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: Antifascist Woodshed 2 (Punching Nazis?)

Brief: Antifascist Woodshed 2 (Punching Nazis?)

First of Matthew's two-part examination of why the hell questions of force, non-violent resistance with and without force, unarmed violence and property damage, and armed violence are so incredibly ha...

15 Maalis 202543min

248: What Side Are You On?

248: What Side Are You On?

Lately a lot of folks (including us) have been doing the fascism comparisons. The questions we ponder this week: How long it takes for fascism to fully dig its roots in, how varied is the opposition ...

13 Maalis 20251h 16min

Bonus Sample: Sex, Lies, & Communist Spies

Bonus Sample: Sex, Lies, & Communist Spies

Subscribe for full episode The MAGA attack on government jobs, takeover of government agencies, and purge of supposed “DEI” and “woke” professionals has a long history in the US. Julian uses old-tim...

10 Maalis 20256min

Brief: MAHA's Soft Eugenics

Brief: MAHA's Soft Eugenics

MAHA's response to the measles outbreak has been horrific, though expectable. Yet RFK Jr's op-ed, in which he advocated for the MMR vaccine, ripped apart his coalition—briefly. Derek looks at the res...

8 Maalis 202529min

247: The Deeper State

247: The Deeper State

This week we’re looking at how folks who associated themselves with the magical and morbid QAnon memes about the “coming storm” that would destroy the Deep State have become that storm, mainly by talk...

6 Maalis 20251h 2min

Bonus Sample: What’s a Nazi Salute, Really?

Bonus Sample: What’s a Nazi Salute, Really?

Former "race realist" Richard Hanania recently published an article on The Free Press claiming that all those Nazi salutes the right is waving high in the sky is really "just trolling." Derek disagree...

3 Maalis 20255min

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

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