Source: Chinese anti-cult
(Original title: Unveiling the Secret of the American Cult NXIVM Development Actress Raising Sex Slaves and Colluding with the Dalai Lama)
Recently, Keith Raniere, the leader of the American cult NXIVM, was arrested, which aroused the attention of domestic and foreign media. Some foreign media have pointed out that NXIVM is a sex cult, and there are dozens of women who offer sexual pleasure to the boss, including many Hollywood female stars.
Hollywood actress Alison McKe was arrested for her involvement in NXIVM
Allison Mack, born in Germany in 1982, won emmy awards for his performances in the American dramas "Smallville" and "Dear, I Made Us SmallEr".
When NXIVM leader Ranier was arrested on March 25, Alison Mack and other female believers drove after the police car in an attempt to obstruct official business. After Lanier's arrest, Alison was also arrested on the 30th for being involved in sex trafficking.
According to the media, Alison Mack was accused of joining the Sex Cult NXIVM, a high-ranking member of the organization, who served as Lanier's right and left hand and was called a "master". But she must obey the orders of the leader, Lanier, and be responsible for helping him find a sexual partner. To keep lean and curry favor with Lanier, Alison runs 40 miles a week and diets rigorously.
Afterwards, another actress in "Superman", Kristin Kreuk, was also revealed to be a member of the cult. After the news was exposed, Justin Krykri clarified in a tweet that he did join the organization in 2005, but quit in 2012, denying that he was looking for women to join the organization as sex slaves.
The case began with media exposure, and Nxivm branded the female believer's lower abdomen
In recent years, major media in the United States have begun to expose lanier and Nxivm's various atrocities, and local and federal law enforcement agencies in New York have also begun to intervene in the investigation.
In October 2017, a group of victims came forward in The New York Times to accuse NXIVM's leader, Ranier.
Victims complained to the FBI that when members joined the secret group, Lanier would burn Lanier's name near their pelvis with a hot pen, and that the whole process would be filmed by other members as a ritual of joining the group.
According to ABC News, their bodies were engraved with symbols, including Lanier's initials "RK." The location of the imprint is in the female lower abdomen.
Canadian actress Sarah Edmondson, a former member of the group, revealed to ABC that she had been with the group for a decade and had been branded at the time of joining. She was stripped of her clothes, pressed down by three men, and asked her to say "It is my pleasure to be branded by the master". A female physician then branded the symbol under the woman's hip bone for about half an hour. "There's no anesthesia in the process, the pain is worse than having a baby, it's like a horror movie, and this way of treating anyone is the most inhumane and terrifying."
After the report came out, Lanier denied the allegations in an open letter. However, After making a statement, Ranier left the United States in November and fled to Mexico. Lanier was arrested on March 25 in a luxury villa near Puerto Vallarta, a Mexican seaside resort city, where he was sharing a room with women.
The next day, he was repatriated to Texas, which borders Mexico. On the 27th, Lanier appeared in a federal court in Texas, USA, and he was accused of coercing several female members to act as sex slaves. The Associated Press reported that prosecutors would transfer Ranier to New York within two weeks. If convicted, Lanier faces criminal penalties ranging from 15 years' imprisonment to life imprisonment.
Western media call Nxivm a cult
Over the years, the American media "Times Union" has continued to expose Nxivm, calling it a cult.
On October 13, 2003, the Website of Forbes magazine published "The Bronfmans And the Cult" that Bronfman, who had been one of the customers of the "Senior Manager Success Project", called the training program a "cult".
In 2010, Vanity Fair reported that Nxivm was a cult.
In 2012, investigative journalist James M. Odato published an article in the Abbony Union Times arguing that NXIVM was a cult.
On November 18, 2014, the U.S. website thenation.com published an article titled "How a Fancy, Secret, Cult-Like Company Waged a Lawsuit Against Journalists," exposing NXIVM's indiscriminate prosecution of critics.
Lanier's packaged "master of human psychodynamics", "prophet"
In the 1990s, Lanier packaged himself as a "master of human psychodynamics", a "super genius" who had achieved success in many fields. He advocated that he could talk fluently at the age of 1, read and hyphenate at the age of 2, and completed his high school math course within 19 hours. He also mentioned many times that he had obtained 3 degrees at Rensselaer Institute of Technology in the United States. In 1998, Lanier co-founded Nxivm with a former psychiatric nurse who called herself an "expert on human potential" to recruit members under the banner of "leading a new era of human evolution."
In fact, Lanier was born in Brooklyn in 1960, his parents divorced when he was 8 years old, and he grew up with his mother in the suburbs. His transcripts show that he nearly failed several advanced math and science courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic.
The American "Rolling Stone" magazine said that Lanier had run a business in his early years, and was later investigated for suspected "pyramid schemes". Forbes reported that as early as 1993, Keith Lanier had founded a pyramid-shaped pyramid scheme called Consumers Buyline, which was investigated by 23 states in the United States, and finally he reached a settlement agreement with New York State and compensated the matter.
NXIVM, once translated as "Nexheim", was originally a pyramid scheme company
Headquartered in Albany County, the capital of New York State, the organization has 16,000 members with offices throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The organization claims to have been founded to advocate for women's rights and promote better self-actualization by removing psychological and emotional barriers. They provide so-called personal and professional development training to customers through the Executive Success Programs (ESP), whose trainees honor Lanier and his partner Nancy Salzman as "Vanguard" and "Perfect."
According to People magazine and the BBC, since the late 1990s, about 16,000 people have paid a high fee of $3,400 each to attend seminars organized by Nxivm. Most of the participants attended seminars, such as the organization's Executive Success Program, and then went on with their lives. But others, further attracted to Nxivm, gave up their careers, friends and family to become followers of its leader, Keith Ranier, including some wealthy heiresses, Hollywood stars and even the son of Mexico's former president.
Authorities also said Lanier had previously been funded by Clare Bronfman and Sarah Bronfman. Bronfman, the heir to the wealth of Seagram, one of the world's largest liquor companies, is also a "victim" of Nxivm. Lanier brainwashed them, devouring their fortunes of up to $150 million and using their network to expand Nxivm's popularity.
According to the New York Times, Nxivm has a secret group, Dominus Obsequious Sororium, which means "submissive female partner master." The members are all women and must serve their masters like slaves, including having sex. Other believers accuse That Lanier has established a secret society of more than 50 women in the NXIVM, all of whom are Lanier's slaves, but members must also recruit their own slaves.
Lanier also uses "private documents" handed over by female believers to ask them to sleep with them, and it is rumored that he will select 15 to 20 female believers at a time and work regular shifts, and he also asks these female believers not to have sex with others. There are many "teachers" in the organization who assign "assignments" to believers. One female believer said that they did not know that Lanier was the "master", they just obeyed the instructions of the "teacher".
Investigators say Lanier likes unusually thin women, so female members of the organization are forced to eat foods that are extremely low in calories so that they can become bone-like and become the type of women he likes.
The FBI said Lanier used female believers as sex slaves. Lanier has between 15-20 sexual partners who cannot discuss their relationship with Lanier and cannot have sex with people other than Lanier.
Prosecutors also said that in addition to branding the female believers, Lanier also asked the female believers to hand over private information such as erotic photos to prevent them from leaving the organization, and prosecutors asked the judge to refuse bail lannier.
Nxivm's organizational structure resembles a "pyramid", amassing huge sums of money
The FBI found that Nxivm's organizational structure resembled a "pyramid," with Lanier promoting officials as "masters," who continued to develop downlines and recruit new "slaves." According to the media, Nxivm has many brainwashing methods, such as requiring members to "clock in" to greet the owner in the morning and evening during the training period.
If the female believers did not obey, he would force them to wear cow breast models to class, and others would humiliate them with words and even threaten to put them in cages.
Some members spent thousands of dollars to join the "self-help workshop". It requires members to provide information about family and friends, nude photographs of themselves and transfer the right to dispose of personal assets when they join in order to act as a threat if they request withdrawal.
Court documents show that Lanier had access to the bank account of one of his deceased lovers, with $8 million in deposits.
FBI officials, we're going to end it all now
Federal prosecutors previously sued Lanier in the Eastern District Court for the District of Brooklyn, New York City, accusing him of forming a secret group that threatened to spread information about his clients and seize assets to force female members to have sex with him and engrave symbols on them.
"As the indictment says, in order to defile and manipulate women he regards as his sexual slaves, Keith Lanier abused his power and was disgusting," William Sweeney, an FBI official, said in a statement on the 26th. We are now going to put an end to it all. ”
Although Ranier himself has consistently denied all the allegations, investigative documents show that the FBI has the electronic communications evidence that Ranier is indeed the manipulator behind the internal "slave" organization.
For the news of Lanier's arrest, American actor Catherine Oxenberg called out the big happy
Oxenberg's eldest daughter, India, joined Nxivm in 2011. In 2017, Oxenberg confessed to People magazine that he thought his daughter had been "brainwashed" by Ranier's organization. Oxenberg said that after joining Nxivm, her daughter gradually became estranged from her. Upon learning of Raniere's arrest, the mother issued a statement thanking the U.S. prosecution for their tireless efforts in the case that ultimately brought Ranier to justice.
NXIVM once sponsored the Dalai Clique
On December 22, 2015, Canada's Niagara Falls Reporter reported that "Lanier and the Brownfuman Sisters Tried to Buy the Dalai Lama" that Frank Parlato, a former adviser to the American cult "Nixem Company", exposed the whole process of the Nixem cult's bribery of the Dalai Clique as a party, and the Dalai Lama had defended the platform of the cult "Nixem Company" (NXIVM) to obtain donations of up to 1 million to 2 million US dollars. The article also said that in this "transaction", the Dalai Lama's confidant Tenzin Dongdeng Lama was even captured by the female color, and the peach color news broke.
In fact, this is not the first time that the Dalai Lama has stood for a cult because of money. He once had a "deep friendship" with Akira Asahara, the founder of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. It is reported that between 1988 and 1992, Akira Asahara, the leader of the "Aum Shinrikyo" group, donated more than $2 million to the Dalai Lama. Aum Shinrikyo orchestrated the March 1995 Tokyo subway gas incident, which injured 6,000 people and killed 13 others.