If you're been enjoying HBO's "The Vow," the documentary series about the multi-level marketing self-help cult NXIVM and its secret society of sex trafficking (trailer below), you might appreciate Wikipedia contributor Feoffer's diagram above. It outlines many of the self-help frameworks, belief systems, and personal transformation techniques that seemingly influenced NXIVM founder Keith Raniere's own bullshit brand of pop psychology.
Meanwhile, in the New York Times, Amanda Hess explains why Raniere was a "Cult Leader Made for the Internet."
Image: Feoffer / "Influences on NXIVM beliefs and practices, sourced from Natalie et al (2019), rendered in the mode of W.S. Bainbridge, e.g. Bainbridge 1978" (CC BY-SA 4.0)
