# Inst@Guru: Bentinho Massaro Ep 6 - Jade Part 1 "Empty Eyes"

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Jade Alectra was a D1 athlete, a yoga teacher with 75,000 followers, a feature in Oprah Magazine, and a meditation practice she had built from scratch. None of that protected her.

In this episode, Jade begins the story of how she was recruited into Bentinho Massaro's inner circle - not through his teachings, but through the women around him. What follows is one of the most detailed accounts of pre-grooming, love-bombing, and psychological manipulation in this entire series. It is also the darkest episode we have released to date.

Jade describes the systematic dismantling of her boundaries, the mechanics of how a high-control group conditions its members through sleep deprivation, food scarcity, and enforced silence. She describes sexual coercion and assault. She describes what it looks like when two women, trapped inside the same system, can only look at each other across a kitchen and say nothing. There are no trigger warnings on this episode. This story needs to land.

This episode also addresses something that came up repeatedly when I was in the Netherlands watching journalists interview survivors - the question the press always asks, and the question they never ask. And it includes, my thoughts on a recent letter Bentinho Massaro published to his followers.

Bentinho Massaro has been invited to participate in this series from the beginning. That invitation remains open.

This is Inst@Guru, an investigative podcast series examining Bentinho Massaro and the high-control group around him. The investigation has been ongoing for almost 5 years now.

00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:06 - Jade: D1 Athlete, Yoga Teacher, Oprah Magazine 00:07:19 - My Note On Victims And Perpetrators 00:09:06 - First Time She Hears Bentinho's Name 00:11:56 - How NXIVM And DOS Connect To This Story 00:15:46 - The Boyfriend Who Called Her Too Jealous 00:16:51 - Cory Katuna Enters The Picture 00:19:33 - Compersion, The Relationship Fallacy, And A Threesome 00:21:18 - The Morning After With…

- 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 5 - Keilan Part 2 "Closer to God"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/rights-holders/N0A-7u2gDaE)
- Next episode: [Inst@Guru: Bentinho Massaro Ep 7 - Jade Part 2 "Leave Your Body"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/rights-holders/8U9KbTvGKlA)
- Length: 1 h 22 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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