Quoten the east coast his recruiting arms included: Boston Meditation Society (Massachusetts), Hartford Meditation Society (Connecticut) Philadelphia Society for the Meditative Arts (eastern Pennsylvania) Diamond Mind (Washington, D.C. and Maryland) New Jersey Meditative Society (southern New Jersey and Princeton area) Virginia Meditative Society, and Manhattan Meditation
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Lenz wrote a book entitled Surfing the Himalayas. Look it up on Amazon. What you will find interesting is that in each listing there are just a few copies with a promise that more are on the way. Gotta wonder how many Lenzies buy this for friends. Two reviewers identified many themes that are not Buddhist at all. Quote1.0 out of 5 starsCrap ByDavidon December 10, 2000
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Comments from readers of "Take Me For a Ride" Quotea chilling account of being stuck in a cult January 2, 2002 Format: Paperback I read this book straight through. It's sort of creepy to see what this poor fellow got stuck in but he did get out of it. Oh seekers of truth, it warns us by just telling the story, don't give up your own truth for another's. I
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Lenz loyalists may claim that Lenz' original message was excellent that only in his final years did he became a victim of negative energies. No. Lenz was troubled and power hungry from the very beginning. Here is an interview with professors who knew Lenz when the latter was a graduate student. This includes a description of Lenz's instructions on how to angle job interviews.
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Note: Cult Education Institute has archived information about various groups. Groups The CEI message board has been active since 2002. To search these discussions select the "all dates" option. Controversial Groups Associated With Technology Personnel "Free Meditation" Zen Master Rama Frederick Lenz CEI archive information on Zen Master Rama/Frederick Len
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This survey of Frederick Lenz's religion is highly informative. It includes descriptions of the lifestyle etiquette Lenz disciples must follow. On the surface they are attractive, dynamic and charming - and marketable. Lenz demanded it. NOTES ON RAMA'S TEACHING American Buddha American Buddhist Rebel - two titles given Lenz by his followers As Lenz became c
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Back in 1994, when a technology consultant who was Lenz' disciple was asked about her guru, she reportedly threw a fit. QuoteWhen a television crew recently interviewed Christine Comaford, president of Corporate Computing, a Chicago-based consulting firm, they did not tell her what they wanted. Comaford is a regular columnist for PC Week and a pundit on Microsoft's role in the compu
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Goodbye Zen Man Published: 09/25/1998 at 1:00 AM . Stuart Goldman Read more at QuoteIt had been nearly 10 years since I’d met with Lenz, but the memory was as clear as day. Back then, he wasn’t known as Lenz. He’d gone by the moniker “Zen Master Rama.” At the time (1986), I was heavily involved in investigating destructive cults; so when I saw the ad in the paper that read, ”A ON
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Many free meditation courses are great. Frederick Lenz, now deceased, was a notorious cult leader. He presented himself as Buddhist. Lenz committed suicide in 1998. His followers are still active today. Lenz's Free Meditation classes never mention his name. Lenz was a control freak and his free meditation classes include intrusive elements such as music (composed by him) and sound
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Ken Wilber has endorsed .a series of troubled teachers, most notoriously Adi Da, Andrew Cohen and Marc Gafni. Quotehttp://culteducation.com/group/1289-general-information/29085-petition-calls-on-whole-foods-to-cut-ties-with-rabbi-accused-of-improper-sexual-conduct.html Petition Calls on Whole Foods to Cut Ties With Rabbi Accused of Improper Sexual Conduct Gafni, who has ordination from
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Thoughts on money. Excerpts. The article deserves to be read in full. Sex Scandals, Zen Teachers, and the Western Zen Dharma February 11, 2011 by James Ford QuoteThe way Zen came west, through individual teachers with limited supervision, and then establishing centers that are more or less isolated from each other has created a cultish system. That’s the problem, aggravated, of cours
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ohgreatfoot: Why are you here? You seem to be an apologist for Frederick Lenz, who was a deeply destructive and notorious purported cult leader. You are offering terrible advice here and engaging in victim bashing. People that join cults most often are tricked and trapped by the group through a process of deception and manipulation used to gain undue influence. Please don't wast
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Information about Frederick Lenz, aka 'Zen Master Rama' in Cult Education Institute archives. Lenz's own guru was Sri Chinmoy, who had a troubled career - to say the very least. Here is an article about Lenz from Wired magazine. A very small excerpt. QuoteLenz's small band of believers searched for recruits on college campuses throughout the nation. One ca
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I know Nicole Grace and knew Frederick Lenz. Not in the biblical sense, but by taking their seminars and being in their programs. Nicole Grace is not using NLP, brainwashing, or mind control techniques. She doesn't realize that this is what was used on her. (For the record, I signed up to be transformed by Lenz and feel that though what he did was covert hypnosis, I did ask for my life to ch
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QuotedabcultIs Micheal J.Henrietta ..... Was he a different suicide then the guy that plunge on the freeway in Honolulu . How many suicides as there been of ex BUTLER disciples ? It reminded me of Dr Frederick Lenz aka RAMA (google is name ) He had several disciples who commited suicides(some left suicide notes ) stating that they simply could not go on in life because they could not mesu
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Is Micheal J.Henrietta ..... Was he a different suicide then the guy that plunge on the freeway in Honolulu . How many suicides as there been of ex BUTLER disciples ? It reminded me of Dr Frederick Lenz aka RAMA (google is name ) He had several disciples who commited suicides(some left suicide notes ) stating that they simply could not go on in life because they could not mesure up to Fre
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Hi Thank you so much for all this. I have read a lot about her on the internet, though it's hard to find anything older than a few years. I have also been to her seminars, and she is not that old, possibly 38-45 yrs old. She pushes people into programming jobs just like Frederick Lenz, and claims she has a black belt in karate. She also claims to be an ordained Buddhist monk. I hav
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Hello, I feel my friend has been sucked into a cult that seems to follow Frederick Lenz methods in San Diego and San Francisco areas. Leaders name is Nicole Grace AKA Kundalini . Anyone know anything about this or has been an ex cult member? Trying to get my friend out, and find out more about this. Thanks!
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For an atheist, I have what one might consider an odd obsession: new religious movements. San Francisco has a long history of birthing or coddling them and many would argue that these entities are spiritual rather than religious – just like many a San Franciscan. But that doesn't mean that the leader or organization doesn't proselytize, promise some form of ecstatic or liberating ca
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One of the wealth builders for Chinmoy were the veggie restaurants run with donated or cheaply paid labor from his followers. The food was and is often excellent and an added attraction are the affordable prices. A cheap labor pool provided by eager disciples made this possible. It is worth noting that vegetarian and vegan restaurants can be part of what has been termed the cultic milieu and
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QuoteThe AnticultThe main website does not seem like a hoax. It is an excellent pastiche of a cult, a bit like a 21st Century, pared-down Frederick Lenz type cult. Very well done, congratulations to all concerned.
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Another example of cult members switching gurus is when followers of Frederick Lenz were courted by Adi Da after Lenz committed suicide (with his girlfriend and his dog): I wouldn't be surprised if some of James Arthur Ray's followers leave Ray's camp and become followers of another guru, or even if various gurus target them specifically.
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Article about Lenz estate publised in Wired magazine. Interested persons can study the names mentioned and see what they're doing today, Street Brawl in the Twilight Zone Frederick Lenz controlled scores of software companies and hundreds of groupies through his coercive teachings. More than a year after his death, the fight for his multimillion-dollar estate rages on. By Dav
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Website for Lenz Foundation Other people's blog discussions on: Tricycle Magazine Blog discussions of a couple of entities funded by the Lenz foundation An archive of articles about Lenz group And when Lenz ODd on pills to take himself out of this world, he tried to dope his dogs and girlfriend so they'd join him. Fortunately, they lived. Quote U
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Zen Master Rama, now dead, is listed in the Ross Insitute Archives He left an estate. Geoffrey Falk has been monitoring Ken Wilber and printed this item Which led to this very interesting information about the publications, groups, gurus and retreat centers getting funding from the Lenz estate. Maybe some of our in house scholars will identify familiar names and places
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I was wondering if anyone had any knowledge of sexual ritual or similar activities in cultic groups. I am a former student of Rama/Dr. Frederick Lenz, a controversial American Buddhist teacher who committed suicide in 1998. Dr. Lenz was known for being a proponent of what he called 'Tantric sex' as described in books such as Snowboarding to Nirvana. Towards the end of his life, Dr. Lenz
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Another good expose at: looks to be orginally from Salon. Bleep" of faith An indie film gets buzz and a big rollout. But "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" uses questionable on-screen experts -- and appears to be an infomercial for a controversial New Age sect. - - - - - - - - - - - - By John Gorenfeld Sept. 16, 2004 | Last week, the national release of the independent fil
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