A Colorado lady who was the chief of a cult is the topic of a brand new HBO documentary. Amy Carlson based the Love Has Won cult in 2006 and her loss of life two years in the past made headlines after she was present in a mummified state in a home.
In an HBO preview of “Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God,” movies are proven by which Carlson, who additionally glided by Lia, claims she is nineteen billion years old and as soon as lived as Jesus.
Law enforcement grew to become conscious of Carlson’s loss of life when Saguache County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the home in 2021 close to Crestone in southern Colorado. They responded to the placement after a report from the daddy of a 2-year-old little one which indicated the toddler was being held within the home.
Carlson was often known as Mother God to her followers. Her physique was discovered adorned with Christmas lights. She died because of alcohol abuse, anorexia and power colloidal silver ingestion, in line with the Saguache County coroner.
After the invention of Carlson’s physique, a number of followers of Carlson had been taken into custody for suspicion of abuse of a corpse. Those prices had been later dropped for the entire Love Has Won members.
Carlson’s cult was the topic of an episode of the Dr. Phil Show the prior 12 months. It highlighted how Carlson instructed her followers she may restore folks’s brains and carry out religious surgical procedures. It additionally described how Carlson mentioned she would ascend to the fifth Dimension and that she had been reincarnated 534 instances. She additionally claimed to have been Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra. Love Has Won’s uncommon practices allegedly included standing for very lengthy stretches of time with none sitting and getting a minimal quantity of sleep.
Members of her cult mentioned on the present that quite a lot of the stories about their group had been false.
Love Has Won members mentioned Carlson had been unwell for a very long time earlier than her loss of life.
Andrew Profaci was as soon as a member of Love Has Won. In an interview with CBS News Colorado, he mentioned he got here into Carlson’s orbit when he was in a interval of what he described as an awakening. He met her in a web-based chat and after arriving within the Crestone space Profaci mentioned Carlson instructed him he could be Father God to her Mother God. Profaci mentioned he left he group as a result of his progress was taking him in a special course. He additionally mentioned the cult had grow to be harsh in the best way it handled folks.
In HBO’s preview, the voice of CBS News Colorado reporter Rick Sallinger could be heard. He lined the case throughout a number of months and was there when among the Love Has Won members had been launched from jail. He requested them in the event that they thought Carlson could be reincarnated and one responded “Maybe she is going to come off a starship.”
The “three-part docuseries” is described as follows by HBO.
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God chronicles the life and loss of life of Amy Carlson, also referred to as Mother God, a self-proclaimed religious savior who constructed a cult by way of her on-line manifestos and live-streaming periods. As Amy’s well being declined, her followers believed her loss of life would result in her evacuation by UFO and salvation for humanity. Told by way of the eyes of Amy’s devotees and constructed from the cult’s archival footage, the three-part docuseries captures the perils of web proselytizing and a conspiracy-driven religion.