True Believers

LA’s biggest rehab empire seems too good to be true, offering recovery, community and treatment on scholarship. But its patients get more than they bargained for.

Serge Benhayon was on the toilet when inspiration struck: devote himself to a rigid spiritual lifestyle of alien-worship and esoteric healing. Then spread the word to the world.

Online wellness guru Teal Swan claims she’s an alien sent to save Earth through new age healing. Former supporters say her trauma therapy encourages suicide as a “reset button”.

The Modern Mystery School trains an army of demon-fighters to defeat evil using a mystical mix of martial arts and sex magic, but the deeper in you get, the higher the cost.

OneTaste’s practice of “orgasmic meditation” is billed as the next women’s sexual revolution, but behind its meteoric, star-dusted rise are dark secrets and allegations of abuse.