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Lost Temple

by Dominique Cyprès

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1.
Hello? How're you doing, kid? Garry? Yeah Oh, God am I glad to hear from you Eva, I've got it Listen, I've got a message for you from our friend Okay, hon, just a second, okay? Okay I'll hang on Eva Eva Can you hang up the phone? Garry, I thought Jean Brown was going to be calling Jean Brown? Yeah, because, see, Jean Brown, um called Bruce, and I said, "Call her back and tell her where I am Give her the number" Hm, I know nothing about it Yeah, this just happened a few minutes ago So when the phone rang I thought oh, that must be Jean Oh, Garry, I'm so glad to hear from you Um, LIz, it's really weird calling you like this but listen, I want you to hear this message Okay I, um Could you just listen to it straight? If you have any questions or comments or whatever just, you know, like, bring them up Okay, where are you, Garry? I'm calling from a private phone A private phone? Yeah You're all by yourself? Yeah You're not being taped? I don't believe this No Oh, well, it's okay if I am Go ahead Okay Listen, Jim and Marcie have really great love for you And, uh, Jim hates to see you make this mistake And you know there's strength in numbers I mean, you've done it too You've been part of this long enough I know there's strength where? You know that there's strength in numbers All the numbers we have We really hate to see you burn your bridges behind you, kid Really do You know this is a place of protection and love
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This nation is indeed a sick nation perishing by the moment So there is no question about faith but faith without works is dead Faith that doesn’t work is dead and faith without works is dead And we feed our people and we live together as they did on the day of Pentecost If you don’t have any income in our church or if you have too little income we all we have seventy different homes in which we all live as it was on the day of Pentecost we all share and have all things common If somebody only has fifty dollars and somebody else makes four hundred we share and we all eat as they did and was revealed in the church on the Apostolic day Say, what does it mean to have all things common? It means you don’t have to worry anymore. It means when all people are one family as they were when the church was inci- conceived and was in inception on the day of Pentecost when you are together as one you don’t have to worry anymore you don’t have to worry you don’t have to worry you don’t have to worry no more and I listen to them talk about sixty million Americans about to lose their homes I listen to eighty percent of the black people that own property in 1945 have either lost it or it’s going into receivership in the mortgage banks I listen to fifteen million people that are starving to death I didn’t hear it from some newspaper I heard it from the heads of the government of the United States today I listen to them talk about planned takeovers I listen to them to talk about it like it was an ordinary Sunday school picnic And you don’t have to be very far off to realize it’s in your newspapers Task force warns nation to get ready for riots and to get ready for martial law and to get ready for concentration camps This is in the Hearst press just this week Get ready for identification marks to be put on your body and identification number even if necessary tattooed on you like the- our corporations have done in the Union of South Africa Say, aw, America wouldn’t do that Don’t talk to me about what America would not do We’re doing it in Union of South Africa We rule that country now Ford and all those DuPonts and Rockefeller they’re running the Union of South Africa and our black and brown and poor people cannot even be out after sun- uh, out after sundown And there’s a tattoo on their arm and if they don’t show that tattoo, they go to jail Say. what’s that got to do with us? Because the same corporations that rule this country the same megalomaniacs the same elitist, the same ruling class Ford, DuPont, Chrysler, General Motors they’re running the show over there And if they will do that to our people over there they’ll do it here when the trouble comes It’s wonderful Wonderful to know the truth and the truth will set you free Say, it’s uncomfortable but it also sets you free But to hear that kind of thing coming out of the mouth of the government leaders and to hear them say we have no answers To hear the head of housing and to hear the head of welfare the president’s appointments and to hear the presidential secretary say there is no answer Said we can’t have housing and we’re not able to have enough food and enough shelter and medicine We’re not going to be able to give it to the people Something’s rotten Something’s corrupt Spiritual wickedness in high places They’re afraid to say it They buy you and they buy me if we could be bought but some of us have been purchased with a price and we are not going to be kinship with this world Our God is not flesh and blood but it’s spiritual it’s a l- ideal it’s Pentecostal socialism We’re not going be oppressed by the tyranny of all the oppressive riches It is written the love of money is the root of all evil But you you’re going to get the truth tonight if it kills you because it’s already crucified me Hallelujah I’m crucified with Christ I’m crucified with Pentecostal socialism Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ that liveth in this body It’s not a mortal you are looking at tonight it’s not carnality you’re looking at tonight but you’re looking at the hundredfold the very spirit and the actual conscious presence of a living God
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Okay Who's going to start off the first discussion? And in socialism it is better than capitalism ‘cause we think about the children and the seniors and what we’d do if there’s a revolution We fight and stand up for our rights And I think capitalism is full of shit No, no, no I don’t agree I think My personalal personalalal personalal personal posi positio opinion of capitalism is is that capitalism is better Boo! because we get to go down walk down to the corner we can buy Yay for Rockefeller! We can buy a— a— a penny candy bar for twenty-five dollars and— and we can— we can have— we can— you just walk down to the corner and get an orange You guys have to pick ‘em We just walk down to the corner buy us an orange for twenty-five cents plus tax, twenty-five dollars, and we can And we’re even able I think— I think— I think— like we have more material possessions like we can walk down to the store we can buy a new pair of shoes Um— Um— In capitalism, uh— you— you say our chocolate and stuff is junk but our chocolate it helps us get money ‘cause we send it to starving babies and uh, and— and all the— and— and— and we have— we had— we even have signs up and— and— and stuff that even say that we help save um, you know on those cigarette packages they even say uh, don’t smoke, and— because it gives you cancer that’s how concerned we are about our people and we have warehouse and warehouses full of bombs that can blow up the whole world three times over and over again so I think we’re— we’re more— we like— we’re— we care for our people more than socialism and— and we— we— If you cared for ‘em you wouldn’t— you wouldn’t make the cigarettes to sell ‘em And you wouldn’t— No, no, no— Yeah, and— and— and your whole system is based on money and our system is based on the people so you’re all worried about getting all your money and we’re all worried about making it better for the people. Yeah, and you wouldn’t make bombs to hurt people anyway We don’t have to buy anything We can get it out of the jungle We can make it by ourself and not use no money It’s like you said you said you’re at— you had to buy them— your— your shoes well, we can make our own shoes, thank you And in capitalism, it’s— it’s just plain old better that’s what I think How come— then how come here where none of us are starving we’re all healthy and in the ghettoes, their— their heads are getting real big and their stomachs are getting very skinny and knobby knees and they’re not even healthy at all No uh, hospitals no food or anything I think— I think that— You say you can make your own shoes I’d like to know what you make your shoes out of We have rubber trees here. Have you ever— Have you ever processed your own rubber before? We have a lot of people here and— and— We work together— We can get all our minds together and— We can make factories like the capitalists do but use them for the people instead of for the rich people Have you ever done it before? We don’t need to We don’t just sit around in our office getting fatter and fatter We stay healthy, thank you We’re healthy, too That doesn’t— That doesn’t answer my question I asked, have you ever done it before? Have you ever made your own shoes? Yes, I have, thank you Out of what? Tell me how— Cowskin— Um— not every— not everyone has to make their own shoes because everyone has different talents We have shoemakers who make— And they make it for all of us But listen, listen— We have uh, pastrymakers that have talents of the extraordinary talents and they make our— Then you buy that old crusty-ass stuff that stays in the pastry box for
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Integrated 02:47
I say spirit that's in that lost world speak with an audible voice Louder my dear Louder Louder I forgive you What do you wish me to do for you, child? A part of the spirit there’s someone here that this soul belongs to You’re not integrated and that’s why you’re having trouble in your mind I’ll not call you out Close your eyes now, I ask you I speak the word, and perhaps when it comes that spirit comes out of the ether plane and comes into its body and integrates there will be no doubt some gasping So be very quiet As I, Lenin-Jesus Buddha, the Báb, God Almighty I free that spirit from the loneliness of that netherworld and integrate it in its body here It’s integrated You may be seated
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It’s on Testing one two three four five six My name is Chris Rozynko I am a violent revolutionary and l would like to overthrow the government I have arms, and I have a plan, and I’d like to do it now My name is Choicy Bradford I would pe— I am a violent revolutionary, uh— Choicy— My name is Choicy Bradford I’m a, uh, a resolutionary I like to throw this plans of the government right now, and, that’s all I— My name is Bennie Bradford, I’m— My name is Bennie Bradford I’m a violent revolutionary I like to throw— overthrow this government right now. My name is Leo Wade I’m ready to throw— I’m ready to overthrow this government right now and for revolutionary I am a violent revolution I would like to overthrow the country Roy Harris revolutionary— Thelm— My name is Thelma Jackson I am a violent revolutionary I would like to overthrow this country tonight I keep my weapons and I am ready at any time My name is Claudia Norris and I am a violent revolutionary and I would like to overthrow this country right now Cheryl White— My name is Cheryl White and I am a violent uh, revolutionary and I would like to overthrow this country right now My name is Glenda White and I’d like to overthrow this country My name is Glenda White and I am a violent revolutionary and I’d like to overthrow this country right now Uh. My name is and uh, I’m a violent revolutionary and I would like to overturn the government right now My name is Wiggins I am a uh, violent revolution and I want to overthrow the government right now Esther D. Phillips Mmm-hmm — violent revolution I would uh, like to overthrow the government now Esther D. Phillips I am Pat Martin I am a violent revolutionary I’d like to overthrow the government now I— My name is Rosemary Williams I am a violent— My name is Rosemary William I’m a violent revolutionary I would like to overthrow the government right now Renee Gieg I have— I am a violent revolutionary I have guns and ammunition and plan to overthrow the government now My name is John Harris and I'm a violent revolutionary and I killed three children
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I just don’t see the movement anymore there All right, you two go out there- there’s no accomplishment in the movement No accomplishment to see the people in the- in the- being helped in the court the children are getting hope The black women and men for the first time in their lives feel like men and women You, you don’t see that? No Well, I don’t know then Well, what did they have before? You know, I mean, I remember- What do they have now? What do they have- They feel that they have a purpose someone to care about them that’ll fight for their children They really do I mean, if you- if you’ve had much chance to talk to them When I talk to people they- they feel for the first time that their lives have meaning What- What did they have, you know going to working on their knees day after day? They- They didn’t have- They’re still doing that they’re still doing that, you know and they’re dedicating their lives and they’re giving it their all to something where nothing ever happens Linda, it’s not time for it to happen And when is going to be the time, though? When is going to be the time? You know I don’t think that I uh lost faith in a- in a cause or a vision but I think that I mainly lost faith in Jim and he is the cause. Well, now what- what did you lose faith in? In what part? Just in Jim, you know, in the, in the- What did he do that made you lose faith? Just the manipulation the total manipulation everywhere It just seemed like everywhere we went, you know it was just manipulation Manipulation on people within mani- manipulation on people without What else could that kid go through? It’s a wonder she’s even got a decent mind on her For an image of Jim put up as God and then use her sexually?
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Scream, yell, pound the walls Scream, yell, pound the walls Scream, yell, pound the walls Scream, yell, pound the walls Scream, yell, pound the walls Scream, yell, pound the walls Scream, yell, pound the walls Scream, yell, pound the walls How very much I've loved you How very much I've tried my best to give you the good life Scream, yell, pound the walls
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Is it too late for Russia? Here's why it's too late for Russia They killed Well, I don't see it like that I mean, I feel like that as long as there's life, there's hope That's my faith But someday everybody dies I'm going to tell you, Christine Without me, life has no meaning I'm the best friend you'll ever have Not that I'm afraid to die By no means I don't think you are But, uh I look at our babies and I think they deserve to live I agree You know?
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Mr. Fraser 01:20
Yes, sir, there's something bad going on I don't know what it is "A lot of people have seen Mr. Fraser I think Mrs. Brownfield has offered to help" Somebody's children go meet Mr. Fraser, and... Mr. Fraser Port Kaituma Port Kaituma Meanwhile Port Kaituma Oh no! Port Kaituma Oh no! Well, they're on their way to see him Brownfield! Brownfield!

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Lost Temple is a concept album where every track features recorded speech sampled from the tapes the Federal Bureau of Investigation collected in its investigation of Jonestown following the mass death centered there—starting with the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan of California, which was the focus of their investigation, and the murder of four other people who were traveling with him: three members of the press and a Jonestown defector. Today, Jonestown and the organization that built it, Peoples Temple, are largely remembered through the idiom "drinking the Kool-Aid," but the tapes they left behind reveal something far more complicated, a striving utopian community sometimes justifiably paranoid about external threats and beset from within by an organizational culture of abuse. Lost Temple provides a short glimpse at some of these audiotapes, woven into a musical score with cinematic sensibilities.

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released November 30, 2021

Cover credits: Aerial photo of Guyanese jungle produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Jonestown logo produced by Peoples Temple. Both images were obtained through the Jonestown Institute.

Most vocal material on this album comes from the public archives of the Jonestown Institute.

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