It was 1971, a time that saw a cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, The
Source Family served organic cuisine to the likes of John Lennon, Julie Christy,
Frank Zappa and many others at the famed Source Restaurant on Sunset Strip - maybe the nation's first health food restaurant. During the dawn hours (the "Ascending Currents"), in a
mansion in the Hollywood Hills, we explored the cosmos through the
channeled wisdom of our charismatic leader, Father Yod and by chanting the here-to-fore hidden Sacred Name of God. Father was an
outlandish figure who had 14 “spiritual wives,” was chaufferred in a Rolls-Royce,
and fronted the spontaneous rock band Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered by collectors to
be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time - and touring again now for the first time in 33 years ! |
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