Inside the bizarre 1960s cult, the Family: LSD, yoga and UFOs

To understand Assange, you have to understand his early years exposed to this cult. [0]

[0] "Christine Assange then became involved with Leif Meynell, also known as Leif Hamilton, a member of Australian cult THE FAMILY, with whom she had a son before the couple broke up in 1982. Assange had a nomadic childhood, and had lived in over thirty different Australian towns by the time he reached his mid-teens, when he settled with his mother and half-brother in Melbourne, Victoria."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Early_life