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 Nixium whistleblowers featured in the HBO series, The Vow.

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.

One of my many passions 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.

I want to arm people with the knowledge to recognize and navigate these kinds of abuses,

so they can experience true freedom and be their most authentic selves.

Along the way, I'm going to touch on psychology, spirituality, consciousness, morality,

morality, cults, science, filmmaking, media, and philosophy. You never quite know what you're going to get, as it really does depend on WTF is on my mind.

Welcome back, everybody. It's good to be here again. Thank you for listening in or watching wherever you are. And by the way, wherever you are listening or watching, please hit subscribe. Give me a good rating

wherever you can, if possible. And also, if you'd like to support what I'm doing, please visit my

Patreon page. That's patreon.com for slash Mark Vecente. I would appreciate any help I can get.

So today I want to talk about a film called

Oblivion. And I do want to address Tom Cruise because I think some of my former Scientology

friends will be like, dude, why are you like pumping the sky's tires? I am not pumping his tires.

I will explain as the episode goes on. There is a lot of irony in what I'm

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