Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Appropriation of The Source Family Narrative

To say that I am disgusted by the most recent appropriation of The Source Family by one person who now has created an embarrassing exhibit at The Museum of Sex in New York City is an understatement, and I am not alone in feeling that way.  It was bad enough having to actually endure the sexual practices imposed by Jim Baker while being in The Source Family and suffering from years of residual shame and embarrassment from that experience, but to now have one woman who was never in The Source Family appropriate the entire story and adapt the narrative to suit her own purposes which seem to be only about promoting herself is just too much.  Many of us who were actually in The Source Family have tried to put the awful occult sexual practices imposed by Jim Baker that he adopted after reading books by Aleister Crowley and The Golden Dawn behind us and forget about them.  Yet, one person continues to take and use the story of The Source Family for her own personal purposes never considering the impact that her actions have on many of the former members especially women like myself.  Exploitation of every aspect of The Source Family appears to be the only purpose of one person, and her most recent exploit is the most egregious yet.  One woman has adapted and attached her own narrative to that of any entire group of people, as though she had firsthand experience.  To present the sexual practices imposed by Jim Baker as being something that everyone willing participated is the farthest thing from the truth about what was really going on.  No one willingly wanted to participate in the sexual occult practices which Jim Baker decided to impose!  It was never a group decision, or something that any of us had a say or choice in doing!  But, that's what happens in a cult when you've adopted the transcendent belief system of a man whom you considered to be your earthly spiritual father and is exactly what happened in The Source Family.  The only willing participants were the most diehard entrenched devotees of Jim Baker's.  The rest of us (especially the women) just obeyed Jim Baker's directives.  The majority of family members didn't want to participate in Jim Baker's sexual practices which I doubt is reflected in the exhibit at the Museum of Sex.  Please don't present something that was just not true and create an exhibit around the sexual abuses that many of us endured while in The Source Family, because it is a painful thing for someone like me to see happening.    

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