It was 1991, two years after Raniere was listed as having one of the highest IQs in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Natalie and her husband bought into Consumer's Buyline (ranieres first company), which promised steep discounts on goods and services for a membership fee. Members got a commission for selling memberships to others. (pyramid scheme)
Within a year, Natalie and her son had moved to Clifton Park after Raniere secured her a job with a skincare company that Consumer's Buyline partnered with.
By 1997, however, the relationship was breaking down.
Raniere and Natalie had met Nancy Salzman, with whom Raniere would go on to co-found NXIVM.
His followers began calling him "Vanguard" and bow when he entered a room, a practice that was ultimately included in a 2000 patent application for "Rational Inquiry," a personal-improvement system that's a key part of the NXIVM philosophy.
In 1998, Raniere and associate Nancy Salzman founded NXIVM in upstate New York, offering "executive success programs." Reportedly, over 12,000 people have attended the classes between its founding in 1998 and 2010.[12] Its clients have included Richard Branson as well as actresses Linda Evans, Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk, and Nicki Clyne.
With over thirty years of intensive study and practice in the fields of healthcare, human potential and human empowerment, Nancy brings an incredible wealth of knowledge, wisdom and experience to her role as President of Executive Success Programs. Nancy spent many years seeking out and mastering models of human empowerment—from Neuro-linguistic Programming (having studied with both Bandler and Grinder) to psychobiology (with Joan Borysenko) to Ericksonian Brief Solution Based therapy (studying directly under Milton Erickson, Ernest Rossi and Stephen Gilligan). She practiced individual and family counseling before expanding to the field of human potential.
What I'm seeing is that Raniere's knowledge of INTRICATE BLACKMAIL OPERATIONS, demanding compromising and allegedly illegal extortion material BE MADE BY THE MEMBER THEMSELVES long with the branding, COMBINED with SALZMAN'S knowledge of Neuro Linguistic Programming, having studied with Bander and Grinder personally, is really something to behold.
I'm concerned about Raniere's level of knowledge on the Mk-Ultra program, it's obvious he uses similar techniques. I wonder if it came upon him in his research naturally and he utilized it in his companies or if he was actually part of a broader government operation.
Now I'm trying to figure out if they were part of a larger program or if their little scheme grew organically within the organization. it's obvious many corporations and large donors bought into the program later on.
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Interesting story being told here:
Rochester woman tells all about life with NXIVM's Keith Raniere, her ex https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2018/03/08/rochester-woman-battles-nxivm-keith-raniere/360847002/
It was 1991, two years after Raniere was listed as having one of the highest IQs in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Natalie and her husband bought into Consumer's Buyline (ranieres first company), which promised steep discounts on goods and services for a membership fee. Members got a commission for selling memberships to others. (pyramid scheme)
Within a year, Natalie and her son had moved to Clifton Park after Raniere secured her a job with a skincare company that Consumer's Buyline partnered with.
By 1997, however, the relationship was breaking down.
Raniere and Natalie had met Nancy Salzman, with whom Raniere would go on to co-found NXIVM.
His followers began calling him "Vanguard" and bow when he entered a room, a practice that was ultimately included in a 2000 patent application for "Rational Inquiry," a personal-improvement system that's a key part of the NXIVM philosophy.
And then from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM
In 1998, Raniere and associate Nancy Salzman founded NXIVM in upstate New York, offering "executive success programs." Reportedly, over 12,000 people have attended the classes between its founding in 1998 and 2010.[12] Its clients have included Richard Branson as well as actresses Linda Evans, Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk, and Nicki Clyne.
NANCY SALZMANJPG
With over thirty years of intensive study and practice in the fields of healthcare, human potential and human empowerment, Nancy brings an incredible wealth of knowledge, wisdom and experience to her role as President of Executive Success Programs. Nancy spent many years seeking out and mastering models of human empowerment—from Neuro-linguistic Programming (having studied with both Bandler and Grinder) to psychobiology (with Joan Borysenko) to Ericksonian Brief Solution Based therapy (studying directly under Milton Erickson, Ernest Rossi and Stephen Gilligan). She practiced individual and family counseling before expanding to the field of human potential.
What I'm seeing is that Raniere's knowledge of INTRICATE BLACKMAIL OPERATIONS, demanding compromising and allegedly illegal extortion material BE MADE BY THE MEMBER THEMSELVES long with the branding, COMBINED with SALZMAN'S knowledge of Neuro Linguistic Programming, having studied with Bander and Grinder personally, is really something to behold.
I'm concerned about Raniere's level of knowledge on the Mk-Ultra program, it's obvious he uses similar techniques. I wonder if it came upon him in his research naturally and he utilized it in his companies or if he was actually part of a broader government operation.
Now I'm trying to figure out if they were part of a larger program or if their little scheme grew organically within the organization. it's obvious many corporations and large donors bought into the program later on.