Brief History of Zendik Farm

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Zendik Farm is an intentional community employing organic farming and pushing for greater social and ecological responsibility among humans.

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I stayed there for about 6 months in 1998. In theory the idea was ok but as with the regular world there was a hierarchy that lived in relative comfort off the sweat and toil of the rest of the community.  Like someone else has stated, "You can shovel shit and feed their pets".  You were forced to go out and beg for money (selling Zendik magazines and tape) acting like it was some kind of place for wayward youth.  The only good thing was most of the girls were pretty cute and at 22 that's mostly what I went for in the first place and they had a very free love type thing going on.  Other than that it sucked!  They kicked me out, drove me like a mile away and left me on the side of some country road like 100 miles from Austin.  Luckily I stashed some money away and made a nice adventure of it despite their self loathing, everybody is shit attitude.  Haha.  Fuck you Zendik Farm.  Life is good and you suck!

Author — Joshua Israel

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I was approached by a crunchy hippy woman while standing in line for a rock show in Cincinnati around 1999. Goofing off with friends to pass the time and bullshitting with the woman she offered a cassette tape of Zandik music for $5. I was reluctant but thought it would make a good souvenir of the meeting. On the drive back from the concert we popped it into the tape deck. It was some of the wackiest shit I've ever heard. Years later the name popped up in conversation which lead me to find out more about this cult. It does make me wonder what ever happened to that woman.

Author — OneBagTravel

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When i was a desperate and dumb 17 year old girl I almost joined them. I was standing outside a music venue in downtown Atlanta by myself at 11PM because the concert ended early and my ride was an hour away. A hippie dude came out of nowhere and what terrifies me now is how i felt so safe once he showed up. I was raised Dugger-like and not at all street smart. All i knew was that i had to get out of the ultra conservative world i was in, and here was this guy offering me the easiest way out imaginable. Mercifully my Mom did probably the only thing that kept me from booking it to the farm — she pretended to have an open mind about it in order to buy some time. She gently coaxed me into the idea of giving it six months of communicating with the farm, without committing either way, then she would support me. In those six months there were some serious red flags that ultimately convinced me this really was a cult.

🔴 There was a constant ebb and flow of giving me (and the others considering joining) a sense of belonging, love, peace, safety, community, and then them threatening to rip it out from under me, saying things like “You don’t seem to be the kind of person we thought you were”, “You don’t seem to be on our side” and “We actually work hard and don’t have time for bystanders, so are you going to let your parents ruin such a great thing by delaying you?”.

To families: please remember to allow an easy out for your loved one. What i mean is that if you force them into a confrontation, they will likely only double down and you will become the enemy. Talk to them about it, express your fears, but help them to save face by being empathetic about it.

Author — Boo Hastings מים

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Who and where are these "millions of people" they mentioned who's lives have been touched by Zendick, exactly? Aren't there only like 20 people who live there? How many were there at their peak?

Author — Emperor Megas

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Remember seeing Wulf do his monologues on Austin Cable Access TV.

Author — BunnymanVids

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Arol Wulfing (aka Arol Wulf-Zendik) died June 6, 2012. Almost nothing on the web about it, but the Zendik Farm website has a farewell.

Author — Seederman

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"We Name Her Fawn ! Because It Was The Most Beautiful Creature We Could Think Of At The Time." That's Right ! It's The Death Cuture ! Ya seee..? Wulf

Author — TEAMJESUS 70

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I still have the newsletters they handed to us on the streets of new Orleans. I wanted to join briefly. Guess it's good that I didn't.

Author — Landry Prichard

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...and now, the farm is for sale. $950, 000.00. Bye-bye revolution...

Author — Garry Byrne

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Hello I am trying to find my friends Jeff Ludwig and David Greenshwan who moved to the farm long time ago. I am Jorge Patino from México

Author — 35394691

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i love the slogan to bad it has nothing to do with them they never did anything to influence anyone except for those they want to work on their farm the reporter in me wants to scream DONT SAY MILLIONS UNLESS YOU MEAN MILLIONS, once you make a statement like that and is searous about it, unless its true and you can easly back it up you are no longer credible, and the shirts don't count I know ppl who have those shirts and don't know who or what the zendik farm is, even though it is on the shirt

Author — Toaden

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yea i notced that and i notice there is very lil actism that comes of zendik farm that doesnt promote the zendik farm or book or the widow zindik I would love to see a group pick op a stop bitching start a revoltion attuid and they fall very short of that no inviduals besides the zendiks are presented, i hate newsletters that doesn't change and thats what they are are farmers that don't get noticed becouse they don't do anything to get noticed and if they were it be known it's not worth noticing

Author — Toaden

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This was completely uninformative. I stayed at Zendik for about a week in '99 and found them to be pretty sincere individuals. I don't know what's happened to them since

Author — Surrealms