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‘Huawei is definitely beatable if we double down on investments’: In-Q-Tel CEO

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The CEO of the intelligence community venture capital arm In-Q-Tel says that Chinese company Huawei "is definitely beatable" if the...

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Business Technology

In-Q-Tel taps Forge.AI to monitor, predict impact of world events for govt agencies

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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The defense and intelligence community funding arm, In-Q-Tel, partners with Boston-based Forge.AI to make sense of publicly available data for...

Business Technology

In-Q-Tel partners with Outlier.ai to identify unexpected patterns in govt data sets

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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US intelligence community funding arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) announces a strategic partnership with Outlier to identify unexpected patterns in government agency...

Business Technology

In-Q-Tel taps cloud security expert Sysdig to modernize govt agencies

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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Barely a month after announcing a new approach to cloud visibility and security, Sysdig is tapped by the Intelligence Community...

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In-Q-Tel partners with AI-human translation company Lilt

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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The CIA's investment arm In-Q-Tel partners with AI-human translation company Lilt to offer US government agencies a high-quality solution for enterprise...

Business Technology

CIA venture arm In-Q-Tel invests in VR, AR intelligence, collaboration platform

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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In-Q-Tel (IQT), the venture arm of the CIA, makes a strategic investment in Immersive Wisdom, whose VR, AR, and MR...

Technology

Molar Mic company wins DoD multimillion dollar contract

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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With previous funding from In-Q-Tel, the company behind the Molar Mic dental radio for military pilots, Sonitus Technologies, is awarded a...

Technology

Why does Israeli spy agency Mossad invest in startups via Libertad Ventures?

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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The Mossad spy agency of Israel is expected to make another open call to invest in startups through its VC...

Technology

How Tech Companies are Combating Terrorist Propaganda

Sam Brake Guia5 years ago

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Roughly 850 people have left the UK to support ISIS, according to the BBC. One of the driving forces behind ISIS’...

Mobile

CIA-backed Pokemon GO a no-go in China due to security threat

Tim Hinchliffe5 years ago

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China's state censor says it will not license Pokemon GO until it has a chance to evaluate the security risks...

Business

What CIA-backed Palantir’s lawsuit against investor says about company culture

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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A lawsuit filed by Silicon Valley's most secretive startup against an early investor is evidence of a covert company culture steeped...

Technology

CIA-backed, NSA-approved Pokemon GO users give away all privacy rights

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Pokemon GO users swept up in the phenomenon are willingly giving away their rights to privacy by agreeing to download...

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You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.