Christa THANK YOU - for simply answering my questions directly and honestly in a manner that helps me understand. Coincidently I am watching a TV show (produced by ABC news) right now about James Ray and his weekend seminars in Arizona. What you have explained is so foreign to me, I honestly didn't see it. I am trying to wrap my brain around it and it is hard. Rather than coming strai
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Moderator - Thank you for posting my last reply, despite your feelings that it is an attack, for which I once again apologize. Perhaps I am feeling overly sensitive due to what's going on in my personal life and that has made me feel attacked here, however in rereading I continue to feel that we have gone off topic in suggesting others are poorly informed (guilty - that's why I came
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Christa Thank you for your insight and various corrections (and slaps) of my inputs. As I have said previously I will limit my input going forward to my personal experiences. Based on my personal experience I have yet to see evidence of large amounts of money being collected/amassed by MKP - perhaps we have different views of the definition of the word large when it comes to money. Y
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Anticult - Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge base. You are right I don't know nearly as much as you nor as much as I should. I will limit my comments to my personal experiences in the hope that perhaps they will help others. Best, CNYCG
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Moderator - I get your points, and apologize if I am not articulating myself well. I am not disagreeing that LGATs are fundamentally flawed, nor am I disagreeing the MKP can be very dangerous. My point in asking for personal experience (which may have been inappropriate - if so I sincerely apologize) was to try to gain a better understanding of anticult's position. Making sweeping
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Anticult - Once again I have to disagree with your belief that the contracts are unique to LGATs. Forms of these indemnification clauses, etc are found in almost all sports related contracts. As anonymous39 pointed out skiing has these clauses, as do Scuba Diving, Bungee Jumping, Horse Back riding, membership in Club Med etc. Clearly you have very strong opinions on this subject. Perhaps
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QuoteChristaTHe phenomenon of a woman making a point, being ignored, and then a man saying the very same thing and being acknowledged is widely documented in the sociological literature. You might want to look up a few articles. I don't need articles, I live my life that way. I work in a very male dominated industry. You missed my point. Which was that he listened to these men, who he b
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Anticult - Those are very standard agreements and basically unenforceable in court. You cannot sign away rights you don't know about yet. I agree they would give me pause, but to tell the truth they aren't worth the paper they are written on. I agree there is a HUGE risk of people who should not particpate in weekends such as these doing so - it does not appear they have any ad
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Anticult I appreciate your passion on this subject, however I have not been able to find any factual documentation to support that MKP is a pyramid scheme, multi level marketing, or any other profit making enterprise. If you have proof of such I would appreciate your sharing it. Please also explain how the tragic deaths in another oganization's sweat lodges can be attributed to this or
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It's roughly a month since my b/f went to his NWT weekend. He called me as soon as he had cell service again, and then he called as soon as he got home. He wanted to share his feelings and experiences from the weekend with me. He did not feel prohibited from sharing - but did feel that he was still processing some things and was not ready to tell me. In a nutshell he thought it was the m
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I have read this thread in it's entirety and first and foremost I want to thank everyone who has contributed. Now to let you know what brought me here. My boyfriend of 5+ years and I broke up for three months in December - mostly due to the fact that he had become very hurtful/hateful and resentful to/of me and was unwilling to change/apologize. During our break his best friend told him
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