Orgsm is an unflinching exploration of the psychology of influence: how ordinary human needs for connection and purpose can be used to override free will while making people feel grateful for the experience. Written from lived experience and meticulous reflection, it shows how manipulation often hides inside genuine intimacy and real growth.

If you have ever wondered how intelligent people fall for obvious scams, the problem is not their intelligence. The problem is that most people think about influence all wrong.

Manipulation is not crude or obvious like a used car salesman or a street con artist. Sophisticated influence operates through genuine connection, authentic vulnerability, and real results. This is one of the core revelations of Orgsm: the most effective manipulation does not feel like manipulation at all. It feels like love, growth, and coming home to yourself.

Ruwan Meepagala lived this transformation from the inside, documenting his journey from skeptical observer to devoted practitioner to unwitting perpetrator. In Orgsm, he reveals the specific techniques used by OneTaste, methods drawn from neurolinguistic programming, cult psychology, and sexual therapy, to create an experience so compelling that people willingly bankrupted themselves to stay inside it.

Along the way, readers encounter true stories about Silicon Valley executives paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for "enlightenment," FBI agents investigating forced labor charges, and ordinary people who discovered that the same methods that healed their trauma were simultaneously destroying their judgment.

Orgsm reshapes the way readers think about consent, free will, and the nature of influence itself. Whether exploring online dating, workplace dynamics, political movements, or spiritual communities, the book provides the psychological literacy needed to recognize when reality is being gradually altered, and why that process can feel so seductive even when you know it is happening.

The timing of this publication, coinciding with the federal sentencing of OneTaste's leaders in October 2025, offers unprecedented insight into a criminal case that raises fundamental questions about where personal growth ends and exploitation begins.

Meepagala’s work has been featured in Playboy, Bloomberg, and the BBC, and his story appears in Netflix’s Orgasm Inc.. This is the first time he shares his full account in its entirety.