Conspirituality

Conspirituality

Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.

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Brief: Ground Zero Grifting

Brief: Ground Zero Grifting

Plandemic creator Mikki Willis recently hosted an hour-long webinar to promote his supplements company. Marketed as a storytelling hour to share the power of immunity and god with their followers, the...

23 Aug 202537min

271: The Miseducation of PragerU

271: The Miseducation of PragerU

The right has waged a war on “woke” Sesame Street for generations. When the party passed the 2025 Recissions Act, they were finally able to take a significant field advantage in this battle—one which ...

21 Aug 20251h 1min

Bonus Sample: The Naturopaths Are At It Again

Bonus Sample: The Naturopaths Are At It Again

In preparation for this Thursday's episode on PragerU, Derek looks at one of the propaganda organization's videos featuring naturopathic practitioner, Joseph Pizzorno. Learn more about your ad choice...

18 Aug 20255min

Brief: Olympics for Dopers

Brief: Olympics for Dopers

The Enhanced Games promises to display the "true potential" of athletes by letting them use any sort of performance enhancement drugs available when it launches in Las Vegas in 2026. Yet why would a g...

16 Aug 202534min

270: Kennedy's Bloodbath

270: Kennedy's Bloodbath

The implications of awarding Robert F Kennedy, Jr with a position he’s completely unqualified for are becoming clearer by the day. While he’s made numerous egregious and dangerous moves as Secretary o...

14 Aug 202559min

Bonus Sample: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

Bonus Sample: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of h...

11 Aug 20255min

Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)

Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of h...

9 Aug 202543min

269: The Book of Gwyneth

269: The Book of Gwyneth

In her new biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Odell calls Goop “a powerful platform for spreading health misinformation.” So many topics Goop has covered favorably—yoni eggs, coffee enemas, celery juic...

7 Aug 20251h 2min

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