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Breath of Fire: The story behind Guru Jagat and Kundalini yoga
THE HBO Original series, Breath of Fire has been set to debut on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 and has been based on Guru Jagat, the controversial founder of the RA MA Institute.
Released as a four-part documentary, the shocking history behind the yoga studio has unveiled the multi-million-dollar industry and the scandalous rise of its leader, Guru Jagat.
The new four-part documentary has been directed by Hayley Pappas and Smiley Stevens who both worked on White Hot: The rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch.
Set to stream on Max, the new episodes have been planned for subsequent Wednesdays with the last debuting around mid-November.
Spiritual millennial
Born on August 30, 1979 in Colorado, United States, Guru Jagat, otherwise known as Katie Griggs, was a millennial YouTube astrologer until 2013.
She opened up the Los Angeles branch of Ra Ma Institute which describes itself as “not your average yoga studio”.
Donning a white toga, she led and became the face of the brand which oversaw the spiritual guidance and healing of many.
It was during this time, she adopted the new title, having studied Kundalini yoga in New Mexico.
But on August 1, 2021, aged 41, the teacher, podcaster and author died from a cardiac arrest whilst undergoing surgery on her left ankle.
A shocking history
Located on Lincoln Boulevard, in Venice, Los Angeles, the Ra Ma Institute served an array of famous celebrity clients including Kate Hudson, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore and Kelly Rutherford.
Breath of Fire claims to uncover the shocking history of Kundalini from the 1960s and is based on the Vanity Fair story by Hayley Phelan, The Second coming of Guru Jagat.
In the article, the writer describes Griggs as a “middle-class white girl” who some view as a “bona fide spiritual leader” whilst others a “fraud” and some go even further claiming she was a “bigot”, “feminist”, and “rape apologist”.
The controversy behind the latest series began after Griggs’ death when “wild theories” and conspiracies started to whirl.
Griggs’ life was not without campaign or criticism, however, which led to Phelan interviewing Guru Jagat before her death.
A controversial leader
One of the predominant founders of kundalini, Yogi Bhajan, was accused of rape, sexual misconduct and financial malfeasance after his death in 2004.
In 2020 his former employee and lover published a memoir detailing accusations and a report that followed by an independent third party found abuse “more likely than not occurred”.
Jagat took to social media to voice her opinion and received widespread backlash which snowballed into anonymous claims about poor working conditions at her institute and abuse suffered by staff.
Nicole Norton, a former personal assistant to Jagat, described the business as a “cult within a cult”.
The controversy then peaked when an anonymous employee described Jagat’s alleged “habit of promoting QAnon rhetoric”, embracing far-right beliefs and even telling the Vanity Fair writer, “I’m a controversial figure”.
She continued: “This goes with the territory. I’m not, like, love-and-light Suzie. I’m very direct and I talk about s**t people don’t want to talk about.”
A deep-dive series
Through conversations with former employees, family members and fans of Jagat the series brings together the history behind Kundalini’s prominent figures.
Based off the Vanity Fair article, the show has used a variety of other sources including activists, journalists, mothers and religious scholars.
The documentary release has been separated into four episodes, which looks to unravel what happened chronologically.
Debuting with an episode about Katie Griggs’ transition to Guru Jagat, the episodes look to go in-depth.
Where can you watch HBO’s Breath of Fire?
The first episode has been scheduled for release on October 23.
All of the releases of the series have been set for consequential Wednesdays from 9pm.
Each installment will be one hour long and will be available to stream on Max.
The HBO Original four-parter has not confirmed whether there will be any further episodes or series.
I ‘died’ after family’s horror car crash – when I woke mum told me dad had passed…I knew already as I saw him in heaven
A MAN who was declared medically dead three times after a horror car crash at the age of eight claims he saw his father in heaven.
Landon Kemp from Charlotte, North Carolina, was involved in a major collision with an ambulance on October 19, 1997.
The Pontiac Sunfire in which Kemp and his parents Andy and Julie were travelling from church was T-boned by the emergency vehicle.
Andy died in the accident and his eight-year-old son had to be revived at the scene, on the way to the hospital, and when he was at the Carolina’s Medical Center.
Kemp believes that on each occasion he went to heaven and that on one of these times, he saw his father before he was told of his death.
‘I SAW HIM’
In an interview shared on YouTube his mother who suffered from broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a concussion, has detailed the moment her child revealed he had been to heaven.
After being in a coma for two weeks, Kemp opened his eyes and to the shock of his doctors had not sustained any brain damage.
However, his mother Julie knew she had to tell him about the death of his father.
“I didn’t want to hurt him anymore. So I asked him, Landon, do you know where your Dad is at?” she recalled.
“And he told me, ‘Yes I know where he’s at – I saw him in heaven.”
Kemp who is now 35 also claims to have seen other dead people including his two unborn siblings and Jesus.
Each time he went to heaven it was different, he explained.
“I remember being able to see my dad and his friend Olan Palmer who had passed away less than a month before he did, also in a car accident,” Kemp said.
“And Olan’s son, Neal Palmer, who had died on a four-wheeler years before.”
He claims that no one spoke but that they all stood around each other until he was revived.
Just being in heaven, I guess you know your own or you know who everyone is.
Landon Kemp
Kemp also reportedly saw two other people who he had no prior knowledge of but knew they were family when he saw them.
“He looked over to me and he said ‘Oh mum by the way I forgot to tell you I saw your other two kids,'” Julie recalled.
“I just looked at him because I wasn’t sure what he was talking about.”
She revealed in the interview that before her son was born she had suffered two miscarriages which neither she nor her husband ever mentioned to their child.
“I knew that they were my siblings even though no one had ever told me about them,” Kemp said.
“Just being in heaven, I guess you know your own or you know who everyone is.”
On his third visit to heaven, Kemp says Jesus came to him and instructed him to return to Earth to “be a good Christian and tell others about him.”
‘SPIRIT REALM’
While it is rare for people to believe they have seen things fro a higher place after a near-death-experience, others have shared their stories.
A mum-of-three who died for 40 minutes detailed last year what she saw as doctors were reviving her.
She claims something “magical” happened and she was “brought back” to life.
In 2021, a 55-year-old man who died when his heart stopped during an operation has since claimed that he became separate from his body before he was revived and was “in the spirit realm.”
“I knew I had died. I was separate from my body. Then I just went to sleep and I woke up, alive and the bleeding had stopped,” he said.
Meanwhile, two other women claimed that they have also seen heaven and that one is excited to return.
Donald Trump repeatedly compares himself to Ronald Reagan & is pressed on abortion views by all-women crowd at town hall
DONALD Trump has aligned his views on abortion to that of former President Ronald Reagan as the Republican presidential candidate spoke at an all-women town hall.
With less than three weeks left before Election Day, Trump and his team are pounding the campaign trail, looking to make strides in critical battleground states that will determine which candidate takes up residence in the White House in January.
On Tuesday, Trump was joined by Fox News Channel anchor Harris Faulkner at a town hall as he took questions from an all-female audience about issues besetting the nation, including abortion, immigration, and childcare.
The prerecorded town hall, which was held in Cumming, Georgia, about 40 miles north of Atlanta, premiered on Wednesday’s edition of The Faulkner Focus.
Trump, 78, compared his stance on abortion with that of Ronald Reagan but spoke loftily about the 40th president’s policies on family childcare.
The Republican presidential nominee said the issue of abortion has divided the country for over half a century but believes there are exceptions for why a woman could seek to terminate her pregnancy.
“For 52 years, the issue has torn our country apart,” Trump said when asked by a town hall attendee about why the US government is involved in women’s basic rights.
“Every legal scholar, the greats ones, every lawyer, but the Democrats, the Republicans, the liberals, and conservatives, they wanted it brought out of the federal government and brought back to the states for a vote of the people.
“And, like Ronald Reagan, I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother – I strongly believe, you know, you have to follow your heart.”
Trump continued, “Some people don’t. It’s a very small percentage, but you have to follow your heart.
“But you have the exceptions. But with what we were able to do is through really the courage of six Supreme Court justices, we were able to do this after years and years of turmoil.”
When a single mother of two asked Trump what realistic changes he would make to help struggling families with childcare if elected to a second term, the former president brought up the child tax law he signed in 2017.
“I have you the largest tax cuts in the history of our country,” he said before taking a dig at former President Reagan, “Okay, larger than the Reagan cuts. Larger.
“I understand exactly what you’re saying. We’re going to readjust things so that it’s fair to everybody, because it’s really not fair to everybody.
“But we have a lot, and we’re going to we’re going up higher, but we’re also going to readjust because you have to make some readjustments.
“It’s unfair to some people, and we’re not going to have that.”
Trump has repeatedly aligned his views on abortion to that of his former Republican presidential counterpart.
In May 2019, Trump said he is “strongly Pro-life” but again argued that abortion should be accessible in some cases.
“As most people know, and for those who would like to know, I am strongly Pro-Life, with the three exceptions – Rape, Incest and protecting the Life of the mother – the same position taken by Ronald Reagan,” Trump wrote on X at the time.
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