Conspirituality

Conspirituality

Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.

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Brief: Smooth-Talking Anti-Feminism

Brief: Smooth-Talking Anti-Feminism

Is life worse for women now than in the 1950s? In a recent interview for The Free Press, author Louise Perry and journalist Bari Weiss muse on just how much women have lost since premarital sex was no...

1 Maalis 202535min

246: Shock Doctrine of Discovery

246: Shock Doctrine of Discovery

Trump has decreed it’s the Gulf of America, and Google agrees, at least for US users. Rep Buddy Carter has introduced HR 1161, the Red White and Blueland Act of 2025 to rename Greenland. And then, of ...

27 Helmi 20251h 3min

Bonus Sample: Manners, the Machine, and Malaparte’s Technique de Coup d’État

Bonus Sample: Manners, the Machine, and Malaparte’s Technique de Coup d’État

What do we worry more about: the far-right beliefs of trolls, or the coding skills of the trolls?  The split focus on Marco Elez and Elon Musk—are they Nazis, or hackers, or Nazi hackers?— highlight t...

24 Helmi 20256min

Brief: Antifascist Woodshed

Brief: Antifascist Woodshed

Education / Public service alert: Matthew critically reviews six books that define fascist eras and recount how they have been opposed. A kind of “here we are, now what?” episode that hopefully interr...

22 Helmi 202535min

245: Raw Dogging Wellness [feat Mallory DeMille]

245: Raw Dogging Wellness [feat Mallory DeMille]

Raw Milk. Raw Water. Raw Meat. Mallory DeMille returns to break down the raw trend in wellness. We look at the science and cultural implications behind it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

20 Helmi 202554min

Relief Project #8: Blair Hodges

Relief Project #8: Blair Hodges

The eighth installment of Matthew’s Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person.  Friend of the pod Blair Hodges joins Matthew to talk about how he’s transformed the teachings of his Mo...

18 Helmi 202526min

Bonus Sample: Scientology’s Sci-Fi Religion

Bonus Sample: Scientology’s Sci-Fi Religion

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, start a religion.” With those words, prolific sci-fi pulp fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard prophesied the course of his life’s work. ...

17 Helmi 20256min

Brief: Make Apartheid Great Again

Brief: Make Apartheid Great Again

Given how much shit the zone is being flooded with right now, you might have missed Donald Trump screaming about the supposed mistreatment of white South Africans recently. Last week, he said “certain...

15 Helmi 202525min

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