Cult Rock!

Published on April 22, 2008

NPR reporter Jennifer Sharpe describes her journalistic immersion into the "ooga booga" of Father Yod's Source Family commune, the most beautiful cult of the 1970s. "After a few weeks, I started noticing a shift in my mental state. Father Yod's teachings unexpectedly began to resonate. Suddenly, it felt like the most natural thing in the world to stop eating meat. So I did." Ok, but did she learn how to rock to the transcendental vibrations of Pithius, Zunthar, and Octavious --YaHoWa13, Father Yod's musical ministry? Click here, and you will (Don't miss the slideshow).

NPR reporter Jennifer Sharpe describes her journalistic immersion into the “ooga booga” of Father Yod’s Source Family commune, the most beautiful cult of the 1970s. “After a few weeks, I started noticing a shift in my mental state. Father Yod’s teachings unexpectedly began to resonate. Suddenly, it felt like the most natural thing in the world to stop eating meat. So I did.” Ok, but did she learn how to rock to the transcendental vibrations of Pithius, Zunthar, and Octavious –YaHoWa13, Father Yod’s musical ministry? Click here, and you will. (Don’t miss the slideshow.)

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