"My ecstasy is in the conscious awareness of the continuity of existence."

Must be fate ... hitting Hawaii and stumbling upon the music and legend of one Father Yod, a late-60s counterculture guru who formed a commune/rockband in Southern California (funded by his popular health food restaurant) and then moved the whole organization to the islands in the early 1970s. He died shortly afterward in a hang gliding accident, and the family dispersed as the years passed, but someone is selling records and books from a small town near a volcano that we want to visit. Do I dare call the phone number listed?

You can check out some of the Ya Ho Wha records here.

And learn about their beliefs at this official website.