24: Body Politic Recovery (w/Tada Hozumi)
This week could have been worse; what comes now must get better. If we’ve learned anything over these six months, it’s that QAnon is to conspirituality as Trump is to the political status quo. We can ...
6 Nov 20202h 2min
Bonus: COVID Fatigue & Empathy (w/Dr. Ali Haider)
Derek talks with Dr. Ali Haider about being on the frontlines of COVID-19.Dr. Haider is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University Medical School. He received his medical degree from Alber...
2 Nov 202032min
23: Election Resilience (w/Hala Khouri, Lissa Rankin, & Tara Stiles)
When we started this project six months ago, we could feel the cliff-edge of the election on the horizon. We could sense that our footholds of community, reasonable conversation, and consensus reality...
29 Okt 20202h 18min
Bonus: Hay House & New Age Jesus
Coming off of Conspirituality 22 with Rebekah Borucki, Matthew casts a wider net over Hay House’s cultural influence in two parts: a brief survey of some of their top authors, and then an examination ...
26 Okt 202043min
22: Racism & Fraud in New Age Publishing (w/Rebekah Borucki & Dr Jay Mohan)
Author and publisher Rebekah Borucki joins the Conspirituality team as our first co-host for this episode. She’s got a story to tell: the culture of her publisher, Hay House, was so resistant to takin...
22 Okt 20201h 45min
Bonus: A Letter to a Friend in a Cult
More than 20 years ago, Richard Vaughan wrote Matthew a very kind and perceptive letter, asking him to reconsider whether his participation in a Buddhist cult would forever alienate him from the real ...
19 Okt 202011min
21: Om-ed and Dangerous: Militant Wellness (w/Sarah Hightower)
We still can’t believe alt-health Bali retreat rockstar Sacha Stone called for the “evisceration” of public officials last week. Are conspiritualists really crossing over into militancy? Are the produ...
15 Okt 20201h 39min
Bonus: The White Yogi, The Brown Activist, and the Evil Billionaire
Who’s right, who’s confused, who’s noble, who’s the bad guy?Nothing exists in a cultural vacuum. The emergence of yoga as a hugely popular and lucrative phenomenon in the West is no exception.In this ...
12 Okt 202027min
