Turq: > But around Rama, things were FUN from time > to time. I mean, we'd go out on "movie dates" > together. The name of the movie and its showing > time or the actual theater were never announced... > You probably meant 'announced to you'.
Apparently having 'fun' with Fred Lenz was very expensive, costing students thousands of dollars every month in tuition fees. If you paid enough, you got invited to observe Lenz watching a movie or see him stare out into space out in the desert, stoned. But without paying big time, no student ever got invited over to Fred's house for pizza! According to Turq, he gave thousands of dollars to the Maharishi and then he gave thousands of more dollars to Rama. Go figure. "Generally, this was to be paid in US $100 bills - higher vibratory energy, ex-members say. Gifts and costly special excursions are extra: In practice, members give Lenz almost all their money, according to published reports and ex-followers. They squeeze into shared, unfurnished apartments while he flies in a Lear jet between houses in Long Island, Santa Fe, and Los Angeles..." Read more: 'The Code Cult of the CPU Guru' By Zachary Margulis Wired, Rants & Raves, Issue 2.04, 1993 http://www.ex-cult.org/Groups/Rama/wired
