My name is Mark Vicente.

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 what you're going to get,

as it really does depend on what the fuck is on my mind.

All right, this is part two of the letter to the inside. I was thinking after I recorded part one, there were a few things I wanted to mention or clarify two things.

The one thing is people who've just seen news reports, read a few things online, a few news programs, but never saw the vow.

Might be a little confused because I seem to be talking about a business program and,

you know, a corporation and a bunch of things. And I think what happened is that because of the way media handled this whole situation, people think, oh, it's just a sex cult. But understand, it wasn't a

sex cult, it ended up being that, and it presented that way, and that's what helped take it down,

the exposure of that. But it seemed to be a coaching program. It seemed to be a business program until we realized

what it really was, at which point we left and blew the whistle. So just to clarify, people are like,

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