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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60: Crypto Dreamin’ (w/David Morris)

60: Crypto Dreamin’ (w/David Morris)

Are you crypto-curious? This past year has shown that an increasing number of people are dreaming of becoming crypto millionaires. But what is blockchain and this strange new digital currency and, mor...

15 Heinä 20212h 8min

Bonus Sample: The Future of Psychedelics

Bonus Sample: The Future of Psychedelics

Derek investigates a recent NY Times essay by Michael Pollan as an entry point to discuss big questions in psychedelics and conspirituality: How do we honor indigenous traditions as psychedelics are l...

12 Heinä 202111min

59: Is Rudolf Steiner Dead Yet? (w/Jennifer Sapio)

59: Is Rudolf Steiner Dead Yet? (w/Jennifer Sapio)

What should a global network of popular and private schools do when faced with evidence that the foundation of their pedagogy was laid by a racist, proto-fascist pseudoscientist? What should they do w...

8 Heinä 20212h 22min

Bonus Sample: True Colors

Bonus Sample: True Colors

Julian reflects on unchosen racial complicity and how moments of moral courage in the face of oppressive power can reveal one’s true colors. He traces the history of Apartheid as it intersects with th...

5 Heinä 20219min

58: NXIVM: Recover & Educate (w/India Oxenberg)

58: NXIVM: Recover & Educate (w/India Oxenberg)

How do we avoid being the subject of—and feeding the market for—trauma porn? If anyone knows, it’s India Oxenberg, who in less than two years (while under the unforgiving glare of a media firestorm) w...

1 Heinä 20211h 53min

Bonus Sample: A Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Bonus Sample: A Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Matthew debriefs after the Mike Rothschild interview, looking at QAnon’s “Conspiracy Theory of Everything” as a hyperobject and spiritual dilemma.Show Notes‘A reckoning for our species’: the philosoph...

28 Kesä 20216min

57: The Storm is Mutating (w/Mike Rothschild)

57: The Storm is Mutating (w/Mike Rothschild)

It’s only been eight months since Q stopped posting, but Mike Rothschild has been able to corral the firehose of data into the first major journalistic study of the fever dream that has tortured milli...

24 Kesä 20211h 15min

Bonus Sample: Playing Shaman

Bonus Sample: Playing Shaman

The race to capitalize on the world’s wellness needs in a post-pandemic society—well, at “post” as we can pretend to be—was unavoidable. Derek reflects on the continually unrealistic marketing promise...

21 Kesä 20216min

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