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Best Friends of the Process Church of the Final Judgement

19:59 / 01.06.04

Anyone that has read the original printing of Ed Sander's The Family knows one of the most interesting parts of the Manson Family mythos is the cult The Process Church of the Final Judgement.
Led by ex Scientologists gone bad, Robert and Mary Anne De Grimston (aka Mary Goebbels Hecate) the Process soon gathered a following of death freaks ready to do their masters bidding. Divided into three parts, the Jehovans, the Satanists, and the Luciferians, they had a spot in the sun during the six six sixties, travelling the world with their alsatians and cloaks spreading their gospel of bent Christianity and warped Satanism. Linked to the Son of Sam and Manson murders, all sorts of evil stuff. Robert De Grimston left to start working as an executive for AT&T, then the whole church disappeared...

...and reappeared as the world's largest no kill animal sanctuary, The Best Friends, who seem to do some really nice work for animals. But, hey, can't give a satanist a break can you? These people are all up in arms about it, trying to stop what they find wrong.

The article that brought this all to light.

More links:
Satan's Process"
Disinfo on the Process"
Fortean Times on the Process"

10:51 / 02.06.04

many of the original process texts are available here, near the foot of the page. and well worth a read they are, too.

the process continues to mutate.

14:12 / 02.06.04

Fantastic story that, thanks for the link - though Ed Sanders book is widely acknowledged as a sensationalistic hack job, IIRC. So I supect the "links" are tenuous at best. Tainted by association with Manson. Someone tracked down Robert de Grimston a couple of years ago - I seem to remember they found him in a phone book, so he's hardly the high priest of a satanic death cult (with added puppies).

I love the Process Church texts though - they've got a weird, dark glamour. Well worth reading.

15:02 / 02.06.04

Dude, this is awesome.

My paper has a partnership with the the Best Friends Sanctuary -- we make appeals for money from animal loving readers and send it all on to them.

Oh, man. This totally rocks.

By the way, I totally dig habibi's link with the scans of the old magazines. Those layouts are FAR OUT, man.

16:24 / 02.06.04

Yeah, the family is pretty much ridiculous sensationalism, man, has it been this long? about ten years ago my friends and i went to see him do a poetry reading at kent state, had him sign our copies of the family, he signed them "Down with Satanism - Ed Sanders." Said there were always some freaks like us every time he did a public performance!

oo-ee-oo!

14:52 / 05.06.04

Somebody should write a book about all this.

17:14 / 05.06.04

I came across a modern Processean Website last night - post chaos post Topy if you catch my drift. I dunno if it was real or a windup. Stuff about personal development, internal energy work, magick, envoirenmentalism, etc... Hasn't it got sommat to do with Genesis P Orridge and Cevin Key of Skinny Puppy? They seem to embrace a multitheism that was packaged for the up and coming acidhead generation (when they were about in the 50's and 60's). They had an eye for nice dogs.

17:27 / 05.06.04

the site you're referring to has nowt to do with gen, but he did have his own process gig going in the mid nineties, called the transmedia foundation.

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10:06 / 06.06.04

Yeah, I remember something about cevin Key getting the copyright on the name "The Process"- about the same time he was hanging out with Gen (and SP released an album of the same name too...) I thought he was doing some kind of bulletin-board type thing, but I didn't have a computer at the time so I never checked it out.

12:33 / 06.06.04

Has anyone ever seen a copy of "Psychadelic Mindfuckers" by a Rolling Stones journo released at the same time as Ed Sanders infamous book? It was mentioned in an old copy of "Vague" and I've never ever seen it. I remember there was some sorta Mansonoid revival in Leeds in the late Eighties, don't know much about it myself. Don't know if it was part of the process (sic) of getting the fear??!!!
Memories of people clambering up roofs clutching chillums exclaiming "Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted!"
Ah the musty smell of La Vey books yellowed in dusty rooms!

11:08 / 08.06.04

The Transmedia Foundation as a continuation of the Process -- hoho! That's a good one!

That "new" process site has a strong whiff of "we're better than the normals" about it. Hmm.

De Grimstone went off, AFAIK, to be an AT&T executive, and is now, apparently, a "business consultant" in NY. Now, how did THAT happen? That's the story I want to hear!

Reading what the ex-Processenes now think of what they were doing then is most touching and very humble.

12:21 / 10.06.04

Oh, those wacky Powerites! What will they get up to next?

13:19 / 10.06.04

macrophage, the book has the simple title Mindfuckers in case you would like to search for it.

Nun, I love your book cover.

wouldn't let that "new" Process site mislead you.

MSN Communities has a group with involvement of new members. Process.org has remained dormant for a while and has started up again it seems, I don't know in what way because the Java/Flash/whatever has yet to load on my machine.

13:21 / 10.06.04

no, Process.org I guess has nothing to do with the Process Church any more either. it seems to relate to Key's doings with naught to do with religion.

13:32 / 10.06.04

the MSN Communities group:

http://groups.msn.com/TheProcess/.