You know Shay as time flies and I test NG I also find it hard to believe that Marcus, or anyone else for than matter, used NG "the Rion way" and really achieved success by that.
I think he went through a big change in his awareness (or in a less spiritual woo-woo word - the way he sees life). He had ideas from Brent (from what you say) and also from sources like Urban Monk's blog and perhaps even Sedona Method, and maybe with Rion's point of view, he was able to see it when he did NG... We will never know, I guess. I would also be interested to find out where did Rion get his mindset from? Doing NG made him realize that the man is the stimulus in the relationship? I doubt it.
Anyway I think that NG is a tool for bringing up emotions (which is not effective in comparison to really going out and getting out of your comfort zone), it's great for also feeling more compassion and appreciation for women and their femininity/authenticity and above all, and that is the reason I keep doing it - it destroys the desire for porn. I stopped doing NG about a week and a half ago, after two days I had a great urge to watch porn and masturbate at least twice a day (I hope now you can finally die complete, now that you know all about my masturbation habbits
), I got back to it two days ago and the desire is just gone. Sometimes it comes, and I picture SNSD's Yuri or Sunny, and I don't wanna watch porn anymore. It's not their ugly or something (they're beautiful, especially Yuri), I just feel this warmth that I know is better than porn, which leaves me feeling drained and pretty bad in general.
My hope is that through NG, I can recondition my mind to stop with the porn habbit for good.
I have no idea how the hell I got to write all about this, sorry for the off topic.