Insight Investigators: Background Report
Rachel Jane Wilde (Quinn): The information I gathered from former Pure Heart members presents a complex picture of Quinn. I spoke to two women and one man. I won’t go into details about them and their reasons for leaving. Suffice to say at Pure Heart it was either Quinn’s way or the highway.
What did become clear from speaking to those who knew her, is that Quinn, who calls herself an intuitive healer, has no formal qualifications or training. She told people she didn’t need to study healing because she’d lived it. Her childhood experiences at the commune had, so she claimed, introduced her to her healing powers and after her time at the squat in Brixton, she lived in a van on a travellers’ site near Glastonbury. There she mixed with alternative, spiritual types and experimented with different holistic therapies. She claims she then travelled all over the world, learning different healing methods from indigenous teachers in South America and South-East Asia.
While the former community members were often disparaging about Quinn and resentful of the authority she wielded at Pure Heart, they admitted she did possess extraordinary insight and healing gifts. One woman I spoke to claimed Quinn had cured her chronic back pain and eczema. The other said Quinn had cured her alcoholism and that she still doesn’t drink to this day. The man I spoke to told me Quinn healed his depression. All of them said there were times she made them believe in miracles.