When they returned to New York, they told Eileen Ford's husband and Hunter what had happened to them. I contacted him through Ruth Montgomery, who has also passed on. Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. I asked. The gem and its harmonic vibrations are in harmony with your body. His looks fading, he went to California for cosmetic surgery. Some are more abusive. Adams turned over the cash. Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. There was a big Vanity Fair expos at one point . Sapphires and emeralds gleamed from their fingers and wrists. Through connections he made at Quest, von Mierers began doing astrology charts and psychic readings, presumably now strained to make ends meet. At two in the morning, Von Mierers would be beamed out into the universe courtesy of cable television. Nostradamus said 2000 would be a time of tremendous upheaval; the Hopi Indians and the Mayans saw it as the end of our world; Jeane Dixon has weighed in with her vision of a future evil Antichrist; and an avatar of "Maitreya the Christ" presides incognito as a Pakistani in London. von Mierers told a TV talkshow host named Richard Bey in 1988 to characterize the followers he had with him on the show. " Von Mierers's apartment became a hangout. Recently, odd sexual practices have been encouraged by the group. investigates von Mierers, MARIE BRENNER breaks the story. His followers gave him tens of thousands of dollars for rings to prove their faith. Karr said he couldn't remember the name of one man he remembers meeting at the house. In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. It would be the final certification, for who in the psychic world could ever doubt Montgomery's famous Guides? "Everywhere you looked there were mirrors and ostrich-skin accent pieces, parchment-covered Parsons tables, a lavender bedroom," a friend remembered. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. Released in 2015, the film has been an official selection in over fifty film festivals and has won more than forty awards, including 15 for Best Picture and 10 for BestActor. We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. ''I was told I would have to wait a year to get my cassette, maybe eighteen months," a painter named Glenna Hartwell told me, ''but all the money had to be paid in advance.". Frederick would bring out the coral and the lapis and he would light up like a Christmas tree. ``You can't miss it,' he advises lake visitors curious about the house. Overhead was costly, so the early gem prescriptions were for semiprecious stones. The gems, he would say, are for ''special people, only the elite." When I later examined the emerald ring the model had bought, I noticed it was engraved FVM. .Frederick was hitting him in the faceabout fifty times!smashing his head against the floor and everything. What came out of John was just a hatred of Frederick instead of a complete submission, which indicates humility on the part of the soul. "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! "I had found them through Ruth Montgomery's book. I had come in to interview Ford and Joe Hunter about von Mierers. ", I was staring into the face of Frederick von Mierers. I probably have over $800,000 wholesale of these gems in this very apartment. I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. I spread them out under a lamp. Arietta 31 in. He exalted Germans and referred to the Aryan master race. "It made me cry," she said. We were free to come and go. Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. Even today, years after Charles Manson and the Jonestown mass suicides, more than two thousand cults continue to operate in America. The minute I saw that group, I knew I was in a cult. "He would say to us, 'You look fabulous, but inside you really are a mess. I thought, How can he have such sway over these attractive people? .like Lalique. Purely by coincidence I met a modeling agent; the next summer I was cast in a big ad campaign for Geoffrey Banks. Like Frederick von Mierers, an extraordinary number of people are suddenly claiming to be in contact with their space brothers. You come in with nothing and you go out with nothing. Maybe you remember seeing it on late-night public-access cable TV. Ruth Montgomery had devoted three lengthy chapters to his status as a "Walk-in" from Arcturus, his genius as a psychic, the distinguished quality of his followers, and his rejection of his privileged past. Andreadis often did ten astrology charts a week for von Mierers. ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. Rich kids with troubled psyches took themselves off to Tibet to see the Dalai Lama or invited plump Indian swamis to move in. Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. She wrote in Aliens Among Us that the Guides responded, "John is from Arcturus. I work for a gemologist, and I told her to bring in the stones. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." There, lessons of , "The Wall Street Journal just so happened to have a supportive op-ed ready to publish within hours of the meeting. Her mother next married a man who, Jacki says, was hostile to her and her sister. "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." There were a lot of drugs and greed in the air, but we considered ourselves people who were seeking a greater understanding of the universe. von Mierers was recently asked. Tickle Me Kaczynski: How the Inventor of the Ultimate Elmo Toy Became a Unabomber Suspect, Real Italians Put Hot Dogs and French Fries on Their Pizza, The Other Drug War: Inside the World of Counterfeit Viagra, The $65 Million Art Heist That Put Oceans Eleven to Shame. . "He would hear about someone rich and say, 'Bring him in!' . The girlfriend of a handsome young relative of mine called me in a state of panic. A few days later I called him and said, 'I don't want the ring!' and 'You are a fucking, sick, evil, satanic piece of shit! Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. For that, you feel a sense of shame. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' "The fact that this gorgeous blond Ford model was talking about how brilliant Frederick was convinced me to go to see him," one model told me. "By fourth grade I just buried myself in books," she told me. There were many mirrors, plump lavender sofas, and reproduction Egyptian furniture. " Sexually involved by then with Andreadis, Adams bought an emerald, a ruby, a topaz, and a cat's-eye; she took out a loan of $15,000 to start with, and paid an additional $24,000 to fix up her apartment. Control of diet was an important first step. It bears the signature of Unified Cosmogony's then-president, New York City TV producer Fritz Diekmann, who is featured in the 14-page Vanity Fair spread. he would say. "Frederick was only trying to help him." Von Mierers seems to have been aided in his gem operation by several New York jewelry appraisers, who were gifted fantasists when it came to evaluating the Eternal Values stones. "These are the light lasers! von Mierers told me. Ruth Montgomery detailed von Mierers's relationship with Mrs. Williams in Aliens Among Us: "In company with his dowager godmother, Frederick traveled the high roads of Europe, meeting socially with the Queen of England and European aristocracy. I realized I was being taken. Seaman was at the house when von Mierers died, Fritts said. Often he had $30,000 or $40,000 in cash in his apartment. "We must spread our message to help humanity." They all came with bogus appraisals. "When I first met Frederick, I was only sixteen years old, and I was so naive I still believed that anyone who said he was spiritual was holy," a young man named John Andreadis told me. I had a Life Reading done by Frederick von Miers in the late 1980's. Although I did not get to meet him, I believe he was honest in the concept he passed on to some of us and that he was a Walk-In. .immaculate dresser. . When you've been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, you're never quite sure when to bring it up. Von Mierers's conversation predictably dwelt on the fact that his new friends had never experienced proper sex. "In ancient Egypt, I trained you to be a healer! There's no Lake Lure phone listing for Eternal Values or other names the group is known by - Unified Cosmogony or Ultimate Custom Interiors. It was an era in New York of crazy religions, cults, and odd self-help groupsest, Scientology, Synanon, and Arica. . New members of the group, such as a model who had met John Hoyt on a photo shoot, were gradually told about the sexualinitiation practices, including the multiracial sex rite which members called "the treatment." As she became more involved with John Andreadis, von Mierers pushed her to take the gems. Freddys successors were even more extreme. "He saves them from their egos. a city detective recently asked a Ford model who had fled from the group. In clips from these extremely 80s appearances, the former model shills mail-order cassettes and spouts new-age gibberish, his eyes getting impossibly larger and more urgent with each nonsense aphorism. Evan 37 in. I took the heaviest piece in my hand, a gold bracelet with what appeared to be lavender sapphires. I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. He hasn't taken me," Joe Hunter told me. We thought the end was at hand. ``They've been very good neighbors they're quiet, and their landscaping is fantastic.'. Studio Design Collection. And Freddie just laughed." What's the harm?" Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. In January 1988, on a television show called People Are Talking, he cried, "Americans, you are going into the most crucial period of earth history! "I have never heard such hatred in a civilized setting. "I wanted to get married and I wanted out!" The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. "Ramakrishna said, 'When flowers open, bees come of themselves, " von Mierers used to tell his new young friends. On a black January night just six days after American jets began bombing Iraq, Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr., the 66-year-old bad boy of the Texas oil and gas industry, faced more than 1,100 well-heeled . From the time he was twelve or thirteen years old, he had been interested in Hindu philosophy. Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. At one time we were both with the Ford Modeling agency. Please subscribe to keep reading. he advised one model. I reminded him of his participation in the tape. From somewhere, I heard music which sounded like an organ on a Moog synthesizer. We are sincere! Pressed about other people who claimed he had cheated them, he said, "These are jealous, sick, twisted people. Years ago, if he said he worked ten days on a modeling job, I knew that meant he worked two days! I was the living symbol of their hypocrisy. . "Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," a University of Connecticut psychologist told Omni magazine recently. He described Frederick as "an internationally renowned Hindu astrologer and lecturer in the underlying unity between science and religion. Next, in the guise of psychic and oracle, von Mierers would tell his new friends how unhappy their lives really werea fairly safe assumption to make about young people seeking a psychic. I never did. . 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. I was like, Oh my God. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" His maid did my laundry. "This is a holy place.". His Nantucket house guests recall being sent out to scour the beach for good-looking recruits, handing out invitations to the finest physical specimens they could find. ``I think this place has been very quiet, and all the action was up in New York,' said Alex Karr, the mansion's only year-round neighbor and a member of the Lake Lure Town Council.But when von Mierers, devastated by AIDS, neared death, he left behind the frenetic pace of New York City and headed south to his group's $400,000, Xanadu-like home beside peaceful Lake Lure. Eileen Ford asked me. Sometimes I would have to go out to the end of the dock and do 15 belly flops as a form of self-punishment because supposedly Id been a dickhead that day. Two bodies cannot occupy the same space in the material world, which is what they are trying to do when they're having physical intercourse. They are, in the main, blessed with ample salaries from good jobs. Even though I earned most of the money that supported us, the leaders seemed to be growing more and more disdainful of me. He's saying, 'Don't hit me!'.. Eileen Ford then told me about another group operating in her agency, a cluster of bornagain Christians called Models for God. Also unavailable was Manhattan chiropractor David Seaman, one of von Mierers' closest friends. "Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". What a dummy I was. Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. He was older and cool and unbelievably charismatic. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. I would come to New York, and soon Frederick showed me the stones. One apartment, 6E, was used as the office, and had desks with computer screens, shelves of merchandise, and files containing thousands of letters and orders for von Mierers's services. "These are the only people in New York who count," he would say. 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