Father Yod

Father Yod, otherwise known as YaHoWha, or James Edward Baker, is the founder of a cult group called the Source Family.

The Source Family.
James Baker was born on July 4th, 1922. He fought in World War Two as a Marine and earned a Silver Star, as well as become a jujitsu expert. After the war was over he moved to California to pursue a career as a stuntsman. He came under the influence of the raging beatnik culture of the time and began studying various religious and philisophical teachings. He even became a Vedantic monk for awhile. In 1969, he funded a vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset strip in Hollywood, getting notable customers like John Lennon and Julie Christie. Baker eventually founded his own religious philosophy and gathered a group of followers who lived with him in his mansion supported by his restaurant, and by their own psychedelic rock band called YaHoWa 13. His teachings were put together in a book titled Liberation. The group believed in vegetarianism and in being kind to animals. They also allowed Father Yod, which is Baker's new name, to have 13 wives, all of whom he had frequently engaged in perverse sex acts. In 1974, a newborn in the group had a staphylococcus infection, and the hospital suspected child endangerment. Yod sold the mansion, the restaurant, and moved the group to Hawaii. Father Yod would die a year later in a hang-gliding accident. The group would split up after his death