My name is Mark Viscente.

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

I'm not totally certain if the trouble finds me or I find it.

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.

As you'll hear, I have a pretty salty approach to most things, and I'm utterly fascinated by the patterns in human behavior that create the best and the worst in society.

I'm part geek, part rebel, and pissed off about a whole bunch of things.

Join me as I unpack a whole range of topics to do with psychology, spirituality, consciousness,

morality, cults, narcissistic abuse, science, filmmaking, and philosophy.

You never quite know where you're going to get, as it really does depend on what the fuck is on my mind.

Hello.

So this is going to be a four-parter.

This is part one. I'm going to read a letter. Now let me back up and give you some context.

Starting in April 2017, there's a whole group of us that are trying to wake people up from this Nixim trap.

And that journey of calling people, talking to people, writing to people, texting people, goes on for a long time.

And what began to happen is many of us realized, like, there's some people that are just not

letting go of the organization and just not letting go of the sort of spell that they're under

Renehiri's spell. And I know for myself, I'm starting to feel more and more desperate,

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