“Queen of Conspiracy Theories”
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Guru Jagat starts the pandemic with an understandable skepticism of official medical advice, but quickly grows to embrace an array of far-right conspiracy theories.
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| 0:42.6 | It's 9 a.m. in Venice, California, and a white woman and a white turban and flowy white clothes is sitting cross-legged on a stage, the way she did almost every day for more |
| 0:48.0 | than eight years. She is surrounded by crystals and candles, a bronze gong, and golden poles strung with fairy lights. |
| 0:57.0 | On the ground, people sit shoulder to shoulder on yoga mats folded in half to make more room. |
| 1:03.0 | They sip tea from tiny cups, they stretch, and eventually the woman on stage leans towards the microphone. |
| 1:11.2 | The chatter stops. |
| 1:14.5 | This is what everyone is here for. |
| 1:16.9 | This is their guru. |
| 1:18.5 | And now, she begins to speak. |
| 1:21.5 | On She chants, eyes closed, palms pressed in front of her heart. |
| 1:38.3 | And then she begins aggressively punching the air above her head, like an angry backstroke. |
| 1:52.0 | Consciously get frustrated, get angry, everybody is all upset about this year. Just another thing to get upset about. Now go. |
| 1:58.7 | The breathing gets heavier. The drums get louder, and then... |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah, hashtag fuck 2016. |
| 2:09.1 | This woman's name is Guru Jugget. |
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