The Conspirituality Report

Singing Bowls Yoga Soldier Indicted in Capitol Riot

QAnon ex-cop Alan Hostetter faces conspiracy, obstruction charges

Hostetter with singing bowls, didgeridoo, and fellow Jan. 6 rioter, Russell Taylor, also indicted.

Alan Hostetter inaugurated his YouTube channel in September of 2019 with a video that shows no hint that 16 months later he would be storming the Capitol with armed co-conspirators, inspired by QAnon fever dreams.

He’s in a sailboat, at sunset. He blows a conch shell and gently taps brass gongs with soft-headed mallets.

Hostetter: “Wisdom of the Whale”. Sept, 2019.

Amidst cuts of shimmering schools of fish and diving dolphins, Hostetter’s ceremonious narration opens with Robert Frost:

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

According to an interview in Voyage LA, Hostetter’s road less travelled began with discovering yoga after a 28-year military and policing career had left him in chronic pain. He was going through a divorce. He needed back surgery. His insomnia had…