The cult of Frederick Lenz: The guru who glows gold, shapeshifts, and teaches computer programming

with Jim Picariello

On this episode of Cults, Culture, and Coercion, I sat down with someone I have known for over thirty years: first as a former client, and now decades later, my friend and colleague, filmmaker Jim Picariello. Our relationship began when his family hired me to help him exit the cult of Zen Master Rama, also known as Frederick Lenz, in the early nineties.…