A multimedia interview with the creator of WFMU’s Music of Mind Control, a weekly radio show that plays the music of cults. Throughout the chat Micah Moses picks favorite jams from coercive groups ranging from the unheard of to notorious cults like Heaven’s Gate, The Peoples Temple and QAnon. You’ll find the soundtrack embedded in the article so you can listen while learning about this spectacularly bizarre program broadcasting from New Jersey.

The Source Family was a destructive cult that went on to form a psychedelic rock band. In this article, writer Jim Haller explores the world of Father Yod and the unlikely group of hippies that followed him. It’s a story that could have only arrived in the era that birthed the counter culture.