Leah Sottile
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Leah Sottile’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She was not to ascend from Mount Shasta. She was going to ascend from Ashland, Oregon, which is a couple hours north of Mount Shasta, also a very new agey town in the west. So they brought her to a hotel in Ashland and essentially just waited for her to die.
And she did, she died in a hotel room there surrounded by several of her followers who, you know, their deification of her is so evident from seeing the way that they treated her at the end of her life. Probably most chillingly, one of her closest followers said, God just died. Like, how are we supposed to respond to that? And so. Yeah, they were beside themselves grieving.
And I think that there was a lot of question around, what is this now? We don't worship Father God. Father God is just this guy that's supposed to be there as a support system for Mother God.
They wrapped up her body and they took her out on a camping trip. Father God slept with her body in a tent. They had a campfire. They made pancakes. And then eventually some of her followers just said, you know what? She needs to go back to Colorado. They drove her across several state lines all the way back to southern Colorado, a very, very long drive, and set her up in that home.
I mean, I don't know what their plan was. It seemed like they were planning to live with her dead body for as long as they could to worship her.
There's probably three or four groups that break away and start their own thing. They start writing books about her. They put out educational curriculum that they believe. That was like one of Mother God's goals was to have schools that were set up in her image and her ideology. And of course, everybody starts selling colloidal silver and live streaming.
In some cases, selling like t-shirts with Amy on it. Meanwhile, in Texas, her actual family is like, oh my God, what happened? And now we're dealing with the trauma of this loss of this person that we lost twice in our life. And now you're selling t-shirts of her? It was just really like so many layers of grief for them as well.
As far as this book is concerned with Amy Carlson, she had no original ideas. They were all ideas that I don't even think she knew where they came from. This book tries to figure out where they did.
This book began for me when I had 15 tarot decks and I wasn't sure why. I don't mean for this to be an attack, but for people to understand, look, this stuff is big. It's everywhere. You should know. Here's where it comes from. And here's where it starts to get grifty. Because I think that we are living in a time of grifters and that's not going to stop anytime soon.
So if anything, it's more of a cautionary tale of like, hey, you know, You go in a river, you might put on a life jacket. You go into the New Age, you might want to know that this does exist here. Have your eyes open for it.
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