I lived in SF around that time, very near the William's house. I can't count how many times random aquaintances invited me to a channeling session. People I met once, randoms at a party, talking to a stranger while waiting in line for a restaurant, you name it. That area is majority new agers and kooky spiritual types, even normal looking people will come out with this shit after a short conversation.

I think a lot of this is MK type experimentation as there is a long history of this shit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax

he project consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin, and New York City. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass. Several significant operational techniques were developed in this theater, including extensive research into sexual blackmail, surveillance technology, and the possible use of mind-altering drugs in field operations.

Remember this is Aquino's playground.

The former Congressional aide cited an essay he’d received in the mail, “The Penal Colony,” written by a Berkeley psychologist. The author had emphasized: Rather than terminating MKULTRA, the CIA shifted its programs from public institutions to private cult groups, including the People’s Temple. http://wariscrime.com/new/the-cia-connections-to-the-mind-control-cults/

Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3i4ALdMSt0&ytbChannel=GnosticMedia This is literally the cult masters at a house gathering reminiscing about the good old days of unlimited freedom to mindfuck Americans.

"Joe Atwill and Jan Irvin discuss the 1979 MKULTRA reunion party and the agents in attendance: Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, Humphry Osmond, Willis Harmon, Nick Bercel, and others."