, spiritual leader of a religious cult
/commune
called the Source Family. Ya Ho Wha without the vowels and spaces reduces to YHWH, the tetragrammaton
. The band recorded nine LPs full of their extreme psychedelic
sound with tribal drums and distorted guitars, some of which were completely unrehearsed jam sessions, others which contained more conventional rock songs.
Members of The Source Family, who lived in the Hollywood Hills
in the early 1970s, decided to fuse their musical talents and spirituality by forming an improvisational, psychedelic
music group.
Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts.
I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? … Yeah. We all need memories to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different … now … where was I?
Your life is over. You're a dead man. The only thing the doctors are hoping to do is teach you to be less of a burden to the orderlies. And they'll probably never let you go home, wherever that would be. So the question is not "to be or not to be", because you aren't. The question is whether you want to do something about it.