Anyone Remember The Love Israel Family

The Love Israel Family was a large West-Coast hippie commune of hundreds back in the '70s.

Anyone have any memories of them, and what it was like living with them?

 

i grew up just outside the love israel ranch in washington. after several shady financial dealings, love finally drove the ranch bankrupt. last i heard the remaining elders were headed up towards north central washington... kind of in the barter fair areas. do a google search and you'll find stuff. their website is around too with current pictures of them at passover and stuff. i used to vend with some friends at their garlic festival. was a good time for such a small festie. i grew up with some kids who lived there for small periods of time. i'm sure there were great experiences by some... but no one i knew had good things to say about how it was run and what not. from what i gleaned.... it wasn't very different from all the other 'leader' driven communities. Love was their family head and spiritual leader.... and he got all the advantages that went along with it. like living in a gorgeous huge house while folks i knew who were there were put into mildew soaked leaky trailors stuck back in overgrown bogs..... and he ate out at some of the fanciest resturaunts in town for business lunches.... doubt those that worked their various companies got to eat out like that. to each their own, but my personal interactions with the guy was that he's a whole lot of ego in a small small community.

 

I was checking to see if the garlic festival was happening this summer, but didn't see any sites or listings for it. The only ones I came up with were from previous years. I had wondered what had happened. The bankruptcy would explain it.

 

Hi Brian,

I think you and I had a discussion about The Love Family when we were at the California Gathering last year.

BTW, I hear your having a baby: Congratulations!!!

I stayed at The Love Family ranch for about a year back in the '90s.

I got to know them well, but it's the little bits of their early history that sounded so radical and intriques me.

There must be at least a couple of thousand of us West Coast folks who lived with The Love Family long enough to get some interesting impressions.

Your impressions mirror my own over-all impression as well.

Did you live in the Arlington area?

 

i grew up on camano island. but i knew the arlington darrington area sorta well.

 

You guys are way off in your assessment of the Love Israel Family. There are some things on this earth that are only meant for those that have evolved beyond the petty materialistic consciousness of the mundane majority. The Love Israel Family exists for people who are not into the world mentality... as a protective sanctuary of sorts.
To interpret them by using the eyes of the world is futile and it is not my job to force your evolution. I have known and lived with the Love Israel Family for over 30 years and my experience has revealed that they are completely legitimate and genuine. They are based on a formula that only works for people who have not relinquished their divine attributes and child like innocence in exchange for the self absorbed scheming to make money and acquire material possessions, the trap that most people are ensnared by. To find fault with them is an indication that you still have things to experience in "the world" and have to wait for the visions and revelations that give credence to your divinity... to whatever degree corporate mentality via peer/parental indoctrination beginning at physical birth has not destroyed it. 2ning4k

 

During my short stay at the Front Door Inn, Love and a chosen few devotees were luxuriating on some Pacific Island. Why did so many of the Elders leave after delivering a signed petition to Love asking only for fair and equal treatment? And what happened to Logic after he challenged Love's Authority? What I've read in this forum is pretty much
"Right on" if I may coin an old expression. I made a few good friends there during my short stay. People I still think about with Genuine affection, even to this day.

 

OC? They dug this one back up eh? SH,,, I have sooo much to tell ya,, it's all good for a change too! Lovin to All, here and beyond!

 

Where is that online site that has the Love Family members picture from each consecutive year they were together e.g. at the ranch and on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle? I think I found it once by going through the Source website via a link. The Source Family (Brotherhood of the Source) originated in Hollywood where their health restaurant was located. The Love Family used to come down from Seattle to visit. When the Source Family disbursed, some members joined the Love Family. Likewise, after visiting in Hollywood when the Source was still together, some Love Family members left Love to join the Source.