Life In The Source Family

I created this blog in order to write about my own personal experiences from being in The Source Family from 1970 until 1976, in an effort to dispel many of the exaggerated claims about what life was like living in this particular cult. For me, life in The Source Family started out as a fun and exciting experience, but as happens in most cults, it soon became an extremely stressful and unhealthy situation with the loss of personal autonomy and decision-making.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Who Were We?

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Jim Baker left Kauai with a handful of family members that included Makushla and a couple of his other women who did not have infants, becau...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Stretching the Truth

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I recently listened to a podcast by two young women about Jim Baker and The Source Family, and to the credit of one of the young women she h...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Retrospective

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One of the most telling tracks recorded of Jim Baker's cacophonous singing (mostly yelling and wailing) was a track titled A Kind of Dep...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Lovely To Look At But Not Heard

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Jim Baker continually spoke about Jesus and even sang "you are Jesus, are you ready for that" on a Ya Ho Wha 13 track.  His daily ...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Life Comes First

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One of the most detrimental beliefs of Jim Baker's so-called ''teachings' was the one where he spoke against anyone in his S...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Cinderella Sings

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In this post, I want to give credit to a woman who was all but overlooked for having sung on many of the songs recorded, during the flurry o...
Friday, July 9, 2021

An Uncomfortable Truth

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