Yahowha, father/founder/creator of the Source family, with Source members, at UCLA, I believe, circa 1970's
The Source Family was an extravagant cult, basically, which had its heyday during the 1970's. Beginning in Los Angeles, relocating to Hawaii, and then returning
to Los Angeles, "the Family" has left Source members scattered predominantly on the West Coast of the U.S. and in Hawaii.
THE THREE WORST THINGS To wait for one who comes not
To try to please and please not
To love one who loves not
Back cover of the record album, To The Children
There is an original copy of the Source Family's book "Liberation," in Seattle's "As You Like It Library" at 915 E. Pine, Room 401, Seattle, WA., 98122. It was donated to the library in April 1977.
Aquarianna, one of my favorite Source sisters/mothers
I lived with and was a Source member in the mid-1970's into the 1980's, and
still consider myself a member of that family in some ways. My son has the Source family last name as his legal name, and I attribute my healthy birth and healthy baby
to Source family health advice when I was pregnant and thereafter. I taught my son many of the things the Source taught me and their health knowledge was truly invaluable
to me and my son this lifetime. I have saved Source documents, photos, records, books, etc. that have come my
way over the last 30 years, and I also have my own personal journals where I wrote down daily lessons, etc.
I saved these things
with the idea of later archiving them somewhere, in a book or something. This webpage is the beginning of that archiving process.
A Source Restaurant Menu, circa 1995, long after the Family had sold the restaurant, but with original Source Family artwork still on the menu...
The Source ran a successful restaurant at 8301 Sunset Blvd., in Hollywood, CA (you will notice this is the address given on Yahowha's driver's license below). The restaurant featured elegant raw and health food meals and catered to an upscale Hollywood
crowd for decades. The Source Restaurant finally went out of business in the late 1990's, and it was sad to see the landmark go. One of the Source Restaurant's most popular salads was
the "Aware Salad," which was a salad in a huge bowl, featuring lettuce, grated beets and carrots, red cabbage, alfalfa sprouts, sunflower seeds, pine nuts,
cucumbers, tomatoes and avocado. In the 1990's, I used to like getting their brown rice pancakes for breakfast, and their "Peasant Lunch" (a bowl of soup, apple,
and cheese) in the afternoons. For dinner, I liked their "Aware Salad." I also really liked their iced hibiscus tea and the "High Potency Drink" which had orange juice, banana,
wheat germ, honey and egg.
Yahowha's CA. driver's license
Mercury with Yahowha, father/founder/creator of the Source family, in Hawaii
"Why seek any further without for that which lies within?" - Father Yod/Yahowha
The Source were outside to greet the sun rising every morning and also liked to gather together for sunset, as well. The Source daily regiment began with a
3-4 am wake up call, a cold 3 minute shower and hours of morning yoga lessons, tarot lessons, spirituality and nature lessons...by sunrise, we had been up a while and would all
go out
to greet the sun, chanting and holding hands. We also would meet at the beach in Venice often to chant together as the sun went down. Those are some of the cherished moments in
my lifetime.
The Source at Santa Monica, circa 1970's
The Source in Hawaii, to Yahowha's left is Makushla, Harvest Moon, Isis, Djin and Astral, I believe...
It is
nearly impossible to get words around some of the things I experienced with the Source, thus my continued allegiance in some capacity. They taught me a lot.
On many profound levels. But I have my critiques of the family as well. Such as this huge boulder in the road: "Men are to protect and provide, women are to serve and inspire."
I have many problems with that. Some of the men in the upper hierarchies of the family still cling to those words literally to this day which is one reason the Source is not hugely
popular. It has problems like sexism! Yet the Source also was quite empowering to women, so it is confusing. In the Love Israel Family in Seattle, WA which was modeled after the Source,
the women were subjugated horribly, and were even given names like "Submission." In contrast, the Source women were fiery and bullheaded, independent and even empowered. Women
in the Source freely pursued higher learning, for instance, where the Love Family told women they only needed to know three things, the 3 rules were Love Israel's motto: The time is now,
Love is the answer, and one other one I cannot remember...obviously, I was not impressed with the Love family at all. I took not one thing I learned at the Love Family away
with me as wisdom for later life. Yet the Source left me with huge amounts of useful wisdom to live on.
Cover of the record album, Spirit of '76
Yahowha, earlier on the day he left his body, before he went hang gliding that day
Source Family's Rainbow Salad It sounds bizarre, but it is truly delicious. And it is filling in a way many raw foods are not. This salad, in premise, uses all the colors of the rainbow. It was said in the Source that you could eat this salad once in the morning and once in the evening, for three weeks, as some kind of purifying "Rainbow Diet" that would also keep you healthy. Again, I am no nutritionist, who knows if that is true. I have lived off it a few days and felt great. To make the Rainbow Salad, you put the following things into a bowl: Sprouts (Green), cubed pieces of raw Eggplant (blue), sliced Red Onion (purple), sliced Banana (yellow), chopped Hazelnuts (orange), and chopped Tomatoes (red). Now in a bowl, mash an avocado with minced garlic. (You can also add tamari, Dr. Bronner's Seasoning Salts, brewer's yeast, etc., if desired). Now spread mashed avocado/garlic over the salad like dressing and eat.
Tantalayo
Yahowha playing music with a small shot of Sunflower on the right...
The Source Family valued music highly and improvisational music was a centerpiece of morning meditations. Many professional musicians came to the family, including Andre Previn's
daughter who played violin and had the Source name "Lovely," Sky Saxon of "The
Seeds" who was known as "Arlich," a guy from "the Electric Prunes" known in the family as "Ibis," etc. Since the Source was located in Hollywood, it had many famous
friends, including Bud Cort from Harold and Maude fame, among others.
SOURCE WISDOM
"Doubt is that little thing you give yourself so you don't have to do something." - Father Yod/Yahowha
"Prepare yourself to contain a high voltage nervous system" - Father Yod/Yahowha
SOURCE ARTICLES
What People Eat on Raw Food Diets When I used to eat only raw foods, people would constantly ask me what I ate. It was really weird! As if people could not imagine surviving on raw foods. But really, it is
not that complex. It is quite simple really. I was raised eating TV dinners at home, and crap at fast food restaurants, like other American kids. It was not until I joined a
cult called "The Source Family," that I was introduced to raw foods as a new way of eating and thinking. The Source Family ran a famous health food restaurant on Sunset Blvd.
in Los Angeles. Only raw foods were served at the Source Restaurant for a while, but then over time, cooked food appeared on the menu (to the dismay of those on dishwashing
duty). If nothing else, by eliminating cooked foods from your diet, you eliminate *a lot* of the crap that is not healthy to eat in the world. You also do not support as many
industrial giants and processed food corporations...Read more...
The Source were outside to greet the sun rising every morning and also liked to gather together for sunset, as well. The Source daily regiment began with a
3-4 am wake up call, a cold 3 minute shower and hours of morning yoga lessons, tarot lessons, spirituality and nature lessons...by sunrise, we had been up a while and would all
go out
to greet the sun, chanting and holding hands. We also would meet at the beach in Venice often to chant together as the sun went down. Those are some of the cherished moments in
my lifetime.
Kirsten Anderberg. All rights reserved. For permission to reprint/publish, please contact Kirsten at kirstena@resist.ca.