{"id":2140,"date":"2025-07-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:28:55","slug":"control-compliance-and-consequences-my-2019-encounter-with-oto-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/control-compliance-and-consequences-my-2019-encounter-with-oto-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Control, Compliance, and Consequences: My 2019 Encounter with OTO Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DXVURRwUuKI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">my recent video<\/a>, I shared the 2019 incident where Sabazius, the U.S. National Grand Master of OTO, pressured Joseph Thibes to remove IAO131 as a moderator of the Facebook Thelema group\u2014and what happened when I spoke out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wasn\u2019t just drama. It was textbook <strong>BITE model <\/strong>behavior\u2014a framework used to identify high-control groups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Behavior Control<br><\/strong>\u2022 Pressuring someone to cut ties with a critic<br>\u2022 Expelling a longtime dissenter under false pretenses<br>\u2022 Using \u201cfriendly\u201d threats to silence criticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Information Control<br><\/strong>\u2022 Targeting dissent in a public Thelema group<br>\u2022 Monitoring social media posts<br>\u2022 Pretending implied orders aren\u2019t real<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thought Control<br><\/strong>\u2022 Gaslighting: \u201cHe didn\u2019t order\u2014he just expressed a preference\u201d<br>\u2022 Repeating scripted talking points to shut down doubt<br>\u2022 Framing criticism as betrayal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emotional Control<br><\/strong>\u2022 Creating fear of consequences<br>\u2022 Isolating critics<br>\u2022 Shaming defenders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wasn\u2019t about protecting anyone. It was about controlling the narrative and punishing dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen stuff like this in OTO and thought, \u201cThis feels culty\u201d\u2014you\u2019re not crazy. You\u2019re paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my recent video, I shared the 2019 incident where Sabazius, the U.S. National Grand Master of OTO, pressured Joseph Thibes to remove IAO131 as a moderator of the Facebook Thelema group\u2014and what happened when I spoke out. This wasn\u2019t just drama. It was textbook BITE model behavior\u2014a framework used to identify high-control groups: Behavior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[488],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oto-high-control-group-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}