Her account begins in the 1800s, when a British zoologist was trying to understand why there were lemurs in Madagascar, lemur fossils in distant India – but none on the African mainland. His hypothesis? That an entire continent must’ve gone missing. He called it Lemuria. More than a century later, the leader of a New Age cult called Love Has Won claimed that she was the reincarnated queen of Lemuria, and also she’d been Joan of Arc and Jesus Christ, too. And a few people decided to worship her. Leah Sottile joins us to talk about the compelling, troubling world of New Age Spirituality.
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Leah Sottile | She’s a writer and journalist. Her 2025 book is called “Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age.”
Original Airdate: Jul. 23, 2025; rebroadcast Aug. 20, 2026