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A jaw-dropping insider look into the world of the so-called Hollywood Sex Cult NXIVM chronicling the rise of enigmatic cult leader, Keith Raniere, from its Patient Zero, his former girlfriend and test subject for his coercive control techniques.Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to participate in his self-improvement methodology. But where did Keith Raniere begin?Enter Toni Natalie, Keiths Patient Zero, the first one indoctrinated into Ranieres methodology and the first one to escape. THE PROGRAM begins with the origin story of NXIVM, follows its rise to international prominence, and takes the reader into the downfall of Raniere through Tonis eyes. During this time she bore witness to the evolution of his methodology, including his use of sex, blackmail, and employment of psychological tools such as neuro-linguistic programming to control and punish those who would not heed his wishes. She uniquely details the fortunes lost and the lives left in disarray that she witnessed contemporaneously, including members of DOS, a group of women coerced into sexual acts under the guise of a womens empowerment inner circle, whom Raniere exercised extreme control over directly and through his lieutenants.Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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Copyright 2019 by Toni Natalie Foreword copyright 2019 by Rick Alan Ross Cover - photo 1

Copyright 2019 by Toni Natalie
Foreword copyright 2019 by Rick Alan Ross
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2019945475

ISBNs: 978-1-5387-0106-5 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-0103-4 (ebook)

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To my mother, Joan Schneier, and my brother, John Natalie, the angels that watch over me, sending me dimes and pennies from heaven so I know I am never really alone.

I miss you both every day

To those who have had no voice, I dedicate this book to you.

You are not alone anymore.

We will never forgetGina Hutchinson and Kristin Marie Snyder.

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and perhaps I also erred in overmuch admiring What seemed in thee so perfect - photo 2

and perhaps

I also erred, in overmuch admiring

What seemed in thee so perfect, that I thought

No evil durst attempt thee; but I rue

The error now

John Milton,
Paradise Lost

Keith Raniere, a narcissistic con man, was the self-styled philosopher king called Vanguard who ruled over a cult known as NXIVM . After more than thirty years of cult-watching, I have rarely seen a group more tightly wound around its leader. Ranieres disciples hung on his every word and there appeared to be no limit to their devotion.

Whatever Raniere said was right, was right, and whatever he said was wrong, was wrong. This was the distilled essence of the training that was drilled into the heads of every NXIVM student. Raniere called it Rational Inquiry; others insist that it was brainwashing. That is, a synthesis of coercive persuasion and influence techniques used to gain undue influence.

I first began to look into him when, in 2002, a family hired me to deprogram their children. They also commissioned two doctors to analyze Keith Ranieres methods of training. In 2003 those expert reports were published online at the Cult Education Institute website. Their reports concluded that Keith Ranieres training seminars employed coercive persuasion and thought-reform techniques to gain undue influence over participants. These findings reflected the same dynamics that I have seen in many authoritarian groups called cults over my thirty-seven years working as an observer and researcher of organizations like these. The CEI reports were the first to publicly expose the inner workings of NXIVM , prompting a lawsuit filed by Raniere and the corporate entity which became NXIVM .

When Toni Natalie called me so many years ago, I was just beginning my journey concerning Keith Raniere. Toni Natalie was the first person to recognize the evil in Keith Raniere. She was ground zero, the epicenter of the havoc wreaked by Raniere. The first to fully recognize his twisted mind and predict the path of his destructiveness. For me, Toni was the lone voice explaining what I could expect because she knew.

When Toni Natalie left him, Keith Raniere, who could never accept either rejection or criticism, responded with endless harassment until he was locked up. Toni painfully came to realize that there was no limit to Keith Ranieres vindictiveness and that he was relentless. He wanted to crush his perceived enemies, no matter what it cost, until it cost him his freedom. With this same persistence, he sued me for fourteen years, in an effort to remove the doctors reports described above from the Internet.

I believed I was an extreme example of Keith Ranieres punishment, but when I spoke with Toni, her story of abuse and harassment was beyond belief. As each of us shared our individual stories of years of being stalked, sued and violated by Keith Reniere, I learned that Toni had suffered much more than me, and that whatever Toni said was always true.

My journey with Keith Raniere largely ended when his lawsuit against me was dismissed.

My last encounter with Raniere was in the courtroom when I testified against him as a fact witness in his initial federal prosecution. Subsequently, he was found guilty on all counts.

Toni Natalie would lose both her parents and her brother before her torment was over.

Toni inspired and offered solace to Keith Ranieres victims. She never thought twice about telling the truth even if it meant personal sacrifice. She shared herself and her story to help others.

It is an honor to know Toni Natalie.

Keith Raniere will now join a list of notorious cult leaders such as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, and David Koresh. Raniere horribly abused women, but it was brave women who exposed and finally stopped him. And the first woman to stand against Keith Raniere was Toni Natalie.

By Rick Alan Ross

Brooklyn, New York, February 28, 2019
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W hen it was renovated in the early 2000s, the Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse was fortified to withstand a 9/11-style terrorist attack. This is apparent in every detail. The placea mammoth 750,000-square-foot complex in downtown Brooklyn, a short walk from the Brooklyn Bridgelooks and feels like a fortress, and thats what I like most about it: this is the safest of safe spaces.

I arrive early, well before dawn, to make sure I secure my usual seat in the back of the courtroom. My house is in Rochester, five hours away, but I attend all the major hearings related to the NXIVM case. I have to see this thing through to the end.

A year ago, NXIVM was an obscure multilevel marketing company built around executive coaching programs, with little more than a cult following. Then, on March 26, 2018, the arrest happened, and the world learned that cult following was not just a clichd expression. The lurid details from the federal indictmentcult leader, sex trafficking, slave brandingwere front-page news, endlessly fascinating. The media had a field day. I spoke to any journalist who asked for an interview, calmly telling the truth, as Id been doing for years. But it was different this time. In years past, whenever I spoke to the press, the NXIVM people would rebut: Shes crazy.

No one thinks Im crazy anymore.

The same cannot be said for the six defendants in the case. The five women are gaunt, ghostly, gray. An impartial observer might conclude that these are prisoners on a hunger strike. The truth is that the man they call Vanguard wants them to look like anorexics, demands they consume the bare minimum of calories per day. Even now, almost a year after his arrest, they eagerly starve themselves to please their Master. Their hungry devotion led them here, to this courtroom, where they see themselves as martyrs for the cause.

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