Unholy Moley Mr. Crowley!

This place was an early hippy community before its time in which residents and visitors alike freely took drugs -- including opium, cocaine, ether, morphine, heroin and hashish -- not to mention wine and brandy.

Hollywood's silent film screen star Jane Wolfe abandoned her career to spend time at the Abbey to treat her restlessness. Here's what she said to a newspaper in 1928: "In the morning and evening we performed the required rituals in a large room with a tiled flooring, the center of which was inlaid with queer geographical figures. The master changed his gowns and make-up according to the planets he invoked – while we men and women wore Greek robes of various colors."

You can see below the tiles she referenced have been removed.



I mentioned to our friends of my suprise that as superstitious as Sicilians are that the villagers didn't burn them all at the stake. According to Wolfe, part of her healing program was to live on the beach for 33 days in a tent. Sicilians finding her in rigid yoga as stiff as an idol believed she was possessed by evil spirits and stoned and attacked her unconscious. Here she is in pose on Cefalu's beach. Her favorite magic tool was the ouiji board...a major departure from her Pennsylvania Dutch upbringing.



All of the abbey lives in this mayhem. There's not much too see here anymore except that which your imagination can create.