Welcome to the WTF is On My Mind podcast.

I'm your host, Mark Vesente.

In our time together, we'll be talking about all kinds of deep and potentially controversial things related to the human experience.

Along the way, there might be some blasphemy.

One or two sacred cows may get knocked over, and there'll likely be some foul language.

Hello, everybody, and welcome back.

So a few people have said to me, like Mark, you jump all over the place with your topics,

like, what's this podcast about? There is a unifying principle. I am constantly talking about

cult tactics, coercion, and I see these things, these tactics that occur in cults. I see

them everywhere. And I see them, you know, I see them in romantic relationships. I see these things, these tactics that occur in cults. I see them everywhere.

And I see them, you know, I see them in romantic relationships.

I see them in businesses.

I see them, you know, in yoga studios.

I see them, you know, in the medical field.

I see them in corporations.

I see them in governments.

And in this current time where literally there's a lot of emperors who have absolutely no clothing on at all

and millions of people are owing and eyeing I see it very profoundly I think that was one of the

advantages of everything I went through is I could then look at the template that I was learning and start to

see it in operation in many, many other contexts. So that's generally the unifying principle of what I'm

looking at. When it comes to narcissistic abuse, which is one of my passions to talk about

and cult abuse, there's a lot to

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