Welcome to Gods As My Friends, A Livamond Production Documentary

My sister, Jacqui, told me while she was still living on this earth, that according to Jewish law, since I saved her life once, it meant I was now responsible for keeping her alive from then on.  It was as a result of taking too many pills that she went into a coma in 2011, just one year before her death in March of 2012. I went into her room to find her passed out on the floor one morning. This happened during the course of filming the documentary "The Gods As my Friends," which we were planning on originally calling "Wigging Out." 

I felt guilty when Jacqui ended up committing suicide. I was away on a trip, and I wish I knew that she was going to do what she did.

What Jacqui was concerned about most on this earth was helping teach people to learn about where they were going after death and to save them from their suffering. She was a friend to all who would listen and she left bundles of love for all her friends to enjoy. 

This documentary is one of those bundles of love. 

My mission is to help others with the film by spreading the message of love in it and donating a portion of the proceeds from sales of the film to a mental health organization.

I have been making this documentary for 18 years about my sister who went on a spiritual journey to become enlightened as a makeshift Buddhist nun in the streets of Los Angeles, but could not overcome her mentally ill background and ended up committing suicide at age 31 in 2012. She was brought up into a reformed Jewish family and was Bat Mitzvah’d at age 13. And since she was 14 she was a practicing Theravada Buddhist. Since she dropped out of college at age 19 to become a Buddhist nun she had a tendency to interpret religious texts and scriptures differently which led to her mentally ill behavior. She was diagnosed with Schizoaffective disorder due to her creation of her own religion and off-the-wall ideas about spiritualism. 

Jacqui’s life was special.  She was a beautifully talented visual and musical artist, the essence of which is captured in this film. And she urged people to consider where their souls would end up in the eternal span.

Her spirit lives on in all of the people who’s lives she touched. Though she was constantly searching for that most important something that she always felt was lacking, love.