Introducing... Witnessed: Mystic Mother

The Binge Crimes: Cut, Color, Kill

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

For years, the Phoenix Goddess Temple 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 beliefs might be against the law? Hosts Katie and Leah Henoch follow the rise and fall of the Phoenix Goddess Temple and tell the story of a community still reckoning with the fallout more than a decade later. Available September 6, 2022, wherever you get your podcasts. Witnessed: Mystic Mother is part of The Binge—a new podcast channel from Sony Music Entertainment. Subscribe now to unlock all shows on The Binge - All Episodes. All at Once... and you’ll be the first to access Mystic Mother as soon as it drops on September 6, 2022. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am the mystic mother of the phoenix goddess temple.
0:10.5	This is Tracy Elise.
0:13.7	Tracy believes in the feminine aspect of God, the goddess.
0:18.7	She also believes in the sacred power of sex.
0:22.5	Sexuality can be improved, it can be sacred, it can be a pathway for your soul's growth
0:28.3	and connection to the greater nature of reality.
0:31.8	A lot of people grow up learning that God is masculine and that sex is private, secret,
0:38.6	sometimes shameful.
0:40.2	So Tracy's beliefs can seem radical.
0:43.2	For the first time in my life I'm being told by being a woman you have your own power
0:48.6	and you're more powerful than you ever knew.
0:52.1	The temple was a spiritual home, with community events, Sunday services and healing sessions.
0:59.1	It was also a refuge for people dealing with trauma, abuse and instability.
1:04.2	For three years the temple grew and Tracy's goal was to keep expanding.
1:09.1	I felt like we were all in a boat together and trying to build something greater than ourselves.
1:16.8	But one day it all came crashing down.
1:27.6	By fall of 2011 the phoenix police have been investigating the temple for months.
1:33.7	They sent in undercover detectives with hidden recording devices.
1:37.5	I told her that I would like to put my cacura in her vasakra.
1:41.6	As she said yes I could put my cacura in her vasakra.
1:46.0	The police and the county attorney claimed that the phoenix goddess temple was actually a brothel.
1:52.4	This was no more church than Cuba's fantasy island.
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