Wanted to give more detail on what I know about Young Men's Ultimate Weekend and he World Institute of Human Development, Inc.
the Institute is out of Marin & Sonoma Countys they are a CA non-profit organization
The person I know has become obsessed wih this organization and has spent over 2000(I'm sure more money since the time of this writing) attendin weekends with older males in the mountains releasing the testosterone he has apparently built up.
The people from YMUW approached him when he became separated from his wife of 10 years, who moved out of state with both his children. He was depressed, confused, vulnerable.
They found him through A.A. in So Cal.
They claim to take young male adults ages 13-20 away for the weekend in the mountains and turn them into men. They claim that young males and older males problems are ragin hormones and testoterone build up. They create a raging roaring fire and encircle the male and taunt them to release or "g0-ff" as they put it. Then they restrain or hold back the individual. This seems to be some type of rage release technique. After attending a weekend with this group he returned with bruises all over his upper body from either restraining and individual or being restrained himself, and no voice rom yelling. I also noticed that since attending these weekends it became easier for him to "go-off" or enter into a "rage state" at home. The more one does something the easier it becomes to repeat the behavior.
They also burn sage because it supposedly cleanses the sould and cleanses spririts. They enter Tee-Pee's and do indian chants. They compare the weekend to the indian culturual proactices where they send a young man out to the forest for an amount of time and he returns or becomes a man. The man I know is now obssessed with indian culture. he considers himself an Alpha-males and warrior. He has assigned himself some role of being the Chief of the apartment complex he lives in.
The heirarchy of the organization seems ideal for a cult. They have weekends away for the parents, men mentoring men meetings, weekends for women as well. I've learned that after attendin these weekends a different young male was not allowed to discuss anything that wend on during the weekend with anyone other then the men in YMUW they are iven a list of men to call and they are only to talk to them.
See htt://www.factnet.org/discus/messages/6/807/html?1060784567 to see my posting in May and a mother's reply after her experience with her teenage son attending one of these weekends. I will tell you that after speaking with her in more detail through e-mail she has taken her son completely out of it.
The man I know tnow thinks of women as lesser individuals that are only good for making lists and controlling situations. They say that men should only talk to women about how the woman's day was. He recently was looking into finding a mail order bride form the Phillipines becase they are "submissive" in their culture as he puts it.
I've aso learned through another mother that the her son was deprived of sleep during these weekends.
The man I know has mentioned he now knows millionaires when I asked him where one of them made his money he didn't know. I would guess from this and likely other non-profits. He mentioned that he wants them to start paying him a salary. He's been paying them to participate taking time off of work to participate. Attending men mentoring me weekends. It consumes all of his time.
Since being invovled with this group the man I know took a 13 year old boy, blindfolded him and took him somewhere down to the beach. The childs mother allowed him to do this. This is has to be one of their practices, I've known him all our lives and I would never think he would do anything like that. A week after he blindfolded the child the child washospitalized in a psychiatric facility, as a result of beating his mother.
He punishes his 12 year old son by socially isolating, by humiliating him in public. The point is we saw these changes since he became involved in YMUW he is using the techniques he has learned from YMUW.
He tells his 12 your old son not to talk to women including his mohter, he is only to ask his mother how her day was, his son has told us his father has told him that, "he is training me to become a man, and most ercently in April I quote, "my father is training me not to think for myself." All of this stuff are cultish practices.
The organization is an offshoot of Sterling follow the sites below and you will see the connection:
IF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH STERLING GO HERE RICK ROSS WEBSITE:
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www.culteducation.com]
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ymuw.com] - to check out site then click on links
you'll see nation of men which is now eyes of men try to click on it and the page will be expired go to
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eyesofmen.com]
check out homepage
who we are
and click on history or go to
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eyesofmen.com]
click on Events you will see YMUW listed
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www.eyesofmen.com]
there is more guys these supposed school improvements the NoM do
They were kicked out of a couple because the pto or pta volunteers after seeing their practices asked them to leave they noticed how weird things were and were actually trying to be recruited by NoM and their Women's Group Offshoot
Will give you a URL on that later