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The Love Israel Family - Urban Commune, Rural Commune (Hardcover)
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The Love Israel Family - Urban Commune, Rural Commune (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Malstrom Award of the League of Snohomish County
Historical Organizations In 1968, a time of turbulence and
countercultural movements, a one-time television salesman named
Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel and started a
controversial religious commune in Seattle's middle-class Queen
Anne Hill neighborhood. He quickly gathered a following and they
too adopted the Israel surname, along with biblical or virtuous
first names such as Honesty, Courage, and Strength. The burgeoning
Love Israel Family lived a communal lifestyle centered on
meditation and the philosophy that all persons were one and life
was eternal. They flourished for more than a decade, owning houses
and operating businesses on the Hill, although rumors of drug use,
control of members, and unconventional sexual arrangements dogged
them. By 1984, perceptions among many followers that some Family
members - especially Love Israel himself - had become more equal
than others led to a bitter breakup in which two-thirds of the
members defected. The remaining faithful, about a hundred strong,
resettled on a ranch the Family retained near the town of
Arlington, Washington, north of Seattle. There they recouped and
adapted, with apparent social and economic success, for two more
decades. In The Love Israel Family, Charles LeWarne tells the
compelling story of this group of idealistic seekers whose quest
for a communal life grounded in love, service, and obedience to a
charismatic leader foundered when that leader's power distanced him
from his followers. LeWarne followed the Family for years,
attending its celebrations and interviewing the faithful and the
disaffected alike. He tells the Family's story with both sympathy
and balance, describing daily life in the urban and later the rural
communes and explaining the Family's deeply felt spiritual beliefs.
The Love Israel Family is an important chapter in the history of
communal experiments in the United States.
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