The “Stripe Path” is the means of advancement within Nxivm.
Nxivm’s members are awarded colored sashes,which they are privileged to wear around the neck at NXIVM courses.
The awarding of sashes is based on one’s services to NXIVM.
The decision to promote is entirely arbitrary and was the ultimate decision of Keith Raniere alone.
Prior to his incarceration, it was possible for an attractive and slender woman to make her way up to the top fairly rapidly through personal mentoring by Raniere.
In short, the color of the sash signifies rank.
Rank within Nxivm is also denoted by means of handsome “stripes,” which are added to a member’s sash until she or he earned a sash of a higher-ranking color.

The valuable sashes
Let us now examine the ranks:
White
The lowest rank are “students” who wear the white sash.
There have been likely more than 15,000 whites. Anyone who pays for the course gets a white sash.
At the classes, the white sashes learn to recite praises to the Vanguard,, how to bow before him and learn the secret handclasp.
A white sash can be obtained for as little as $2,000. Pretty and slender women have been known to get them for free.
Yellow
The next rank is that of a coach, who wears yellow. They work for free and pay monthly fees to keep their yellow sash. Pretty women, with generous and compliant dispositions, have been known to get a yellow rather quickly after visiting Raniere at his “library.”
There have been 1,000-1,500 who have worn the yellow sash over the 20 years of NXIVM.
Yellow sashes can be obtained for as little as $25,000 in cash and services. Plus annual fees. Each additional stripe – and there are four – cost another $50,000.
Unless one is a young slender woman.
Income in return – zero.
Orange
The next higher rank permits a person to be eligible to actually make a [small] salary or earn commissions [for recruiting]. They are called “Proctors”and they wear the orange sash.
I would estimate there have been several hundred orange-sashed Proctors.
Orange sashes have been obtained for as little as $250,000 in cash and services. Each additional stripe costs about $100,000 more in cash and services.
The most expensive Orange sash- with four stripes was obtained by Clare Bronfman. It cost her more than $100 million.
Average income in return for being an orange – $35,000 annually.
Green
Above the orange-sashed ones loom the “Senior Proctors” who wear the glittering green.
There have been less than 20 Greens.
Cost of a Green – $1 million in cash or services.
Ave. income in return: $90,000 [Plus possible promise of an avatar baby.]
[Some have said that the cost of Harvard education is substantially less than getting a Green Sash, but Harvard does not teach the wisdom of the Vanguard.]
Among notable Greens:

Lauren R. Salzman
Green, Edge, 4 stripes

Loreta J. Garza Davila
Green, 4 stripes
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Sara R. Bronfman-Igtet
Green, 3 stripes
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Alejandro Betancourt Ledesma
Green, 3 stripes

Esther L. Carlson
Green, Edge, 1 stripes
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Emiliano Salinas Occelli
Green, 1 stripe*

Omar ‘Cuckie’ Boone
Green, Edge
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Jimena “Brand My Pussy’ Garza Davila
Green
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Cecilia Salinas Occelli
Green
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Dawn Morrison
Green
Blue

The next rank – is that of a Counselor, who wears blue.
To my knowledge, there is only one blue sash – Edgar Boone – a current member and pioneer of the Mexican recruitment and the bulk cash smuggling efforts.
Cost: $5 million.
Income $200,000 less fees.
Purple
The next higher rank is Senior Counselor – who wears the purple sash.
There are presently no “purples” in NXIVM. There have been only three purple sashes I know of in the history of NXIVM. All three were girlfriends of Keith Raniere
Barbara Jeske – deceased
Pam Cafritz – deceased
Toni Natalie – resigned.
Gold

Beyond the purple is the astronomically high and virtually incomprehensible– Gold Sash – which is worn only by the Prefect. Her name is Nancy Salzman. She is also indicted.
Ethereal
Beyond that – abiding in the heavens above and not material at all – is the colorless sash [it appears to the naked eye as white] of the Vanguard – Keith Raniere – who is beyond all sashes.

Cost to be Vanguard – zero dollars, servicing hundreds of slender and attractive female students, and likely a life sentence in prison.


I understand Raniere used to wear the Black sash, but he kept spilling pizza on it, so he did away with it. On a more serious note, what do the edges mean? By the way, the color sashes are obviously similar to a martial arts belt progression, and the “edification” shown to the “upline” is straight out of Raniere’s Amway training. Been there, saw that. Wrote the websites, click on my name to read them.
The very mention of a sash and I would have been out of there. Seriously? A sash. You want me to become enlightened and then put on a silly sash? In the dictionary next to the word cult is this photo. Weird these people could not see they were in a cult.
It’s not about you or anyone else who would have been put off by the sashes. It’s about the people who were okay with it, and I doubt the sashes were shown the first day. It’s a slow immersion, not a sudden exposure to all things NXIVM. It’s how all MLM scams work. I know you’re so smart that you wouldn’t fall for it, good for you.
Maybe Frank Parlato can market t-shirts that read “I moved to Clifton Park and all I got was this lousy sash…and a bad case of VD”.
You can buy those NXIVM sashes now for five bucks a piece at Goodwill and you would still be overpaying for them.
Which Goodwill are they available at?
My gosh, these stupid striped sashes are nothing more than handing out bonus bucks for the most lottery tickets, frozen pizzas or corn dogs sold. I wonder who made the sashes. Who was the person at the helm of the Singer seeing machine stitching and adding the stripes? Or, were they iron-on stripes? Perhaps they sent them out to a local seamstress, or tailor?
Funny. I love these pieces, Frank.
It has been said that in order to make a small fortune through NXIVM, you need to blow a large fortune.
And blow Keith Raniere’s little peepee. The dumb cunts.
The second photo is comical. I wonder why the seated members have their hands in that position. Does Nancy make them nervous?
Nancy doesn’t make the men “nervous”…she makes the men hard, and their hands are covering their erections.
Nancy doesn’t do anything for me.