# Inst@Guru: Bentinho Massaro Ep 5 - Keilan Part 2 "Closer to God"

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This is part of my ongoing deep-dive investigation into the world of Bentinho Massaro - a Dutch spiritual influencer with millions of followers and a story that goes far beyond what's visible on his carefully curated social media. I've been documenting this for over four years. This is Keilan Part Two.

In Part One, we watched Keilan McNeil get pulled in. In Part Two, we go inside the machine. This episode covers what life actually looks like inside a high-control group once the honeymoon is over. The distortion readings that never end. The psych unit with zero qualifications running psychological sessions on a hundred people. The retreat in Costa Rica where the lights go out. The 'fog of war' these organizations deliberately manufacture - the lack of sleep, the relentless introspection, the group struggle sessions - designed to keep people too disoriented to leave. And the moment in Mexico where Bentinho points to his bedroom and tells Keilan that sex with him would bring him CLOSER TO GOD.

There's also Ecuador. I'll just say - what are the chances?

By the time this episode is out, I've returned from Amsterdam, where I spent a week with Jacqueline, Keilan, Jade, dozens of defectors, and Dutch investigative journalist Ivo van Woerden, whose book 'In de Greep van de Goeroe' - In the Grip of the Guru - has just been released in the Netherlands. The press there has been consuming this story. If you have something to share about what happened inside Bentinho's organization, now is a crucial time.

Keilan broke a significant six-figure NDA to tell this story.

0:00 Teaser Clips 1:05 What's Unfolding Right Now 3:11 The Organization Wasn't Finished With Him 3:46 California, Missing the Mission, Cory Texts 8:54 The Monastery, Confronting Bentinho 11:41 Struggle Sessions, Distortion Readings, Disintegrations 16:58 It Lets People Think They Have Power Over Me 19:03 The Nose Ring Flashback, He Wasn't Getting Closure 21:31 Ecuador and the Hat Company 24:46 The Full Moon…

- What it is: Full episode
- Series: [Inst@Guru: Bentinho Massaro](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/library/rights-holders/series/3783e5a891a2)
- Previous episode: [Inst@Guru: Bentinho Massaro Ep 4 - Ivo van Woerden "The Journalist"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/rights-holders/Tzopidr8wkw)
- Next episode: [Inst@Guru: Bentinho Massaro Ep 6 - Jade Part 1 "Empty Eyes"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/rights-holders/iyufB1shtLo)
- Length: 1 h 13 min
- Rights holder: [Mark Vicente](https://www.markvicente.com/) (its site links the channel: https://www.markvicente.com/)
- Channel: [Mark Vicente | WTF is on my Mind?!](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX1OsELrINqvPVImbyM6qdQ)
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