My name is Mark Vissente.

I'm a director, producer, writer, and troublemaker.

I'm most known as the director of the film, What the Bleep Do We Know?

And as one of the Nixium whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The Vow.

Let's just say, I know a thing or two about cults.

I don't consider myself a cult expert,

but I'm definitely an expert in being screwed over,

waking up, and knowing how to spot them.

And let me tell you, they're everywhere.

One of my many passions is to help people see patterns of abuse across multiple contexts,

from personal to family to group to societal. It's all the same pattern at every scale.

I want to arm people with the knowledge to recognize and navigate these kinds of abuses,

so they can experience true freedom and be their most authentic selves.

Along the way, I'm going to touch on psychology, spirituality, consciousness, morality,

morality, cults, science, filmmaking, media, and philosophy. You never quite know what you're going to get, as it really

does depend on WTF is on my mind. Hello, everybody, welcome back. I wanted to start by telling

you that every single time I do a podcast, where I looking at the camera as I am now on YouTube, I am so hot and sweaty. For some reason, I get nervous when I do these podcast episodes. I think it's the sense that there's like thousands of people out there that I'm talking to and judging by the numbers, there are thousands of people.

So I kind of get nervous and I get very hot. So I turn the air conditioning like way, way high.

A little bit of personal information there. So those of you on my Patreon, my patrons, know that a few

weeks ago I was, you know was surrounded by boxes in an apartment

We were about to move Bonnie and I have now officially moved into Lisbon which has been a dream of mine for a long time

We've been living outside of the city now we're living in the city and I think

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