The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family
by Isis Aquarian, Electricity Aquarian
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Author: Electricity Aquarian, Isis AquarianIntroduction: Erik Davis
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10
ISBN: 0976082292
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Process
Book Reviews of The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family
Book Review: inspiring! amazing! totally rockin'!
Summary: 5 Stars
I cant say enough about this book. its like entering another world. I picked it up and I didnt put it down till it was over..... and the ending.....I promise you, it will blow your mind.......
I was inspired enough to write this little piece about the book:
On the road with Father Yod....
In Aug, 2008 my band Solvents, left our cozy homes in Pt. Townsend, Wa. to take our music on the road for three weeks. Being cramped in a mini van with 3 other people is a hard, boring existence. Fortunately, we had a copy of The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod,Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family in the van with us. I had already read the book and filled the rest of the band in on the story of Father Yod and his amazing family. Soon, we were all taking turns with the book. I have to say, this is THE perfect book to have in the van while on the road. The photos alone make the long drives so much easier. The story is easy to read and grabs your imagination. We were hooked in no time at all.
We all felt the spirit of Father Yod with us on the tour. When times got tough I found myself asking Father Yod for guidance. The others felt the same way. I remember our drummer after a bad gig, thumbing through the book and "praying". Later, he told me it made him feel better.
The best "Father Yod moment" was in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our van broke down and we had to shell out a sizeable amount of cash to get it going again. We had to be in Boise, Idaho that night and we weren't sure if we were going to make our show. Tensions were high and I'm sure we were all contemplating taking a greyhound home. We were driving along arguing about what we were going to do when out of no where, we saw a hang -glider sitting in somebody's yard! All at once, we saw the sign and knew we had to press on to Boise. We flew like the wind and made it to our gig right on time. Before we played, we all took a moment to give thanks to Ya Ho Wa.....
Summary of The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family
?While the boho scene has never completely disappeared from L.A., Father Yod and the Source Family are enjoying a new era of notoriety, inspiring indie-folk musicians like Devendra Banhart and mega-producers like Rick Rubin. Aquarian?s book has become a style bible of sorts, with its dreamy images of the comely cult.??T-Style, The New York Times
It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family dressed in colorful robes and served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Chistie, Frank Zappa, and many other celebrities at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in their mansion in the Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos with their spiritual leader, Father Yod.
Yod was an outlandish figure who had 14 wives, drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted his own psychedelic rock band, Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time. He surprised many by suddenly morphing from health food restaurateur into mystical leader of what many considered a cult: a group of young people who lived strictly devoted to his esoteric teachings, unusual sexual practices, and philosophies of natural living and dying.
Still, as controversial as he was to outsiders, Father Yod was, by inside accounts, a deeply loving and spiritually powerful magus who taught his Family to recognize their divinity within and their innate connectedness to all of creation.
The Source Family?s astonishing and moving true story?kept secret for over 30 years after Father?s hang-gliding accident and death in 1975?is revealed here for the first time by the Family members themselves, offering readers an insider?s perspective into this vital utopian social experiment.
Illustrated with over 200 color and black and white period photographs, this book contains a bonus CD of never-before-heard Source Family music, interviews and changes, including an extremely rare recording of Ya Ho Wa 13 performing live at Beverly Hills High School in 1973.
"...a mesmerizing look at a time that might as well have been a thousand years in the past...I can't help but marvel that a spiritual movement of such idealism could ever have existed in our uber-materialistic world." ? Ann Magnuson, PAPER Magazine
"The Source Family contributed a powerful chapter to our communal history, and having Isis Aquarian's empathetic recording of it enriches us all." ? Timothy Miller, Author of America's Alternative Religions
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