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. Today I want to chat about some aspects of the craft of filmmaking. I've had a

love affair with the movies ever since I saw Star Wars when I was little and have been making

them for quite some time. But I want to talk about the way that filmmakers can sometimes weaponize their craft.

Movies can do extraordinary things,

you know, move people to the greatest heights possible,

the deepest depths of themselves,

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