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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167: Straight White American Jesus (w/Bradley Onishi)

167: Straight White American Jesus (w/Bradley Onishi)

Dr. Bradley Onishi, is the author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism - And What Comes Next. He is the co-host of the excellent Straight White American Jesus pod...

17 Elo 20231h 25min

Bonus Sample: The Anxiety of Wellness

Bonus Sample: The Anxiety of Wellness

Are you ready to live your best life ever? Because if you’re not always on volume 10, eating the purest foods and shouting your truth at every turn, you’re certainly doing life wrong.  Derek looks at ...

14 Elo 20236min

Brief: Documenting Michelle Remembers (w/Sean Horlor & Steve Adams)

Brief: Documenting Michelle Remembers (w/Sean Horlor & Steve Adams)

Following up on our review and coverage of Satan Wants You, Matthew talks with Canadian filmmakers Sean Horlor and Steve Adams about how they excavated the origin story of the Satanic Panic movement. ...

12 Elo 202339min

166: QAnonAnonymous Goes to Hollywood (w/Travis View and Jake Rockatansky)

166: QAnonAnonymous Goes to Hollywood (w/Travis View and Jake Rockatansky)

In 2017, 4chan user "Q" started LARPing as a Deep State insider with predictions about Hillary Clinton and the pedophile cabal. 10 months later, the online antifascist world assembled its emergency po...

10 Elo 20231h 28min

Bonus Sample: Disgust Management

Bonus Sample: Disgust Management

Notes from Matthew in response to a great question from a listener: How do you keep from hating these people? The blasé unimaginative crackpots like Aubrey Marcus, the gaslighting meanderings of RFK J...

7 Elo 20239min

Special Report: Marianne Williamson’s Ex- Staffers Speak Out

Special Report: Marianne Williamson’s Ex- Staffers Speak Out

Seven ex-staffers who worked on Marianne Williamson’s campaign have written an open letter describing her campaign as an “exercise in deception.” Matthew analyzes the open letter, and contextualizes i...

6 Elo 202317min

Brief: Kombucha Krash

Brief: Kombucha Krash

GT Dave's kombucha origin story is the stuff of legend—at least how he frames it. But when the LA Times broke the story of a judge awarding workers nearly half a million dollars in back and overtime p...

5 Elo 202327min

165: Outrage Machine (w/Tobias Rose-Stockwell)

165: Outrage Machine (w/Tobias Rose-Stockwell)

Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a media researcher, writer, designer, and author of the new book, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It. The book deal...

3 Elo 20231h 14min

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