Report on the "Rama" Computer Cult

8. LENZ PERSONAL

Frederick Lenz is currently living at 183 Old Field Point Road, Setauket, New York. This is a waterfront home on approximately two acres which he purchased in February, 1988 for approximately one million dollars. The mortgage on the house in the original amount of some $600,000 is held by Prudential Mortgage Company. The house was extensively re-modelled by Lenz after he purchased it. From all information is appears that no cult related activities take place here and that he uses the house as a personal residence and hideaway. According to both men and women who have left the group, Lenz invited the most beautiful girls individually to his home for spiritual help. About the time they realized they were alone, he told them they could help them attain enlightenment faster by having special sexual experience with him, that God would want that for them. Later the same girls felt they had been rapped or ripped off. Currently it is probable that one very young female follower may be living there with him on the days she is not attending college.

One person who was intensively recruited believes that Lenz is using drugs heavily, probably LSD and cocaine. She based this on his pasty complexion, skin tone, other factors, and one his behavior, especially at seminars.

Mercedes Hughes who lived with Lenz from May to September of 1987 reported that he used LSD and gave her LSD on occasion. Others who knew Lenz in earlier years reported that he used LSD. Hughes said that Lenz would periodically go on a demon-cleaning spree, donning yellow rain gear and swatting at demons in the cellar and on the cellar stairs. He also accused Hughes of being infested with demons which were out to get him.

Lenz relationship with women is unconventional. Allan Buchman, a long time Sri Chinmoy devotee, recalls Lenz. He remembers that when it came to women Fred had no qualms about using "deception" to seduce them. Lenz was forming meditation groups at the campus at Stony Brook, N.Y. He used to encourage infatuations with his female students. A responsible spiritual person never would have done that."

Lenz made a practice in the late '80s of sexually exploiting some of his women followers. Anny Eastwood says she talked to at least three other women who reported similar experiences of being sexually exploited, two of them saying Lenz waved a gun about.

There is no question that Lenz has developed great skill at mind control. Most of his skill and his techniques were probably developed as much through trial and error as they were on purpose. But they do exert a powerful hold on his followers.

It appears that Lenz is becoming an increasingly disturbed personality. An interesting sidelight was related by the contractor who remodelled his current house in Stony Brook. At the conclusion of the job Lenz asked the contractor if any of the workmen had used any of the toilets. The contractor said they had used one in the upstairs bathroom. Lenz make the contractor replace the entire toilet. He may be succumbing to the paranoia that he has induced in his followers. A reading of the attached "Statement to the Press" which he issued at the time of his problems with Mercedes Hughes certainly displays a mind which is not well balanced.

One newspaper report titled Lenz as the "Cosmic Seducer". A more accurate name would be "Psychic Predator".