“Keith made me feel precious to him,” said Christine Marie, who was a divorced mother of four in 1998, when she first met Raniere, the Albany Times-Union in 2012. “He touched me gently the side of the face and told that I was such an innocent, pure soul that I don’t even belong on this planet. “
Christine said he hired her to write marketing materials for the National Health Network and then for Executive Success Programs.
Then “Keith explained that being with him physically would help me,” Marie told the newspaper. After they slept together, she said, Raniere “sat down with me and told myself that I was now part of his inner circle and committed for life and that I could never have physical contact with another man.” However, he said he was still with other women.
“I found it fascinating that these beautiful, smart women knew about each other and didn’t seem upset to share Keith,” Christine continued. “I thought they were all extraordinary women. Even so, it felt like a secret polygamy and I remember that they felt sorry too. As I understood, they had to share the man they loved, they couldn’t hers celebrate publicly. ” Love with a wedding, they couldn’t be with another man and they had to sacrifice normal family life for what they thought was a higher cause. “
She said that in 2000 Raniere was able to rescue her from a toxic relationship with another man – a cult leader in Utah, according to the Times-Union – and Keith called him “a suppressive parasite who took advantage of me, who was drawn to my light “. and wanted to destroy me while benefiting from my life’s work. Keith wanted me to understand that I was being exploited by a cult leader who was nothing more than a deceiver. It made a lot of sense. “
Christine said that it was mainly because of her children that she ultimately found out that she shouldn’t get out of the clutches of one guru guy, even though “Nancy Salzman couldn’t understand why I should make my family my priority when I was like that was desperate. ” They needed their thought reform program. I felt a lot of pressure to leave. But in the end I didn’t go. I did not join NXIVM and did not become part of Keith Raniere’s inner circle. “
