Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment

Timothy Wyllie, Adam Parfrey

Feral House, Jun 1, 2009 - Religion - 304 pages

The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.

Hundreds of black-cloaked devotees, often wearing a satanic “Goat of Mendes” and a swastika-like mandala, swept the streets of London, New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Toronto, selling magazines and books with titles like Fear and Humanity is the Devil. And within the group’s “Chapters,” members would participate in “Midnight Meditations” beneath photographs of the Christ-like leader.

Celebrities like Marianne Faithful, James Coburn, and Mick Jagger participated in Process publications, and Funkadelic, in its Maggot Brain album, reprinted Process’ “Fear Issue.”

Process’ “Death Issue” interviewed the freshly-imprisoned Charles Manson leading to conspiracy hysteria in such books as Ed Sanders’ The Family and Maury Terry’s The Ultimate Evil. A lawsuit against Sanders’ Manson book led to the removal of its Process-themed chapter by Dutton.

Love, Sex, Fear, Death is the shocking, surprising, and secretive inside story of The Process Church, which was later transformed into Foundation Faith of the Millennium, and most recently as the Utah-based animal sanctuary, Best Friends.

Included will be text by Timothy Wyllie, a formative member of the Process and Foundation Faith organizations; interviews with other former Processeans; rare reproductions of Process magazines; never-before-seen photographs; and fascinating transcripts from holy books and legal actions.

The special limited edition will be hardcover, signed, numbered, and slipcased, and it will include a facsimile edition of the notorious “Death Issue.”

Contents

• RARELY WHAT IT SEEMS: 7
• FOREWORD: 13
• THE PROCESS CHURCH TIMELINE: 19
• MY LIFE INSIDE THE PROCESS CHURCH: 23
• THE PROCESS CHURCH HIERARCHY: 127
• MY LIFE IN THE PROCESS: 131
• PROCESSEAN REFLECTIONS: 145
• THE PROCESS VERSION: 155
• JOINING THE PROCESS CHURCH: 159
• MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN IN THE PROCESS CHURCH: 163
• MY VULNERABLE MOMENT: 167
• FROM AROBERT de GRIMSTON LETTER ON THE PROCESS: 171
• THE PROCESSIS THE PRODUCT: 173
• IMAGES: 185
• FROM DIALOGUES FROM XTUL: 267
• THE GODS ON WAR: 269
• FROM AS IT IS: 293
• FROM HUMANITY IS THE DEVIL: 295
• THE SCHISM: 297
• EPILOGUE: 301

About the author

Timothy Wyllie was one of the first members of the Process Church and art directed the decades ahead of its time Process magazines. Wyllie says it required years to "decompress" from this one of a kind cult experience. Wyllie has also written two brisk-moving books on angels and spiritual intelligences. Since his influential collection, Apocalypse Culture, was first released in 1987, the award-winning writer Adam Parfrey has been credited for discovering and revealing the inner workings of cults and unusual pop culture histories. With "Love, Sex, Fear, Death," Parfrey has captured the cooperation of primary players in the most secretive and talked about cult of our time.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
• Authors: Timothy Wyllie, Adam Parfrey
• Publisher: Feral House, 2009
• ISBN: 1932595651, 9781932595659
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Art / Popular Culture; Psychology / Social Psychology; Religion / Cults; Social Science / Popular Culture