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He founded a spiritual commune in the Hollywood Hills known as the Source Family. The Source Family was heavily influenced by the teachings of Yogi Bhajan and the astrological age of Aquarius. The Family practiced communal living in Southern California and later in Hawaii. He was also the frontman of the commune's experimental psychedelic rock ...
The Source Family is a 2012 feature documentary film directed by Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos which recounts the story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family. [2] Much material was gleaned from the group's official documentarian and one of Father Yod's wives, Isis Aquarian.
Wyatt recalled a time when vendors were moving records by Ya Ho Wah 13, Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 and other Family-related recordings for $20 or less because the Source had fallen out of ...
Ya Ho Wha 13, otherwise known as Ya Ho Wa 13 or Yahowha 13, is a psychedelic rock band fronted by Father Yod (/ j oʊ d / YOHD), spiritual leader of a religious commune called the Source Family, based in Los Angeles. (Without the vowels and spaces, Ya Ho Wha can be abbreviated to "YHWH", the tetragrammaton).
The Source Family (2012), the commune of the same name, first in Los Angeles, then Hawaii, centered around Father Yod. Taylor Camp: Living the 60s Dream (2010), nostalgic reflections of 1970s hippies in tree houses in Hawaii. Tripping (1999) The Valley of the Moon (2010) Underground (1976) The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
The film explores the story of the eponymous Los Angeles utopian commune and its charismatic leader, Father Yod. The Source Family premiered in competition at South by Southwest Film Festival and screened in competition at several major film festivals. The film was released theatrically to 60 cities in May 2013.
One member of the Family was killed by police, and Frechette, sentenced to prison, died in a weightlifting accident in jail in 1975. [18] Unlike the Manson Family, Lyman’s did not explode in a dramatic denouement. Rather, the Family took a lower profile and carried on, quietly building on the relationships formed in the turbulent early years.
Beginning in the 1910s, both mansions were converted into group homes, hosting multiple fraternity and sorority organizations. In the early 1970s, both became home to the One World Family Commune cult that practiced a New Age, UFO centered religion. In 1975, the complex was sold to Berkeley Student Cooperative to become Lothlorien, a vegetarian ...