Nithyananda Around My Neck w/ Sarah Landry - S4E12pt2

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🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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CW: physical & sexual assault against youth Sarah Landry continues the story of her troubling times in and outside of Nithyananda's cult. Wearing a picture of the Swami G around her neck was one of many rituals the 'guru' put in place to elevate his image. Sarah was under Nithyananda's control for 9 years before removing herself, and the necklace. She became one of his most public representatives in 2011 when she started a YouTube channel and gathered a significant following by sharing his teachings. As head of Social Media, she became one of the only adults that the children in his school had access to and could grow to trust. The kids revealed to her that in his school they were being beaten, sleep-deprived and starved. Sarah continues to face backlash as she uses her platforms to publicly denounce Nithyananda's group as a destructive cult. Stay tuned, Before You Go: "Slander becomes the tool of the losers" when an argument is lost. Socrates said this in regard to the defamatory statements and personal digs that are used as reasoning, rather than facing the facts. Narcissists and cult leaders often use libel as protection. Sign the petition to stop Nithyananda: http://chng.it/mtMVLbwNyx See Sarah's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MaNithyaSudevi Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sarah_S_Landry or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ma.nithya.sudevi Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.8	Welcome back to part two of my conversation with Sarah Landry.
0:19.1	She spent nine years as a follower of Netanyanda, a self-styled swami, and she became one of
0:27.1	the most public representatives of the group in 2011 when she started a YouTube channel
0:33.7	on which she shared his teachings.
0:36.6	And due to the channel's huge popularity,
0:41.0	Nitananda brought her into his inner circle of public disciples and declared her the head
0:47.2	of his social media team.
0:50.7	But after discovering that devoted followers were being mistreated and made to live in squalor at their
0:57.3	own great expense somehow for their spiritual benefit and that kids in the organization schools were
1:04.2	being beaten and sleep deprived and starved she quietly exited and began researching cults last year. And now she's coming forward to publicly
1:15.0	denounce the group as a destructive cult. In part one of my conversation with her, she started to
1:21.4	tell her story and how she got involved and how things slowly started to become clearer and clearer to her.
1:29.0	And she also started talking about the choker, the necklace, that everyone needed to wear
1:33.6	with Netanyana da's picture on it.
1:36.6	During this episode, she talks more about the necklace, and I can't wait for you to hear
1:40.6	that part of the story.
1:41.7	It's very powerful.
1:43.0	But she also talks more about how she left.
1:46.3	And it is so valuable not only to hear her story, but to know that she is speaking out and that
1:54.4	others are speaking out about this group. You can find their interviews online as well now.
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