American New Age culture isn’t all crystals and Tarot cards. A New World Order? The Aryan race? Alien-human hybrids? Throughout history, New Age belief systems have so often been blended with wild, and sometimes dangerous, conspiracy theories that academics have coined the term “conspirituality.”
This week, we journey into murky waters of Love Has Won, a ... Show More
Jun 24
The Mind-Bending MK Ultra Experiments of Dr Ewen Cameron
When the Allan Memorial Institute opened its doors in 1943, its founders believed it would revolutionize mental health care. Under the direction of Dr. Ewen Cameron, however, the hospital started down a dark path – barbaric treatments, patients begging to go home, and a dark plac ... Show More
50m 41s
Jun 10
The Press Your Luck Scandal
On May 19, 1984, an ice cream truck driver from Ohio named Michael Larson wins more than $100,000 on the CBS daytime game show Press Your Luck. How he does it is a total mystery. Is he a scammer? Is he supernaturally lucky? Or has he made his own luck? Help us reach 10k followers ... Show More
42m 12s
Mar 2025
She Started a Cult - The Amy Carlson / Love Has Won story
<p>The Amy Carlson case centers around the leader of the spiritual cult "Love Has Won," who was found unalived in April 2021 in a Colorado home, her mummified body adorned with glitter and wrapped in Christmas lights. Known to her followers as "Mother God," Ca ... Show More
8m 49s
Jun 2025
Standing in my own truth, by Moj Mahdara
No boys. No dresses. As a teen, Moj Mahdara, founder of the fashion media company Beautycon, knows she’s different. And growing up in a traditional Iranian household, she struggles to reveal her own true identity. When two long-term houseguests descend — her grandmothers — Moj is ... Show More
26m 40s
May 2025
The Hidden Truth Of Reincarnation According To Edgar Cayce
<p>What happens after we die?</p><p> </p><p>Is this life a one-time event, a fleeting spark in a sea of darkness? Or are we part of a greater journey—one that stretches across centuries, across continents, across stars?</p><p> </p><p>The idea of reincarnation has lingered in the ... Show More
43m 3s
Aug 2024
Tarot, Tech, and Our Age of Magical Thinking
<p>Until recently, tarot, astrology, and spiritualism—practices often shorthanded simply as woo-woo—were the stuff of dusty psychic parlors and seventies nostalgia. But today, mysticism has permeated mainstream culture. In the third and final installment of the Critics at Large i ... Show More
46m 43s
Nov 2023
#62 Sarah Breskman Cosme - Remembering Past Lives: Atlantis & Lemuria, Dolores Cannon, Quantum Healing Hypnosis
<p>Sarah Breskman Cosme is a Master Hypnotist, a Level 3 practitioner of Dolores Cannon’s QHHT hypnosis, and a student of Dr. Brian Weiss. She is the best-selling author of A Hypnotist’s Journey to Atlantis and the author of A Hypnotist’s Journey to the Secrets of the Sphinx. QHH ... Show More
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