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Originally Posted by UntoHim
I actually heard a lot of positive things about what what happening up in Berkeley and Santa Cruz in those days. The Lord was on the move, but Witness Lee and "the brothers" down in So. Calif would have none of it. It was a fire that they could not harness nor control. So Lee did what he always did - he extinguished the fire and scattered the fire-starters.
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I don't know about Berkeley. Similar to StG I hitchhiked from Detroit to Santa Cruz. I liked it so much that after hitching up the coast into Oregon, and back down, I hitched with a friend back to Detroit, got my car, and drove back.
We, others from south Detroit, known as "Southgate Sickies," were ragtag hippies. I had money, got an apartment, where about a half a dozen of us lived together.
I remember one of us ran into the local church. We were all going to meetings. But we were still hippies. So one day a couple of the LC brothers came for a visit. They were in white shirts, black pants, and Wingtips. We were meditating in the nude. We thought nothing of inviting them in. They were obviously nervous, and tongue-tied.
Anyway, Santa Cruz was started by a brother that rebel against Lee. I eventually found out that L.A. considered Santa Cruz out of the flow.
But it was great ... the best locality I was ever in ... until the elders brought in Life Studies (I thought they were death studies) from L.A.
The last time I checked, the c. in Santa Cruz is no longer. The hexagon building we built was still there. But no c. in Santa Cruz. Lee killed it. Killed the c.in Ft. Lauderdale too.
Oh Lord, the death that followed Lee.