Teal Swan’s Toxic Spirituality (The Deep End)

Not Another True Crime Podcast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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TW: This episode contains discussion and references to suicide. If you are thinking about suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or the Suicide Crisis Line at 1-800-784-2433. Sara and Danny are back this week to talk all about Teal Swan, the focus of the recent documentary "The Deep End." They start off with Teal Swan's beginning and her claims of possessing extrasensory abilities, and how she made a name for herself through a series of youtube videos. Then they cover the cult-like group she's created and the controversial behavior that she's exhibited as their leader. They also get into the experiences of various previous members of the group and how they recall their time within it. RESOURCES: https://tealswan.com/about-teal/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50478821 https://www.eonline.com/news/1335268/inside-the-deep-end-the-rise-of-teal-swan-and-her-controversial-completion-process-program https://tealswan.com/curveball/?fbclid=IwAR3fMKictajUdxFC1kQU-J002hK8YmWqL2NGdfBLKR13yRjnmJg1hsMvGGk https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/08/205915/the-gateway-teal-swan-youtube-cult-jennings-brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to not another true crime podcast of Sarah Levine.
0:08.3	And I'm Danny Murphy, you know us where your partner is in wine, crime and time and also like watching things because I feel that is what we are now really what we are here for you for.
0:18.1	Among everything. Yes. Yes. And just a quick trigger warning up top before we start today's episode.
0:26.4	Today's episode will discuss suicide and if you are thinking about suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK or 1-800-273-8255.
0:41.9	Yeah. And I also know that there's a I think it's 9-88 is a new three digit code that they're doing for that too. So if anybody needs that just to have in reference.
0:50.8	Yes. And if you need to skip this episode, we 100% understand.
0:57.3	We will see we will see you next week because I don't think I want to talk about this woman anymore than this episode too. So expect we will just see it next week.
1:03.8	Yes. Yes. We will be talking about Teal Swan. She is the focus of the documentary on Hulu called the deep end.
1:16.3	It was originally a free form documentary. Now you can watch it all on Hulu. When I saw that I was like my pretty little Liars channel is getting into the crime.
1:25.5	Don't I was a little shocked. I did not know that that was like their programming. But I mean, I guess everyone is everyone is jumping on.
1:32.8	I was surprised and you know what it's funny that you say that because as I was watching this, I kept kind of like forgetting that I wasn't watching a TV show because I feel like just the way I don't know the way it was like shot in the way it was lit.
1:46.2	It didn't feel like a traditional documentary. So that was a little bit like, huh?
1:54.2	100% and also if you are like me and you have the basic Hulu, it really felt like a TV show because I think there was a commercial every five minutes.
2:02.2	Oh my god. Yeah. Really? Yeah.
2:05.2	My sister-in-law who's account I use does not pay for commercial free and I wouldn't either so that is no shade but it's like, yeah, that was a lot of commercials.
2:16.2	It was a chunk of time. It doubled the deep end of duration.
2:20.2	It did. It did. So we're going to talk about the documentary but also just about Teal Swan who is like the figure at the center of this.
2:29.2	And also the cute frog cameo that really made my viewing of it enjoyable.
2:33.2	A frog cameo. It was the, the, which for 0.2 seconds it was a cute frog that made a worm.
2:39.2	So how's something for everybody that's talking about right?
2:42.2	Little something for everyone.
2:44.2	But so from her website Teal Swan was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 16th 1984 at 742 AM.
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