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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279: They’re Shooting the Priests

279: They’re Shooting the Priests

ICE is on the loose in our cities, acting with seeming impunity. They've repelled from Black Hawk helicopters, thrown journalists and protestors to the ground, and belligerently refused to unmask, pro...

16 Loka 202556min

Yallidarity (w/Nathan Evans Fox) [Introducing Antifascist Dad Podcast]

Yallidarity (w/Nathan Evans Fox) [Introducing Antifascist Dad Podcast]

Hey everyone… special drop today: the inaugural episode of Matthew’s new side project, Antifascist Dad Podcast.  Matthew sits down with songwriter Nathan Evans Fox to talk about kinship, Appalachia, ...

14 Loka 202546min

Bonus Sample: Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus (Pt. 2)

Bonus Sample: Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus (Pt. 2)

Full episode on Patreon Part 2 moves from Christofascist spectacle to the “mushy middle” of liberal Christianity—why it so often blesses order over justice and falters when fascism rises. Drawing on ...

13 Loka 20255min

Brief: Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus (Pt. 1)

Brief: Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus (Pt. 1)

In this first installment of Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus, Matthew revisits Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s journey from the theological classrooms of Berlin to the Black churches of Harlem — where he ...

11 Loka 202535min

278: This Podcast is Illegal

278: This Podcast is Illegal

Our podcast is not actually illegal—yet. Thanks to Trump’s recent Security Presidential Memorandum, NSPM-7, or “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” it soon could be. Toda...

9 Loka 202556min

Bonus Sample: Death is Just A Doorway

Bonus Sample: Death is Just A Doorway

The People’s Temple in Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate, The Order of the Solar Temple. All cults that ended in tragic mass suicides. How could such lofty aspirations end so badly? For today’s self-contained...

6 Loka 20256min

Brief: He’s Coming For All Vaccines

Brief: He’s Coming For All Vaccines

RFK Jr posted a seven-minute video earlier this week that assures us that vaccines aren't all that great, actually. Derek reads the studies Kennedy references as proof. You might be surprised to learn...

4 Loka 202526min

277: TikTokTylenol [feat Mallory DeMille]

277: TikTokTylenol [feat Mallory DeMille]

Did you hear about the pregnant woman who ingested too much Tylenol just to “own Trump” and is now on a ventilator and will likely not wake up, offing both herself and her baby? If you were tapped int...

2 Loka 20251h 2min

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