5/12/2023 0 Comments To the moon and back lisa kohnBy the time Lisa was ten, Lisa's mother had them pledging their lives to the Unification Church (the "Moonies") and self-appointed Messiah, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.Īs a child Lisa knew the ecstatic comfort of inclusion in a cult and as a teenager the torment of rebelling against it. By the time her older brother was ten, Lisa's father had him smoking pot. The best seats Lisa Kohn ever had at Madison Square Garden were at her mother's mass wedding, and the best cocaine she ever had was from her father's friend, the judge.īorn to hippie parents and raised in New York City's East Village in the 1970s, Lisa's early years were a mixture of encounter groups, primal screams, macrobiotic diets, communes, Indian ashrams, Jefferson Airplane concerts in Central Park, and watching naked actors on off-Broadway stages during the musical HAIR.
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