Bonus: The White Yogi, The Brown Activist, and the Evil Billionaire
Conspirituality12 Loka 2020

Bonus: The White Yogi, The Brown Activist, and the Evil Billionaire

Who’s right, who’s confused, who’s noble, who’s the bad guy?Nothing exists in a cultural vacuum. The emergence of yoga as a hugely popular and lucrative phenomenon in the West is no exception.In this bonus episode, Julian discusses a recent article that was posted, and enthusiastically liked, shared, and commented upon in sincere solidarity by yoga folks contributing to the conspirituality zeitgeist.This despite the article being written by a respected brown scholar and activist and posted by an earnest white yogi—and being about a billionaire with some questionable history. -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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...

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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

84: Red State Christians (w/Angela Denker)

84: Red State Christians (w/Angela Denker)

"When we don't avoid people who think differently than we do, we gain an opportunity for growth and national renewal." So opens Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump,...

30 Joulu 202152min

Bonus Sample: The Language of Conspiritualist Merchants

Bonus Sample: The Language of Conspiritualist Merchants

Derek investigates the origins of language through thinkers like David Crystal, Michael Corballis, and others, to investigate how two popular figures—Deepak Chopra and Rick Warren—sell their spiritual...

27 Joulu 20219min

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