The DOS Master-Slave Dynamic In NXIVM Explained – Alison Mack, India & Keith Raniere’s Involvement

As if all the things this cult was already doing wasn’t creepy enough, they just had to go and involve this dynamic in the whole thing. India, who had basically devoted her entire life into NXIVM by this time was no getting ahead in the organization.

She wanted nothing more than to become a proctor where she would actually start making money. (I mean, no wonder, she was forced to pay $50 a month to receive text message updates from a militant, psychotic leader. Who wouldn’t want a little compensation?) But her progress had stalled completely, it seemed that no matter what she did, she could never seem to just get ahead.

And then Alison Mack came along.

Alison Mack, some of you may recognize as a former CW star who was on the show Smallville. Apparently she was a high raking member in the organization and shot through the ranks, something that India greatly admired. So one day, at a NXIVM get-together Alex approached India, and India said it felt like the most popular girl in school was talking to her, and when she asked India how she was doing, India was honest with her and told her not good.

Alex proposed that she take her under her wing and give her all the secrets that she had in order to give her the advantage with the organization, but first she would need something called collateral.

Collateral is basically blackmail. India was told to put her family secrets in letter form, and if she ever went against the organization in any way then this collateral could be sent out to all the media outlets everywhere and used to benefit the organization by essentially damaging her reputation forever.

What the organization did was coerce members into giving them blackmail material, sometimes that meant sensitive information, other times that meant deeds to their properties, and other things that were very important to members.

When India had second thoughts about it, she said she told Alex a few days later over the phone that she thought that now since Alex knew everything about her that she was going to try and hurt her.

Alex turned this all around on her asking her how she could even think that way about her when they had spent so much time together and India had even stayed at her house, she turned all of India’s doubts and fears around on her by making India feel like she was in the wrong for even having doubts and fears. India asked her if she needed her permission to do things with her life and that’s when Allison explained what DOS was.

She said that DOS was a master-slave sorority and that now she was India’s master, and that India would ask her for permission for everything in her life.

Allison created little activities for India to do, which was basically journaling about articles written by Raniere and how they had affected her. She seemed to be especially fixated on the sexual things that made India uncomfortable.

Allison made her start texting her “Good Morning Master” and “Good Night Master”, but India was extremely uncomfortable doing that so she abbreviated it to M instead. India was told that she needed to lose weight or be forced to spend 30 days in Albany. Apparently there was a weight requirement, and she didn’t meet it so off to Albany she went, and that required a ton of excuses as to why she couldn’t come home.

That’s when the real serious familial separations began. Allison said that she was too dependent on her family and even on her boyfriend, Michel, who was also in the organization, whom she lived with. Allison encouraged her to break off all contact with her family and even break up with Michel, and she did.

Then Allison said that she had an assignment for her that was about leaning into fear… and her mission was to seduce Keith Raniere himself.

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