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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217: Childless Cat Lady

217: Childless Cat Lady

If something real occurs in this timeline, but no conspiracy theorist is there to FUBAR it, does it actually happen? An old man, weakened by COVID, picks up an old-timey phone handset on a Delaware Sa...

1 Elo 20241h 14min

Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children: “God’s Word on Spanking”

Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children: “God’s Word on Spanking”

This is the second episode in “Conspirituality and the Imaginary Children,” an occasional series on how children, as symbols (but not persons with their own internal lives) are at the center of conspi...

29 Heinä 20244min

Brief: Bret Weinstein: “The Biden Psy-Op”

Brief: Bret Weinstein: “The Biden Psy-Op”

A tale of two tweets: Dark Horse podcast cohost and “conspiracy hypothesizer” Bret Weinstein took to Twitter twice this month, first dropping a video claiming that RFK Jr becoming Donald Trump’s runni...

27 Heinä 202427min

216: J.D. Vance, Conspiracy Hobbit

216: J.D. Vance, Conspiracy Hobbit

Just two days after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump announced JD Vance as his VP pick. Vance has made a dramatic U-turn from calling Trump a "reprehensible idiot" and "America's Hitle...

25 Heinä 20241h 10min

Bonus Sample: Project 2025 on Worker's "Rights"

Bonus Sample: Project 2025 on Worker's "Rights"

Project 2025's plan for workers is clear: crush unions, eliminate minority protections, curtail reproductive health care benefits, and make the workplace biblical again. Derek and Julian unpack the de...

22 Heinä 20246min

Brief: Cult of the Lamb Anti-Cult School? (w/Riley MacLeod)

Brief: Cult of the Lamb Anti-Cult School? (w/Riley MacLeod)

We cover conspiracy theories, spiritual abuse, and religious and right-wing extremism. We cover showmen and charismatics suffering from King Victim Complex. Last week we had to study a goddam assassin...

20 Heinä 202446min

215: Divinely Protected

215: Divinely Protected

Two landmark Supreme Court decisions—the Trump immunity case and the overturning of the Chevron doctrine—represent the legal institutionalization of the core values of conspirituality: self-sovereignt...

18 Heinä 20241h 2min

Bonus Sample: Project 2025's Plan: Let It Burn

Bonus Sample: Project 2025's Plan: Let It Burn

Project 2025's approach to environmental issues is pretty straightforward: deny climate science, dismantle the EPA, clear a path that prioritizes corporate profits, and let the world burn. Derek and J...

15 Heinä 20245min

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