Editing Kerista (section)

==Dissolution==

In November 1991, Bro Jud left the Purple Submarine and the Kerista Commune after sharp divisions were exposed within the membership. Conflicts between Abacus and Kerista had grown more acute, as Abacus became more successful and difficult to manage. Other issues discussed during dissolution include allowing less-religious people into the commune and the loosening of superfluous rules.
 
After many incidents with members beginning to confront Jud's behavior, Jud left Purple and Kerista. Within a few months, the community was dissolved by vote. Bro Jud went on to create ''The World Academy of Keristan Education''.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-3161422 |title = World Academy of Keristan Education, Inc. |access-date = 2018-01-12 |date=1993}}</ref> Several former members of the commune still live in the San Francisco Bay Area, while a number moved to Hawaii and purchased a block of adjoining parcels of land.

John (Bro Jud) Presmont died on December 13, 2009, in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.kerista.com/ |title = Kerista.commune - Historical Home of the Kerista Commune |access-date = 2011-03-12 |quote = John Peltz Presmont passed from this life on Sunday Dec 13, 2009, in San Francisco, CA.}}</ref> In his last years, Jud had been seen regularly on 'The Bro Jud Show' on San Francisco [[public-access television]] [[cable TV]]. The show featured Judd set behind a desk in a chroma-keyed background featuring pre-recorded psychedelic visuals. After Jud's opening invitations to global thought leaders to collaborate in his utopian vision. Associate member Jennifer Glee would make a reading, which was then interspersed by songs the 'Bargain Basement Band' a mix of followers and local San Francisco musicians. Glee briefly took over the show after Jud suffered a hip injury in 2007 and has since started her own Youtube channel.