HBO Releases Documentary About Cult Led by “Spirit of Robin Williams”

What if someone told you they were 19 billion years old, were reincarnated multiple times as famous people like Joan of Arc and Marilyn Monroe, and had the ability to cure cancer? Well, for the members of the group Love Has Won, that is exactly what they believed about leader Amy Carlson. A documentary on Carlson and Love Has Won — often called a cult — has recently come out on HBO Max. It is called Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God.

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Each cult has its own beliefs and practices, and one of the most interesting aspects of Love Has Won is what they believed was their spiritual connection to the late Robin Williams.

Members of Love Has Won say that they are on a first-name basis with the ghost of the actor, calling him one of “Mom’s main ambassadors”. Mom, as they affectionately call her, is Amy Carlson, who died in 2021.

One of Carlson’s followers said that Carlson/Mom “signed over the divine plan for him to make change.” Carlson also believed that Williams sent her messages to let her know what she and her followers should be doing.

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One follower, who still believes in Carlson’s teachings, says that they saw Robin Williams come through “Mother God” when she would drink alcohol.

“I have seen Robin Williams come through Mother God because she’s on alcohol, and I feel that she utilized it as a tool to let certain things through, because we needed to hear it.” Such as the fact that he took Mother God’s joy away “by making her the world’s worst quesadilla.”

It is not exactly clear why Carlson focused in on Williams, and chose him to be her cult’s spiritual guide. Per Salon:

It is hard to say what Williams would have made of “Love Has Won” or the cult itself; several videos show Carlson ripping massive bong hits in her pursuit of a “higher vibration.” Williams once mused, “Do you think God gets stoned? I think so. Look at the platypus.” (He was also famously inclusive, placing that reputation at odds with the cult’s views that homosexuality is wrong and, um, that whole Hitler excuse.)

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It is also believed that Carlson may have identified with Williams because he always talked about feeling like an outsider who wanted to connect with his fellow human beings through affection, understanding, and sensitivity.

Williams ended his life in 2014 while suffering from the effects of Lewy Body Dementia.

Carlson died in April 2021, and was found by police days after she died. She was wrapped in a sleeping bag that was covered in Christmas lights. According to the autopsy results, Ms. Carlson died from the effects of anorexia, alcoholism, and chronic colloidal silver ingestion. Carlson believed that ingesting tiny amounts of silver could cure things like COVID, cancer, HIV, and AIDS.

Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God was made by Hannah Olson and studies Amy Carlson/Mother God, her husbands – who were known as Father God –, and her ex and current followers.

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