I forgot to explain: I had learned about LGAT in my HS psychology class; and had heard James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, discuss it as well. He was concerned about all the business suites being forced to attend these things by their companies. Keeping in mind I was already concerned about what was going on with them; when I got the rules, it all clicked, and I knew then exactly what I was dealing with.
I find it interesting that you had the same reaction to the rules for the seminars that I did. I booked myself for Discovery, but once I read the rules, I KNEW something was terribly wrong with this organization/association. I knew about LGAT from the "team building" trips that I attended in the corporate world, but they were never as restrictive as what I saw with WWASP. I was also quite active on the BBS, but they started deleting my post or heavily editing them once I began to question things.
Once I made the decision that this program was not right for "us", I pulled him within a week. That was 5-6 years ago now and he is NOT DEAD INSANE OR IN JAIL...at least not at the moment. He has had his troubles, but has had to work them out. To me, that is our obligations as parents...to let them work it out in their own way without overreacting to something YOU might find unsettling.
Now that his teen years are behind him (he is now 21) he has "evened out" so to speak. There are still flare ups from time to time, but that is to be expected. I LET him come back home for awhile so he could save some money, but even doing that might not have been the greatest idea. Ahhh...we ALL live and learn. I expect he will be back in his OWN place within the next 2 weeks. It is time for both of us. We are very close, but both need our independence from one another now.