Fountain of the world Charles Manson and his Family attended and then was Evicted from this Box Canyon Simi Valley CA facility. Charles Manson talking about the tragic ending of Box Canyon and the Fountain of the World. Krishna Venta (born Francis Herman Pencovic, March 29, 1911 - December 10, 1958) - California cult (the term used in the newspapers of his day) leader born in San Francisco. Venta founded the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in Simi Valley, California in the late 1940s. The Fountain of the World became famous in the press in the 1940s and 1950s for uniformly dressing in robes, going barefoot, and requiring its male members to grow beards and wear their hair long. The Fountain was marginally controversial because one of the requirements for membership was that one donate all wordly assets to the group prior to joining; for most who joined the Fountain, however, this was irrelevant since few had much in the way of possessions anyway. The group was responsible for a multitude of positives, including fighting wildfires, offering shelter to those in need, and feeding the homeless. The group first gained national exposure in 1949 when the newswires picked up the story that Fountain members had been among the first on the scene to offer aid to the victims of Standard Airlines Flight 897R, which had crashed into the Simi Hills, killing 35 of the 48 persons onboard. (Among the survivors of the crash was Judy Garland's stand-in <b>...</b>
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