Reboot Camp

Can now everyone feel nature through the fingertips?

We're all energy.

We're all as one.

You know that the self-help industry

is a $12 billion business?

Televangelists are actually making hundreds

of millions of dollars from their flock.

Three million Americans are actual cult members.

That's 1% of our population.

What was the purpose of your project?

If we could prevent 100 or 50

or even one person from going down this road,

well, then we've done something good here.

It was a great concept.

Great.

We would create a larger than life character

with a unique self-help program.

And then, you know, just document the process.

You don't feel responsible

for duping people?

Duping?

No, we were helping people.

This was investigative filmmaking.

Look at this, huh?

Look at Angel.

You are all made of the same energy

and I pass it to you and you pass it to the next.

The original idea was we end the documentary

with this big moment where we show the footage,

all the behind the scenes stuff,

let them see behind the curtain.

And then they see that it was all fake and staged.

Why not just make a documentary

about fake self-help gurus?

Documentaries observe from the outside.

By creating this plastic shaman,

we gave people an opportunity to peer behind the curtains

to look inside the proverbial sausage factory.

No.

That's why I'm asking-

Why don't we cut?

Tell slate and then cut.

Tell Slate.

That was quite perfect.

Perfect. Let's roll.

One take three. A only. Mark.

Hello.

Humankind has been infected with a mind virus.

And it's coming from advertising

and social media and all this noise.

So is there a way to stop the noise and clean the mind?

My name is Gordon St. Pierre,

and I am the founder of Reboot Camp.

A spa for the mind and a womb for adults.

Let me take you on a journey and be your guide to healing,

by finding the light of love

and being at peace together.

Does this man hold the answer to everlasting happiness?

Dozens of his followers seem to think so.

Members of his Reboot Camp,

which he insists is not a cult,

swear that he is the new messiah of wellbeing.

To be honest, I feel like a change has come over me.

You know, the mind can play tricks

but this doesn't feel like that.

This feels real.

And shake it out to the left.

And shake it out to the right.

I feel determined

and I feel like I'm on the right path.

Yes.

I did. Thank you.

- Thank you. - Excellent.

Ja.

Ja, I want you to talk to yourself now.

This is you at 14.

What do you want to tell you at 14?

What the fuck are you doing?

You're out here, you're selling drugs.

You're having sex with grown women.

Straighten out.

Straighten up right now before it's too late.

Stop fucking and stop selling drugs.

Can I be a 14-year-old him?

All right.

Oh guys, this is fantastic.

I see that. I like that.

- This is beautiful. - You're good, guru.

- You're good. - I like this.

You're fucking A1, man.

I'm a reflection of yourself, you know?

Somehow, I just never broke character.

It's weird.

Once I got into Gordon, it's like I was him.

When I was 16, my friends and I skipped school

everyday for a week to go to the beach.

When my dad found out, he went crazy, threw me out.

I've been on my own ever since.

And then I met Gordon.

My whole life changed.

He was someone who really led us to this path of freedom.

I call this exercise, rattle and um!

Shake it. This is the rattle.

And then we let it out with a, hum!

Hum!

Shanti. Shanti.

I love Gordon.

He's truly an inspiration to so many people.

He's changed my life.

The general belief is that only weak people

fall for false profits and gurus.

But in reality, almost anyone is susceptible

at the right or wrong moment in their lives.

People who've lost jobs, families, runaways,

they find themselves seeking answers.

I'm not stupid.

I'm very smart.

I have a college education.

I just felt like something was missing.

Gordon, he had all the answers.

Anita, this may be a coffin,

but it is a safe coffin, okay?

The problem starts with the infection in the mind.

It's the virus telling me about the future.

Right. I can't stop. How do you stop it?

- I can't stop it. - All right.

Everything that he said made sense to me.

It still does.

Third time's a charm.

- Okay. One more time. - Okay.

I'm gonna need another class after this class.

You don't know how I can contact him, do you?

I'm curious about the name?

- Gordon St. Pierre? - Yeah.

It had a nice ring to it.

I mean, it was branding really?

We were naming a product.

Aha!

- Matsumoto. - Matsumoto?

Think we'll get in trouble on that one.

What about St. Pierre?

Gordon St. Pierre.

The spiritual guide, the leader.

What do you think?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Except it's Gordon.

- Ooh - St. Pierre from Quebec.

Seymour used to work in tech.

So a lot of personal information to use.

Plus, his wife's French-Canadian.

Who has been reprogrammed by American culture.

So what does he need?

He needs a new operating system.

Oh, yes, yes, yes. I love it.

He needs to reboot the operating system.

- Reboot? - Reboot.

Mike, are you gettin' this on film?

- That's good. - Because this is stuff.

- Reboot. - Yes.

Hello.

My name is Gordon St. Pierre.

Welcome to the Reboot Camp.

If that's not a guru, I don't know what is.

I'm gonna work on the accent.

- But yeah. - a little bit.

See my family, is [speaking in foreign language].

I want to tell you a story, okay?

It was a time I was playing with my three-year-old nephew

and I realized he was closer to bliss than I was.

In fact, I am contaminating him.

So I go to the outback.

You went to the steakhouse?

Not the steakhouse, John.

The Australia, and I study with the Aborigine

and they teach me how to fix the hardware

by reinstalling the software.

This is the gift they give me

and I bring this gift to you.

Are you ready to receive this gift?

Nay or yay?

Yay!

Are we ready to do whatever it take

no matter how crazy or stupid or bizarre?

Nay or yay?

Yay!

Then let's reboot.