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Down The Rabbit Hole Of “Love Has Won”

Joe Scott | May 13, 2026



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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

Written by Joe Scott

Comments

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  1. @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

  2. @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 💀

  3. @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.

  4. @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.

  5. @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.

  6. @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

  7. @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.

  8. @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.

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