Hey, Southern Fried listeners.

I've got your next podcast obsession to share with you today.

The show is called Witnessed Mystic Mother, and the story follows the rise and fall of the

Phoenix Goddess Temple, which for years claimed to offer seekers healing through sensual

touch.

But when an outsider exposes what's happening behind closed doors, the temple unknowingly

welcomes in a new kind of seeker, undercover detectives.

What some saw as a spiritual home, the state saw as a brothel operating under the guise

of religious freedom.

So what happens when your religious beliefs might be against the law?

Check out a preview for this awesome show right now.

If you drive down 24th Street in central Phoenix, pass the car wash and the pawn shop and

the fast food drive throughs, you'll come across a nondescript office building on the

west side of the road.

Nestled between the bustling traffic and a wide, slow-moving canal, there's a place that

many ones considered an oasis.

When you walk in, there's a big picture of a goddess, and she's standing with her legs

open.

I think her hands up in the air and their sunlight was coming right through her general area,

like just big burst of light.

It was all dim lights and pastel colors and candles and incense and goddess statues and

the sounds of falling water, little fountains and that sort of thing.

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