342: She Became A Guru, Started A Yoga Cult & Scammed Thousands

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Intro 0:00
What is Kundalini Yoga? 8:07
The Early Life of Katie Griggs 20:03
Katie Discovers Kundalini 28:25
Yogi Bhajan's Early Life 30:03
Bhanjan's Gross Opinions on Humanity 33:06
Hypocrisy of Bhajan 36:39
The Kundalini Compound 41:51
Katie Becomes Close to Bhajan 47:11
High Cost Clientele 52:43
"Rich and Hot" 54:26
Who is Hari Jiwan? 56:06
Katie's Appeal 1:07:48
From Guru to Cult Leader 1:13:31
The Birth of the Real Guru Jagat 1:19:30
How to Get Audited 101 1:24:14
The Abuse Worsens 1:30:52
Yet Another Hypocrite 1:38:56
Falling Down the Alt-Right Pipeline 1:48:16
The Death of Guru Jagat 1:49:40
Theories on Jagat 1:53:36
Final Thoughts & Outro 2:03:16

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Mile Higher.
0:19.1	I'm your host Josh.
0:20.7	Episode 3.41, and I'm your host Josh.
0:27.5	Episode 3.41, and I am your host, Kendall. We're so happy to have you all here today as we dive into a wild topic. We're going to be talking about Katie Griggs and Rama Yoga.
0:34.9	Now, Katie Griggs, is she a millennial girl boss scammer or the second coming of Yogi
0:41.2	Budgeon? We will have to find out today. Join us as we take a journey here and we thought we'd just
0:46.4	start off by setting the scene, you know? With a candle. Exactly. And this is a tiny little candle.
0:51.6	This is a sun tall candle. And this is a, this is fancy. What's the name of this? La Labo. La Labo. So this is big in Lola, right?
0:59.8	Huge. All the girl bosses. So this little thing, yeah, this is kind of girl boss vibes, right? This little candle is probably very expensive. It was sent to us by a company we work with. Thank you. So I can just kind of be here to set the mood for us.
1:13.6	Our production team, Janelle and Ian, and Alice, are here as well.
1:17.5	Hello.
1:18.4	I think Alice deserves an official title, like, as, I think she's like a junior producer.
1:24.3	Chief Mindfulness Operative.
1:26.4	Okay, she could be that.
1:27.6	She could be that. Mm-hmm. And
1:29.4	Charlie's, is Charlie here?
1:31.2	Charlie's, um, beneath my feet
1:33.6	in his little bed. He needs some time off of
1:36.4	camera. He has lots of camera time. It's a lot for him.
1:38.8	I'm exhausted. How about we take a deep breath?
1:41.8	I love that.
1:45.8	Hold.
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