Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine
Conspirituality28 Joulu 2024

Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine

We've been highly critical of The Free Press in the past, but a recent memoir-article about grappling with a familial history of polio by Jana Kozlowski stood out. Derek and Julian take no issue with the piece, which was an emotional plea to understand the ravages of polio and the efficacy of vaccines. The comment section is another thing. Show Notes Polio Ravaged My Family. Forget Its Horror at Your Peril. The First Five Errors in the Moth in the Iron Lung Book The First Five Errors in Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries Amazon Won’t Take a Stand in War Over Anti-Vaxxer Book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bonus Sample: The Irrational Makes Sense

Bonus Sample: The Irrational Makes Sense

Inspired by a recent discussion on psychoanalysis and politics with Pat Blanchfield on Know Your Enemy, this brief meditation focuses on two aspects of the conspirituality landscape that have lurked i...

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87: The Aubrey Marcus Spectacle

87: The Aubrey Marcus Spectacle

When we left our Austin conspirituality heroes in the last episode, Charles Eisenstein, New Age Q, was locking in his position as the philosopher—or jester—in the court of Aubrey Marcus. But what of t...

20 Tammi 20221h 20min

Special Report: Red-pilled Poet, Charles Eisenstein

Special Report: Red-pilled Poet, Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eistenstein has had quite the pandemic. Essays read by millions, retweeted by Jack Dorsey, quoted by Ivanka Trump, held up as the poet philosopher of conspirituality—hell, he’s even been on th...

18 Tammi 20221h 9min

Bonus Sample: Science Is Not a Religion

Bonus Sample: Science Is Not a Religion

In 2017, Charles Eisenstein addressed the SAND (Science And Non-Duality) Conference on our "obsession with measurement." A clip of that talk, published in 2019, put forward the question Is Science a R...

17 Tammi 20229min

86: Charles Eisenstein, New Age Q

86: Charles Eisenstein, New Age Q

Up to this point, we’ve understood Charles Eisenstein as the poet-philosopher of conspirituality, lending his Burning Man ritual workshop chops to the antivax faux-freedom movement. Out of deference t...

14 Tammi 20221h 33min

Bonus Sample: Red-pilled Poet, Charles Eisenstein

Bonus Sample: Red-pilled Poet, Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eistenstein has had quite the pandemic. Essays read by millions, retweeted by Jack Dorsey, quoted by Ivanka Trump, held up as the poet philosopher of conspirituality—hell, he’s even been on th...

10 Tammi 202210min

85: Gaia Buys Yoga International, Stocks Rise on Uranus

85: Gaia Buys Yoga International, Stocks Rise on Uranus

On the day after the Winter Solstice, as the world tucked in for an Omicron staycation, a news flash came over the wire. Yoga International—one of the largest yoga media companies in the world—had bee...

7 Tammi 20221h 24min

Bonus Sample: The Inventor of Yoga Teacher Training Was a Rapist Obsessed with UFOs

Bonus Sample: The Inventor of Yoga Teacher Training Was a Rapist Obsessed with UFOs

In 1969, Swami Vishnudevananda pioneered what has become a life transition ritual for the GenX and Millennial precariat: the Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) Programme. He was a cult leader rapist who thou...

3 Tammi 202210min

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