Amy Carlson

Amy Carlson (November 30, 1975 – April 16, 2021), also known by her followers as Mother God, was an American religious leader and the co-founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won. Carlson and her followers believed that she was God, a 19-billion-year-old being, and a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and that she could heal people with cancer "with the power of love". The family later lived in Dallas, Texas. They then relocated to Houston.

Carlson had three children by three different fathers. She worked as a manager at McDonald's.

During the mid-2000s, Carlson developed an interest in New Age religion, and became a regular poster on the forums of the website lightworkers.org. On the forum, she met Amerith WhiteEagle, who convinced Carlson that she was divine, and Carlson began to claim to experience paranormal phenomena; specifically, she heard a voice telling her she would one day become President of the United States.

In late 2007, Carlson left her third husband, her children, and her job, The group posted their first videos to YouTube in 2009. A multi-day protest ensued, with protestors lighting driftwood fires and chanting Hawaiian prayers around the rented property the group were staying in. The mayor of Kauai, Derek Kawakami, intervened to negotiate the departure of the group from the island.

Just before Carlson's death in April 2021, Lamboy paid the Colorado Secretary of State's office $50 to register a new nonprofit, Gaia's Crystal Schools Inc., listing the associated address as 4 Alcedo Court, where authorities recovered Carlson's body.

Carlson's followers claimed that, rather than dying, she had "ascended" to the fifth dimension after assuming all of mankind's pain. The website lovehaswon.org was taken offline. Several core members of Love Has Won still believe that Amy Carlson is God and reject what they refer to as the "3D world".

The group renamed their Facebook page and YouTube channel "5D Full Disclosure",

Mother God and beliefs

Carlson's teachings revolved around the idea that she was the 534th incarnation of Mother God, a deity who was destined to lead exactly 144,000 believers out of the superficial reality of the "3-D world" and into a fifth-dimensional plane of higher existence. White Buffalo Calf Woman, Cleopatra, Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Pocahontas, Helena Blavatsky, including Robin Williams, Patrick Swayze, John Lennon (identified with Ashtar),

The group's former website said that Carlson was a spiritual surgeon who would work "multidimensionally" to operate on people's bodies and cure various physical ailments. She said she had cured cancer, Lyme disease, addiction, and suicidal thoughts, as well as removed brain tumors, and helped cases of autism. Carlson was last seen alive by someone outside the group on April 10, 2021.

On April 28, 2021, Lamboy went to the Saguache County police department and reported that the group had come to his home with Carlson's corpse and were staying there without permission, and that he had not been in touch with Carlson for several months. Upon arrival, police discovered Carlson's mummified corpse; its state of decay suggested that she had been dead for several weeks. The body was found in a sleeping bag wrapped in Christmas lights, the face covered in glitter and the eyes missing, in what authorities stated was a makeshift shrine. Seven members of the group were charged with abuse of a corpse as well as child abuse due to the presence of two children in the property. A photo from a few weeks before Carlson is thought to have died shows her appearance to be emaciated; she had thinning hair and discolored skin with a purplish hue. Consuming colloidal silver over a long period of time can lead to blue-grey discoloration of the skin, as well as seizures and organ failure. The autopsy found no evidence that Carlson had cancer. The charges were later dropped.

Though the house and the group's bank accounts were in Lamboy's name, he was not charged in connection with the corpse. Lamboy reportedly emptied the group's bank account, which contained $330,000. Group members reported that they had not heard from Lamboy since April 28, 2021, and several news outlets have failed to locate him.

Media appearances Carlson appeared on Dr. Phil in 2020, where she spread her claims of being God and confronted her family.

The HBO documentary series Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God, directed by Hannah Olson, premiered on November 13, 2023.

A book about Amy Carlson, Love Has Won, and the New Age leaders, called Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age, was published by journalist Leah Sottile in March 2022.