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You have a lot of disciples, i see, huh? >> no. people come and go. people pass through. >> well, are you being a good boy? >> no. i dont know what that is. >> dont you think you should learn what that is? >> good and bad, better to find out what is best. >> have you been being your best boy? >> im just being.

Leading the group and he laid out serious accusations about andreas, and one of the most serious was that he for years had been forcing unwanted disciples into unwanted relationships. andreas immediately told all of those around him that the letter was full of lies and not to read it. >> and all of a sudden there started to be this division. >> some people didnt believe it, some people did. >> its just some letter somebody wrote, they could write anything they want. >> i didnt have personally an...

Buddhafield and i had a group of new disciples eager to do service with me. i set out to make our house in austin a place of peace and beauty. by the time we were finished, we had built not only a massive garden but also an aviary complete with peacocks, exotic birds, even a wallabee. the garden became our sanctuary and his house became like a refuge from the outside world. things quieted down. time went by and we didnt hear much from cult awareness network anymore. we thought we might be gettin...

People trickled in to austin and we recreated the buddhafield. >> new people would show up all the time. we were sharing this love that we were experiencing with other people. i would say the word recruit. we were all recruiting. >> i recruited lots of people myself. he was looking for people who were open, and that was his instruction. >> then he started recruiting people that knew how to do ballet because he loved ballet. >> he used yoga classes to recruit more members so that he would always ...

We were on the road for six months trying to find a place where we could settle down, where the whole group could come join us. and he decided austin, texas was the place. one of his disciples bought him a house in the suburbs. he changed his name so anybody who was looking for michel rostand couldnt find him because he was now just called andreas. after we had been under the radar long enough, andreas felt it was time to bring everyone back together. he wanted everyone to move out in small pods...

The mindset was the computer as the brain and it was a threatening concept. >> the 1980s is a period of time when the big impersonal giant machine that lives in a huge air conditioned room some place suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. >> something is happening out there. something thats expanding your world. small computers are happening. >> as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives, into our factories, into our hospitals, into our businesses, then its...

At each other going i didnt hear to where this suddenly changed to where its all about him instead of all about your inner experience. >> i wouldnt refer to him other than anything he was, an out-of-work actor who stumbled on the role of a lifetime. >> one of the people that had been around for a long time wrote an e-mail and he sent it out to like everybody in the buddhafield. >> there was this e-mail that was sent out about all this stuff, it was like what the [ bleep ] is this? >> the author ...

We were on the road for six months trying to find a place where we could settle down, where the whole group could come join us. and he decided austin, texas was the place. one of his disciples bought him a house in the suburbs. he changed his name so anybody who was looking for michel rostand couldnt find him because he was now just called andreas. after we had been under the radar long enough, andreas felt it was time to bring everyone back together. he wanted everyone to move out in small pods...

>> i recruited lots of people myself. he was looking for people who were open, and that was his instruction. >> then he started recruiting people that knew how to do ballet because he loved ballet. >> he used yoga classes to recruit more members so that he would always have more people coming in. >> it was a very interesting group of people because they were all beautiful. these beautiful bodies and these little speedos and the girls were so beautiful. you couldnt miss them. >> even though he wa...

>> me, too. i mean, it hasnt been easy. know what i mean? you have a lot of disciples, i see, huh? >> no. people come and go. pretty much people pass through. >> well, are you being a good boy? >> no. i dont know what that is. >> dont you think you should learn what that is? >> good and bad, better to find out what is best. >> have you been being your best boy? >> im just being.