The malignant cult nxivm (K.Raniere): The 12 point statement

Twelve-point Mission Statement
By Keith Raniere

GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT
18 GR 204 (S-2)0(NGG)

== esp.nxivm.1 ==: Success is an internal state of clear, honest knowledge of what I am, my value in the world, and my responsibility for the way I react to all things.

Comment: This is a redefinition of the word 'succes', but in the end it simply means achievements and esp. 'money', as usual, see point 11.

== esp.nxivm.2 ==: There are no ultimate victims; therefore, I will not choose to be a victim.

Comment: What is the point of this? To make people feel that they have their destiny in hand? Why not say that?

2024-11-26: It may be related to what other groups that strive towards enlightenment state, which is that what you experience in life is part of what comes to you because of karma (your previous actions), and so considering yourself a victim doesn't make sense just as it doesn't make sense to complain about a prison sentence after robbing someone. However this view also makes an emotion poor view of situations possible, and even can excuse not taking action against perpetrators because 'you got this result from your choices', which means from what you did in a past life or from direct choices in this life.

It could also be a call to not get into a victimhood mindset. That is destructive and it can take a long time to get out of that. In a victimhood mindset you don't see reality and you cannot be happy...

In the (fake) women's group DOS it could have been used to state for example "you agreed to branding, so don't consider yourself a victim", which would disregard peer- and situational pressure... (I need to check whether that was done, in a CBC podcast I think this was mentioned or at least the possibility of that reasoning).

== esp.nxivm.3 ==: I am committed to be successful. I understand each of us must raise ourselves — and thereby raise all others — as all others raise us. This is interdependence.

== esp.nxivm.4 ==: Success in my own right is my earned success. True success cannot be stolen, copied or received by happenstance. I will not masquerade as successful by these methods or any other. I will earn my success.

== esp.nxivm.5 ==: Tribute is a form of payment and honor. It is giving credit where credit is due. I will use tribute to uphold others beyond my petty likes and dislikes. As a result, I will define my self and my true contribution to humankind.
== esp.nxivm.6 ==: Successful people do not steal and they have no desire or need to steal. I will not steal anything. I will always earn what I need and desire. Copying without permission or tribute is not the highest form of flattery; it is theft. Theft is also taking or receiving something without fully earning it; it is always at the expense, no matter how small, of others.

== esp.nxivm.7 ==: Inner honesty and integrity are the highest human values and the foundation of the human psychology. All other values arise from them. I will never trade my integrity or inner honesty for any other value. It is never worth it.
COMMENT: I knew immediately when reading this that this is wrong, something is missing! Honesty and integrity are required but not enough to give a set of requirements that together give the 'highest human values', after all, an honest psychopath who has a set of rules that are all about his gains, and from which he doesn't deviate is according to esp.nxivm.7 someone with 'the highest human values'... It is not surprising that in ep. 1 of "The vow" I saw Mark Vicente with a copy of Ayn Rand's "Atlas shrugged" which I consider "the psychopath's bible" (great for people who only think in terms of money and power and who don't care about other people)...

== esp.nxivm.8 ==: The methods and information I learn in ESP are for my use only. I will not speak of them or in any way give others knowledge of them outside ESP. Part of the condition of being accepted into ESP is to keep all its information confidential. If I violate this, I am breaking a promise and breaching my contract, but more importantly, I am compromising my inner honesty and integrity.

COMMENT: 1. Sentences 1-3 are to keep the information secret, which goes against wanting to improve the world...
2. The rest is manipulation of the type "you agreed at the start, now you have to agree forever. I strongly argue against this in book 2... It is a common tactic used to justify moderating behaviour on forums, where a moderator or owner says "you agreed to not discuss xyz or behave like ABC", however, nobody reads those rules and in many cases such as rules for services such as paypal are too long and unreadable, i.e. nobody reads them until the time comes that it is needed to look at them. Then when you read them, you could say :"that rule is unacceptable" and if it's nonsensical or illegal you could and should go against it.

== esp.nxivm.9 ==: True success is never at the expense of others. As a successful individual, I will never envy another's success. I will rejoice because I realize the success of others raises me up just a little bit more because I am also part of the human team. The actualization of human potential by anyone is a tribute to all team humankind. If others are successful, I will protect their success against those who envy them. I pledge to purge myself of all parasite and envy-based habits, and replace them with the habits of effort and interdependence.

COMMENT: This to me shows once again that Raniere is emotion-poor and either has/had ideals that he thinks should be used to reshape the world, or he pretends to have such ideals. It would be possible to write the first 3 sentences as an enlightened person or who strives towards that, but the 4th sentence about "actualization of human potential" is typically 'success' thinking, i.e. Raniere is as I showed elsewhere, a simple money thinker.

== esp.nxivm.10 ==: I will unreservedly accept the success I have earned. I will accept no more and no less; this is accepting with integrity. I will give unreservedly to those who have earned it; this is giving with integrity. I will accept with integrity as easily as I give with integrity. To not accept what I am worth, or what I have earned, is to devalue myself and thereby all others.

== esp.nxivm.11 ==: People control the money, wealth and resources of the world. It is essential for the survival of humankind for these things to be controlled by successful, ethical people. I pledge to ethically control as much of the money, wealth and resources of the world as possible within my success plan. I will always support the ethical control of these things.
COMMENT: This essentially means the meaning of success is actually the same as what it normally means, esp. in obtaining monetary gains...

== esp.nxivm.12 ==: A world of successful people will be a better world indeed; a world devoid of hunger, theft, dishonesty, envy and insecurity. People will no longer try to destroy each other, steal from each other, down each other or rejoice at another's demise. Success, ethics and integrity are co-inspirational. I pledge.to share and enroll people in ESP and its mission for myself, and to help make the world a better place to live.

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As this 12 point statement has been published by the US government as part of the law case in 2018, I consider the publishing here fair use despite any copyright notice, esp. as I need to quote it all to comment on it.

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