Welcomed Consensus -an unknown chapter in Daedone's journey?

Nicole Daedone
One Taste
Orgasmic Meditation
The Welcomed Consensus
RJ Testerman

Is a San Francisco 'Sex Cult' Subjecting People to Abuse?
Sydney Johnson KQED
Aug 28

[www.kqed.org]

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By the time Nelson was being groomed by the Welcomed Consensus, OneTaste was booming. It was still edgy, but good marketing helped it inch its way toward mainstream acceptance with profiles in publications like The New York Times — and it made lots of money along the way.

But Daedone herself was a student with the Welcomed Consensus in the late 1990s and early 2000s, multiple sources told KQED, including a former housemate of hers and a colleague at OneTaste. Talbott Acosta described her mission with OneTaste as attempting to make the courses scalable, startup-style.

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“He was my world. I worked for him and he was my lover and my dad and my family, really, my family,” Talbott Acosta said. “RJ referred to that time as the Wild West. We didn’t have any structure, it was just a sex commune with lots of drinking and drugs and violence and drama.”
A person with long hair looks out of a window in a residential setting.
Christine Talbott Acosta stands in her home in San Francisco. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

Talbott Acosta then moved into a house near Oak and Fell streets that was affiliated with an East Bay sex commune called Lafayette Morehouse, which taught and sold sex classes through its so-called More University that began in 1977.

Everyone at her new house was taking classes from More University, with topics ranging from “Advanced Sensuality” to “Expansion of Sexual Potential.” Elite members of Morehouse lived at the commune’s larger property in Lafayette.

At around age 20, Talbott Acosta began living with Testerman at a house on Joost Avenue in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood with about seven others while working for him at the hair salon. It was there in the early ’90s that Testerman formed the Welcomed Consensus, using the teachings and financial models he learned with More University.

“It was word for word,” Talbott Acosta said of how the Welcomed Consensus model is based on More University.

A blog about Welcome Consensus

[www.truthaboutrj.com]

Corboy note: what is interesting is that the KQED article mentions Morehouse but does NOT mention that Morehouse/More University was started by Victor Baranco, the sex hustler and mind hacker -- a matter thoroughly discussed on this message board and elsewhere online.

Google search baranco morehouse

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Baranco was masterful at purchasing properties cheap, renting them cheaply as commune space, then having his disciples pour sweat equity into fixing them up, while Baranco fixed them up with his enlightened sex philosophy. A winning formula. He referred to his disciples as 'marks.'

Victor Baranco's More Houses offered an ideal life in pursuit of pleasure, but were actually a cover for a real estate scam and cult

Sgt Bilko Meets the New Culture -- Rolling Stone, December 9, 1971

Victor Baranco's More Houses offered an ideal life in pursuit of pleasure, but were actually a cover for a real estate scam and cult

[www.rollingstone.com] (Article is paywalled)

The Victor Baranco article was a chapter in a book Mindfuckers: The Rise of Acid Fascism by journalists David Felton Robin Green and David Dalton

The book can be read for free here.

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