In a culture where religion is so revered, religious people can get away with just about anything.

When asked if any sort of traumatic experience had sent them spiraling, Marie Grace pushed back. “I mean, trauma’s really popular right now. It’s a little highly suspect. A lot of people making a lot of money off creating this department called trauma,” she said.

“This is the way that cults are now,” Rick Alan Ross said. “Everyone is online, everyone uses social media platforms.” Money is exchanged through PayPal, Venmo.

Watching that film, it becomes clear that JZ Knight understands what so many of us won’t admit about power in America. Money earns respect, so she built herself a palace. Beauty compels, so she has taken care to preserve her looks. A man who commands gets heard, so she became one. Warriors are heroes, so she transformed Lemuria into a battlefield.

Often these women have very limited roles that they can inhabit in their normal social lives.”

The wrong of these things, as I see it, is not in the money the victims part with half so much as in the mental and spiritual poison they get. But that is precisely the thing the Constitution put beyond the reach of the prosecutor, for the price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a goo

“What is one to do when in order to rule men it is necessary to deceive them?” she said.

“There’s anti-intellectualism at play,” she said. “And a real resentment of expert knowledge.”

“While not all feminists were Spiritualists, all Spiritualists advocated women’s rights,” Braude wrote.