Justus Knight – RR News Update! June 22nd, 2026
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VIDEO TITLE: EXCLUSIVE! They Left God… Then Paid $5,200 To Join A Coven
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Why are thousands of women paying thousands of dollars to attend witchcraft retreats across America and Europe? This story goes far beyond crystals, tarot cards, and modern paganism. It reveals a growing spiritual vacuum in Western society, the decline of traditional institutions, and the search for meaning in an increasingly disconnected culture.
Today we examine the rise of witchcraft retreats, alternative spirituality, modern feminism, cultural change, religion, community collapse, and what happens when old belief systems are replaced by new ones.
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REFERENCES :
Original Guardian Feature (Source Material Referenced by ZeroHedge)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/10/witchcraft-retreat-ireland
Supporting Sources
Brandeis University – Modern Witchcraft, Empowerment & Feminism
https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2023/october/witchcraft.html
Atmos Magazine – In A Burning World, Witchcraft Is On The Rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JviH_MoGrLk
Women’s Media Center – Witchcraft, Feminism & Activism
https://womensmediacenter.com/fbomb/witchcraft-dispelling-myths-and-uncovering-radical-truths
Statistics & Context
30%+ of Americans Identify as Spiritual but Not Religious (quoted in Guardian article)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/10/witchcraft-retreat-ireland
SCRIPT
Today’s story is not really about witchcraft.
It is about what happens when a society rips out faith, mocks family, distrusts men, abandons church, hates authority, monetizes trauma, and then acts shocked when people wander into the woods with crystals asking dead relatives for life advice.
Because apparently we got rid of religion…
and replaced it with premium-tier emotional damage retreats.
Welcome to modern America, where the church is oppressive, therapy is expensive, men are blamed for the weather, and the new spiritual hotline comes with candles, pendulums, forest bathing, and a $5,200 invoice.
Full Podcast Script
Today we are talking about a story that sounds insane on the surface, but underneath it is actually one of the clearest signs of where the culture is headed.
The Guardian just ran a piece about women attending witchcraft retreats in Ireland, Savannah, Salem, and across the United States and Europe. These are not just Halloween wine nights with a cheap cape and a Target candle.
These are sold-out spiritual retreats.
Women are flying across oceans.
They are gathering in old estates.
They are making divination maps.
They are using pendulums like homemade Ouija boards.
They are chanting.
They are talking to spirits.
They are calling themselves witches.
And some of these retreats cost thousands of dollars.
One retreat host’s Ireland events reportedly sold out at prices ranging from €1,900 to €3,000. Another host runs retreats in Savannah and Salem with prices listed from $2,700 to $5,200.
Now, the easy version of this story is to say, “Look at the crazy witches.”
That is fun.
It is also too cheap.
Because the bigger story is not witchcraft.
The bigger story is spiritual collapse.
The Guardian itself says this is happening in an age of spiritual isolation, with women forming covens of “sisterhood.” The article describes participants looking for healing, belonging, control, identity, and something outside traditional religious institutions.
And that is where this thing gets interesting.
Because when people stop believing in God, they usually do not become cold rational machines.
They still worship.
They still confess.
They still seek ritual.
They still need community.
They still need forgiveness.
They still need meaning.
They still need something bigger than themselves.
They just shop for it differently.
And apparently the new aisle is stocked with crystals, candles, forest moss, trauma circles, and a woman named Penny the Witch.
I mean, come on.
That is not a religion?
You fly to Ireland, gather in a circle, call on spirits, burn symbolic objects, confess your pain, chant your emotions, and leave feeling transformed?
Brother, that is church with a fog machine and no doctrine.
And that is the key.
No doctrine.
That is the sales pitch.
No rules.
No judgment.
No hierarchy.
No sin.
No repentance.
No surrender.
No accountability.
Just vibes, wounds, rage, nature, and a checkout page.
One participant told The Guardian she still believes in God but does not like labels or judgment. Another said she does not want to go to a building to find God because she feels it more in nature.
And that is where you see the trade.
Traditional religion says: there is truth above you.
This new spirituality says: truth is inside you.
Traditional religion says: conform yourself to something higher.
This says: your feelings are the altar.
Traditional religion says: not every impulse is sacred.
This says: if you feel it deeply enough, light a candle and call it wisdom.
And I’m not saying every woman at these retreats is some political lunatic.
That would be lazy.
A lot of these women are clearly carrying real pain.
Grief.
Abuse.
Loneliness.
Divorce.
Loss.
The Guardian tells stories of women dealing with trauma, death, stalking, isolation, and spiritual crisis.
So let’s be clear.
The pain is real.
But pain is also a market.
And boy, has America learned how to monetize pain.
We monetize anxiety.
We monetize identity.
We monetize rebellion.
We monetize wellness.
We monetize loneliness.
We monetize “healing.”
Now we monetize witchcraft.
There is an entire economy forming around people who feel abandoned by church, family, government, medicine, politics, and culture.
And instead of rebuilding the institutions that give people roots, we sell them a spiritual weekend package and call it empowerment.
That is the part nobody wants to say out loud.
Because the system loves broken people as long as they stay profitable.
Broken families?
Great.
Sell therapy.
Broken faith?
Great.
Sell retreats.
Broken communities?
Great.
Sell online tribes.
Broken identity?
Great.
Sell movements.
Broken trust?
Great.
Sell alternative realities.
And then everyone claps like they discovered enlightenment.
No, sweetheart.
You discovered capitalism wearing a pentagram.
The Guardian even notes that witchcraft is now too popular and too profitable to be considered fringe anymore. There are Etsy witches, tarot shops, witch business programs, and even academic magic programs.
That is the real headline.
This is not fringe.
This is mainstream alternative religion.
And it plugs directly into politics.
The article says scholars see alternative spirituality spiking alongside anti-authoritarian movements. It also connects modern witchcraft to feminist protest symbolism, including post-2016 political resistance.
So now we have politics, trauma, religion, gender, anger, money, and identity all mixed in one cauldron.
What could possibly go wrong?
And here is where I want to be careful.
Because the cheap pundit version is: “Women bad. Feminists crazy. Witches evil.”
No.
That misses the bigger, more dangerous point.
The bigger point is that when a civilization loses shared moral structure, people do not become free.
They become vulnerable.
Vulnerable to movements.
Vulnerable to grifters.
Vulnerable to ideology.
Vulnerable to emotional manipulation.
Vulnerable to any group that says, “Your pain is not just pain. Your pain is proof that our enemies are evil.”
That is where spiritual hunger becomes political weaponry.
Because if you can convince someone their wound is sacred, then anyone who questions the wound becomes a heretic.
And now we are not debating policy.
We are fighting demons.
That is how politics becomes religion.
That is how activism becomes exorcism.
That is how disagreement becomes violence in slow motion.
You are no longer wrong.
You are impure.
You are oppressive.
You are unsafe.
You are part of the system.
You are the patriarchy.
You are the church.
You are the problem.
And the new priesthood does not wear robes.
It wears therapy language.
It says “healing.”
It says “safe space.”
It says “embodiment.”
It says “lived experience.”
It says “sisterhood.”
It says “power.”
But under the incense, the engine is still the same old thing:
Follow us.
Believe us.
Pay us.
Obey the emotional code.
And never question the sacred narrative.
That is not liberation.
That is a softer cage with better branding.
Now, why does this matter to you?
Because this is not just about a few people in the woods talking to trees.
This is about the replacement of America’s foundation.
For generations, church gave people community, discipline, charity, moral limits, marriage structure, family support, grief rituals, accountability, and a story bigger than self.
Was it perfect?
No.
Nothing run by humans is perfect.
Humans can ruin a sandwich.
But when you remove that structure and replace it with “whatever makes me feel powerful,” you create a culture where feelings outrank facts, trauma outranks truth, and identity outranks responsibility.
That does not end in freedom.
It ends in chaos.
And here is the sarcastic cherry on top.
Many of the same people who mock traditional religion as irrational are now paying thousands of dollars to ask crystals for guidance.
Christianity: “Love your neighbor.”
Modern spirituality: “I asked a pendulum if my dead boyfriend approves of my life choices.”
And somehow Christianity is the weird one?
Come on.
I was born at night, not last night.
Now, again, I am not mocking grief.
I am mocking the cultural machine that takes grief and sells it back to people as rebellion.
That is the beast.
The loneliness is real.
The wounds are real.
The need for meaning is real.
But the answer is not a boutique coven with a merch funnel.
The answer is rebuilding actual community.
Families.
Churches.
Friendships.
Men and women who do not hate each other.
Neighbors who know each other.
A culture where pain is not exploited, masculinity is not automatically villainized, femininity is not reduced to rage, and spirituality is not whatever the algorithm served you between skincare ads and tarot reels.
Because the spiritual void does not stay empty.
Something always moves in.
And right now, in America and the West, a whole lot of people are leaving God, distrusting institutions, abandoning old moral structures, and then wondering why they feel lost.
Well, when you burn the map, do not act shocked when people start following smoke.
That is what this story is.
It is smoke.
The question is what fire it is coming from.
And my answer is simple:
This is what happens when a civilization tells people they are gods, then leaves them alone with their wounds.
They do not become powerful.
They become desperate.
And desperate people will worship anything that promises control.
Even if it comes with candles, crystals, and a five-thousand-dollar receipt.
Closing Line
They did not escape religion.
They just found a new one.
And this one takes Venmo.
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