Inside the cult of Mother God: Followers of ex-McDonald's manager Amy Carlson's 'abusive' New Age sect lay bare group's harrowing descent into anarchy and violence - two years after leader's mummified corpse was found wrapped in Christmas lights

Daily Mail/November 11, 2023

By Erica Nardozz

A New Age cult leader who called herself 'Mother God' is the subject of an eerie upcoming documentary about her conspiracy-driven spiritual sect, Love Has Won, and her devoted followers in Colorado.

The three-part HBO series Love Has Won: The Cult Of Mother God is set to explore the life and death of Amy Carlson, a former McDonald's manager who purported she was a divine being on a mission to save humanity.

In 2021, Carlson's mummified corpse was found troweled with makeup in a room filled with fairy lights in a Colorado home. She had died of anorexia, alcohol abuse, and chronic colloidal silver ingestion at age 45.

The chilling new trailer for the docuseries begins with bodycam footage of Saguache County police officers arriving at the property with a search warrant, right before they discovered Carlson's body.

Jason Castillo, the leader's last 'Father God' partner before her death, tells the authorities: 'Mother is in rest. She has rested.'

Carlson, who insisted on being called 'Mom' or 'Mother God,' preached a combination of spiritualism, Abrahamic beliefs, and QAnon conspiracy theories to her devoted followers.

She convinced them that she was from the mythical ancient land of Lemuria and was 19 billion years old — the reincarnation of Jesus and Marilyn Monroe, among others.

Carlson also claimed that former President Donald Trump was her loving father in a past life, and she would one day lead 144,000 chosen people into a new mystical fifth dimension.

'She was Joan of Arc, Cleopatra. She's God,' one former follower explains in the trailer.

However, her family told Josh Osborne, host of the Vice series False Gods, that she didn't get into New Age thinking until she turned 30.

She then left her third marriage and job at McDonald's to embark on her mission to save humanity.

Under Carlson's leadership, Love Has Won had about 20 core members in Colorado who were dedicated to recruiting more followers around the world through their daily live streams on YouTube.

They also raised donations and sold New Age merchandise to fund the group while tending to Carlson.

In the docuseries, Castillo introduces himself as 'Father of All Creation' and shares how Carlson told him he was 'brilliant.'

'I had never heard that phrase in my life,' he admits, adding, 'When God loves you, the pressure comes.'

Carlson was supposed to be a nurturing, motherly being who birthed creation, but former members have accused her of brainwashing and abuse.

Videos that have emerged over the years show her screaming obscenities, holding up a cat by its fur, and allegedly having a young child put in a closet for having a tantrum.

In Carlson's haunting final photos that were posted to Facebook, she is emaciated and has a strange blue tint to her skin.

'She drank a lot of colloidal silver,' one woman explains in the series.

Colloidal silver, a substance that consists of tiny silver particles suspended in a liquid, has been dangerously touted as a 'cure-all' dietary supplement to treat everything from COVID-19 to cancer by quack doctors.

There are no known medical benefits to ingesting colloidal silver, which can make it difficult to absorb medicine and cause damage to the stomach, liver, and kidneys.

A build up of silver in the body can also lead to argyria, a blueish-grey discoloration of the skin that is often irreversible.

Love Has Won promoted the use of colloidal silver and sold it online through its e-commerce company Gaia's Whole Healing Essentials, which led to a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Carlson's obsessive intake of colloidal silver is what partially contributed to her death. The 5-foot-four leader weighed just 75 pounds when she died in California.

At some point after her death, her followers transported her body to a home in Colorado, where they created a makeshift shrine.

When authorities discovered her corpse on April 28, 2021, she was wrapped in a sleeping bag and decorated with Christmas lights. Her eyes were rotted away with her empty sockets smeared with glitter.

Seven of her followers were arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse. They also faced child abuse charges after law enforcement found a 13-year-old and two-year-old in the house.

All of the charges were later dropped, and even without Carlson's leadership, Love Has Won continues to attract devoted followers and peddle controversial products for hundreds of dollars.

Love Has Won: The Cult Of Mother was directed by Hannah Olson and features interviews with former members, as well as Carlson's family.

Inside Carlson's Cult

Carlson founded Love Has Won in Colorado in 2018 after leaving her third marriage and job at McDonald's.

She told followers she was a divine being who had been trying to save humanity for 19 billion years.

Carlson claimed she was the reincarnation of Jesus, Joan of Arc, and Marilyn Monroe, among others.

She also purported that former President Donald Trump was her loving father in a past life.

Followers believed she would one day lead 144,000 chosen people into a new mystical fifth dimension.

Former Love Has Won members accused Carlson of brainwashing and abuse.

She had about 20 core members who were dedicated to recruiting more followers through their daily live streams on YouTube.

Following Carlson's death, Love Has Won continues to attract followers and peddle controversial products for hundreds of dollars.

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