The Solar Lodge: The LSD Cult Linked to a Child Locked in a Box

Podcast: Cults and Secret Societies · Forbidden Knowledge Network

Opublikowano: 2026-09-03

In nineteen sixty-nine, deputies entered a remote desert property near Vidal and Blythe, California, connected to Solar Lodge, a small occult initiatory group led by Georgina “Jean” Brayton. The group drew on Aleister Crowley-derived ritual systems, disputed O.T.O.-related claims, communal property, initiation, internal hierarchy, and, according to later insider accounts, LSD used as a sacrament in ceremonies. Its public promise was spiritual and magical development, but its public collapse came after six-year-old Anthony Saul Gibbons was found confined in a wooden enclosure and chained by the ankle after a fire at the commune. Contemporary investigators believed the puni...