The Love Has Won cult of Amy Carlson is stunning in that the group never had a conscious goal to achieve anything. Even the remaining members of the Manson family still have this whole seed preservation thing they do for environmental conservation, Squeaky Fromme continued with that theme back in the mid-70s when she attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford over the degradation of the redwood forest. Prior to that...well, you know, they thought they had to start a race war and killed a bunch of innocent people. Jonestown and Heaven's Gate thought they were all going to go somewhere like heaven and be swept up in a rapture. What is strange about Love Has Won despite their lack of scary violence or sexual predation is their sheer lack of object other than to worship and to care for Amy.
Beyond that - they did seem to care about transcending the illusion of modern capitalist society and using natural medicine instead of pharmaceuticals, but really not much came of that. You watch the documentary and they go from performing "light healings" through the Internet and selling hair, skin and spiritual herbal products ...to once again, just living to serve Amy. It's so deranged. Especially once she starts drinking heavily, how did so few of the cult members begin to doubt her? How can you watch a woman talking about love and spiritual transcendence and natural medicine devolve into the one of the worst alcoholics I personally have ever seen in my life. And once she died, they held on to this woman's dead body for WEEKS, and had no sense of mission or purpose. They simply had no idea of where they were supposed to go from there as a group. I've never seen anything quite like this before.
But some things are lacking from this documentary that you really need to see for yourselves on YouTube or by other means. Amy in the documentary is portrayed as quickly going downhill due to her horrific drinking problem, anorexia and colloidal silver intake - but you have to dig around on-line to see JUST HOW BIZARRE THIS REALLY IS. Because Amy became mean, cruel - totally delusional, screaming at her followers, insulting them, berating them ....her followers on-line scattered and lost interest because it escalated to a level that she was screaming at and insulting people during livestreams of what were previously regarded as light healings. I feel that aspect should have been emphasized in Love Has Won as a documentary. You can't REALLY see how crazy this all is until you witness first hand how insanely and abusively Amy Carlson was behaving towards the end. This is "Mother God"? And the stuff about Robin Williams....just yeesh, just wow.
Wow.
Beyond that - they did seem to care about transcending the illusion of modern capitalist society and using natural medicine instead of pharmaceuticals, but really not much came of that. You watch the documentary and they go from performing "light healings" through the Internet and selling hair, skin and spiritual herbal products ...to once again, just living to serve Amy. It's so deranged. Especially once she starts drinking heavily, how did so few of the cult members begin to doubt her? How can you watch a woman talking about love and spiritual transcendence and natural medicine devolve into the one of the worst alcoholics I personally have ever seen in my life. And once she died, they held on to this woman's dead body for WEEKS, and had no sense of mission or purpose. They simply had no idea of where they were supposed to go from there as a group. I've never seen anything quite like this before.
But some things are lacking from this documentary that you really need to see for yourselves on YouTube or by other means. Amy in the documentary is portrayed as quickly going downhill due to her horrific drinking problem, anorexia and colloidal silver intake - but you have to dig around on-line to see JUST HOW BIZARRE THIS REALLY IS. Because Amy became mean, cruel - totally delusional, screaming at her followers, insulting them, berating them ....her followers on-line scattered and lost interest because it escalated to a level that she was screaming at and insulting people during livestreams of what were previously regarded as light healings. I feel that aspect should have been emphasized in Love Has Won as a documentary. You can't REALLY see how crazy this all is until you witness first hand how insanely and abusively Amy Carlson was behaving towards the end. This is "Mother God"? And the stuff about Robin Williams....just yeesh, just wow.
Wow.