121: The Gospel of Wellness (w/Rina Raphael)
Conspirituality22 Sep 2022

121: The Gospel of Wellness (w/Rina Raphael)

Are you ready to biohack your brain with buttered coffee? How about going “within” at the Drybar of acupuncture? What if we told you that cannabis will catapult your chakras into higher consciousness—all it costs is a $5,000 retreat entry fee, not including airfare and hotel? In the $4.4 trillion wellness industry, is any cost really too expensive to achieve true self-care—even if it never really seems like you arrive anywhere at all?Rina Raphael was getting burnt out as a millennial digital news producer at NBC News. And so she did what anyone would do: she moved to Los Angeles in search of that self-care. Yet she could never shake her journalistic chops, and so she ended up writing about the wellness industry for the NY Times, the LA Times, Fast Company, and other publications. Her skeptical eye and earnest curiosity lead her to write her brand new book, The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care. And she’s here this week to talk to us this week about her adventures in modern spirituality—its teachings as well as its traps. Show NotesThe Gospel of WellnessWell To Do — Rina Raphael -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episoder(753)

Bonus Sample: Did We Choose to Be the Good Ones?

Bonus Sample: Did We Choose to Be the Good Ones?

Kyle Rittenhouse walks away from the courthouse while Ahmaud Arbery's killers were found guilty and "QAnon Shaman," Jacob Chansley, was received significant jail time. Our opinions on each of these ca...

29 Nov 20218min

79: Anti-Hate Work in Canada (w/Dan Collen, Elizabeth Simons, & Morgan Yew)

79: Anti-Hate Work in Canada (w/Dan Collen, Elizabeth Simons, & Morgan Yew)

COVID has been a recruiting windfall for hate groups in Canada, with new alliances and networks forged between white supremacists, xenophobes, and ethnonationalists in the fire of accelerated conspira...

25 Nov 20211h 21min

Bonus Sample: Sam Harris: High-Brow Secular Conspiritualist

Bonus Sample: Sam Harris: High-Brow Secular Conspiritualist

Bonus episode, piloted by Matthew.There is a subtle form of conspirituality that rides on the familiar dialectic of political cynicism and spiritual promise—but it's dressed for a button-down salon di...

22 Nov 20219min

78: Society of the Conspiracy

78: Society of the Conspiracy

Conspiracy theories flourish during uncertain times. They're always with us, passed down through generations like alternate histories, yet they’re constantly reinvented when collective stress levels p...

19 Nov 20211h 10min

Bonus Sample: Privilege in Wellness Spaces

Bonus Sample: Privilege in Wellness Spaces

Privilege is often blind and rampant across societies. But is the term also overused?Derek looks at two examples of privilege in wellness spaces, the danger of its overuse, and a possible reframing of...

15 Nov 20219min

77: A Homeopathy Episode So Potent You Can’t Hear It (w/Jonathan Jarry)

77: A Homeopathy Episode So Potent You Can’t Hear It (w/Jonathan Jarry)

To prepare this curative episode, we listened carefully to alternative health consumers for many hours, taking an exhaustive history of life challenges on physical, mental, and emotional planes. We sc...

12 Nov 20212h 2min

Bonus Sample: Rational Emotions & Poetic Science

Bonus Sample: Rational Emotions & Poetic Science

Are emotions really separate from rationality? Is trusting science similar to religious faith? Do poetry and mythic archetypes disclose a reality beyond the material world? What might characters like ...

8 Nov 20218min

76: A Field Guide to White Supremacy (w/Kathleen Belew)

76: A Field Guide to White Supremacy (w/Kathleen Belew)

There is no avoiding the fact that conspirituality plays out against a backdrop of racially-charged politics and the echoes of colonialism. And from the beginning of this podcast project we’ve tackled...

4 Nov 20212h 4min

Populært innen Vitenskap

fastlegen
tingenes-tilstand
rekommandert
tomprat-med-gunnar-tjomlid
rss-rekommandert
forskningno
jss
sinnsyn
villmarksliv
smart-forklart
rss-paradigmepodden
fjellsportpodden
diagnose
tidlose-historier
nevropodden
aldring-og-helse-podden
dekodet-2
vett-og-vitenskap-med-gaute-einevoll
grunnstoffene
rss-nysgjerrige-norge