Keith Raniere’s Bio, Corrected and Updated for the Prison Era

Oldies But Goodies: Much of this post was published in Frank Report in 2018. But a lot has happened to Keith Raniere since then. The bulk of the 2018 material was previously published  on www.keithraniere.com.

The [Bracketed] Truth Behind the NXIVM Founder’s Legend

Working with the original, I added a few lines here and there for clarification and to bring it up to date. The original authored-by-Raniere-bio is in regular typeface [and my biographical additions are in brackets and bold]. I ask my readers to kindly submit any suggestions for improving the bio, since, like Keith, I strive to be accurate and authentic.

Keith Raniere Bio:

Scientist, mathematician, philosopher, entrepreneur, educator, inventor and author Keith Raniere has devoted his life to studying the human psychodynamic and developing new tools for human empowerment, expression and ethics [and branding women].

From early childhood, he demonstrated astounding gifts, [foremost of which was his amazing ability to lie] which were nurtured by his parents and subsequent mentors.

By the age of one, he could construct full sentences and questions [he could also change his own diaper]; he was able to read by the age of two [something he kept secret from everyone, including his parents].

An autodidact, [a what?] he directed his learning abilities to learning itself, [and he also had nothing to fear but fear itself] studying its science and art in order to find optimized learning strategies and methodologies [and how to express himself in almost perfect word salad].

Applying this skill to athletics, Keith Raniere excelled in judo and was an East Coast Judo Champion at age eleven [along with hundreds of other little boys who also had their parents take them to compete in the children’s tournament].

He also excelled in numerous other sports, including volleyball, tennis, table tennis, diving, softball, cycling, and skiing. [and raping underage girls when he became older].

By the age of twelve, he taught himself to play piano at the concert level [though he never played a single concert]; his passion and aptitude for music would inspire him to master many other musical instruments [which nobody ever heard him play. Although it is said several witnessed him playing the skin flute. And others say he was very good at playing the lyre.]

He taught himself high school mathematics in nineteen hours at the age of twelve [timing himself with the same stopwatch he would later use to time his speed in tying the New York State record for running 100 meters];

Only one year later, he was proficient in third-year college mathematics [which nobody knew about until years later] and was a professional computer programmer [even before there were computers].

Keith Raniere entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at age sixteen [or maybe later]. From his first semester onward, he began taking Ph.D. level mathematics courses, [he said] ultimately taking most of the graduate-level physics and mathematics courses available at the time [yet he almost flunked and left with a 2.26 GPA].

Upon graduating, he became RPI’s first triple major, [he said] earning degrees in mathematics, biology and physics, with minors in philosophy and psychology, and an expertise in computer science. 

Noted as one of the world’s top three problem solvers [by a study he himself created], Keith Raniere was honored in 1989 by the Guinness Book of World Records in the category of highest IQ [That same year Guinness retired the category because the IQ test he took was unreliable and unverifiable since it was, after all, a take-home IQ test].

He has an estimated problem-solving rarity of 1 in 425,000,000 with respect to the general population. [and this figure, I kid you not, comes from his own study. Keith himself did the estimating of his own problem-solving rarity, which is only logical, for who else would be smart enough to estimate his genius?]

The Many [Patents] and [Lies] of NXIVM’s Keith Raniere

He has intellectual patents pending in the areas of human potential and ethics, [Don’t forget his patent on how to determine whether a Luciferian can be cured].

Expression, voice and musical training, athletic performance, commerce [he blew through tens of millions of Bronfman money], education and learning, information processing and human modeling [none of these patents are in use by anyone on the planet.]

Master Raniere’s ShadowCatcher (with InvisibleLens 4D)

He also holds several technological patents on computer inventions [for which he was fined more than $1 million in Texas federal court for lying about owning those patents] and a sleep guidance system [which is something anyone would want – Keith guiding their sleep].

How to Go from Millionaire to Zero: The Keith Raniere Method

As an entrepreneur, Keith Raniere transformed a five-person organization into a corporation of nearly 400,000 in a mere two years. His company, Consumers’ Buyline, Inc., was responsible for an estimated one billion dollars in product and service sales in its second full year of business and was featured on the American Spotlight [It was also featured in investigations and lawsuits by more than 20 Attorneys General in different states and by its third full year, it was headed toward ultimately closing down, leaving tens of thousands of people stiffed on commissions and products].

A millionaire at the age of thirty, Keith Raniere was worth $50 million only two years later [And 25 years later, at the time of his arrest, he claimed zero assets and zero income.]

In 1998, Keith Raniere founded Executive Success Programs, Inc. with [his co-defendant] Nancy Salzman, one of the world’s top trainers in the field of [increasing her own] human [financial] potential.  The company advances [Keith’s personal] human potential and [shady] ethics through personal and professional [anti] development programs, corporate [fleecing] trainings, and a comprehensive personal and professional coaching program [geared toward enslaving followers].

At the heart of the company is Rational Inquiry®, Keith Raniere’s revolutionary patent-[rejected] pending technology designed to enhance [Keith’s] performance in virtually every field of [ripping off and destroying his followers.]

Keith Raniere’s vision for [hating] humanity and [negating] human potential led him to found various other [rip off] companies in the following years. In Spring 2003, he founded NXIVM Corporation, a seminal company for various other endeavors involving the creation of community-building spaces housing athletic, spa, and health and wellness facilities [none of which ever were built].

He is the conceptual founder of Jness, a company started five years later to promote the furtherance and empowerment of [Raniere over] women throughout the world [or at least wherever he could fuck them literally and figuratively].

Late in 2006, he founded Rainbow Cultural Garden, a revolutionary [anti] child development program [teaching children to be sociopaths and to babble under the guise of] promoting children’s cultural, linguistic, emotional, physical and problem-solving potential.

During 2007, Keith Raniere founded A Cappella Innovations, a non-profit organization seeking to [recruit college students, especially females, under the guise of seeking to] advance music, the arts, expression, and humanity through the a cappella genre. 

In August 2008, he conceptualized the World Ethical Foundations Consortium (WEFC), a non-profit initiative dedicated to [pretending to be] building a compassionate, ethical humanity [of which he knows nothing about.]

The Dalai Lama’s Snub 

Because of this initiative [and about $1 million of Bronfman money], His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama scheduled a public address, on Compassionate Ethics in Difficult Times, on May 6, 2009 in Albany, New York. [During that address, the Dalai Lama asked the media to investigate Raniere.]

In September 2008, Keith Raniere conceptualized In Lak’ Ech—a civil non-violence movement in Mexico—after having met with a group of concerned citizens native to that country. [A little later he sought to lure two of his old girlfriends to Mexico to have them falsely imprisoned and raped]. This movement seeks to transform the violence gripping the social fabric of Latin America through active, non-violent protest and compassion. [His effort to lure women to Mexico to imprison them sought to transform two of his critics into ex-critics permanently.]

[In 2018, Keith Raniere began branding women with his initials on their pubic region – which led to an investigation and his arrest by the FBI in March 2018. 

[In 2019, Raniere brought several of his followers to Brooklyn to discuss his genius before a select panel of 12 and a judge, a six-week seminar that showcased his ideals. The event brought worlkdwide media attention and allowede Raniere to taker his rightful place in the minds of a worldwide audience. The proceedings led to a unanimous decision that he was truly something special.

A Lease on Life

[The judge rewarded Raniere with an unprecedented 120-year givernment-paid lease on housing, clothing and food in sunny Arizona—a fitting length, as Keith was reportedly working on a patent to extend the human lifespan to 240 years – the same high number as his IQ.

[Raniere, now 65, lives in a gated community in Tucson, Arizona,  where he spends his days in quiet contemplation. Viva Executive Success!]

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

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