PODCAST: UNCOVER: ESCAPING NXIVM

PODCAST: UNCOVER: ESCAPING NXIVM

XIVM calls itself a humanitarian community. Experts and critics call it a cult. Uncover: Escaping NXIVM is a new CBC investigative podcast series about the group, its leader, Keith Raniere, and one woman's journey to get out. Read about what drew Sarah Edmondson to Raniere and his followers and how she ended up turning on him.

MY VERDICT: I loved this podcast, I loved how it laid out the facts, opinions, and both sides of the arguments and asked some really difficult questions. Questions like; what makes a cult a cult? How can someone be in a cult and not know? How do you escape a cult?

I would recommend listening to this podcast, you get a unique view on a fascinating story and it’s ongoing so there’s still lots to learn. 

BOOK 106: BRAVE NEW WORLD: ALDOUS HUXLEY

TRIVIA: Brave New World's title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I.

Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 while he was living in England. By this time, Huxley had already established himself as a writer and social satirist. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines, and had published a collection of his poetry (The Burning Wheel, 1916) and four successful satirical novels: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925), and Point Counter Point (1928). Brave New World was Huxley's fifth novel and first dystopian work.

The American Library Association ranks Brave New World as No. 52 on their list of most challenged books.

In 2009, Ridley Scott and Leonardo Di Caprio announced that they would collaborate on a new adaptation of the book.[37] However, as of 2013, the project has been on hold while Scott has been involved with other projects such as the Prometheus film series.

The term "hypnopaedia" is also used by author Anthony Burgess in another famous dystopian novel, A Clockwork Orange.