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There has been much talk about Ariana Grande's sudden transformation after working on Wicked into a skeleton with very disturbing public behavior. While I cannot comment on the apparent Semaglutide addiction, the behavior is so similar to the way members of Rise behave toward each other that I find it highly plausible that someone in production for Wicked paid for a workshop from either Rise or one of their ideological sibling LGATs for the cast. In particular, the observation that their are some similarities to behavior on MDMA also tracks, since these groups boast that they can induce MDMA-like experiences without requiring drugs.
I at least take solice in the fact that the children I've seen associated with Rise don't seem to be as affected as their parents.
What is Rise? I got nothing out of their website and asking chatgpt just regurgitated the website.
Legally not a cult. But also kinda like 73.3% a cult. Run by a fading Mexican hippy in Salt Lake City area, the website is only marginally less coherent than their actual workshops. I attended 1 and a day of another to support a friend who is deep in their koolaid. The only emotion the leader showed was when he was talking about how inspiring Mr. Beast is. Lots of NLP, group intense emotional experiences, mystical jargon, excessiv use of eyecctact and physical affection to brute-force emotional experiences, lots of talk about one's inner child, god-self, manifesting, ... just fill in the blanks with random culty mystical stuff, and watch some of the Ariana Grande clips people have been reacting to, and put it in a room with music and an old guy facilitating. I have a short clip from the workshop I was at, but it doesn't include much that'd support my claims.
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