He also said Sheela had mismanaged the commune finances, stolen money, & left the commune 55 million dollars in debt.
He said that Sheela and a dozen other commune leaders, including Puja (of the Rajneesh Medical Corp ., had left the commune over the weekend and gone to Europe.
But she admitted that when she left the commune she felt "dead inside".
Of those who left the commune, he writes: "We had lost the garden.
This Matthew Kenney is the one who signed his name to glib, facile hot spots like Canteen, which he has left, and Commune -- restaurants where the design came first, the scientifically planned parties second and the food third, at best.
Late on 9 August 1969, under Manson's instruction, four Family members – Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel – left their commune on Spahn Ranch, which had been used frequently in westerns, and drove to 10050 Cielo Drive, a house formerly rented by record producer Terry Melcher, but then inhabited by Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate.
And if you worry that being forced back into suits (where you belong) will squash your anti-establishment identity, why not take a cue from a wild and woolly friend of mine who left a commune years ago for a job on Wall Street?
Others, however, did not share in the enthusiasm and some left the commune altogether.
About a year after he arrived, Sequoia had had enough and left the commune.
He had an older sister, Liana (aged approximately 15), who left the commune a year before Christopher's hospitalization and removal into care.
As I left the commune, declining a soy meal on my way out, the eerie feeling began to ebb away and in the distance I saw a kebab vendor.
