and the fact that group founder Keith Raniere and his right-hand woman who was one of the heads of DOS, Allison Mack, have yet to be sentenced, India Oxenberg’s story has been the missing piece for awhile. But in actuality, two years of being out of their clutches is barely a blip of time for a young woman who had a lot of healing to do.
Eventually Catherine Oxenberg came to the conclusion that NXIVM was not for her, but India Oxenberg was indoctrinated so deeply that she gave up her interest in the culinary arts to become a coach in the organization; moved to Albany, N.Y.; stopped communicating with her family, and ended up in a sub-group of the organization that came with sexual abuse and physical branding.
Since the center of the story truly is the Oxenbergs, though, the structure of the series follows India Oxenberg’s experience: It starts out by slowly introducing the audience to NXIVM, Raniere and Mack, and walks the audience through the processes used to gain trust and compliance from members. Catherine Oxenberg, too, opens up within “Seduced” about how far she got with NXIVM — including having a real breakthrough during her initial course’s “exploration of meaning” and hosting a “problematic” Jness workshop in her own home .
“If you want help, get help with somebody who is licensed and credentialed,” she continues. “The self-help industry in this country is $11 billion — completely unregulated. You end up with situations of people dying in sweat lodges. It is completely irresponsibly run. The human mind is way more fragile than I knew.
At the time, though, India Oxenberg says it was a combination of feeling lost, truly believing she would be getting “a practical MBA — that’s how it was sold to me,” and looking up to Mack who “was charismatic and very engaging and gave me attention when I felt needy for it, and gave me a promise that she was going to be there for me and guide me and help me grow” that made her want to believe in the mission of NXIVM, and later DOS.
Trusting that these women would handle her story with sensitivity and care could not have come easily or immediately, though, given how her trust was warped by Mack — a woman who she had admired and called a friend for years, but who was abusing her trust the majority, if not all, of that time.
Hopefully, it’s another Netflix show ... never your mind 👀 it’ll be cxld soon like all the others!
“Open Ups”...!!!!!! I know journalism’s in a tough spot currently but hopefully the identification and conjugation of basic verbs isn’t now off the table
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