Into the Nama Storm. I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Leib.

And this is Ghost Town.

There are many things associated with the LA New Age scene.

There's crystals, yoga, meditation, psychics, and now QAnon.

And not so secret ring of yogis and newagers are spreading the gospel of Q.

This is the story of how Southern California's new age scene became the hotbed for anti-vaxxing

and red-pilling.

This is an episode we actually recorded and could not find the file.

And we've done a lot of episodes and I don't know if that's ever,

if it happened, maybe more to me, but not that I can remember.

And I want to say it's a conspiracy.

Uh-oh.

You know what I mean?

Putting it out there and now we're brave enough to rerecord it in a mediocre way.

So buckle up.

Everyone knows places like Goop or Deepak Chopra or Headspace,

the personal wellness and spirituality community isn't just drum circles.

It's according to the LA Times, a $1.5 trillion industry.

We're talking yogis, energy healers, sound bathers, crystal sellers, psychics,

terror readers like myself, get your terror read, if you're a patreon donor,

there's spiritual life coaches, raky practitioners, transcendental meditation people,

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