https://mattkprovideo.com/2019/10/25/the-other-cult-that-inspired-manson/
A 1950s Suicide-Bombed SoCal Cult Became a Precursor to Manson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Venta
https://www.mansonblog.com/2012/07/sound-familiar.html
There was a church ( cult?) near San Francisco called “Fountain of the world” founded by a guy named Krishna Venta.
The people all lived together and learned about Ventas odd ideas that were a combination of Mormonism, Christianity and cold war paranoia.
Venta also preached that WW3 was coming, that Blacks would rise up and kill the white man. But that the Soviets ( whitey?) would take power away from the black people.
Manson talks about the Krishna Venta cult:
