MOST of the people attracted to Process activities are young. They congregate six nights a week in the "Cavern" coffee-house, listening to rock records as Process members move quietly among the groups seated on the floor. On Friday nights there are special activities: the "telepathy developing circle," a "midnight meditation," and the "Process-scene," a dramatization of what the Process is about.

Sister Lyssandra, an open, articulate, outgoing and warm woman who left art school in Kansas City, Missouri to come to Boston (and who was a secretary in Roxbury less than a year ago) calls the Process-scene "our idea of what humanity is about-not people, but structures. The Process is about being able to transcend government, and society, and all those things. It's not that you totally ignore those things, but you get to be able to deal with them, and control them.

"If your scope is totally the business world, then you can't see outside it." She uses the analogy of stock-market speculators who, when the market crashed in the '30s, were so defeated that some of them committed suicide. " Everybody does that. We're trying to learn how to avoid it, to identify your self with something bigger... God. Not just Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, or Christ, but with all these things. We're trying to learn to identify with God. God never goes."

Along with maintaining their free store and soup kitchen, Process members also provide informal counseling for "runaways, drug addicts, and people with social, mental, and physical problems."

"People come here who are absolutely raving maniacs, and people here, higher up, are able to deal with them because they know what's wrong. They can give them acceptance, and a sense of security. If you can accept them for what they are, you can help them... Our idea is learning not to blame people, by accepting them."

Sister Lyssandra uses herself as an example of what the Process does for people. "Here we are, little creepy jerks come off the street-stupid, and hateful. And they give us love.

"We're not saying that the Process is the only way. It isn't. Whatever works for you is valid. That's how we know what validity is-it works."