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Captian Canada
II just did my weekend Nov 3-5, 2007 and I have still not heard anything from the future father in law. One thing is true that Sterling said though "there is nothing like the love of a woman". I have my woman standing beside me on this ultimatum and I hope her father realizes he is playing with fire.
I’ll update soon…
I look forward to seeing your update. I take it you went to the Oakland weekend Nov 3-5? That was the one they tried to get my husband to attend. We stopped 2 other men from attending, as well. I am curious as to how the turnout was? Were there a lot of men there? I am hoping that the turnouts are getting smaller and smaller.
Our former-friend works the men's weekends... the women's weekends... and is a "mentor" for young men in the Young Men's Weekend which is put on by a group called Leadershipworks (www.leadershipworks.org). There is no fiscal or corporate connection between Leadershipworks and Sterling, but ... Leadershipworks is run by men from Sterling, and the "values" they teach to young men are the same damaging teachings from the Sterling Institute. I know two of the men who call themselves "mentors" for Leadershipworks, and I can tell you, at least one of them has said damaging things to my son about me and to a friend's son... telling the boys that all women are whacko, and not to ever repeat to their mothers the awful things the men say about the women/mothers (even if the mother is their only parent/authority in the home) and that they are to never reveal to their mothers or any female anything the men say or do or anything that happens on the weekends. The young men are taught that women cannot be trusted, and they are offered the opportunity to discuss their sexual needs/experiences in great detail. The "mentor" in question even questioned my 19-year-old son (while trying to "gain his trust" via young men's weekend style) about his girlfriend and whether or not she performed oral sex on him and asked for the explicit details of their sex life. These "mentors" explain to the parents of the young men's weekend attendees that their sons will seem withdrawn and sullen after their weekend but not to worry, that it's just part of the immense changes that have taken place. What they purposefully "forget to mention" is that their minds have been altered. Plus, they have the boys build a sweatlodge on Saturday and then have a sweat ceremony in it on Sunday... ask ANY Native American... you CANNOT charge for ceremony. Yet this man has the audacity (hugest egomaniac I've ever met) to call himself a "lodge leader" in our local native american spiritual community. The cost of the young men's weekend is $250, plus they will continue "follow up care" (more brainwashing and degradation of female authority figures) and "mentor" your young man for only $1,500 a year. This so-called Native American spiritual leader is raping the Red Road for profit. He has set up some crap Buffalo Indian Camp or some shyte like that for the young men ... and charges also for THOSE ceremonies.
We left this lodge because the so-called community spiritual elder is an LGAT monger and rapes the sacred ways to fill his pockets and the pockets of other men. He should hang his head in shame. He has been asked to stop using his lodge for recruiting purposes, but he has refused. As a result, many people in the local spiritual community have stopped sweating at his lodge, except for his other Sterling cohorts and perhaps one or two others. He has put his Sterling beliefs ahead of the spiritual needs of the People. How dare he call himself "following the Red Road in a good way"!!
Justin Sterling does not practice true native american spirituality, nor do his adherents. Of that I am sure.
I will keep sweating at other lodges and praying for these people, in hopes that the Creator opens their eyes and makes them stop what they are doing. They are disrespecting Native American spirituality in the most heinous possible way and cannot see it. It breaks my heart because I know they will pay a high price for what they do.