NXIVM
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NXIVM is a organisation that provides personal development seminars. It behaves in a manner rather akin to a litigious cult. It also operates Executive Success Programs, Inc. It was founded by Keith Raniere.
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[edit] What it claims
NXIVM claims to have "a remarkable development in scientific and psychodynamic understanding, education, and technology that can facilitate this transition so the pattern of humanity's rises and falls can actually be broken and transformed."[1] Sounds pretty cool.
[edit] Response to critics
While gratuitous comparisons to Scientology annoy the experienced cult watcher, it really doesn't help NXIVM's case when they take their moves straight out of said tax-deductible religion's playbook:
- They label dissenters "suppressives".
- They respond to said dissenters with attempted overwhelming legal force (to the point where judges call them out on it).
- They sent private investigators to go through Rick Ross's garbage cans, of all the people to try such a stunt on.[2]
- They also tried to sue Ross for copyright violations when he quoted their material to criticise it, which surprisingly enough didn't work out too well for them.[3]
[edit] External links
- http://www.nxivm.com/
- http://www.espian.net/
- http://www.worldethicalfoundations.org/ - another Raniere site; it is not clear whether the Dalai Lama endorses his name and image being all over it
- Rick Ross links on NXIVM/ESP
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Front page, http://www.nxivm.com/
- ↑ 'NXIVM is a litigation machine' (James M. Odato and Jennifer Gish, Times Union, 13 March 2012)
- ↑ How to Lose $100 Million (Nicholas Köhler, Maclean's, 13 September 2010)