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 (Original Language); English (Unknown); 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: the BEST book on a commune ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have collected a large number of books on communes and hands down, this book is the most interesting, the most informative and the most open story about the experiences The Source group has had. If you're only going to buy one book to learn about life in a cooperative and collaborative society, BUY THIS ONE. You will learn more from this book than you can in most conversations with people who have "been there." That the group designated a historian to annotate their experiences solidifies an authenticity of experience you won't find outside of the other commune book experiences. A terrific read.
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
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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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