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slaves and followers. there was an underlying program that we knew what to say and how to say it. charles watson wrote it exactly how it happened in his book. he didn t lie. all through that strange summer at spahn ranch cramped among the crumbling sets of a former dream, we were children at play, living the fantasies we made, and charlie was our guide. each night the family would eat together, smoke a little hash or grass, often drop acid. then after the meal we d all sit in a circle to listen to charlie sing his songs and preach to us. he told us in that moment we were in the process of becoming kings.
as for the girls, what they needed most was to serve, be kind and love. sex was an important tool in charlie s deprogramming. that is, stripping away all the untruth and ego and confusion that our parents and society had laid on us from the moment we were born. there was a room in the back of the ranch house totally lined with mattresses. i eventually got used to making love to one more or women. charlie did occasionally stage an orgy for the benefit of select men he hoped to lure into the family. charlie never allowed calendars or clocks at spahn. time meant nothing when you lived in eternal now. as bizarre as charlie s teachings might sound to an outsider, it was compelling to us. there was no talk of killing. not yet. when you live for the moment,
there s a lot of people that have a misunderstanding and what they think is this. i would never have done that. my children definitely would not do that. they must have been bad. and they have no idea how much you can just warp the mind. all that charlie said was go get some black clothes and jump in the car with tex and do everything he says to do. they were just doing what they were told, and it just started happening. his message was simple, now it s time for helter-skelter. he said, i ve got a favor i want you to do for me tonight. i want you to go to that house. i want you to take a couple of