LA’s most iconic cult The Source Family announce events in California in celebration of new book!

FAMILY: A SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK OUT NOW SOURCE FAMILY HISTORIAN ISIS AQUARIAN AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW SERIES OF LIVE EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Our publishing house Sacred Bones Books has partnered with the new imprint Otherworld to release Family: The Source Family Scrapbook.  Family historian Isis Aquarian and the book's co-authors Jodi Wille and Charlie Kitchings are available for interview.  EVENTS IN CALIFORNIA: 3/22 in Santa Barbara UCSB Special Research Collections will host a once in a lifetime opportunity to look through the original Source Family archives with Family archivist and author Isis Aquarian and co-authors Charlie Kitchings and Jodi Wille. This event is in conjunction with the library's new exhibition, Lifting the Veil. More info 3/23 in Los Angeles The famed Philosophical Research Society presents a special 10th anniversary screening of THE SOURCE FAMILY documentary and special reception in honor of the release of The Source Family Scrapbook. The evening includes surprise Source Family guests, rituals, and a Q&A and book signing with Source Family archivist and author Isis Aquarian, co-author Charlie Kitchings and directors Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos!   More info and tickets [EMBARGOED INFORMATION - ANNOUNCING NEXT WEEK 2/21] 3/25 in Malibu at Dry Gulch Ranch. Join us in the hills of Malibu at a private, historic ranch for plant-based elixirs and hors d'oeuvres, a screening of rare archival footage and a panel discussion featuring former members of the Family facilitated by The Source Family director Jodi Wille. Our evening festivities will include a Papa & Barkley massage station and special performances by Liberate Elemental Forces and Mary Lattimore. Presented in partnership with Atlas Obscura.  The public event will be preceded by a special invite only dinner party, with culinary experience and design by The Curated Feast in partnership with Chef John Harry. More info and tickets announcing next week 3/26 in Culver City, Arcana Books will host a collection of rare Source Family ephemera and a book signing with Source Family archivist and author Isis Aquarian. Special guests include co-authors Charlie Kitchings and Jodi Wille. More info and tickets Check out this trailer for the book and read more about the book below:   FAMILY: THE SOURCE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK provides an immersive view into the public and private world of the Southern California occult commune The Brotherhood of the Source. This lavishly illustrated book reproduces 200 original scrapbook pages assembled by family historian Isis Aquarian from 1972-1977, documenting the group’s dramatic rise and fall, from their time living together in the Hollywood Hills operating their wildly popular Source vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip to their exodus to Hawaii and San Francisco as the group began to unravel.  Copious unpublished photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, manifestos, album art and flyers, augmented by descriptive captions by Isis Aquarian, reveal the Source Family’s astonishing trajectory, from controversial leader Father Yod’s spiritual awakening to the group’s wild musical and social experimentations, to the provocations that led to the group’s paradise lost. These pages provide a revelatory, firsthand view into the widely misunderstood phenomenon of new religious movements and cults of the 1960s and 70s.  --