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Vodnik
Hi. This is my first post here. Since lurking on this forum and learning about LGATs, I have been wondering if anyone can give me a name for the particular LGAT I am about to describe. I preface it with a little bit of a story, and the fact that receiving an answer is a complete shot in the dark.
A long time ago (1990-92), I lived in California and had a friend whose name I will withhold. He was an awesome dude, and I considered him a very good friend. We had an association through meetings we attended, and became skydiving buddies. He also collected antique cars (the kind you have to crank to start) and we'd cruise around in them. Just an awesome dude all the way around.
Well, after knowing him for a about a year or so, he told me he had attended this "conference" over a weekend, and that it was awesome. He basically said that it was a conference just for men, and that they got in touch with their machismo, or inner man. He told me the name of the guy running it, but I can no longer remember that name. He also said it was a relatively new "concept" (movement).
Anyway, to make a long story short, he began attending these "weekend conferences" on a regular basis, and after about 3-4 months, he cut off all ties to his friends. After he told me to my face that he could no longer hang out, I never saw him again. Needless to say, his other friends that I knew said that they never spoke to him again after he said the same thing to them. He also dumped his girlfriend.
Although there is a huge lack of information, does any know of any "men only" LGATs that started up in northern California in the early nineties? If I were to see the "leader's" name in print, I know I would recognize it.
Any answers are appreciated, and sorry for the vagueness.
Actually, that sounds like Justin Sterling's scam-job.
I had another fiancee who was a part of that cult. She's in accounting for shows produced by Warner Bros. There was a women's division of Sterling's cult...women who had to accept men as the macho/cro-magnon man mentality and be subservient.
Man, I gotta get sig-others who don't do cults.