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When she was in her late twenties, Charlene Peters grew her hair long, changed her name to Isis Aquarian and moved in with the Source Family, a rock & roll-loving utopian community centered around a continually evolving list of New Age beliefs, and led by Los Angeles health food restaurant tycoon Jim Baker, better known as Father Yod. Yod, a charismatic cours cuisine former marine and Hollywood stuntman with a long white beard and a yearning for spiritual enlightenment, enlisted Aquarian as one of his 14 wives and appointed her documentarian of the communal living experiment, which she followed from LA to San Francisco to Hawaii between 1972 and 1977.
Though the group was short-lived dispersing in 1977, two years after Yod died unexpectedly in a hang gliding accident its legacy of meandering cours cuisine psych-rock, exuberant sexuality and long robes continues to reverberate in the worlds of style and music alike, thanks in large part to the massive archive of photos, posters, hand-written ephemera, sound recordings and film footage that Aquarian compiled and captured. By 2007, with the help of brother Electricity Aquarian, she d folded its contents into a published book, and this spring, cours cuisine she ll debut The Source Family , an engrossing documentary full of interviews with former Family members, which she co-produced with directors Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos. Some Family alumns like Robin, cours cuisine Yod s heartbroken first wife, or members who couldn t get on board with the community s ban on Western medical care, or Yod s eventual claim to god-like status look back on the experience with mixed feelings, but Aquarian remains a believer. Here, from her current home on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, she takes us on a guided tour of the rise and fall of Father Yod s vegetarian kingdom at least as she experienced it.
How did you get involved with the Source Family? I knew Jim Baker when he had the Old World restaurant. He had three famous restaurants and he was married at the time to Dora, who became my friend, so I knew him basically before the Source and before anybody else knew him. I kind of lost track of him for a while and ended up becoming engaged to a photographer, cours cuisine and we were looking for a model for a poster we were doing for Jesus Christ Superstar , and I remembered somebody told me that Jim Baker had opened the Source and they were wearing robes and had long hair and he was into a spiritual path. I thought I could find Jesus-looking people if I went. So I went to the Source and stepped onto the patio and he came out and looked like Moses. He was not the Jim Baker that I knew; something just happened. It was like his frequency uncoded my frequency and that was it. I knew that s what I was waiting for and I never left; I just walked out on everything.
Had you been wanting to walk out on everything? No. What I had been searching for was some type of spiritual path. I tried Buddhism; I tried different things. I did have a longing for something there was just something that wasn t fulfilled within me, but I didn t know what it was.
How would you describe cours cuisine a typical day there? We would get up, and do some yoga stretches and some breathing. We usually had a pool wherever we would live, so we would just kind of dip into the cold water, which was very refreshing, and get dressed, have a cup of coffee and wait for morning meditation, which was our morning class. cours cuisine We always greeted the sun wherever we were. We would go outside and watch the sunrise and then we would start our day. People would either go and work at the Source or we would do our duties around the house, cours cuisine or whatever business energies were happening. The band would go into the band room and try different things you know, make a few more albums. We had artists. We all were a thread that made up that tapestry, and everybody had their part that they did.
How did the community sustain itself economically? Probably completely from the Source. There were certain people, periodically, who would come in with money, and that was given to the whole. The Source was a phenomenal little restaurant. It was probably the most popular place to be at the time. Everybody was there: musicia