Special Report: Red-pilled Poet, Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eistenstein has had quite the pandemic. Essays read by millions, retweeted by Jack Dorsey, quoted by Ivanka Trump, held up as the poet philosopher of conspirituality—hell, he’s even been on th...
18 Jan 20221h 9min
Bonus Sample: Science Is Not a Religion
In 2017, Charles Eisenstein addressed the SAND (Science And Non-Duality) Conference on our "obsession with measurement." A clip of that talk, published in 2019, put forward the question Is Science a R...
17 Jan 20229min
86: Charles Eisenstein, New Age Q
Up to this point, we’ve understood Charles Eisenstein as the poet-philosopher of conspirituality, lending his Burning Man ritual workshop chops to the antivax faux-freedom movement. Out of deference t...
14 Jan 20221h 33min
Bonus Sample: Red-pilled Poet, Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eistenstein has had quite the pandemic. Essays read by millions, retweeted by Jack Dorsey, quoted by Ivanka Trump, held up as the poet philosopher of conspirituality—hell, he’s even been on th...
10 Jan 202210min
85: Gaia Buys Yoga International, Stocks Rise on Uranus
On the day after the Winter Solstice, as the world tucked in for an Omicron staycation, a news flash came over the wire. Yoga International—one of the largest yoga media companies in the world—had bee...
7 Jan 20221h 24min
Bonus Sample: The Inventor of Yoga Teacher Training Was a Rapist Obsessed with UFOs
In 1969, Swami Vishnudevananda pioneered what has become a life transition ritual for the GenX and Millennial precariat: the Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) Programme. He was a cult leader rapist who thou...
3 Jan 202210min
84: Red State Christians (w/Angela Denker)
"When we don't avoid people who think differently than we do, we gain an opportunity for growth and national renewal." So opens Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump,...
30 Des 202152min
Bonus Sample: The Language of Conspiritualist Merchants
Derek investigates the origins of language through thinkers like David Crystal, Michael Corballis, and others, to investigate how two popular figures—Deepak Chopra and Rick Warren—sell their spiritual...
27 Des 20219min
