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Dawn became a part of a movement destined to change the way people think, act, and interconnect to seek truth, fairness, and cosmic consciousness. While the culture of being a Jew had been grounding in her life, the religion left questions with big blank answers. While she had a large circle of family, the richness of her legacy was unknown before her great-grandparents after the Holocaust, giving Dawn a deeper sense of disillusionment. She became driven to explore alternative spirituality. Times were changing in the 60s & 70s. Equal rights for all people especially women were in focus. Watergate brought down a government that would no longer operate business as usual. Martin Luther King proved that black people deserved as much respect as any other human. As a teen, Dawn experimented with drugs, which opened her mind and lifted her boundaries. She found her way to the west coast encountering Father Yod and The Source Restaurant in LA. After listening to Father Yod in morning class, she knew The Source Family was her destiny and it began a five year trek with them through experimental living. They shared all their resources, everyone worked in some way either at the restaurant or taking care of their homes or children, and they practiced meditation daily alongside an organic vegetarian lifestyle. They learned to value the finer qualities of everything in life. And they all accepted Father Yod as their Spiritual Father. Father Yod had a deep intuition and studied many different spiritual practices bringing all of his knowledge to the mix to experiment with a lifestyle that could only be lived communally and with complete trust. He was never dogmatic and many times abandoned ideas after they proved unworkable. He sought to live in harmony with the laws of nature and wished to create a utopian life for his spiritual children. He brought them all to the Hawaiian Islands after a world search for a home. But it all unwound in Hawaii, and Dawn eventually was left to take her experience and move on to grasp her own power and find her own way. Dawn is still the Wild Child she ever was. Includes many color photos from that time.

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"""Thanks to this unabashedly intimate memoir, we finally have answers to the lingering questions and preconceived notions that have swirled around the mythology of The Source Family and its charismatic yet polarizing leader, Father Yod. In this astonishing narrative, Galaxy the Aquarian, birth name Dawn Hurwitz, a sexually, spiritually, and intellectually rebellious Jewish teenager of 16 boldly turns her back on mainstream life in the pursuit of cosmic love and enlightenment, becoming the youngest among thirteen wives to Father Yod, a man in his 50s. A deeply sensual memoir of desire-for sex, transcendence, and eventually, money's ""green energy""-it reveals how Dawn, like so many seekers, pays a high price for daring to step outside the confines that society imposed upon women of that era (and today). As we follow in her determined footsteps, we gain unprecedented and meticulously detailed insights into the inner workings of The Source-a social experiment where daily life was an intricate dance involving the quest for cosmic wisdom, wholesome living, and an ever-evolving, unconventional romantic paradigm. Dawn emerges as an archetypal Icarus in feminine form, single-mindedly focused on one objective-to be as close as possible to her spiritual mentor, and object of her desire, Father Yod. Time and time again, she flies too close to his fire, finally plummeting back to a harsh reality following his untimely death in 1975. As Yod's exciting, far-out Patriarchy morphs uneasily into a Matriarchy led by his grieving wives, Dawn finds herself at the bottom of a totem pole she no longer desires to climb. Not for the first time in her life, she rebels against a system that is caging her, becoming the first of Yod's wives to leave the family. Re-entering the modern world with nothing but memories and her alluring figure, she finds herself lured into sex work by a former satellite member of the Family, who becomes her pimp and psychological jailor, until she finds the strength within herself to finally break free. Despite the adversity Hurwitz endured as a result of devoting herself to The Source, she has no regrets, making a compelling case for reframing the group as less of a ""cult"" and more a ""cultural reform movement."" Nearly five decades since seeing Father Yod's unearthly blue gaze for the first time, she paints a vivid picture of a genuinely wild psychedelic ride, an adventure in communal living, one where love, trust, and the quest for ineffable truth-and not brainwashing-served as the binding forces that kept these beautiful dreamers together."" -- Caroline Ryder, Journalist, LA Times, Dazed magazine. ""Dawn Hurwitz's story of her wild, idealistic, searching journey in the 1970s and her time with Father Yod and The Source Family is lusty, loving, raw, and real. Her utter lack of inhibition in her life and in her storytelling gives this book a feeling of deep authenticity that becomes its greatest power."" Jodi Wille, book publisher, author, and Director of The Source Family documentary"

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"Galaxy, now known as Dawn Hurwitz, hails originally from Chicago. On a seeker's journey at 16 years old, she awakened in the teepee at the back of the Source restaurant in the middle of the night to find Father Yod watching over her. Years later she became a clothing and costume designer, metaphysical bookstore cafe owner, and ran an IT business called Mac Assistance. Today she lives on the Big Island of Hawaii running the Puna Writers Workshops, editor of ""Talk Story""on the PunaRising website, and soon to premiere her first memoir, ""Psychedelic Wild Child"""

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