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In Reply to: Here's the Family's version of the Slamdance Film Festival... posted by News Snoop on January 25, 2007 at 05:16:11:
In the pics of the Prophet bus at the Family site, one sees the wrinkling Family celebrity, Uncle Johnny B, or is it just Johnny B, the videoing guru of the Family Cult legacy? Is that his name? He was and maybe still is married to the supposedly famous former hippy model (I forget her name—but Berg personally delivered her from demon possession, space-case-itis, or bad breath, I don’t remember, it was related in some MO Letter).
His wife’s schtick was that the song Layla, by Eric Clapton is about her (actually it’s about Patty Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison. The title, "Layla", was inspired by a love story, The Story of Layla / Layla and Majnun, by the Persian classical poet Nezami. When he wrote "Layla", Clapton had recently been given a copy of the story by a friend (reportedly Ian Dallas) who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nezami's tale, about a moon-princess who was married off by her father to someone other than the man who was desperately in love with her, resulting in his madness (in Persian, Majnun, means "madman"), struck a deep chord with Clapton).
Johnny B. and his wife successfully propagated the myth that the song was about her to any gullible listeners in the Family; usually whenever they needed to enhance their status within a particular home or unit.
This is a clever tactic of the old timers like Johnny B and his wife, to always bring up those old historical recollections of meeting Berg at Laurentide for example, as well as memories of Berg’s ‘unpublished’ prophecies, prayers, or private counsel, (they overheard ‘on the road’ with the guru). They interject these delusions and self-promotional items whenever necessary to get respect from lowly cult members who never personally “met” Berg, or do not hold these old timers in proper respect.
Anyway, at the Prophet Bus site we see that O’ Johnny B is still videoing and riding the bus. You know, it’s a way of life for some, for the true believers, and Johnny apparently has some modicum of talent for chronicling cult history.
It’s kind of like watching the old communist propaganda films detailing the Bolshevik delusion and weirdo love stories: GIRL MEETS TRACTOR propaganda to keep the masses in line, busy, and depersonalized. His videos should make an interesting clinical history in the future as real scientists (not conflicted sociologists) look back over the final days of the 20th century and the rise of the cults and millennial dread.
