Mini documentary series about the NXIVM sect


Some called it a self-improvement group; at first glance, it seemed to be a training-centered organization, using supposed techniques created by its leader, for people who needed help to improve personally and professionally.
The person behind the organization, the leader, who was described as a genius, with a superior IQ, is called Keith Raniere, a New Yorker who had the ability to engage with the right people to build this organization that was meant to empower people.
Raniere already had experience in the creation of multilevel companies, before founding the NXIVM he had already directed two experiments of multilevel, supposedly they gave him many benefits, one of them was from the sale of vitamin products. These types of companies always end up being a fraud, although it does not mean that they are not successful. For example, what they call Herbalife, for me is a total scam, but it still exists and there are people who believe in this nonsense. I respect them. Every person decides to be a fool if they want to be.
The audacious Rainier had the brilliant idea of creating the NXIVM as a non-profit civil association, to finance millions of people who were in charge of wrapping it up with their sides. Sometimes I think that rich people get very bored, but they are easy prey to fall for charlatans like this man. Money makes them such vain beings that they need to believe in crazy ideas and put money into it.
I have preconceived ideas about these organizations; they are charlatans. To me, they are smoke vendors. That's how an idea with self-improvement techniques ends up becoming a cult, with dark acts, typical of a horror movie. When the first episode of the documentary begins, I realize that it is the typical system of smoke vendors. Intermediate leaders, gaining the sympathy of the people, all acting in a very friendly way, smiling, a utopian world of harmony.
During part of my life I was dedicated to investigate religious groups and similar sects, all of them have those damned characteristics, I detect them as inemdiates, and I do my best to get away from those people. Because all that behavior has a purpose: to recruit new members.
One thing that is surprising about this NXIVM group is that people came paying for a one-week training seminar. This is not charity, entering that world that they promised would improve your life, make you a better person, make you know yourself. You have to pay. In life, nothing is free, except in the northern country. Many people joined this group and started working for free, without charging a dollar, dedicating the whole day to the organization. We see it in the documentary with statements from people who spent years in that group.



All sects (for me it's a sect) are experts in recruiting people. They look for people with problems, they can be work problems, emotional problems, etc. For example, people with depression are more likely to fall into this type of organization. Every human being is different, some are emotionally strong, others are not. It is the weak that sects, organizations and religious groups seek to enter into their groups and control, manipulate them.
How did these people get into this? It seems incredible. They weren't badly educated people, they were actually people with training, some with enough money to pay the over two thousand dollars that the training cost for the week. Famous, successful, but with some kind of emotional problem, they were part of that group, for example the actress Allison Mack, who also ended up being processed



The actress was one of the promoters of the slave network who had to swear obedience to her master, the leader of the organization. To have total control over the women, they had to give compromising information, something they didn't want to come out, some secret, anything that would make them obedient.
In addition, the women who entered this circle of slaves were marked with a symbol on their skin. During the trial, many scalded women described the sexual practices they had to do. This is not fiction, it's fucking reality.
I think many of these women must have a serious psychological problem, because of the way they were controlled. All of them were incandescent by the personality of the leader, who was the supreme master, and each of the women within that division of the sect, which was called DOS, had a rank, some were Amas and they exploited the slaves - complete madness!
The organization crossed the international borders, in Mexico they have a presence, from the hand of Carlos Emiliano Salinas, son of a disastrous ex-president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. What can you expect? Corruption, predators, dark minds, seek ways to act with impunity in the eyes of the world. We may not be able to judge our children for the sins of their parents, but this millionaire man is already a descendant of someone from a dark past, and his fortune comes from his father's corruption.
One must be wary of this kind of sect, which seeks out people who see weakness, in order to bring them into its world. Every day a madman wakes up thinking that he has an idea like Raniere's, that he will create a company, a civil association, whatever, to coerce people to recruit, but in reality we do not know the true intentions or the kind of monster that hides behind those kind smiles.

Filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim direct this documentary in mini-series format for HBO. It is an excellent document to introduce us to the secrets and workings of this organization. With statements from people who were in a high position.
The first few episodes will hook you up and you'll be surprised at how far he's gone to these levels of insanity, while Raniere has already been convicted of several charges (trafficking, sexual abuse, extortion, etc.) and will be sentenced on October 27th of this year. Many hope that he will be given a life sentence.
Documentary I recommend, it's real terror, zero fantasy.

My Ranking: 3.2/5

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