, The Mother of NewAge, if only for nothing other than how fucking all-around batty she was. On the other hand, you can reasonably also hate her guts for all the trouble she started amongst the pea-brained. What do I mean? Let's turn to Wikipedia's "Aryan Race" page and find her writings that got the Nazis all KILL! KILL! KILL!:

"Esoteric history teaches that idols and their worship died out with the Fourth Race, until the survivors of the hybrid races of the latter (Chinamen, African Negroes, c.) gradually brought the worship back. The Vedas countenance no idols; all the modern Hindu writings do". 

"The intellectual difference between the Aryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called. The 'sacred spark' is missing in them and it is they who are the only inferior races on the globe, now happily -- owing to the wise adjustment of nature which ever works in that direction -- fast dying out. Verily mankind is 'of one blood,' but not of the same essence. We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent". 

According to Blavatsky, "the MONADS of the lowest specimens of humanity (the "narrow-brained" savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian) had no Karma to work out when first born as men, as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had". She also prophecies of the destruction of the racial "failures of nature" as the future "higher race" ascends: 

"Thus will mankind, race after race, perform its appointed cycle-pilgrimage. Climates will, and have already begun, to change, each tropical year after the other dropping one sub-race, but only to beget another higher race on the ascending cycle; while a series of other less favoured groups -- the failures of nature -- will, like some individual men, vanish from the human family without even leaving a trace behind".

Got that? Genocide AND the "science" of climate change, all in one paragraph! Who'da thunk it? This NewAge is really something to behold (And why isn't Blavatsky's name ever brought up in "global warming" discussions?) Needless to say, if she was the Mother of NewAge, "Dad" - in the form of Adolf Let's-speed-up-that-lesser-races-vanishing-act Hitler - was going to be a hoot!

And, in case you thought this "thinking" died out with Blavatsky and old bullet-to-the-head, let me remind you of this exchange with the current holder of the Mother of NewAge title, Louise "Skull Face" Hay, publisher of the inspirationally NewAge "Hay House" books:

When I asked her if, since people’s thoughts are responsible for their conditions, victims of genocide might be to blame for their own deaths, she said: “I probably wouldn’t say it to them. That’s not what I’m after.” 

I pressed harder: Did she believe they are to blame? “Yes,...” 

So, I asked, with a situation like the Holocaust, the victims might have been an unfortunate group of souls who deserved what they got because of their behavior in past lives? “Yes,..."

I swear, finding sickness in the NewAge movement is like shooting fish in a barrel. (And I still find it bizarre that, after she said that, there's still no condemnation or outcry - times don't change that much, do they?) BTW, as I read further down that Wikipedia "Aryan Race" page, I found this revealing line:

Samael Aun Weor published a book in 1967 retitled in 2008 The Doomed Aryan Race in which he asserted that the Aryan "Root Race" is doomed to be destroyed by hydrogen bombs unless the people of the Aryan race learn tantric yoga.

So, NewAge racial theory not only explains past genocide, but familiar scenes of today:

Good God, Hippies - "save" yourselves,…

 

NewAgers: Those Who Don't Think (Because It Takes Too Much Thought - And A Mirror)

"...Just as the Nazi attack on Christianity was part of a larger war on the idea of universal truth, whole postmodern cosmologies have been created to prove that traditional religious morality is a scam, that there are no fixed truths or 'natural' categories, and that all knowledge is socially constructed. Or as the line goes in The Da Vinci Code, 'So Dark, the Con of Man.'



The 'con' in question is, in effect, a conspiracy by the Catholic Church to deceive the world about Jesus’ true nature and his marriage to Mary Magdalene. The book has sold some sixty million copies worldwide. The novel, and movie, have generated debates, documentaries, companion books, and the like. But few have called attention to the ominous roots and parallels with Nazi thought.


Dan Brown should have dedicated his book to 'Madame' Helena Blavatsky, the theosophist guru who is widely considered the 'mother' of New Age spirituality as well as a touchstone in the development of Nazi paganism and the chief popularizer of the swastika as a mystical symbol. Her theosophy included a grab bag of cultish notions, from astrology to the belief that Christianity was a grand conspiracy designed to conceal the true meaning and history of the supernatural. Her 1888 book, The Secret Doctrine, attempted to prove the full extent of the grotesque Western conspiracy that The Da Vinci Code only partially illuminates. Christianity was to blame for all the modern horrors of capitalism and inauthentic living, not to mention the destruction of Atlantis.
 

Alfred Rosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century, the second most important book in the Nazi canon, borrowed ideas wholesale from Blavatsky. Rosenberg lays out one Christian conspiracy after another. 'Before it could fully blossom, the joyous message of German mysticism was strangled by the anti-European church with all the means in its power,' he insists. Like Blavatsky and Brown, he suggests the existence of secret Gospels, which, had they not been concealed by the Church, would debunk the 'counterfeit of the great image of Christ' found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

'Christianity,' writes Hitler in Mein Kampf, 'was not content with erecting an altar of its own. It had first to destroy the pagan altars.' It was 'the advent of Christianity' that first unleashed the 'spiritual terror' upon 'the much freer ancient world.'

Large segments of the cultural left today subscribe to similar notions.
For example, Wicca and paganism constitute the fastest growing religion and religious category in America, with adherents numbering anywhere from 500,000 to 5 million depending on whose numbers you accept. If you add 'New Age spirituality,' the number of Americans involved in such avocations reaches 20 million and growing. Feminists in particular have co-opted Wicca as a religion perfectly suited to their politics. Gloria Steinem is rhapsodic about the superior political and spiritual qualities of 'pre-Christian' and 'matriarchal' paganism. In Revolution from Within she laments in all earnestness the 'killing of nine million women healers and other pagan or nonconforming women during the centuries of change-over to Christianity.


The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, was convinced that the antiwitch craze was an anti-German plot concocted in large part by the Catholic Church: 'The witch-hunting cost the German people hundreds of thousands of mothers and women, cruelly tortured and executed. He dedicated considerable resources for the SS to investigate the witch hunts and prove they were attempts to crush Aryan civilization and the true German faith. The SS put together what amounted to their own X-Files unit—dubbed Special Unit H (for Hexen, or 'witches')—to ferret out the truth of over thirty-three thousand cases of witch burning, in countries as far away as India and Mexico.


Indeed, most of the founders of National Socialism would be far more comfortable talking witchcraft and astrology with a bunch of crystal-worshipping vegans than attending a church social. Consider the Thule Society, named after a supposed lost race of northern peoples hinted at in ancient Greek texts. The society was founded as the Munich chapter of the German Order, and while its occult and theosophical doctrines were nominally central to its charter, the glue that held it together was racist anti-Semitism. Anton Drexler was encouraged by his mentor Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the Thule Society, to found the German Workers’ Party, which would soon become the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Its membership was a veritable Who’s Who of founding Nazis, according to Hitler’s biographer Ian Kershaw."

-- Jonah Goldberg, quoting from his own book, Liberal Fascism, in The National Review Online.

Women Getting Squirrelly (And Collecting Nuts)

Most people who read this blog won't believe it, but there are days when we hate doing it. Since TMR started with the discovery of our ex-wife's full immersion in cultism, there can be bad memories, etc., associated with the posts we do, but do them we will. This is one of those posts.

See, the folks on Rick Ross.com are investigating San Francisco's One Taste cult, which we mentioned a few years ago.

TMR hadn't heard too much out of One Taste, except when a friend in The City mentioned they were expanding the cult by offering orgies to homeless men.

Our friend said all a stranger had to do was go to the One Taste center and say they had participated in the Yoga Tree's cult program, but wanted to go beyond those "teachings," and One Taste (a supposedly female-oriented cult) would allow men in - to fuck.

The men would then be "handled" by a weird bearded guy who would decide who would pair with whom, but everyone, including the bearded guy, would be sucking up to a woman.

Now that The New York Times has done a baldfaced lie of a story on the One Taste Urban Retreat Center - "reporting" we knew nothing about when we did our previous recent post, only discovering it on Ann Althouse's blog - we thought we should expand on our One Taste coverage a bit more. And when we say "expand," we mean e-x-p-a-n-d on it, because this type of shit says a lot about our culture today, and why we're in the dire straights we're in, economically and otherwise.

First to One Taste. We can't take all the credit for the research on this cult, but have relied on the work of the "Anticult" (a concerned citizen who frequents the site of Rick Ross.com) along with many others who discuss cultism there.

(Yea, you thought it was just us, huh? We first came into contact with Rick Ross - a famous deprogrammer and authority on cultism - back in 2005, when we first discovered Karine Anne Brunck was part of the Reiki cult and had fallen under the spell of the lying homeopath, "Dr." Robert Wohlfart, who Karine assisted in killing her mother. It was too late for Mr. Ross to do anything by the time we'd made contact - Karine had left the country, to later kill two more people in France - but Ross' concern matched our own, and his site has been a comforting touchstone, and information resource, for TMR ever since.) During a Rick Ross.com discussion of One Taste (which a bunch of cultists have tried to derail) TMR was mentioned, and linked to, so we started reading what was said and decided to quickly do the previous post.

Most of the quotes used, here, are from comments made by Rick Ross.com users.

O.K., so what do we know about One Taste? We know it's run by Nicole Daedone, and (as TMR has tried, repeatedly, to make clear:) "they are located in the perfect place,...to escape scrutiny in SF."

Nicole is the co-founder of San Francisco's 111 Minna Gallery.

Nicole Daedone "was in a Theosophist cult prior to starting One Taste. Theosophy comes from Madame Blavatsky, who is popular in fascist circles for her support of 'root races' and Aryanism." (Blavatsky was the famous liar, con artist, and fraud, known as "The mother of NewAge".)

According to personallifemedia.com, Nicole "...in 1998,...joined a community that practiced and studied the teachings of Dr. Victor Baranco, above, founder of More University."

AKA The School of More, more, more - how do you like it? How do you like it?

Baranco ("a real piece of work" and a "Berkeley appliance salesman") is the guy featured (along with Charlie Manson) in the book, Mindfuckers, which we showed you in the previous post.

Baranco, thankfully, died in 2002.

It's also said Nicole studied "Buddhism, semantics, Kabbalah and traditional Judaism," which is wild since semantics ain't no "spiritual practice," but learning to twist the meaning of words.

"Having been one of the 17 people who was there when One Taste first opened, I am familiar with the inner workings of this community. To compare what’s happening at One Taste to Buddhism, or to spirituality in general, is an egregious error. I was there when Nicole [Daedone, One Taste’s founder] began to “spiritualize” the information she was teaching. 



Since there is a growing pool of spiritual seekers in the Bay Area, and “operating on appetite” as they do, Nicole morphed what she was offering into something that can be construed as spiritual.

In order to “spiritualize” the basic practice she teaches, Nicole changed the name from “deliberate orgasm,” as it is known in other communities, to “orgasmic meditation.”

Et voila, it’s now a spiritual practice!

The article mentions the Buddhist idea of the witness. What I understand about this concept is that the witness is simply that, witnessing what the self/ego/small mind is doing, with no judgment, attachment or agenda. That was not my experience of “being witnessed” while living with the One Taste community.

There was always an agenda, one that primarily had to do with the leader’s wants and desires. As soon as I was willing to trust what I saw, felt and experienced for myself, I knew this community was a farce. I observed many cult-like characteristics that I had not allowed myself to see previously."

-- a letter to the Editor of commongroundmag.com

"The bottom line is that Nicole Daedone has no training or credentials to be fooling around with live-in sex groups, therapy, experimental communities, MindFucking, and all the other stuff she is doing. What certified sex-therapist would prescribe any of that? None. It can be very dangerous and damaging to do that with people, common sense tells you that."

--The Anticult, commenting on Rick Ross.com.

Let's stop here. Show of hands: can anyone explain what good can possibly come from anyone with these associations? San Francisco? Berkeley? Charley Manson? Victor Baranco? Blavatsky? Mindfuckers?

It seems that, even though we've just started this expose', we're already wallowing in a cesspool that's so deep, anyone who decides to climb into it can't help but stink up the place for others. And Nicole Daedone is up to her neck in it. But look:

Women are lining up to join a cult! Women, who are always screaming about their freedom, are always lining up to join cults! Why is that? There practically couldn't be a cult in world without, specifically, female "followers".

"Do not enter uninvited unless you want your feelings hurt."

-- A sign outside The Morehouse commune and "University" where Nicole Daedone "studied" under "Dr." Victor Baranco.

TMR has been charged with misogyny before but - let's talk straight here - women are the one's propelling cultism! (Just ask Oprah.)

Don't they have access to Google? There is absolutely nothing - nothing - that TMR can discover that they (or The New York Times) couldn't on their own. But they don't bother. Like the "serious political platform" of Hope and Change, they like believing in pretty little empty-headed lies. If con men are telling them - and, especially, con women - all the better.

Instead, they willingly choose to give away their freedom - even becoming whores for a friggin' cult. Look at those women. They ain't dumb, but just so full of themselves (Narcissists) cognitive dissonance can't allow their innate gullibility to penetrate any image of themselves. They think they're being smart by doing the dumbest thing they could possibly do:

Becoming cogs in a con.

"08/01/2007 Just your basic sex cult with a clever urban twist. You'll leave broke and possibly psychotic."

-- One of many negative comments about One Taste on Yelp.com

"Nothing more than a glorified sex cult--for profit, I might add. I walk by this place every day, and it's literally frightening. Stay away, this is sexual scientology."

-- Comment by James from San Francisco on Apr 4th, 2007, 16:43 pm, on sfweekly.com

The "credentials" of One Taste's core group of loonies are interesting:

The the Business Manager "started his business career in San Francisco building state of the art graphic design workstations," which equipped him perfectly for co-authoring One Taste's core courses and acting as a (non-credentialed) personal coach.

The Project Manager received her certification from Bikram's Yoga College of India. Oooh, India. Life there is cheap.

The Event Coordinator "has been dedicated to embodying her full power" and "though she had attained significant worldly power, she realized she remained disconnected from her power as a woman." (Can anybody say "schizophrenic"?)

The Store Manager is a "lifelong student of natural medicine & the healing arts," and "experienced as a gemstone therapist,..."

The Juice Bar Manager has "graduated" from the cult called Lifespring. ("Lifespring is an offshoot of EST and well-covered in the Rick Ross forums.")

The Juice Bar Production Lead is a former graduate of Warner Erhart's EST training.

The Movement Center Manager's life "took an abrupt turn with the purchase of a one-way ticket to India in 1998." He spent more than two years traveling through Asia studying meditation, yoga, and shiatsu massage. Wow: two whole years - traveling!!!!

The Event Coordinator and (cultish) Environment Designer received both a Masters in Communication and a Ph.D in "Lifestyles" from Victor Baranco's bogus More University. "She has spent the last 21 years researching the sensual nuances of all aspects of life."

Which, as Prince said, "means forever and that's a mighty long time,...but I'm here to tell you - there's something else":

“Little more than a cult that uses sex as a lure. They charge $2,000 A WEEK to be resident there…oh, unless you’re a girl who can provide other ’services’,...As for being a cult…I’d certainly say so, in regard to how they go about recruiting new blood, and how they discourage them from leaving, not to mention they prey on folks who could use some genuine psychotherapy. None of the leaders of OneTaste have any kind of psychotheraputic training as far as I can tell, yet they make broad claims as to how they can turn around the lives of people through sex, some of whom are obviously in a vulnerable place psychologically."

-- A comment on yelp.com

So let's add it all up:

Uncredentialed "personal coaching," lots of stretching, a twisted/frustrated attempted ego-unfulfilling feminist search, "natural medicine" and "healing," "gemstone therapy," lots of Warner Erhart's mind control crap, (of course) staring at your own bellybutton and calling it deep meditation, and a phony Ph.D in "Lifestyles" from a phony college started by a Charley Manson-type manipulator.

And all of these folks are associated, somehow, with Victor Baranco.

Sounds like a whole lot of cultism - and nothing else - to us. No one at One Taste has anything to their name that says they should be doing what they're doing.

And yet, in San Francisco, they're allowed to screw around - literally - with people's lives.

Here's a whole post by the Anticult:

I was alerted by someone that one of the previous websites mentioned is certainly NOT objective.

Its called Considering The Universe 
www.consideringtheuniverse.com 

They had made a previous post about OneTaste that sounded innocent, but then they made another post later on that was clearly recruiting for OneTaste.

She quotes some new agey gibberish, and then displays a DOUBLE-BIND false choice argument put forward by Nicole Daedone.

That is a common tactic, she copied that from someone, notice she says AT ANY COST...that equals money, body, mind...


QUOTE: "Nicole also noted that there are two types of people on the path, those who hope they have found the way to enlightenment and those who know they have no choice but to persevere no matter what the cost. " 



Next she does a pitch and offers to CHAPERONE you to a OneTaste meeting!

Notice that word, CHAPERONE.

That is implying she is going to protect you from the big bad sexual world of OneTaste? Adults need a chaperon? 



QUOTE: "If you are interested in OneTaste’s philosophy, practice, or community and you live near San Francisco or New York City, I highly encourage you to stop by and check it out. I am happy to to chaperon anyone near SF. Drop me a line and let’s connect!" 



Obviously this is directed at young women. What they are doing is predatory, and is somewhat akin to waiting around the bus station looking for confused young women. 



It can be useful to study these smaller cultish groups, as they are more obvious and less slick, and so its easier to spot what they are doing.




PS: oh yuck, these folks are also promoting Byron Katie too!

Emily from ConsideringTheUniverse.com is studying Integral Psychology at JFK University, which appears to be based on Ken Wilber. Ken Wilber wrote a book called ONE TASTE. 
Doh! 



Emily also says she "I really liked what ANDREW COHEN had to say"

Andrew Cohen? Fuck. That's a girl in trouble!

If you're paying attention, there's no way to miss the fact that a lot of people think being driven off the edge of a cliff would be "enlightening" for everybody - whether the rest of us want to go over or not. That's what's happening to now.

It's the stupid "new paradigm" they're always talking about: disaster central. Equality through a hand-to-mouth existence for everyone. That's all NewAgers can imagine. They certainly aren't going to do any actual work!

And even they don't know what they're doing; their gullible asses are just compelled to go there.

Well TMR ain't going with 'em - fuck a cult:

We don't take anything lying down.