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DOM Ep353 - The Cult of "Profundity Yours"

·55 min·3 clips
Linda tells followers to let go of husbands, wives, partners, and children.
1. Dawn of Mantis: True Crime, Mysteries and More examines Profundity Yours, the cult-like group led by Linda Good McGillis. 2. The hosts Ivan, Joe, and Sam frame Linda as the central figure because her claims drive the entire story. 3. The episode asks what Linda Good McGillis teaches, how Profundity Yours operates, and why people follow her. 4. The hosts say Profundity Yours appeared on YouTube and Facebook in 2014 as a self-help group. 5. Linda is described as a self-proclaimed spiritual teacher and life coach who charged upwards of $500 per hour for trauma therapy. 6. The episode says Linda claimed to have once been a licensed psychiatrist, but no evidence was found for that claim. 7. The hosts place Linda's upbringing in Portland, Oregon and later Missoula, Montana, where she was living in a trailer park. 8. Linda says her body was taken over on April 25, 2014 by an alien entity from the Intergalactic Federation of Worlds. 9. She calls this process a 'walk-in' and says she is one of five walk-ins in human history. 10. Linda says she communicates with ships and fleets through a holographic computer and telepathy. 11. The episode highlights Linda's claim to be the Alpha and Omega and the first atom, the first spark of light in the universe. 12. The hosts describe her move from Montana to Marietta, Texas after followers gave her enough money to relocate. 13. Linda's group later bought a ranch, the town's only restaurant called the Old Town Cafe, a feed mill, and surrounding land. 14. Profundity Yours renamed the property the Emerald City Sunlight's Ranch, linking the group to Wizard of Oz imagery. 15. The hosts say Linda teaches 'diamondizing,' which she defines as controlling the mind by eliminating negative thought patterns. 16. Linda says a woman's sexual assault was her own fault because she must have put out bad energy earlier. 17. She tells followers to let go of attachments to husbands, wives, partners, and children and to devote consciousness to her. 18. Linda predicts a world change or ending for the spring equinox of 2023 and says she has written the binary code for it. 19. The tone stays conversational and sarcastic, with the hosts interrupting one another while playing clips from Linda's videos. 20. Listeners interested in new religious movements and cult rhetoric will get the most from this episode, while people wanting careful theology analysis may skip it.
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