Eden Ahbez, Jack Parsons, and other LA kooks...

Jan 4, 1920 - Police raid Temple Of The Sun cult headquarters

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128769a5e32970c-pi

awesome thread

Any other book recommendations, Elvis Telecom? I'm already looking into the ones mentioned upthread.

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/cameron.jpg

Marjorie Cameron There's so much WTF in her life that I can't really condense it down so I'll resort to copy/paste

When she was 17, the Great Depression was underway and Cameron moved with her family to Davenport, Iowa, a considerably larger town than Belle Plain. Having trouble adjusting and after the suicide of a close friend, Cameron several times tried unsuccessfully to take her own life using sleeping pills. She claims that these near brushes with death had further enhanced her psychic abilities, reportedly giving her a glimpse into the realm of the dead.

In 1943, in the midst of World War II, the 21 year-old Cameron joined the Navy-turning down several scholarships. She was sent along with 3000 other women to boot camp in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Soon she was selected for a high-level job in Washington, DC, where she applied her artistic skills by drawing maps for the war efforts. She was then sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff where she once met Winston Churchill. She had a drafting table at the head of their conference room. Later, she felt that many men died in the South Pacific as a result of her drawings, Cameron considered all of her drawings to be magical talismans that had a very real effect on the world, she always felt a karmic connection to these men and believed that later tragic events in her life were the result of her participation in their deaths.

By the late 1950s, Cameron was living in Malibu and hanging out with a crowd of artists that included the likes of Dennis Hopper, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and others. Wallace Berman's show at the Ferus Gallery was closed in 1957 after displaying one of Cameron's drawings which depicted a woman, possibly Cameron, being taken from behind by an alien creature.

When rocket propulsion researcher and occultist Jack Parsons met Marjorie Cameron, he regarded her as the fulfilment of magical rituals he had been performing as the beginning of the Babalon Working, roughly, an attempt to incarnate in a physical body a divine entity that would bring about great change for the Aeon of Horus.
Parsons wrote of Cameron in a letter to his mentor Aleister Crowley in 1946:

"The feeling of tension and unease continued for four days. Then on January 18 1946 at sunset, whilst the Scribe and I were on the Mojave Desert, the feeling of tension suddenly stopped. I turned to him and said 'it is done', in absolute certainty that the Operation was accomplished. I returned home, and found a young woman (Marjorie Cameron) answering the requirements waiting for me. She is describable as an air of fire type with bronze red hair, fiery and subtle, determined and obstinate, sincere and perverse, with extraordinary personality, talent and intelligence. During the period of January 19 to February 27 I invoked the Goddess BABALON (a particular aspect of the Egyptian goddess Nuit) with the aid of magical partner (Ron Hubbard), as was proper to one of my grade."

They termed this incarnation the Moonchild. Writes Aleister Crowley on the subject:

"The Aeon of Horus is of the nature of a child. To perceive this, we must conceive of the nature of a child without the veil of sentimentality - beyond good and evil, perfectly gentle, perfectly ruthless, containing all possibilities within the limits of heredity, and highly susceptible to training and environment. But the nature of Horus is also the nature of force - blind, terrible, unlimited force."

The Babalon Working was allegedly successful.

After her husband Jack Parsons' death, she starred in Kenneth Anger's 1965 cult-film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome. Both Cameron and Kenneth believed that this film was proof to the world that she had manifested the force of Babalon on Earth. Anger later said of her that "She was doing art for the sake of magick and her soul. She never sold her paintings." Cameron later burned most of her paintings in the late 1950s in a symbolic suicide performed with her second husband Sherif Kimmil after they had been up for several days on speed and had formed what Cameron called a "suicide club". Kimmil slit his wrists in the bathroom at the same time as the burning. Cameron's two brothers, her sister and also her father worked JPL, the company co-founded by her husband, Jack Parsons. She was a protege of mythologist Joseph Campbell.

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel died of cancer on the 24th of July, 1995

Any other book recommendations, Elvis Telecom? I'm already looking into the ones mentioned upthread.

Visionary State is still the one to start with, but really you can just pick anything out of the occult section of the Amok Books/Koma Books catalog and keep checking the footnotes/references. I'm just starting in on L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times which is a compendium of bottom-of-barrel true crime sordidness that's catnip for the Ellroy set.

When I saw Craig Baldwin introduce Mock Up On Mu, an unfortunately terrible film about Parsons, Cameron, Hubbard et al, he really talked up John Carter's Sex and Rockets.

Upon hearing this revelation, Clifford Dabney, the nephew of local oil magnate Joseph Dabney, joined the cult and offered Blackburn $40,000 in cash and property, including 164 rolling acres that sprawled across a canyon in the community of Santa Susana Knolls in Simi Valley.

I wonder if Ross MacDonald was thinking of this with The Moving Target?

There's a book out on Marjorie Cameron now.

Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron

Oh cool! I had no idea...

Emperor Norton wuz robbed. Oh wait, this is an LA thread.

I was going to say.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/5240_1200084928019_1405412996_557342_6187673_n.jpg

This book just popped up on my radar...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qLjirH1KL._SL500_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-40,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

Seems to be hyper-bullshitic, but this isn't the first time I've heard of high weirdness going on in the early Inland Empire. Only it doesn't just tie in the Zodiac Killer, but throws in Crowley, Harry Houdini and the occult geography that connects them all together.

Podcast interview with the authors here: http://radiomisterioso.com/2011/08/01/walter-bosley-and-richard-spence-occult-murder-from-1915/ (follow iTunes link on the right)

slept-on post by jaxon above!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2735/4051980281_4259952d81.jpg

Krotona (a.k.a. Krotona Institute Of Theosophy) Founded in 1919, Krotona was envisioned as a utopian Theosophist colony, a "modern Athens" where residents would "suffer neither fog nor dust nor frost." When it was finally completed in Beachwood Canyon, the colony was an oddball architectural mashup best described as Walt Disney Moorish complete with onion domes, keyhole windows, and Rosicrucian carvings everywhere. Most of the colony was funded by a Hawaiian sugar cane heiress and during it's heyday from 1919 to 1924, attracted assorted mystics, New Atlantis searchers, requisite celebrities (Mary Astor and Charlie Chaplin were active there), and anyone questing for the California Dream.

LA's growth eventually suburbanized the Hollywood Hills and in the late 1920s Krotona split for Ojai where it remains. Parts of the Krotona complex remain today and like a lot of buildings from that era - it's been subdivided into apartments. One of Krotona's lodges is still used for theosophist lectures.

So that's where Pynchon got the idea.

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/special-events-november-2011/#process-media-presents-aliens-from-spaceship-earth-director-in-person-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jg5RXSZiU8

Now that looks prime.

already got tickets.

damn, that's my kind of movie

There're lots of L.A. kooks, I gather.

There's a movie about the Source cult that premiered at SXSW. Brief description here.

The Source

Patrick 'The Lama' Lundborg has a feature in the forthcoming magazine FLASHBACK!
http://galacticramble.blogspot.com/2012/02/flashback-magazine.html?showComment=1332010778054#c7808808967812838351
about Psychedelic Roots in the 50s. Not sure exactly what it's about, but seeing this thread I wonder if it's related. Won't know until it comes out in April

Esotouric is running their "Maja's Mysteries Tour" again in April. Recommended if you're interested by any of this... http://esotouric.com/maja-4-28-12

that Source documentary was AMAZING, caught it earlier today here in Berkeley. easily one of the best films on the counterculture and cults/communes I've seen.

there are a couple more showings coming up in SF soon, as well as a meet & greet at Aquarius Records this Tuesday, and a performance by Yahowa 13's Djin Aquarian at the Vortex Room on Saturday

?! It's screening as part of the SF Film Festival on Friday and Sunday - I'm glad it's amazing, because I want to see it.

I try to make a point of peeling myself away from the screens, stepping outside and walking around for a while, no matter how busy ( reaching the backyard, at least). Also been meaning to check out some more self-organized (?) meditation. But listening to Donovan and the winds he's walking through during the last part of this clip, I'm reminded of having read that meditating brain waves were found to be not unlike those generated during a nap--nothing wrong w that, but also reminded i've been wondering if my type of zoning out on a tree is any better/different than staring at screens.

Kinda poignant http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/07/fifteen-years-after-the-suicides-who-is-running-the-heavens-gate-website/

The Lewis Shiner story I remember best is "Jeff Beck," which should def be in an anthology of rock x sf--maybe it already is? Anyway, it's in this collection, which I haven't read, and online (xpost and sev others)
http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235134277l/257355.jpg

what the heck
image credit: Perihelio Deviant Art
http://static.flickr.com/67/193228466_587a24c090_o.jpg

Sorry! I meant to post those last two on I Love Books--but both kinda Cali/Kali appropriate also.

Coming to the Art Los Angeles Contemporary show at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica:

Presented by Paris, LA magazine, director Jodi Wille screens scenes from and discusses her documentary "The Source." The film explores Source Family, a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. "The Source" provides an intimate, insiders’ view at this incredible group of people through their own archival photos, home movies, audio recordings, and contemporary interviews with members of the family. Jodi Wille is a filmmaker, book editor, and photographer known for collaborating with individuals who have amassed personal archives that document American subcultures. 4pm on Friday, January 25 at Art Los Angeles Contemporary.

http://www.artlosangelesfair.com/

LA "nature boys" (a la Eden Ahbez) showing up in a Donald Duck strip from the 50s is not something I expected

"Nature Boy" was so big not surprised at it showing up anywhere at all.

I can't find an img of it but it was pretty lol to see Donald giving a speech to a bunch of hippies

or proto-hippies as the case may be

oh good holy crap -- came to this thread via marjorie cameron/elrond hubbard/the parsonage, stayed for the "nature boy"

at least i can say that i learned something new today.

Speaking xp of The Source Family--Father Yod's, that is--here's the trailer for the doc:
http://vimeo.com/58953915

http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs133/1102021487007/img/241.jpg

THE SOURCE FAMILY

IN THEATRES MAY 1, 2013

VIA DRAG CITY FILM DISTRIBUTION

NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE @ IFC CENTER ON WED. MAY 1ST
os Angeles, CA (February 6, 2013) -- Drag City Film Distribution announced today the May 1st theatrical release of THE SOURCE FAMILY (previously titled The Source), the feature length documentary directed by Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille about Father Yod and The Source Family's radical experiment in '70s utopian living. This treasure trove of interviews with never-before-seen home movies, photographs, and original music created by The Source Family themselves provides an unparalleled insider's view into the cult/commune phenomenon and wild social experimentation of the early '70s - as well as a being a wholly unique California story.
The Source Family's outlandish lifestyle, popular celebrity-hangout restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood's Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals, controversial spiritual leader Father Yod, along with his 13 wives, instigated local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise. Years later, family members surface and the rock band reforms, revealing how their time with Father Yod shaped their lives in the most unexpected ways. These personal accounts, along with interviews with outsiders, make up the interviews in the film. However, the story is largely cinematic, expressed through the use of the group's extensive film and audio archive maintained by Isis Aquarian, one of Father's wives, Family documentarian, and a central character in the documentary (as well as being associate producer). The film's soundtrack is composed entirely of original Source Family music produced from 1971-1975.
THE SOURCE FAMILY is inspired by the cult-classic book The Source: The Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family written by Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian and edited by Jodi Wille (Process Media, 2007). It received extensive praise in outlets including The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, PAPER, NPR, and LA Weekly.
THE SOURCE FAMILY, then titled The Source, was selected to world-premiere as one of eight documentary feature films in competition at SXSW 2012 and has played numerous festivals since, including sold-out screenings at SXSW, Silverdocs, Hot Docs Doc Soup, San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Seattle Film Festival. Other festivals and special screenings include the True/False Boon Dawdle and Burning Man.
THE SOURCE FAMILY will premiere at the IFC Center in New York City on Wed. May 1st. Other premiere dates and related special events will be announced in the coming weeks.

Got some of their music a couple years ago: pretty cool, so hopefully the soundtrack will get its own release.

will see!!

another relevant film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5CpWvk0WtI

A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length “collage-narrative” based on (mostly) true stories of California’s post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sci-fi author turned cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and “mother of the New Age movement”). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space, and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.

Hadn't heard of that, thanks! Also, something I used to hear about in the 70s: brain breathing--not the yoga kind, this is vaya con trepanation. Think Wm. Burroughs mentioned meeting a couple of euphoric brain breathers, though whether they were experiencing increased oxygenation or a touch of lobotomy, I dunno:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trepanation

The Source tour dates.

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/07/movie-poster-for-the-new-the.html

Yes Lord that poster!
http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001h_yvoje1DNM5Pg421LA_7Bo2vY-CaIdmJK-Li2QQKKOhwoibShEcD36NvCcnO-W0P4tbq-nWYpqR12x75Qi5oTc-tKc6NTYP_KDAdzJZTqqUXwX0FloC8O_T9lwP78eHXev8EIPlI6OBpUTEABtX8HRpcza4NxG-GpzmwxlszJs=

And the most extensive listings so far
Los Angeles, CA (April 5, 2013) - Drag City Film Distribution expands the theatrical run of THE SOURCE FAMILY (previously titled The Source), the feature length documentary directed by Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille about Father Yod and The Source Family's radical experiment in '70s utopian living, and announces special premiere events happening in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond. Directors Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulous have organized a series of special events in various cities: bands will form to play original Source Family music, renowned chefs will prepare and serve original Source recipes, original Source Family members will lead workshops teaching rituals and meditations, and various Source Family members will be present for Q&As following screenings. A detailed list of all of these events is below, along with a list of all of the cities where THE SOURCE FAMILY will be playing throughout May and June. More cities are being added.

The Source Family's outlandish lifestyle, popular celebrity hangout restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood's Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals and controversial spiritual leader, Father Yod, instigated local authorities. Yod was a visionary health food restaurateur, war hero, and judo champion who had thirteen wives and fronted the now legendary psych band Ya Ho Wa 13. The family fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise. Years later, family members surface and the rock band reforms, revealing how the experience shaped their lives in the most unexpected ways. These personal accounts, along with interviews with outsiders, make up the experiences told in THE SOURCE FAMILY. However, the story is largely cinematic, expressed through the use of the group's extensive film and audio archive maintained by Isis Aquarian, one of Father's wives and a central character in the documentary (as well as being associate producer). The film's soundtrack is composed entirely of original Source Family music produced from 1971-1975. This treasure trove of interviews and never-before-seen home movies, photographs, and original music provides an unparalleled insider's view into the cult/commune phenomenon and wildly outside-the-box social experimentation of the early '70s-as well as a being a wholly unique California story.

THE SOURCE FAMILY trailer - http://vimeo.com/58953915

THE SOURCE FAMILY official poster - http://bit.ly/10a2Wwr

THE SOURCE FAMILY will premiere in theaters in 25+ cities beginning May 1st.

**** new additions

New York, NY - opens Wed. 5/1 @ IFC Center - http://www.ifccenter.com/
San Francisco, CA - opens Thu. 5/2 @ Roxie Cinema - http://www.roxie.com/
Seattle, WA - opens Fri. 5/3 @ SIFF Cinema Uptown - http://www.siff.net/cinema/index.aspx
Los Angeles, CA - opens Thu. 5/9@ West Hollywood Standard Hotel, Fri. May 10 @ Cinefamily - http://www.cinefamily.org/
Boston, MA -opens Fri. 5/10 @ Coolidge Corner - http://coolidge.org ****
Dallas, TX - runs Fri. 5/10-Sun. 5/12 @ Texas Theatre - http://thetexastheatre.com/
Philadelphia, PA - plays Sat. 5/11 @ International House Philadelphia - http://ihousephilly.org/film/
Ft. Collins, CO - runs Wed. 5/15 & Thu. 5/16 @ Lyric Cinema Café - http://lyriccinemacafe.com/
Columbia, MO - runs Wed. 5/15 & Thu. 5/16 @ Ragtag Cinema - http://www.ragtagfilm.com/
Houston, TX - opens Fri. 5/17@ Sundance Cinemas - http://bit.ly/14JIfJ2 ****
Portland, OR - opens Fri. 5/17 @ Hollywood Theatre - http://hollywoodtheatre.org/
San Jose, CA - opens Fri. 5/17 @ Camera 3 Downtown - http://bit.ly/c7Udoq
Salt Lake City, UT - opens Fri. 5/17@ Tower Theatre - http://www.saltlakefilmsociety.org ****
Santa Fe, NM - opens Fri. 5/17 @ Center for Contemporary Arts - http://www.ccasantafe.org
Tulsa, OK - opens Fri. 5/17 @ Circle Cinema - http://www.circlecinema.com/
Miami, FL - opens Fri. 5/17 @ O Cinema - http://www.o-cinema.org/
Bellingham, WA - opens Fri. 5/17@ Pickford Film Center - http://pickfordcinema.org/
Nashville, TN - opens Fri. 5/17 @ Belcourt Theatre - http://www.belcourt.org
Nevada City, CA - runs Fri. 5/17-Sun. 5/19 @ Nevada Theater - http://bit.ly/WY1pns
Phoenix, AZ - runs Fri. 5/17-Sun. 5/19 @ Film Bar - http://www.thefilmbarphx.com/
Austin, TX - runs Sun. 5/19-Mon. 5/20@ Alamo Drafthouse - Ritz - http://bit.ly/kwhUzr
Jacksonville, FL - plays Mon. 5/20 @ Sun-Ray Cinema - http://www.sunraycinema.com ****
Portland, ME - plays Fri. 5/24 @ SPACE Gallery - http://www.space538.org ****
Denver, CO - opens Fri. 5/31 @ SIE FilmCenter -http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/ ****
Cleveland OH - plays Wed. 6/5 @ Cleveland Museum of Art - www.ClevelandArt.org/Film
Omaha, NE - opens Fri. 6/7 @ Film Streams - http://www.filmstreams.org/ ****
Chicago, IL - opens Fri. 6/14 @ Music Box - http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/ ****
Hartford, CT - opens Fri. 6/21@ Reel Art Ways - http://www.realartways.org/ ****

THE SOURCE FAMILY PREMIERE EVENTS:
NEW YORK

Sun. 4/28 - Source Family Immersion: Dinner with The Source Family @ Temple M, Harlem, 7pm

(private residence, tickets will be sold through brown paper tickets and address sent to participants only, link to come soon)

Dinner party with original Source restaurant recipes in a converted church by chef Anne Apparu and Dave Nuss
Special guests Isis Aquarian (family archivist, one of Father Yod's wives and associate producer of the film) and Electricity Aquarian, who will lead a meditation ritual exercise
Original Source Family music performed by Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band, Sabbath Assembly), Matt Sweeney, Sophia Knapp, Spencer Yeh, Rachel Mason, Damon McMahon and Amen Dunes, Gordon Roecker, and the improv group Georgia.

Mon. 4/29 - An Evening of Source Family Film Rarities @ Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn

Rare films and public access clips from Source Family archives with Isis Aquarian (family documentarian, one of Father's 13 wives, associate producer), Electricity Aquarian, and directors Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille

Tue. 4/30 - Source Family Immersion @ Body Actualized Center, Brooklyn

5 pm: "Playshop" with Electricity Aquarian teaching the basic white magic rituals and "keys" from the Source Family.
7 pm: Source Family pop-up restaurant by chef Anne Apparu ($12)
Soundtrack listening party as dinner is served
9 pm: Special live Source Family-inspired musical performance with surprise guests

Wed. 5/1 - THE SOURCE FAMILY National Theatrical Premiere @ IFC Center, West Village

Q&A with directors Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille and Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian
Original recipe Source Family cheesecake by chef Anne Apparu served in concessions.

SAN FRANCISCO

Wed. 5/2 - THE SOURCE FAMILY Premiere (Food/Show/Party) @ The Roxie (produced by The Roxie, Bold Italic, and Folk Yeah)

Q&A with Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille, Isis Aquarian, and Galaxy Aquarian
Post-screening Source food served by Bold Italic and musical performance by Source Family tribute band at The Chapel including musicians: Michael Beach, Adam Camilleri and Peter Warden (all of Electric Jellyfish), Noel von Harmonson (Comets on Fire/Sic Alps), Andy Carlton (Carlton Melton), and Utrillo Kushner (Comets on Fire/Colossal Yes)

Thurs. 5/3 THE SOURCE FAMILY screening and special Rarities after-film screening @ The Roxie

Post-screening special presentation of ultra-rare home movies and public access clips from Source Family archives with Isis Aquarian, Electricity Aquarian, and Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille

SEATTLE

Thu. 5/3 - THE SOURCE FAMILY Premiere @ SIFF Uptown Theatre

Post-screening Q&A with original Source Family members Makushla (Father Yod's "Mother Angel), Omne Aquarian (Family astrologer, family photographer), Rain Aquarian (Thoughtful Israel) and One Aquarian (Won Israel)

LOS ANGELES

Thu. 5/9 - THE SOURCE FAMILY Premiere @ Standard Hotel, West Hollywood (produced by Cinefamily/Cinespia)

350-seat premiere on the pool deck of the Standard Hotel, across the street from the original Source restaurant
Group white magic ritual with Source Family members and fans in the parking lot before the event
Special menu of original Source Family recipes offered by The Standard Hotel
About 40 original Source Family members will be in attendance
Post-screening Q&A with Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille and Isis Aquarian
After party features original Source Family music performed by Guy Blakeslee (Entrance Band) and featuring Will Scott (Wolfmother), Mira Bolette (White Magic), plus a special performance by Ann Magnuson

Fri. 5/10 - Thu. 5/16 - THE SOURCE FAMILY One-Week Run @ Cinefamily

Special appearances and Q&As throughout the week by Isis Aquarian, Maria Demopoulos, Jodi Wille, and Source Family members
Pop-up restaurant at the Cinefamily featuring original Source restaurant recipes prepared by chef Anne Apparu
5/10 is "Family Night" - Source Family members to attend and connect with the public
Ritual and meditation workshops led by Source Family members during the week
Local filmmakers' shorts and music videos will be presented prior to the film on several nights

DALLAS

Fri. 5/10 - THE SOURCE FAMILY Premiere @ Texas Theater

Post-screening Q&A with original Source Family members Joshua, Summer and Wave Aquarian

PORTLAND

Fri. 5/17 - THE SOURCE FAMILY Premiere @ Hollywood Theater

Post-screening Q&A with original Source Family members Aquarius Aquarian and Cosmos Aquarian (now known as Dr. Mark)

PHOENIX

Fri. 5/17 - THE SOURCE FAMILY Premiere @ The Film Bar

Post-screening Q&A with original Source Family members Ahom (Father Yod's first wife and family musician)

THE SOURCE FAMILY is inspired by the cult-classic book The Source: The Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family written by Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian and edited by Jodi Wille (Process Media, 2007). It received extensive praise in outlets including The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, PAPER, NPR, and LA Weekly.

THE SOURCE FAMILY, then titled The Source, was selected to world-premiere as one of eight documentary feature films in competition at SXSW 2012 and has played numerous festivals since, including sold-out screenings at SXSW, Silverdocs, Hot Docs Doc Soup, San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Seattle Film Festival. Other festivals and special screenings include the True/False Boon Dawdle and Burning Man.

For more information, visit:

http://www.thesourcedoc.com/

http://www.facebook.com/thesourcedoc

https://twitter.com/sourcefamilydoc

http://www.pitchperfectpr.com/a_source.html

on the calendar!

oh I wannna see thsi

something tells me im not gonna be hooked-up enough to make that nyc premiere screening...

Great LAT article on the current state of the Philosophical Research Society (live in LA? check it out!)
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2023-09-11/philosophical-research-society-los-angeles-arts-culture-events-for-mystics-esoterica

Thanks for that, cool article... this detail stood out: The organization purchased the Los Feliz property in 1935 for just $10 and soon began construction on the arched Mayan-inspired building in what was then a wild mustard field.

at the intersection of Los Feliz and Griffith Park boulevards, that's crazy

Promo vid on the PRS from the LA Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_jWwo0cg9s

Always wondered what became of D3nn1s Bart0k (unnecessary googleproofing)
The film noir to esoterica pipeline I guess

I mentioned Father Yod's music way upthread, was sent a bunch of it when also xposted doc was coming out--can't recall if incl. this exact config, but everything I ever heard was at least fine---from latest Drag City News:

ITEM OF THE WEEKEND:

FATHER YOD AND THE SOURCE FAMILY'S MAGNIFICENCE IN THE MEMORY

Drag City's ITEM OF THE DAY program provides an amazing insider discount on a different Drag City release each day, exclusively for mail order customers! Every one of your favorite Drag City artists is eligible: it's up to our tireless selection committee, using a complex series of algorithms to pick a new one every 24 hours!

Friday items hang around all weekend and this weekend's item is Magnificence in the Memory by Father Yod and the Source Family, These songs and sounds are all recordings from 1973–74, recorded at the Father House during regular jam sessions with Father and YaHoWha 13, whose liquid abilities to jam took them into many places around the cosmos all while never leaving their bodies. Join the Family and experience the free-flowing "Magnificence In The Memory."

"This building went from a 24-hour diner to the California base of a controversial religious group."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzNUd1IKs0

A logical career arc

still an active webpage here

https://www.alamoministries.com/content/english/

Top Mafia figure, Tony Gambino, implicates Vatican and Bush
in prior knowledge and complicity in 9/11 Mass Murder

some good stuff in there

Tony Alamo's unreleased Beatles album

🤔

Video on the Semi-Tropic Spiritualists of Echo Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLrCq8f_Je4

You can buy Jack Parson's old wardrobe at an estate sale this weekend. Inverted pentagram and everything!

[insert closet jokes here]

digging this photo of Palm Desert hippie hermit with actor Rudolph Valentino

https://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen_images/pester/valentino1-pshs.jpg

^^^^^ Sorry, Bill Pester playing the slide guitar ^^^^^