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wing and give us all their knowledge
and help us to be that successful
person and, for me, when they started
talking about acting, I was like, wait a
minute, this was about personal
growth and yes, I’m an actress and yes,
I want all that success and to be able to
make a wonderful living doing what I
love. I found it odd that Keith Raniere
had just switched over to becoming an
acting teacher, and I always thought
that ESP, in of itself, or NXIVM, had
great tools for actors, because you’re
breaking down why we think the
way we think, who we are, all those
things and that’s what we do as an
actor, and so there is a lot of actor-y
things within ESP and NXIVM but I
Naomi: 100%. I mean I felt special but
it wasn’t until after, when I was
thought about it, I felt dirty. All they
wanted was my money and now she’s
not calling me and now I’m not getting
that attention. I had the fortitude to
say no and not try to scrounge and
figure it out, or put it on credit cards
which a lot of people did. I have
friends who are STILL paying off ESP
debt on their credit cards and it hurts
me that they’re having to pay that off
and every month they get that
reminder of the course that they took
that ended up being this really toxic,
dangerous organisation. The
organisations that I was a part of really
helped me see, and in the acting world
" It is a slippery slope when you’re involved in a high control group or a destructive
relationship because they see your weakness and they see your vulnerabilities
and they...want you to continue to buy-in"
Morgan
never once thought that Keith Raniere
should be my next acting coach to take
me to the next level and, for me, that
was my saving grace. I was able to say
‘no, that’s not going to happen. I look
back at it now and , when you have
somebody who is successful, who’s an
actress, who has everything you want,
who is my age, who is very sweet, all of
the things, and she was calling me and
she was giving me her time and she
was believing in me and saying Naomi,
I really want to help you, I’ve
developed this course with Keith, it’s
amazing, it’s all the things and it was
hard to say no but, at the end of the
day, my bank account didn’t have it.
Min: That’s some serious lovebombing
as well.
especially, there is no acting class that
is going to get you to the next level. It’s
all just about auditioning and doing
the work, just like with everything else
but there is a vulnerability there and
that’s what these groups do, they tap
into that vulnerability and at the end of
the day, because Keith had free reign,
his predatory nature allowed him to
create DOS. It was already happening.
His slave contracts had been
happening since the early 2000’s,
around 1999. He already had this
control over women, he was already
doing it. It was just that the
organisation had been separated in so
many different ways so that there were
all these different subsets like XO/SO,
The Knife and Jness – all these
different subsets – that enough people
were busy doing their own things that
he could develop this private, very elite
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