And the police, I don't know why, are more focused on people speaking out about those things

than dealing with the actual criminals.

We've reached peak cult thinking.

My name is Mark Vicente.

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 Nixon 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. All right, welcome back. Before I get

into the main topic of mind mapping and insanity, I want to talk about a few little things.

The one is that the last podcast episode about vampires, it was really interesting.

A lot of, well, most everybody loved it.

A few people really got their knickers in a twist, and I think it's mostly people on social media who are looking at 30 to 45 second reels and reacting to it saying like you know my god

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