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Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:08 pm
What fresh new hell is this?!?
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ALBANY — Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.
To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or “master,” as she was called — naked photographs or other compromising material and were warned that such “collateral” might be publicly released if the group’s existence were disclosed.
The women, in their 30s and 40s, belonged to a self-help organization called Nxivm, which is based in Albany and has chapters across the country, Canada and Mexico.
Sarah Edmondson, one of the participants, said she had been told she would get a small tattoo as part of the initiation. But she was not prepared for what came next.
Each woman was told to undress and lie on a massage table, while three others restrained her legs and shoulders. According to one of them, their “master,” a top Nxivm official named Lauren Salzman, instructed them to say: “Master, please brand me, it would be an honor.”
A female doctor proceeded to use a cauterizing device to sear a two-inch-square symbol below each woman’s hip, a procedure that took 20 to 30 minutes. For hours, muffled screams and the smell of burning tissue filled the room.
“I wept the whole time,” Ms. Edmondson recalled. “I disassociated out of my body.”
Since the late 1990s, an estimated 16,000 people have enrolled in courses offered by Nxivm (pronounced Nex-e-um), which it says are designed to bring about greater self-fulfillment by eliminating psychological and emotional barriers. Most participants take some workshops, like the group’s “Executive Success Programs,” and resume their lives. But other people have become drawn more deeply into Nxivm, giving up careers, friends and families to become followers of its leader, Keith Raniere, who is known within the group as “Vanguard.”
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Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:12 pm to L.A.
so it's a facebook pyramid scheme combined with a cult....
at least it's using new media.
at least it's using new media.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:14 pm to CptBengal
quote:Yup...
so it's a facebook pyramid scheme combined with a cult
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:16 pm to L.A.
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A female doctor proceeded to use a cauterizing device to sear a two-inch-square symbol below each woman’s hip, a procedure that took 20 to 30 minutes. For hours, muffled screams and the smell of burning tissue filled the room.
Branding people doesn't take more than about 15-30 seconds. It's extremely painful but not hours of screaming painful. Best to get drunk as shite and then do it.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:17 pm to L.A.
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a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.
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its leader, Keith Raniere,
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:21 pm to cokebottleag
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Branding people doesn't take more than about 15-30 seconds. It's extremely painful but not hours of screaming painful. Best to get drunk as shite and then do it.
I was told the Q-dogs just have everyone punch the guy in the arm beforehand, and that if you see a guy with a double brand that means he yelled out the first time. Probably a lot of myth there, but who knows.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:22 pm to cokebottleag
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Best to get drunk as shite and then do it.
I call BS!
Best not to do and lie if you must!
Well on second thought...... If they give me the cold end, that could be funny!
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:23 pm to Revelator
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So a lesbian cult?!
It's not Grandma's Order of the Eastern Star meeting, that's for sure.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:24 pm to L.A.
I read about these guys, they are kind of like Scientology. Allison Mack & Kristin Kreuk are member.
Apparently women have to join cult founder Raniere's harem.
Apparently women have to join cult founder Raniere's harem.
This post was edited on 10/18/17 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 10/18/17 at 3:26 pm to Iosh
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a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.
quote:
its leader, Keith Raniere,
Posted on 10/18/17 at 4:02 pm to L.A.
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A female doctor proceeded to use a cauterizing device to sear a two-inch-square symbol below each woman’s hip, a procedure that took 20 to 30 minutes. For hours, muffled screams and the smell of burning tissue filled the room.
So, that’s what that was...
Posted on 10/18/17 at 4:06 pm to L.A.
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(pronounced Nex-e-um)
Good choice.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 4:08 pm to Iosh
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a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women.
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its leader, Keith Raniere,
That's like Bruce Jenner getting the Woman of the Year award.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 4:12 pm to L.A.
Am I the only one wondering how this is political?
Posted on 10/18/17 at 4:12 pm to Kino74
Much like Scientology, I’m guessing you have to get several levels deepnto find out that your “sisterhood” is the personal harem of some a-hole.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 4:18 pm to L.A.
Sarah Edmondson
This post was edited on 10/18/17 at 4:20 pm
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