Down The Rabbit Hole Of “Love Has Won”
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In 2021, police raided the headquarters of the new age cult that called themselves Love Has Won. What they found was the group’s leader, mummified on a bed, wrapped in Christmas lights. It was a bizarre end to the bizarre life of one of the first internet cult leaders. Today I’m joined by author Leah Sotille as we unravel where it all went wrong.
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LINKS LINKS LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8QJ4CLQlRo
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-join-cults-according-to-therapist-who-treats-survivors-2020-9
https://www.awardsdaily.com/2023/12/05/love-has-won-director-hannah-olson-on-finding-empathy-in-amy-carlson-how-the-hbo-doc-depicts-the-death-of-the-american-dream/
https://lightworkers.org/
https://theprofilehhs.com/4822/uncategorized/love-has-won-mother-gods-early-beginnings-stage-one/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Carlson_%28religious_leader%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Has_Won
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/05/16/love-has-won-cult-mother-god/
https://lithub.com/leah-sottile-on-amy-carlson-aka-mother-god-and-the-creation-of-a-new-age-cult/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/love-has-won-amy-carlson-mother-god-1254916/
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/09/11/love-has-won-cult-protests-hawaii/
https://www.ladbible.com/news/health/cult-leader-amy-carlson-colloidal-silver-blue-documentary-507417-20250820
https://youtu.be/hxaREEaTIJo?si=wzh6UsKqKUY6Ik1B
https://www.5dfulldisclosure.org/
https://www.lovehas1joyrains2.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LOVEHAS1JOYRAINS2
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/spiritual-leader-mummified-remains-colorado/507-d2c61c2f-47ec-45c3-8c45-beaa506caef6
https://nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/
https://www.instacart.com/company/pressreleases/new-economic-impact-report-quantifies-instacarts-role-as-grocery-industry-growth-engine-and-job-creator
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro Featuring Leah Sottile
4:48 – Amy Carlson
10:03 – Mother God
12:43 – Love Has Won
15:34 – Their Beliefs
25:35 – The Ascension
45:24 – Sponsor – Ground News

@Hitchpster
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
More of this type of content, please. This BS needs to me unmasked and exposed at every chance we get.
@thezieg
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities
@thezieg
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
😢
@PoE-TV
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
I was a business owner in crestone and watched all this go down. My brother got sucked in.
The most beautiful place I've ever lived, with some of the worst people. Some good, but mostly just a community of people who haven't heard the word "no" enough
@suppersready
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
This cult leader is blue for an amazing reason!
@DBQ42
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Scott always has to remind us how smart he is and how scientifically minded he is. You’re a good boy.
@michalgardela
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
A Full Metal Nutcase
@paulcooper8818
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Love Has Won a Trump voter paradise.
Surely Roseanne Barr was one of the Galactics
@cyberjesus335
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
I don't know how these people deal with the cringe they generate lol
@johnmonk66
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
God needs energy from me? How weak these gods are.
@klarenee1123
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Is Mother God wearing a JoJo bow on Dr Phil? This life is wacky..who needs conspiracies?
@lkhvw2042
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
41:25 seriously wtf
@lkhvw2042
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
38:30 holy fuck
@johnmonk66
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
You would think god could pick one name and stick to it.
@johnmonk66
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
She creates her life by having three baby daddies, and then blames the universe for giving her what she designed.
@giuliani3570
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
See, when you stick to your core channel content, you excel. This video was great. Stop the crap you have been doing and get back to your roots.
@karldewet5393
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Yeah, I only heard alarm bells when you mentioned Lemuria…
@guard13007
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
I feel so bad for this person. She did evil, yes, but she also was a victim, and tried to escape her mistakes, but was held back.
@almostclintnewton8478
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
If i had a nickel for everytime a cult tried to move to Hawaii and basically got run off by locals- I'd have 3 nickels. Which isnt a lot but it's weird that it's happened thrice and absolutely hysterical that islanders have no patience for mainland woowoo shenanigans 💀
@guard13007
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Most of the time when YouTube puts a content warning on a video, it's overreach and excessive. This is the first time I've watched a video without a content warning, and felt like it should've had one.
@billbissenas2973
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Have you apologized to Dr James Tour yet?
@johnmonk66
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
People start religions for two reasons. Money or sex.
@taipan8021
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Fortunately for them, this planet is saturated with people who's looking for someone to follow, to think for them, because they can't seem to think for themselves.
@doktormcnasty
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
I've always enjoyed how the acronym of belief system is BS.
@trevors7646
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
i want a joe scott asks hank green anything video and watch joe break hank
@JosephKamau9073
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Speaking of cults, @joescott you may be interested in the shakahola cult that killed over 400 people at the Kenyan Coast just a couple of years ago.
@Antonchigga
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
this is the final evolution of "dog moms"
@BartzAJohnsonJr
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
28:53 Brother, I had the multi-dvd set of the movie. I gobbled up the extra interviews and fell in love with certain personalities. Nowadays I despise Joe Dispenza and most of the others. That being said, I am a trained Reiki Master and space holder for sacramental ceremonies as fire keeper and assisting the shaman. Difference being, it’s my path and I’m not selling it to or foisting it upon others. Talk to medical professionals, make your own decisions, but endeavor to be rational at EVERY STEP. From marketing to mysticism, from religion to rationale, from Science to Spiritually, there are ALWAYS psychological factors at play. Healing comes from honest introspection, release, integration, and self-care. All of that is action based, not floating in the woo-woo-sphere waiting to be grabbed. Bonus admission: I am also a veteran of Landmark Education aka EST(look it up for a possible story). It’s based heavily in Ontology and I’ll leave it at that.
@lkhvw2042
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
25:45 I mean, meth probably didn't help…
@Initium1000
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
I wonder if when she was dying and wanted to go to the hospital – if the group collectively on some level just didn’t want her around. She was taking their money and would take more with hospital bills, they weren’t sleeping and they were overworked.
Knowing they would have some sort of freedom with her ascension they convinced themselves that her passing was necessary
@lkhvw2042
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
18:45 that sounds like something a 3d thinker would say!! You nonbeliever 😂😂
@lkhvw2042
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
17:00 no one is ever like a janitor or whatever in their past lives right?
@markgado8782
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
38:47 surely that's criminal!! Was anyone charged with unauthorised practice of medicine or manslaughter or abuse or anything?
@magic_magic1
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
37:18 when she claimed to be a fire god I thought the twist was going to be her followers set her on fire and threw her down a volcano
@sanpritilife
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
28:25 Thank you Joe for breaking it down like this. Your effort to humanize shows your compassion for folks who make choice that seem to the rest of us utterly unimaginable. I think that’s very important, and that in the end trying to relate to the real humans here actually takes the Big Mysterious Power of the cult away.
@artnels2
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
@joescott – Wondering if you can see what ads get attached to your content by the YouTube algorithms? I try to keep myself as detached from ad profiling as possible so I don't usually see ads "directed" to my "interests". I see very generalized ads during content viewing. The ads connected to this story were fringe to say the least! Self healing stuff, special medical treatments for "bad backs" that are sudo science, how to avoid baggage fees while flying, and many other "weird ones" I never saw before that I don't even remember because I skip through. I thought this very remarkable and interesting, which ads the algo's pick, to content that is addressing "woo woo" information.
Anyway, if you can see the ad content showing during your stuff you may be surprised! You could do a whole show in how this off the wall stuff gets gets used by the ad algorithms of YouTube.
@Turddropper123
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Zealandia would disagree.
@dirkjewitt5037
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Aaron White Eagle? Like Nancy from King of the Hills.
@peterblair9240
May 13, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Lumaria can't be real as it was claimed to be discovered by an ornathologist and all sane people know birds aren't real.