Teal Swan / Teal Eye LLC / The Teal Tribe

Teal Swan was born Mary Teal Bosworth in 1984 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She claims that she was a victim of organised satanic-ritual abuse as a child by a Mormon family friend, escaped at 19, and has subsequently been able to access 'extrasensory' perceptions (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience) that inform her teaching. She is also a public survivor of multiple suicide attempts and frames her own healing journey as the basis for her teaching. From the mid-2000s she began producing online content; by 2015-2018 she had built one of the largest online spiritual-influencer audiences on YouTube and Facebook, with her business Teal Eye LLC operating workshops, online courses, retreats at the Philia Centre (Costa Rica), and a small staff of 'completion process' practitioners.

Swan's distinctive teaching is the 'completion process' — a multi-session psychotherapeutic-style guided regression intended to access and 'complete' suppressed traumatic memories. The process involves intensive 4-7-day workshops and one-on-one sessions with trained facilitators. Critics including clinical psychologists in The New York Times Magazine and Vice coverage have raised substantial concerns about the completion process: (a) it elicits and reinforces traumatic-memory content without trained clinical containment; (b) the satanic-ritual-abuse framing common in Swan's own narrative is associated with the 1980s-1990s satanic-panic recovered-memory phenomenon and is not recognised by mainstream clinical practice; (c) the workshops produce intense emotional reactions in vulnerable participants without follow-up clinical support.

The central documented coercive-control concern is the link to follower suicides. In February 2019 Mark Oppenheimer published 'The Murmuration: How an Online Spiritual Leader Inspires Devotion — and Suicide' in the New York Times Magazine. The article documented at least two cases of Swan's followers — including a 23-year-old Australian woman — who had completed suicide after participating in Swan's completion-process work and following Swan's distinctive teaching about death as a positive 'gateway' from physical existence. Swan's responses to the article have been complex: she has acknowledged that some of her followers have died by suicide but has rejected causal attribution; she has also publicly described 'suicide' as a 'reset' option for those for whom incarnation is too painful — a teaching critics have argued is particularly dangerous for vulnerable mentally-ill audiences. The Vice documentary The Gateway: Teal Swan (2018, three episodes) provides additional documentation including interviews with Swan, completion-process facilitators, ex-followers, and grieving family members.

The CLCI 25 (High, mid-range) reflects the documented follower-suicide linkage, the unregulated trauma-recovery methodology, the cult-of-personality online-community dynamics, and the documented financial-extraction patterns (workshops $500-5,000+ per participant; intensive courses higher). Teal Swan is included in this dataset as a contemporary online-influencer high-control case.