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In this first installment of our Laurel Canyon deep dive, I review the history of Laurel Canyon and the weird ecology of cults and intelligence community activity that gave rise to the unique counterculture of Southern California.
It was as if there were some open-air field-testing of MKULTRA and other related programs going on out there, replete with a particularly toxic brand of sexpests and sociopaths.
Here are just a few of the topics covered:It was as if there were some open-air field-testing of MKULTRA and other related programs going on out there, replete with a particularly toxic brand of sexpests and sociopaths.
- Hollywood’s Babylon
- Clara Bow, OG Manic Pixie
- Murder of Ramon Navarro
- Lookout Mountain Labs
- Wonderland murders
- Masonic Hollywood
- The brutal Blackburn Cult
- OTO/Jack Parsons
- Robert Heinlein’s Canyon cabal
- Patty Hearst, girl with a gun
- Cult assassins on the loose
- Sunset Strip Riots
- The perverted Vito Paulekas
- Donald Cammell’s sorry end
- Mega-perverted Papa John
- Black Dahlia
- Jim Morrison
- Brian Wilson’s baby bride
- David Crosby’s shadowy past
- Monterey Pop and LSD culture
- Tim Buckley’s Siren call
- Don Henley’s statutorily bad night
Click here for the whole show:
https://thesecretsun.substack.com/p/the-curse-of-laurel-canyon-archivedindexed
Then check out this McGowan May special: Bobby Beausoleil talking about Lucifer Rising and the Summer of Love.
CK: Well, let’s switch back to that just for a bit. Lucifer Rising in that incarnation became Invocation of My Demon Brother.
BB: Right.
CK: What was your role in the totality of that in that you were in a lot of the footage yourself, appearing in a lot of the footage, and at the same time you were working with the band The Magic Powerhouse of Oz. Was this more like a two-way collaboration between you and Ken, or were you being directed by him? How exactly did that go?
BB: He never directed me except for when we were doing filming. I made a deal with him, and it went like this. He saw me perform with the orchestra at the Invisible Circus, which was an event that was staged by a group of people comprising the Diggers, the Mime Troupe, the Sexual Freedom League, a number of different groups. And it was, like, supposed to be a love-in free-for-all in this big cathedral. There was a church complex called Glide Memorial Church and it was various, like, little auditoriums in it, and then there was the main tabernacle, what you would call that cathedral area, the high-ceilinged church?
CK: The sanctuary.
BB: And there were various little rooms, areas. Anyway, the pastor, who was really liberal and didn’t know what he was getting in for, okayed this thing. And they eventually had to move it out after 24 hours. They finally, they moved it down to Golden Gate Park down by the beach. But it was supposed to have been a three-day event. And we played the first night.
[interruption to redial]
BB: We were at the Glide Memorial Church during the event called the Invisible Circus. Kenneth was there. We were the band that was kicking off the whole event. People had shown up earlier in the afternoon, and there were a lot of people milling around, and there were conga players, you know, the black guys from the Fillmore district and all. Grooving, you know?
Read the whole thing (on the house) here:
https://thesecretsun.substack.com/p/snofox-speaks-interview-with-bobby
And just in time for Memorial Day and the start of summer...
From the cities to the suburbs to the countryside, I hear the people shout it out everywhere I go: "The Twenty-First Century sucks - how can we go back to the Eighties?"Well, I'm here to tell you that there's no better way to go back to that glorious decade of Peak America than with music.Pop music was everywhere you went back then, blasting from radios, car stereos, and storefronts. The Eighties were truly a better time, a younger time, a more hopeful and creative time, and the music was a huge part of that.
Click here to ROCK THE BLOCK, Spock:
https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2026/05/eatin-to-eighties-your-summer-party.html
Just the facts, man! XF-ULTRA: The Case Files is a lean, mean, stripped-down version of the epic X-Files omnibus from the co-author of the official history, The Complete X-Files. 240 pages.
What are you waiting for - get it today!
in your synchro-journey.
