My relative attended only a few meetings of the group led by von Mierers, but he was intrigued by what he called von Mierers's "gem prescriptions." I asked. "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. It was Christmas this past year at the Ford agency, and Eileen Ford was frantic. Eternal Values was my reality. Andreadis was confronting von Mierers frequently about the gems, and angry factions were arising within the group. The stones were all set in similar simple heavy gold settings. There's no Lake Lure phone listing for Eternal Values or other names the group is known by - Unified Cosmogony or Ultimate Custom Interiors. The real reason I left was because I felt like a failure. One client tried to force me to hire him. You have to do all the therapy and the research. "My first impression was that he was a crazy. "I heard they got money to Frederick by Federal Express." On the weekends I would bring up a couple friends with me from school. In a series of visions I saw the coming wars, the destruction of New York City, my own mission, and the future of the earth." From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. "Pick that up right now!" "About this time he had the idea of going into business," a friend told me. The ring had twelve of my own diamonds in it, and I was shocked when I learned that the whole ring was worth at most $15,000, because Frederick had told me that the stone was worth $23,000. Its hard to imagine just how strange it would all seem without context, an insomniac flipping through the channels, stumbling upon this exaggeration of a man who claimed to be an alien from the star Arcturus. The girlfriend of a handsome young relative of mine called me in a state of panic. She seemed to have abdicated all responsibility, resigned to the vulnerabilities of young beauties who often come from troubled homes. .. Frederick says that he realized 'even then' that Helen Williams had been his mother in several previous lifetimes, and they were almost inseparable. We were on earth to help people. I am the chosen one. Her success did little to affect her malaise, though; Adams often spent evenings reading spiritualism books, trying to make sense of her troubled childhood. Eileen Ford told me. Frederick told me that my deficiencies were so horrendous that I needed a stone that was at least two to three and a half carats. Von Mierers would wax eloquent on the legendary Hindu belief in the healing properties of certain precious gems. Later, when I got out and sold them, I found out they were worth less than$8,000. $699.99 / piece Size: 31in. When the cheerleading coach broke the news to Katrina Kohel that she was the only one left on the cheer squad, Kohel was determined to compete anyway. Years ago, if he said he worked ten days on a modeling job, I knew that meant he worked two days! I was like, Oh my God. It was right at that time when models were becoming celebrities. In my mind I was working him, kind of taking advantage of this guy and all his cool connections. 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." Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. It has also been eye-opening. Control is subtle. She once wrote a syndicated column called "Capital Letter," until, as she says, "Arthur Ford told me that I could do automatic writing." 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. He told us about the personal tapes he would make for us that would cost $350, and he said he had eight thousand requests. von Mierers scolded. "We had a conversation about various things that had already occurred in my life, ' ' Hoyt told an interviewer. Like every other American woman who grew up reading Seventeen, I have always thought of Eileen Ford as a benevolent godmother, a woman who protects her own. Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. 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. In fear, Andreadis and Adams went to Jamaica. Call the super!' Hitler was divinely inspired," he has said. Von Mierers was still strictly smalltime; his only platform was a regular stint on a call-in radio show. "I was never paid," he said, "but I believed what Frederick said. Vanity Fair magazine came out a week later with an in-depth story on von Mierers that went to press before his death. Studio Design Collection. "Freddie then went to a lawyer and threatened that he would sue me to get my power of attorney. From somewhere, I heard music which sounded like an organ on a Moog synthesizer. "I almost had a breakdown. They are, in the main, blessed with ample salaries from good jobs. Hoyt Richards was dubbed the 'world's first male supermodel,' pulling in a minimum of $15,000 a day. He was a "sprite," as one acquaintance phrased it, "cute, cute, cute," the toast of the beaches at Cherry Grove on Fire Island in the 1960s. What's the big deal? Immediately! "You will all be dead within ten years. In 1977, Helen Williams was in a car crash and had a stroke, which left her unable to speak. ", When asked later about his reaction to the departure of Adams and Andreadis, von Mierers lapsed into a long silence and then, speaking with difficulty, said, "I don't know who such people are." "He's harmless," Hunter told me. No money changed hands; Unified Cosmogony was just a new name for Eternal Values, according to the deed. I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. I said, 'You can't take $11,000 out of the bank without filling out a form.' Richards most recent film is Intersection, a romantic thriller he produced and stars in. Von Mierers gave me an appraisal from a West Forty-seventh Street jeweler who said the ring was worth $58,000. Meanwhile, after every job, people would be going off to parties at, like Madonnas, and I would fly back to my life in Eternal Values. I hung out with Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell. "What is that?" Von Mierers himself had two large rings on his middle finger. ", "Terrible storms will destroy the world," von Mierers told me gravely. I asked. Once, in 1969, the producer Joel Rice ran into him in Venice. I see it as my form of the school of hard knocks. Solemnly, the merchandise was spread out near me. I would not recommend the path I took, but Im grateful now for the life that is mine. 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. A male supermodel on surviving an apocalyptic, vegetarian cult. "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. Jacki Adams's parents divorced when she was a toddler; her father was killed in Vietnam. "He cared so much about being with the rich and the prominent," a friend who knew him well fifteen years ago told me. . At that time I was high priest! What is the nature of this world?. "He just understands everything about us." It is materialized, objectified thoughts. I recently asked Eileen Ford and Joe Hunter, the company president. von Mierers was recently asked. . The gem and its harmonic vibrations are in harmony with your body. When I later examined the emerald ring the model had bought, I noticed it was engraved FVM. . I always knew Freddie was a big talker and a fantasist. "Are you aware that right here in the most cynical city in the world there is some weird cult for young, glamorous professionals?" "He teaches us how to aspire to be the best we can. . Then he opened his sweater and showed us all the gems he was wearing. As he stared at the TV audience, his face appeared to have cheek implants, capped teeth, and freshly pulled skin. In the beginning, von Mierers would tell them to avoid sex. Man died Wednesday. We've had stones in our family for years. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Nebraska cheerleader competes by herself at state competition, but crowd doesn't let her feel alone. you duchesses and lords," Freddie would say '%u are fabulous! .like Lalique. As John Hoyt made his way around New York, he talked about von Mierers to other models he would meet. . Only Hermes.". No unity can be achieved here in the physical world. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my story boring. "Of course, he was never a spiritual person.". "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. At two in the morning, Von Mierers would be beamed out into the universe courtesy of cable television. Von Mierers seemed to be disintegrating, and according to several former acolytes, increasing quantities of hallucinogens were being consumed by certain members of the group. No matter what I did, I couldnt seem to measure up. Von Mierers believed in impending doomthat he and his fellow aliens had been sent here to help earthlings, an intergalactic team of emergency responders. More, she had been taught to dress by a fine stylist who had taken her to Chanel and Scaasi to rid her of the jeans and sneakers of her modest Florida childhood. And so, in 1984, Andreadis wrote to the best-selling author. "Jews have been evil since the beginning of time. They are as candles in the dark to prevent you from falling into delusions," he said on one cassette. I bought an emerald. Andreadis's mother, Barbara, who owns a New York talent agency, began to worry. One of the aspects that troubled Andreadis was Frederick's increasing desire to find members who were rich. Find out who is the source at the source of the I thought, who is the author of the / thought? The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. You must write that I am the reincarnation of Jeremiah from the Old Testament. Montgomery soon invited Andreadis and von Mierers to meet with her at her home in Washington, D.C. "She asked me to write about alien life for her next book," Andreadis said. Frederick insisted on cash. Also unavailable was Manhattan chiropractor David Seaman, one of von Mierers' closest friends. I would come to New York, and soon Frederick showed me the stones. Her relationship with Andreadis shielded her from the burgeoning sexual atmosphere of Eternal Values. . In the checkbook, she would write out these tiny amounts of cash for herself, like fifty or something. The model, who was involved with Eternal Values for almost a year, has given a sworn secret statement to the Manhattan D.A. "I thought John Andreadis was spiritual," she told me. "They eat such unhealthy food." "And you'll never be a David Bowie unless you get a better story," Bey replied. Von Mierers's conversation often dwells on the master race and Jews. .. . Montgomery's belief in von Mierers so overwhelmed him that he would read her chapters out loud again and again to his followers, as if to convince himself that they were true. "I want her to write about me. The various uses of gems and crystals and how they work are explained. 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. By his sixteenth birthday he had read volumes of metaphysics, and he often bought books at the Quest bookshop. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. Pulsating ionization machines cleansed the air, and billowing clouds were painted on the walls. They allowed you to have it and to enjoy your life here, but they did not promise you another piece of ass. When he had them appraised privately, he learned that this was not the case. "It is the beyond," he answered. "I think he must have read that book a hundred times," Andreadis said. "Frederick is very spiritual," Wyatt later told me. Who knows? .immaculate dresser. Frederick von Mierers almost ruined my life." "The gems are God's thoughts condensed.. .the gateways into this dimension for the ether waves.. .. He exalted Germans and referred to the Aryan master race. Early on, he felt the strong need to camouflage the fact that he had grown up in Brooklyn. Like anyone suffering from Stockholm syndromewhere a hostage identifies with his captorsI had no ability to objectify my experience. Within months, hundreds and then thousands of letters were forwarded to von Mierers from Ruth Montgomery, Andreadis remembered. But I was impressed with the people he had managed to have around. ''Every other check was made out to Freddie von Mierers. I thought, This is crazy.". "We were like one entire family. von Mierers told Jacki Adams, the Ford model who had come to see me, on one cassette. I believe in the master race!". She attended a seminar and saw "a young man who was so attractive I knew it had to be John Andreadis." In 1984 von Mierers took him to see his old friend Joe Hunter, the president of the Ford modeling agency. Conversations on Vivekananda, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Hindu Vedas would stretch on till dawn. Freddy said to me, youre different, Hoyt says, speaking directly to the camera. Many of her fifteen books are still in print, filling the psychic-phenomena sections of the paperback racks. Suddenly, von Mierers's living room appeared very small. The minute I saw that group, I knew I was in a cult. When youre 16 and going through a rebellious stage, having an adult who will talk to you like an adult really gets your attention. 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. They speak in New Age jargon and talk of "highly evolved" personalities and "ego renunciation." They had lacquered walls in the New Age colors of "high-vibrational harmonics"pink, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse, accented by carefully painted silvery clouds. One of the women, Erika Wilson, a model with the Ford agency who has appeared in Glamour and Self, had a bland, sweet expression and an allAmerican beauty. "Frederick shut me in a room until it was finished," Adams said. When I look around, I see that, to a greater or lesser extent, we all have cultic relationships with peoplerelationships where the person we love, the person from whom were seeking approval, is also the one who is dishing out the abuse. He would tell prospective buyers that he was able to get stones at a tremendous discount, which the inflated appraisal papers would confirm. Few wind up, as von Mierers did, able to get a listing in the Social Register. By now von Mierers had perfected his pitch. Andreadis explained that he came from a wealthy family and had always been interested in spiritual pursuits. With an entire group of new friends who looked up to him as a spiritual guide, he could reject social New York as it had once rejected him. The evil forces are everywhere.". His followers gave him tens of thousands of dollars for rings to prove their faith. Frederick Von Miers Sciences Education Art Writing & UFO. Do you see the ego there? You come in with nothing and you go out with nothing. I could give these kids almost a Harvard course in metaphysics." It's a drop in the bucket.' By 1987 von Mierers was wasting no time selling the healing stones. EVERY PAGE. Arietta 31 in. Incredibly, von Mierers was able to persuade scores of his followers to buywith cash or money orders only his very pricey jewels. Later, Hoyt went to Princeton and became a member of Cap and Gown. Go deeper. By now Andreadis had seen and heard enough. Often he would rage at his followers. When you wear your gems, you can't be fooled by people and things that are evil. "Frederick encouraged us to lie, to cheat, to say anything to our families. I have been in journalism a lot longer than you, young lady! I spread them out under a lamp. In the summers, von Mierers would return to Nantucket. Perhaps as a way of breaking free, Andreadis and Adams married in November. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. He would tell us, 'We are living a high spiritual life.' The group members watched me suspiciously, and, as in the faces of the Jonestown survivors in news photos, behind their blank stares was fear. For a time, he supported himself handily as a model. "Don't become a cock worshiper! "Handle them carefully," one of the young men said to me. Cults have always attracted those with deficiency needsmissing pieces of psychological makeup that family, religion, or education did not supply. "This is a holy place.". Gunzenhausen (German pronunciation: [ntsnhazn] (); Bavarian: Gunzenhausn) is a town in the Weienburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.It is situated on the river Altmhl, 19 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of Weienburg in Bayern, and 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Nuremberg.Gunzenhausen is a nationally recognized recreation area. Near me, six of von Mierers's friends and followers stared at us, as if hypnotized, throughout our interview. Andreadis said. 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. He hasn't taken me," Joe Hunter told me. "Frederick was only trying to help him." I had another question: Was it, in the end, the need to make his mark in louche New York that caused Frederick von Mierers to believe so totally the myths he had created about himself? Eternal Values does not approve of my marriage. " There, in 1979, he met Frederick von Mierers, who asked him his birth date and told him, he said, "startling things about my life." Frederick von Mierers told his elite followersamong them top models and yuppiesthat he was from the star Arcturus, here to neutralize "the dark forces." They could help you. After a hard day's work, exhausted young models could be seen in the building spinning von Mierers's laundry and mopping halls. ", One of the voices on the tape was that of the lawyer Douglas Wyatt. Were they real? Lets just say I come from a family of six, from the main line of Philadelphia, and that I had a mother who was hard toplease. You have to cut the ties to your family! "A lot of it I couldn't really absorb at once." .. protege of Billy Baldwin.. . By then he had given up modeling and taken up with Billy Baldwin, the dean of American decorators, called "Billy B." staffer, who was conned out of $62,000 by Anna Sorokin, questions Netflix's decision to pay the proven criminal more than . As she became more involved with John Andreadis, von Mierers pushed her to take the gems. To me, I was in a special group on an important mission; I believed I was one of the Chosen who would lead the Earth into a new era of peace and prosperity. .late '20's hairdo life of the party and a people organizer.. .seen a lot at Le Cirque, Cecil's, Isle of Capri fabulous dancer.. .a gentleman," the item read. von Mierers would tell them. In Aliens Among Us, Montgomery, a former journalist, devotes sixty pages to von Mierers and his persona as a citizen of Arcturus, as well as his astonishing psychic abilities. Without Freddy to focus on, there were an increasing number of strict rules and codes of punishment. Sitting in the apartment near Sutton Place, I thought of the German word Maskenfreiheit: the freedom conferred by masks. Who Am I? "I have just heard the wildest story from a makeup artist who works on many Ford models," she said. But I know one thing: If I do bring it up, nobody ever finds my storyboring. People don't even know themselves, do they? by such friends and clients as Babe Paley, Averell Harriman, and Cole Porter. I can help you to transcend.' '. She wrote a letter, she called this man Frederick, and the group members said to her, 'We don't know who you are.' In August 1987, Jacki Adams began to attend meetings of the group. How could I have been duped like that for solong? 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