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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196: Julian Goes to the New Age Expo!

196: Julian Goes to the New Age Expo!

For 22 years, astrologers, channelers, and UFO enthusiasts have run booths next to crystal healers, purveyors of esoteric books and pseudoscience products, and paranormal enthusiasts at Los Angeles’s ...

7 Maalis 20241h 15min

Bonus Sample: “There Are Worse Things Than Dying”

Bonus Sample: “There Are Worse Things Than Dying”

This is a newly favorite mantra that RFK Jr is using on the presidential stump.  The subtext, uttered in the shadow of a pandemic that this guy did what he could to minimize and bypass, carries a lot ...

4 Maalis 20245min

Brief: The CPAC Pope and the Icicle Babies (w/ Brad Onishi)

Brief: The CPAC Pope and the Icicle Babies (w/ Brad Onishi)

Brad Onishi of Straight White American Jesus sits down with Matthew to analyze the debut of “America’s Bishop,” Joseph Strickland, on the CPAC stage, where he blessed MAGA Christian Nationalism with h...

2 Maalis 202443min

195: Long COVID (w/Tara Haelle)

195: Long COVID (w/Tara Haelle)

In the early days of the pandemic, most of the cultural focus was on the necessity of quarantine measures and the distinction between mild and severe COVID infections. Yet by May 2020, some were exper...

29 Helmi 20241h 14min

Bonus Sample: Through the Looking-Glass

Bonus Sample: Through the Looking-Glass

After going undercover at the Conscious Life Expo, Julian examines the weird synchronicities between himself and his mirror-world doppelganger, the eccentric Rhodesian conspiritualist, Sacha Stone. Cl...

26 Helmi 20246min

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

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