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: The “Super Reasonable” Dr. Vinay Prasad

Brief: The “Super Reasonable” Dr. Vinay Prasad

A contrarian doctor “just asking questions.” Super reasonable. Certainly not anti-vax, just a regular guy who grievance-mongers about quarantine measures and mocks people afraid of long Covid. Vinay P...

24 Helmi 202438min

194: The Power Worshippers (w/Katherine Stewart)

194: The Power Worshippers (w/Katherine Stewart)

January 6, 2021. MAGA hats, tactical gear, American flags, poles turned into clubs. Another flag appears: white, with a blue corner square containing a red Latin cross. Another that proclaims “Jesus i...

22 Helmi 20241h 10min

Bonus Sample: Your Gut Isn't Leaking

Bonus Sample: Your Gut Isn't Leaking

The Cleveland Clinic's website states that leaky gut is a "hypothetical condition." Yet Cleveland Clinic physician, Mark Hyman, claims that leaky gut is at the foundation of autism, depression, cancer...

19 Helmi 20246min

Brief: Plandemic Takes the Promenade

Brief: Plandemic Takes the Promenade

An anti-vax, COVID-grievance, climate-science denying, communism panic-generating film by Mikki Willis just won “Best Documentary Feature” at the Santa Monica International Film Festival.  Julian atte...

17 Helmi 202429min

193: Speaking Truth to GOOP (w/Dr Jen Gunter)

193: Speaking Truth to GOOP (w/Dr Jen Gunter)

When she’s not talking to her angel guides, Christiane Northrup says that taking Vitamin D is better than the HPV vaccine for preventing cervical cancer. When Kelly Brogan isn’t denying germ theory, s...

15 Helmi 202450min

Bonus Sample: Living in the Enema Times

Bonus Sample: Living in the Enema Times

Selling enemas to replace psych meds, or treat cancer, or cure autism is some dangerous shit. But Matthew has a tingling sense that the wellness enema craze promises more than false health benefits. P...

12 Helmi 20245min

 Brief: The Culture Warrior to Wellness Pipeline (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

Brief: The Culture Warrior to Wellness Pipeline (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

Wellness influencers are quite capable of inventing and spreading health misinformation. When it comes to culture war issues, however, they're incapable of generating original thoughts. So it shouldn'...

10 Helmi 202440min

192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)

192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)

This episode has been brewing for some time. This week we ask: which hole is coffee really supposed to go in? Because, in the contrarian and conspiratorial wellness world, a growing number of influenc...

8 Helmi 20241h 1min

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