This lavishly illustrated archival work documents the Brotherhood of the Source, a Southern California occult commune active in the 1960s-70s. Edited by Isis Aquarian and others, it reproduces 200 original scrapbook pages assembled between 1972-1977, featuring photographs, manifestos, letters, and ephemera chronicling the group’s evolution from their Hollywood Hills residence and Sunset Strip vegetarian restaurant through their dissolution. The book examines the group’s spiritual leader Father Yod, their experimental music and social practices, and the factors leading to the commune’s collapse. Published by Sacred Bones Books, it offers primary-source insight into new religious movements and countercultural experimentation during a pivotal period, relevant to understanding subcultural formation, occultism, and alternative community structures that inform dark alternative aesthetics and theory.
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