Where roses never fade

On April 21, 2020 local sheriffs in the remote town of Crestone in southeastern Colorado made a macabre discovery. Inside an unassuming suburban house, they found the mummified corpse of Amy Carlson, the 45 year-old former leader of Love Has Won — a New Age cult that peddled in faith healing, crank cures, and right-wing conspiracy theories. Her followers had dutifully placed her there, surrounded by flowers and painted with the finest Dollar Store glitter, to prepare for the inevitable reincarnation Amy promised as God of her own religion. Not surprisingly, Amy’s story sent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/colorado-amy-carlson-love-has-won.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">shockwaves through the press</a>. But as bizarre as it was, it wasn’t the first time that a mummy had caused a stir in this remote corner of the West. In the early 1930’s, an apocalyptic New Age cult called Home of Truth also got in trouble with the law for messing around with a corpse. Their story — which includes ornery local sheriffs, a mystical typewriter, and a Nazi-loving guru with psychic powers — illustrates the weird, often sordid, history of the New Age movement. <a href="https://medium.com/@chadoelke/where-roses-never-fade-the-unbelievable-story-of-home-of-truth-utahs-first-new-age-cult-c27b54c74d18">Read More</a>