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Laxer, Mark Eliot

"Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult"


Dr. Lenz does this by discussing the most helpful aspects
of Buddhism, Yoga, Vedanta, Zen, Taoism and the psychic and spiritual
arts...During meditation, Dr. Lenz enters into Samadhi and directly
channels Peace, Light, Power and Ecstasy to you...ADMISSION FREE..."
At the top of this full-page ad appeared the words, "Paid advertisement"--
as if WOOF! had been published by someone other than Dr. Frederick Lenz.
Atmananda, who at times seemed as cautious as he was bold, told me
to instruct WOOF! distribution volunteers to be highly inaccessible.
I kept this in mind one Saturday afternoon as I approached a health
food store with Marty, a shy, soft-spoken UCSD student with a sense
of wonder in his eyes. Marty had been a disciple of Chinmoy for about
a year.
Raising the WOOF!'s to the counter, I said, "Could we leave
these by the door? They're free!"
"Sure," the manager replied and he took one.
I placed my stack, and Marty, who had been lugging additional copies,
placed his as well. We were almost out the door when the man said,
"Say, who puts out this...WOOF!?"
I was about to reply that we did not know, that we were only
doing this for money, when Marty suddenly blurted, "What WOOF!?"
And in a flash we were gone.


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