The Lodge of Amenti: Sexual Perversity With A Side Of Exploitation
Chapter 64 of Neophyte: My Life In A Sex Cult
This is a chapter within my memoir, Neophyte, about my time in a harmful cult called the Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society. It is not meant to be read as a stand-alone post. To view all book chapters, click here.
The Deer Tribe is a dangerous cult. While they present themselves as a spiritual community offering healing and empowerment, their practices are rooted in manipulation, control, and cultural appropriation. Like many cults, they offer moments of genuine connection and personal insight — but these are strategically used to gain trust and draw people deeper into a harmful system. Readers are encouraged to read the entire book before forming opinions about the Deer Tribe.
Chapter 64
The email came from an unknown sender.
“Hi,” the person wrote. “It’s important I stay anonymous, but you can call me ‘Stephen.’ I’ve been watching all your Deer Tribe posts. You need to expose the LoA. Please see attachment.”
At the bottom of the message was a PDF icon. Curious about its contents, I clicked on the PDF and began to read.
“The Lodge of Amenti (LoA) is the sexual inner-circle of the Deer Tribe. The LoA is supposed to be a secret society within the Deer Tribe, but it is intentionally an open secret. Only a few senior apprentices are allowed to be members of the LoA. At any given time, about 25 men and women are in the LoA.
“The stated intention of the LoA sexual ceremonies is to direct the collective sexual energy during orgasm for the benefit of the Deer Tribe organization. Setting the intention for the inflow of money into the Deer Tribe is a central theme of the sexual ceremonies. LoA members are required to donate cash before the ceremony. At the moment of orgasm, members are instructed to imagine gold flowing into the Deer Tribe organization.
“The members of the LoA meet for sexual ceremonies ten times per year. The number of members attending depends on the requirements of the specific ceremony. The ceremonies are complicated with a vast amount of paraphernalia and symbolism, requiring hours of set-up and take-down. As with all the Deer Tribe ceremonies and rituals, the Deer Tribe leaders demand huge amounts of time and energy from their subordinates. This intentionally creates devotion to the cult because members have little time, energy, or money left over for other areas of their lives. Members of the LoA are required to live in Phoenix and be significantly more devoted to the Deer Tribe than typical Deer Tribe members.
“The sexual ceremonies take place in the gym/dojo of the Rainbow Power Center (RPC) in Scottsdale, AZ. It is a large open room about 25 feet by 40 feet with a hardwood gymnasium-style floor. Along with filling the room with symbolic ceremonial items, foam mats are placed on the floor for the assigned couples to have sex on in the large open room.
“There are three types of sexual ceremonies. The Pentagram Ceremony involves five sexual couples. The Spear Point ceremony involves four couples. There are also special Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter seasonal ceremonies. All ceremonies are scheduled within three days of a full moon.
“Along with the couples having sex, two to four additional women attend the ceremonies and masturbate while the couples are having intercourse. After set-up and pipe ceremonies, the assigned couples engage in sex. During the non-seasonal ceremonies, the couples can have vaginal intercourse any way they choose. After the man ejaculates, he supports the woman so that one of the women assigned to masturbate can collect his ejaculate from the woman's vagina into a cup. After collecting the ejaculate from all the couples into the cup, the women smear the combined ejaculate on the money brought to the ceremony by the LoA members. The women then burn the money.
“How the couples engage in sex is specifically prescribed by the LoA leaders during the seasonal ceremonies. Sometimes two men will be assigned to ejaculate into one woman's vagina. Sometimes after the man ejaculates into the woman's vagina, the woman is required to straddle the man's face. The man takes ejaculate into his mouth and transfers it into another woman's mouth.
“The emphasis of all LoA ceremonies is on the men ejaculating. There is no regard for the women's pleasure or enjoyment of the ceremonies. The female members of the LoA are coached and intensely pressured to accept any man assigned to them, regardless of their personal feelings or level of attraction.
“In the LoA ceremonies, every woman must receive ejaculate into her vagina. If the man assigned to a woman is unable to ejaculate, another man who is able to have multiple orgasms is assigned to ejaculate into her vagina after he finishes with his assigned first woman.
“Recruitment and induction into the LoA is a long and complicated process that conditions the prospective member to be completely transparent and submissive to the LoA leaders. The potential LoA member must reveal everything about their personal history and not hesitate to answer any question asked, regardless of how confidential or personal. There are two female and one male leaders of the LoA. The two female leaders participate in the sexual ceremonies if there is ever a shortage of women. The one male leader participates sexually with the female LoA member of his choice.”
A sickening feeling overcame me. What had I just read? I felt disoriented and confused.
“How do you know about this?” I wrote to the sender. “Were you a part of it?”
“Yes, I used to be an apprentice and part of the LoA. I left the Path years ago, but I’m still in touch with some Deer Tribe folks, so I hear things through the grapevine. I hope you expose them.”
I couldn’t deal with this by myself, and forwarded the PDF to Sawyer and June. Ten minutes later, June called me.
“What the fuck did I just read?” she was practically yelling into the phone.
“I know,” I replied. “It’s sickening.”
Later that evening, Sawyer replied to my email. “Yep, that’s exactly how it is!”
“What the fuck, Sawyer?” I wrote back. “I don’t even know what to say.”
“I know,” he replied. “I believe SwiftDeer ‘got off’ on designing these kinky ceremonies and watching women have sex with the men assigned to them. That is pure speculation, of course, but it is clear to me that the current leaders were victims of SwiftDeer’s sexual abuse. Now, they are sexual abuse victims who perpetrate sexual abuse on others. By the way, once I realized that SwiftDeer was a pathological liar, I tried to talk to the other men in the LoA. More than once, these men told me something like, ‘Yep, I know this is all bullshit. I just go along with it to get laid.’ That brought up a lot of emotions for me, including shock, but I was kicked out of the LoA soon after.”
“Why is the Deer Tribe so interested in LoA members’ personal histories?” I asked him. “Is that information used against them? Or is it used to determine whether they can psychologically handle what happens in the LoA?”
“The stated reason for complete openness regarding one’s personal history is to help the LoA members get along and avoid ‘Personality and Events’ in Deer Speak. This makes practical sense. It’s edgy and possibly difficult to have sex with an acquaintance one is randomly assigned to. It’s even more difficult to have sex if one happens not to be getting along with that particular person at the moment. But the sinister reason is cultish mind control. The cult member must be completely open with the cult leaders and answer any questions asked without hesitation as part of trained obedience to the cult. And, if the cult member knows that the cult leaders know their deepest, darkest secrets, the cult member will be consciously and subconsciously afraid of and obedient to the cult leaders. Also, since the cult leaders do not divulge their deepest darkest secrets and worst life choice mistakes to the cult members, that imbalance of knowledge makes the cult member feel inferior to the cult leaders.”
I had to do this in dearmoring, I thought, recalling the deeply personal questionnaire every person had to complete prior to the workshop. And the Walk Talk. And my healing ceremony. Oh, my goodness.
Despite my revulsion, I needed to know more. I wrote back to Stephen. “What else can you tell me?” I asked.
Later on, he replied.
“SwiftDeer used to give the upper gateway apprentices, many who were LoA, ‘sorcery stalking assignment’ to pick up strangers and have sex with them. Many assignments involved public sex with strangers. A couple of women were instructed to place advertisements on sex sites to find twins they could have sex with together. These types of assignments start in earnest in the 8th gateway. Of course, apprentices are told nothing of this when they join the Path. It takes years and years to get to the 8th gateway. By that time, they have been thoroughly indoctrinated to accept any and every suggestion from leadership. While technically ‘consensual,’ the power dynamic between apprentices and leadership is so out of whack and the indoctrination so strong that everything moves right along. Swift specifically created a closed culture where sexual practices that might be considered questionable were normal inside the culture. This includes things like asking the upper gateway women to sit with their legs spread open without underpants on so that Swift could stare in their ‘black holes’ and maintain his orende. This trickles down, of course. Some participants in Bravo White Lodge were instructed to masturbate in front of the entire group without prior warning as part of demonstrating a medicine concept. This was billed as ‘pushing the edge.’”
I forwarded this message to June.
“None of this surprises me,” she said later. “You know, Catrina lived with me when she first moved here from Norway. I was her first roommate. She was this tall, beautiful woman with an inheritance, which she ended up handing over to SwiftDeer for her ‘training.’ I basically watched her sell her soul to these people. Seriously, SwiftDeer groomed her to be a sex slave. He would take her to bars and order her to have sex with strange men. I remember her being in healing ceremonies and Swift commanding her to have sex with the ‘patient’ as part of her ‘fire medicine’ training.”
“What is ‘fire medicine?’ I asked.
“It’s the Deer Tribe’s bullshit private ‘sexual counseling’ teachings. They are offered as ‘healing’, but the people who provide them have zero formal training in counseling, trauma, or therapy. Their ‘credentials’ were issued by SwiftDeer, who ‘trained’ them by having sex with them. I know of several couples who have been ripped in two by the so-called fire medicine, their marriages damaged, some beyond repair. I wish they would come forward.”
But no one would. Fear, shame, or concerns about professional reputations and livelihoods kept people silent. Or they didn’t want to go through the potential retraumatization of coming forward.
It seemed that if anyone was going to expose the depraved, cultic sexual abuse of the Deer Tribe, it would have to be me.
Yep, well written and completely true.