American religious cult. Founded in 1985 under the name Enlightenment Among Us (EAU) by Randolph Manweiler, an unemployed machinist living in Taos, New Mexico. During its first decade of existence EAU gathered a small following with its unique mixture of Millennial Christianity and Gnosticism. In 1994 Manweiler was found dead of heart failure in his Taos apartment, and control of the church passed to his second-in-command, a former male nurse named Michael Steuben.