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, welcome back.

For those of you that don't know, I have started a Patreon site. I've been answering

questions over there for all my patrons and my subscribers. We're going deep, having incredible

conversations, so feel free to join if you'd like. That's patreon.com forward slash Mark Vesente.

Also, recently, I was a guest on two podcasts, which I absolutely loved. The first was Lloyd Evans, who's an ex-Jove's Witness.

He's a writer, activist, and filmmaker.

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