S4E2 - The Tea (Celestial Seasonings & Urantia)

Cult or Just Weird

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"A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter. -Mary Lou Heiss"

You might want to put that cup of tea down while Kayla spills some of her own tea about a certain producer of such products.

Warning: Eugenics :(

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*Search Categories*

New Age; Business; Destructive; Alt Medicine/Wellness

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*Topic Spoiler*

Celestial Seasonings Tea Company & Urantia

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*Further Reading*

https://www.inverse.com/article/10731-cults-conspiracies-and-the-twisted-history-of-sleepytime-tea

https://www.foodandwine.com/drinks/sleepytime-tea-and-little-known-religion-behind-it

https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2021/01/the-insane-true-story-of-the-racist-eugenics-book-your-inspirational-teabag-tag-might-be-based-on/

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/celestial-seasonings-inc-history/

https://www.urantia.org/trustees/mo-siegel

https://www.urantia.org/

https://urantia-book.org/archive/readers/doc170.htm#III.C

https://web.archive.org/web/20150518080730/https://urantia-book.org/archive/readers/doc170.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#Criticism_of_its_science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Sadler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Seasonings

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Mo+Siegel/3777

http://symmetryofsoul.org/wiki/Symmetry_of_Soul_Hosts

https://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/24310

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