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 next-team whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The VAL. 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.

My mission 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.

As you'll hear, I have a pretty salty approach to most things.

So there might be some blasphemy.

One or two sacred cows might get knocked over,

and there'll likely be some foul language.

You never quite know what you're going to get,

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

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

You'll see my background is a little bit different.

Those of you're on YouTube.

I am now in the United States of America.

We have left Portugal.

Those of you who are under Iraq or don't follow me on social media,

we left lovely Portugal, and we're now in America.

So my first guest back is none other than Mr.

Richard Granon because he posted, you posted, something I thought was very cool. So stand by.

I'm going to play it really quickly and then I want to dig in. Is that cool? Yes, sir. Narsis must have existed throughout all of human history. It can't just be something

that's developed in the last hundred years or so. But if we weren't using psychology before

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