There's this doorway in front of you and it's charged with these symbols and you're going to cross through this thing.

And you don't know what's on the other side, but there's other people there and you're going to be part of something now.

On the inside, it's structured like a secret society.

Oaths, rituals, secret initiation rights.

One of the main functions of those early initiations is to get you used to the idea of authority, the fact that it's a hierarchical top-down organization

and that you are subjected to military discipline from the minute that you come in the door.

Really needs to be driven home about OTO. It's not a few bad apples. It really is an organism,

but all it produces is,

is corruption and abuse. All men in OTO have access to women, and they use that access. They were

waking up in the shower with him, accepting a drink from him and then not remembering anything

else that happened. It was kind of a similar M.O. He is still in the organization. When that

information was passed along to leadership, they did nothing with it. Do not be alone in a room

with somebody who's six to gray. Not because they're going to do something to you, but like,

what would you do if they did? You have literally no recourse at all. I served as a local bodymaster. I stood at the

door. I was the point of contact saying, come in. This is safe. My conscience wouldn't allow me to

just walk away from that and be like, oops, I guess I was wrong. It was like an immediate inside

coordinated response of let's destroy this person's reputation immediately to just cut this off at the root so nobody listens to him.

Mine is the only voice.

What have I been doing?

Lay down my autonomy.

After that, it got very dark very quickly.

Hey guys, my name is Shalise Anzola, and this is Colts to Consciousness. So we discuss leaving high demand religions or organizations and find healing and independence through awareness and true individual sovereignty.

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