23: Election Resilience (w/Hala Khouri, Lissa Rankin, & Tara Stiles)
When we started this project six months ago, we could feel the cliff-edge of the election on the horizon. We could sense that our footholds of community, reasonable conversation, and consensus reality...
29 Loka 20202h 18min
Bonus: Hay House & New Age Jesus
Coming off of Conspirituality 22 with Rebekah Borucki, Matthew casts a wider net over Hay House’s cultural influence in two parts: a brief survey of some of their top authors, and then an examination ...
26 Loka 202043min
22: Racism & Fraud in New Age Publishing (w/Rebekah Borucki & Dr Jay Mohan)
Author and publisher Rebekah Borucki joins the Conspirituality team as our first co-host for this episode. She’s got a story to tell: the culture of her publisher, Hay House, was so resistant to takin...
22 Loka 20201h 45min
Bonus: A Letter to a Friend in a Cult
More than 20 years ago, Richard Vaughan wrote Matthew a very kind and perceptive letter, asking him to reconsider whether his participation in a Buddhist cult would forever alienate him from the real ...
19 Loka 202011min
21: Om-ed and Dangerous: Militant Wellness (w/Sarah Hightower)
We still can’t believe alt-health Bali retreat rockstar Sacha Stone called for the “evisceration” of public officials last week. Are conspiritualists really crossing over into militancy? Are the produ...
15 Loka 20201h 39min
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 ...
12 Loka 202027min
20: The Second Wave: Pastel Q Goes Undercover (w/Ben Lee)
The reality of a second COVID wave started back in the Spring. Now that With over half of American states are experiencing increased cases, the conspiracy theories are surging. At least 32 White House...
8 Loka 20202h 21min
Bonus: Bullying Gates, Bullying Biden: The Conspiracy of Male Violence
Bill Gates is unknowable—except to close and estranged friends, family members, his therapist if he has one. His empire sprawls; his philanthropy is tangled. He’s clearly not any one thing. But what i...
5 Loka 202025min
