In the event you like cult documentaries, the lately launched HBO/Max docuseries, “Love Has Received: The Cult of Mom God,” is a must-see. I binged all the 3-part collection final evening and was riveted. I already knew an ideal deal in regards to the cult, as I’ve adopted Be Scofield’s terrific reporting over the previous couple of years, and even watched my justifiable share of the cult’s livestreams earlier than chief Amy Carlson died. Even so, the HBO/Max docuseries was informative—and in addition extremely disturbing.
HBO describes the docuseries:
Love Has Received: The Cult of Mom God chronicles the life and demise of Amy Carlson, also referred to as Mom God, a self-proclaimed non secular 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 demise would result in her evacuation by UFO and salvation for humanity. Advised 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.
HBO Documentary Movies presents an Elara Photos Manufacturing, Love Has Received: The Cult of Mom God. Director, Hannah Olson; producers, Ana Veselic and Matthew Killip; govt producers, Dani Bernfeld, Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Lauren Cioffi, and Hannah Olson. For HBO: govt producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Sara Rodriguez.
Individuals journal has an ideal evaluate of the piece, which incorporates excerpts from an interview with cult skilled Rick Alan Ross:
Famous cult skilled Rick Alan Ross of the nonprofit Cult Training Institute,who has helped save greater than 500 individuals from predators resembling Department Davidian chief David Koresh and NVIVM founder Keith Raniere, says Love Has Received was one of the harmful teams he is ever encountered.
“This was a really managed, tightly wound group,” he tells PEOPLE, “led by an outrageously harmful and abusive chief.”
Carlson, he says, “may very well be extraordinarily bodily and emotionally abusive. She would scream at them, slap them and lock them in closets.”
She made positive to socially isolate members and make them fully depending on her for all the pieces, together with what to assume, he says.
They endured her abuse, he says, as a result of she had made them consider she was their “omnipotent” chief with godlike powers.
“In that alternate actuality these individuals had no alternate perspective,” he says. “She managed the setting till her demise and exploited them terribly.”
Like different cult leaders, he says, Carlson “was a malignant narcissist obsessive about grandiose claims about herself, together with that she was god manifested on earth. When you’ve got a frontrunner as loopy and delusional as Amy Carlson, it is a method for tragedy.”
Whether or not you are already very accustomed to Amy Carlson and Love Has Received, or that is the primary you are listening to about it, the docuseries is unquestionably value a watch. Be ready, although, the story of Amy Carlson and her followers is as tragic because it infuriating, and the collection incorporates some very disconcerting pictures, together with post-death footage of “Mom God,” who died of alcoholism, anorexia, and colloidal silver poisoning.
