num_pages: 304
description: 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 Familys astonishing and moving true storykept secret for over 30 years after Fathers hang-gliding accident and death in 1975is revealed here for the first time by the Family members themselves offering readers an insiders 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.
language: English
title: The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family
publisher: Process