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 Jul 20212h 22min
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 Jul 20219min
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 Jul 20211h 53min
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 Jun 20216min
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 Jun 20211h 15min
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 Jun 20216min
56: Critical Race Theory in Real Life (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)
In June 2020, equity consultant and journalist Dax-Devlon Ross—who you might remember from Conspirituality 4 that very same month—published an essay called “A Letter to My White Male Friends of a Cert...
17 Jun 20211h 27min
Bonus Sample: Doomsday Prophecy & Spirituality Porn
Humanity has an apocalypse fetish. But wrapped up In the doomsday death wish is a utopian fantasy of the ascension that comes after a fallen and sinful world is purified by cataclysmic fire. Whether t...
14 Jun 202112min
