7: Doctoring COVID: Christiane Northrup’s Great Truther Awakening (w/Britt Hermes)
OB/GYN Dr. Christiane Northrup has been a giant in women’s healthcare advocacy for decades. She has persuasively argued for lower-intervention childbirth, an end to circumcision, and policies that pla...
9 Jul 20201h 31min
6: Grappling with the Cult of Trump (w/Steven Hassan)
It can be as hard to talk with your well-meaning yoga-world friend about their COVID-conspiracy beliefs as it is to talk with a family member about their devotion to Donald Trump. This isn’t an accide...
2 Jul 20201h 58min
5: Disease as a Metaphor (w/Maggie Levantovskaya)
Conspiritualists are compelling for numerous reasons: they’re charismatic; they claim to transcend polarized politics; they claim to speak the unspeakable in a quest for hidden truths. It makes sense ...
25 Jun 20201h 42min
4: Racism in Wellness Culture (w/Dr Natalia Petrzela & Dax-Devlon Ross)
On one hand, we have the CEO of Crossfit tweeting that “Floyd-19” is the real problem. (He got canceled.) On the other, COVID-truther psychiatrist Kelly Brogan is using Hopi mythology to support the f...
18 Jun 20201h 24min
3: Why Are Spiritual People Vulnerable to Conspiracy Theories?
Right-wing conspiracy theories are being marketed in wellness communities as a form of spiritual freedom. While pattern recognition is an essential survival instinct, it’s being exploited during a tim...
11 Jun 20201h 15min
2: Conspirituality in Zach Bush and J.P. Sears
To the layperson, Dr. Zach Bush’s vision of a resurrected microbiome as being the answer to modern illnesses sounds appealing. His basic argument: we’ve been weeding ourselves to death, externally and...
4 Jun 20201h 12min
1: Coronation for Whom?
Barely two weeks into various stages of lockdown around the world, New Age philosopher Charles Eisenstein published a 9,000-word essay on the meaning of the pandemic. He summed up his core theme with ...
28 Mai 20201h 14min
0.2: The Kelly Brogan Effect & Red Pills
Conspirituality started with Julian and Matthew as guests on Derek’s EarthRise podcast. We’re reposting these episodes for you to hear the origins of this project. In episode 0.2, we discuss suspect m...
21 Mai 20201h 4min
