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When the curious surf on to the Miehi (pronounced “my-high”) Web page at www.miehi.com, they are confronted by a barrage of dense and mysterious texts. There are pictures of the Miehi home in Twin Oaks, in the Walker Basin area.

This writer puts the question to the matriarch of the clan, Georgia Miehi, what “Miehi” means.

“An extended, adopted family,” Jeriah Miehi, the clan’s daughter, chimes in.

The name Miehi arose from compressing Georgia’s maiden name with her husband’s given name. The merger reflects the family’s belief in Urantia. While one struggles to find what “Miehi” is all about, it seems that Georgia is about the boundaries of freedom in a supposedly free society.

Take for example, a phrase that appears on the group’s fliers: “God is a woman.”

“That’s pretty self-explanatory,” Richard says. “We are all children of God; the God fragment is in each of us. Now what we do is to turn it into nurturing. That is our will. But the concept, God is a woman, is that it is woman in man. The thing is, is that the women here don’t know that. The guys know it, the whole Jesus thing, they know about this God connection. In essence, [the women] need to be told that they have that. We are conditioned to follow a man. And the reality of it is following a man, but finding it in yourself, your God self. As a woman, you are made in the image of God, also, like the guys. That is not a given for [women].

“I say we all come from woman. Even Jesus came through a woman, so I would have woman first.

“God is both, God in his ultimate; I refer to Her as Her, because semantically it has ‘He.’ Just as she has ‘he’ in it. And female has male in it. Semantically, that works for me,” Richard declares.

Jeriah says “You can divide people into groups by making that statement to them. It’s fascinating. It’s like this dividing point. And you can really see where a person is coming from if you say ‘God is a woman.’ And they go, ‘Well, what do you mean by that?’ Or if they go, ‘You’re going to hell!’”

In June of 1975, Georgia had a “God” experience that pressed her into action. “This became an epiphany for them,” Jeriah says. “And a series of things began to happen. She was given messages, literally, to put a huge sign and hang it outside our house.”

“In Silverlake, I put the sign ‘God is a woman’ on the side of our house and all hell broke loose!” Georgia laughs. “When we lived there, it was the barrio, 1976. The prevailing attitude at that moment was ‘God is dead!’

“I was given music to start with, and I was told to journal, and through this, I was told to put these signs out on the house, which was the corner of Silverlake and Sunset Boulevard. So everybody who’s coming home from work, on Sunset Boulevard is going to go past these signs. The first sign says ‘Earthquake: June 15th- 21st, Passover.’

“We put the sign up ... and everyone from the Hopi Indians came by my house, who believes it’s the end of the world, and others. Everyone would stop at that stoplight.”

The week came and went without incident. “No earthquake, everybody is major upset, because I got them all wound up, no earthquake. I pointed out that the sign didn’t say, ‘Earthquake from June 15th through the 21st. So the next sign I put up said ‘God is Irony.’ That pissed them off all the more. That blew different people out of the water for us. And then after that, for one week or two weeks, we put up ‘God is a woman.’ We put ‘woman’ over ‘irony.’”

After this period of metaphor mixing, the Miehis found themselves in South Central LA. “The family, mom, dad, myself as a baby, my godmother and other people who were following us, because mom was getting messages: we ended up in South Central for nine years,” Jeriah explains.

“We lived in one house that was condemned, and we fixed it up. And then we found this old, old Victorian house that needed to be severely fixed up, so we cut a deal with the landlord:‘We’ll come in and fix it up if you let us live here.’ So we were the crazy white people on the corner. Then the landlord wanted the house back!

“We ended up moving into a movie theater, a warehouse that was a movie theater back in the day. We built ourselves our own little city and lived in that for a couple of years. It blew people away that we were living there. We’ve got stories about Joan Jett, Bob Marley’s girlfriend, the Hopi Indians, people coming to visit.

“And then we made the big move out of South central to Reseda, for just a year, and mom found an ad saying “20 acres for $45,000.’ All this time we’re in LA, looking for a home base. We packed everything into a Buick station wagon, asked the Realtor. No water, no phone with water well next door. Nothing on it,” Jeriah says.

Writing a hot check for $100, the Miehis moved in. Seventeen years later, they’re still there. “We’re still only two-thirds done with the house,” Richard adds.

On the site, one can see pictures of the Miehi homestead at 12534 Rolling Oaks Rd. in Twin Oaks. The home serves as a living area, an art gallery, a recording studio and a place for special events. Both Georgia and Richard are musicians, and they call their music “tidal wave.”

“To describe ‘tidal wave,’ the drums lead, and I’m the different drummer. We mostly do songs that I receive, because I am not capable of coming up with them on my own, in spite of my college education and all of that. It’s not something that I mathematically come up with, and all of a sudden I come up with this song and I become a scribe,” Georgia explains.

The Miehis struggle to finish building their home. Currently, they’re bogged down with money problems and construction permits. They hope to rent the place out as a movie set, a place to host weddings and special events.

The Miehi house “is a home for a lot of people. And we’re kind of the core group, where we wait for everybody to come home. And we have art to share with them.

“Miehi is my family name, which basically includes everybody on the planet, as I see us as all one family, one planet.” Georgia says in summary.~BB