A 6th example of the Raniere ‘opposite effect’; whatever he says will happen, the opposite occurs!

An announcement is made: The Dalai Lama is coming for four days to work with Keith Raniere to create a new ethical movement.  It is to culminate with a giant lecture in front of 17,000 people at the Times Union Center.

Raniere is to be paired with the Dalai Lama; two compassionate teachers.

He will be seen by a quarter of the people who live in the Capitol Region: Raniere vindicated by the Dalai Lama,

Instead it backfires.

The press goes wild at the thought that the Dalai Lama would associate with a creepy Cult leader Raniere.

Bad press.

The Dalai Lama cancels the four day event.  More bad press.

Somehow he is persuaded to change his mind.  More and more bad press as allegations surface that the Bronfmans bought him off.

He finally comes to Albany but not for the four-day event originally planned but for a single afternoon lecture [which does not even sell out the smaller 2800 seat theater).

Onstage the Dalai Lama and Raniere do not appear together and make no statements about Raniere’s concepts.

There is no endorsement of Raniere.

Raniere only appears for a brief moment onstage when the Dalai Lama gives Raniere a white Katak scarf, a traditional Tibetan gift, which, in his culture, symbolizes the pure heart of the giver, not the pure heart of the person receiving the gift.

The Dalai Lama also gave a Katak scarf to the Bronfmans, the Albany mayor and a Catholic prelate, the latter three sitting silently onstage with the Dalai Lama as he gave his talk.

During the talk the Dalai Lama does not endorse Raniere or mention him by name. He does discuss briefly the controversy with Raniere/NXIVM and tells the audience that the press should investigate all such controversies thoroughly.

Although Raniere tried to spin it as the Dalai Lama endorsed him, the public record shows it backfired.
Raniere lost more credibility. The Dalai Lama was tarnished a bit by the flip flop and the suggestion that he appeared onstage for money.
In other words, once again, the opposite of what Raniere intended occurred.
Google “Keith Raniere + Dalai Lama” for yourself.  Almost all of the press is bad or controversial.
Just the opposite of what was intended: To bring the Dalai Lama in to shore up Raniere’s gruesome image.

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Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist.

His work has been cited in hundreds of news outlets, like The New York Times, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, New York Daily News, Oxygen, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The Sun, The Times of London, CBS Inside Edition, among many others in all five continents.

His work to expose and take down NXIVM is featured in books like “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, “Scarred” by Sarah Edmonson, “The Program” by Toni Natalie, and “NXIVM. La Secta Que Sedujo al Poder en México” by Juan Alberto Vasquez.

Parlato has been prominently featured on HBO’s docuseries “The Vow” and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discovery’s “The Lost Women of NXIVM.” In addition, he was credited in the Starz docuseries 'Seduced' for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS.

Parlato appeared on the Nancy Grace Show, Beyond the Headlines with Gretchen Carlson, Dr. Oz, American Greed, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, where Parlato conducted the first-ever interview with Keith Raniere after his arrest. This was ironic, as many credit Parlato as one of the primary architects of his arrest and the cratering of the cult he founded.

Parlato is a consulting producer and appears in TNT's The Heiress and the Sex Cult, which premieres on May 22, 2022.

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