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Blazing Eye Sees All

Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

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Blazing Eye Sees All

By: Leah Sottile
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In this "unflinching and wildly entertaining" investigation of the modern New Age movement in America, a journalist aims to understand how women like Amy Carlson (the leader of Love Has Won) and others become devoutly invested in their beliefs (Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords).

Today, tarot cards, astrology and crystals are everywhere — on Instagram and TikTok, and sold at upscale boutiques and pricey wellness retreats. Journalist Leah Sottile turns her investigative eye toward the recent surge of New Age influencing American Culture. She looks at self-professed gurus like Love Has Won's Mother God and the mysterious channeler Ramtha, who have built devout followings based on their teachings. For more than a century, this pastel-colored world of love, light and enlightenment has been built upon a foundation of conspiracies, antisemitism, nationalism and a rejection of science.

In Blazing Eye Sees All, Sottile seeks to understand the quest for New Age spirituality in an era of fear that has made us open to anything that claims to bring relief from war, the climate crisis, COVID 19, and the myriad of other issues we face. At the same time, she attempts to draw a line between truly helpful, healing ideas and snake oil—helping us sort through the crystals to find true clarity.©2025 Leah Sottile (P)2025 Grand Central Publishing Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions Popular Culture Religious Studies Social Sciences True Crime

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"I have never read a better - or more entertaining - analysis of so-called New Age Spirituality and its self-anointed prophets than Lisa Sottile's Blazing Eye Sees All. In this book, even the infamous Love Has Won cult doesn't win, but readers do. See for yourself."—Jeff Guinn, author of Manson, The Road to Jonestown, and Waco
“BLAZING EYE SEES ALL is a sweeping, well-researched account of the lineage of American New Age thought, from the Pre-American myths and superstitions that thrive in this country’s peculiar psyche to the waves of spiritual charlatans who have repackaged this language and peddled religion –– and prejudice – as product. Sottile excels at unpacking the historical link between the conspiracy theories, bigotry, and New Age spiritualism that are the foundation of today’s toxic political soup.”
—Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close
"Leah Sottile's writing crackles off the page, in a characteristically rigorous yet enthralling glimpse into the nation's fringes. Unflinching and wildly entertaining, Blazing Eye Sees All is a must-read to understand the way genuine world crises generate an effluence of grift, like pus on a wound. This book is a bandage on that wound."—Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords and Wild Faith
“Leah Sottile is one of our foremost chroniclers of American extremism, and in Blazing Eye Sees All she reveals the conspiracism, fakery, and abuses of power embedded in New Age culture. A fascinating, unsettling, and, yes, enlightening investigation of an extremist movement operating in plain sight.”
—Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts
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The author does a great job narrating and providing insights into a timeless problem, a timeless human behavior, that most of us know about but don’t really understand. Insightful, humane and also, unsparing.

Brilliant Narrative of a Strange Human Condition

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Leah Sottile tells the story of Love Has Won through the lens American cultural and religious movements rather than just an isolated blue-skinned-mummy-worshipping cult. Sottile vividly embeds the tragic story of Amy Carlson into the milieu of the millenarian American west featured in her other works (When the Moon Turns to Blood, Bundyville, Burn Wild) while also telling the story of the family Amy left behind. This is an excellent book.

Excellent perspective and research

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The writer has pulled off a really clever trick: weaving evolutionary biology, American history, and cultural observation into a very compelling story.

Lemurs and cults? Yes!

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This was a well-organized, thoughtful book that provides a really important perspective on the history of new age spirituality and the socio-political landscape that it often reflects.

In-depth, complex storytelling

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Truth really is stranger than fiction. Leah Sottile has done it again and written a great book about cults in recent history.

Excellent investigation of recent-history New Age cults

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Stunning revelations . Glad to have this info… Scary and hard to believe our country’s vulnerability..

Neediness of people and what they will do with misinformation… sad, scary, informative..

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Very well researched and written. I was unaware of the history and through lines of influence from one prominent new age leader upon the next. The book shines light on patterns over two centuries of American new age spiritualism. And through the stories of several profiled cults illustrates key themes that seem to recur over and over. I believe there is much good and positive attributes of New Age spirituality, many empowering themes, but there is also a dark side, and this book does a good job of shining the light on what has gone on underneath the surface.

Very well researched and written history of American New Age Spirituality

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Another fantastic book by Sottile. Not only does she get access to key people in the story, but she also does the deep research to put it all into context. Surrounding the main cult story, Sottile weaves the personal stories with the wider history of new age seekers. I can’t wait to read/listen to whatever she publishes next.

The context is key

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Great context connecting current spiritual movements and conspiracy theories to historical movements and how those ideas infuse political discourse.
Research driven but presented with great storytelling that makes the concepts understandable and compelling. I love Leah’s style of storytelling. It translates into her writing style. Highly recommend!

Must read for those wishing to understand conservative political movement that is rife with spirituality and conspiracies.

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