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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245: Raw Dogging Wellness [feat Mallory DeMille]

245: Raw Dogging Wellness [feat Mallory DeMille]

Raw Milk. Raw Water. Raw Meat. Mallory DeMille returns to break down the raw trend in wellness. We look at the science and cultural implications behind it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

20 Feb 202554min

Relief Project #8: Blair Hodges

Relief Project #8: Blair Hodges

The eighth installment of Matthew’s Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person.  Friend of the pod Blair Hodges joins Matthew to talk about how he’s transformed the teachings of his Mo...

18 Feb 202526min

Bonus Sample: Scientology’s Sci-Fi Religion

Bonus Sample: Scientology’s Sci-Fi Religion

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, start a religion.” With those words, prolific sci-fi pulp fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard prophesied the course of his life’s work. ...

17 Feb 20256min

Brief: Make Apartheid Great Again

Brief: Make Apartheid Great Again

Given how much shit the zone is being flooded with right now, you might have missed Donald Trump screaming about the supposed mistreatment of white South Africans recently. Last week, he said “certain...

15 Feb 202525min

244: Battle for the Onesies

244: Battle for the Onesies

As of recording time, RFK Jr has not yet been confirmed to the HHS Secretary position by the Senate. That might change by publication date. But if we were setting odds on this confirmation, we’d say p...

13 Feb 20251h 1min

Bonus Sample: What We're Facing

Bonus Sample: What We're Facing

Derek meditates on a recent conversation about the left-right divide between Ezra Klein and James Pogue. Show Notes MAGA’s Big Tech Divide: Ezra Klein Show Going Back to Cincinnati — James Pogue Insid...

10 Feb 20257min

Brief: Why Didn’t I Yell STFU at Jordan Peterson in 2017?

Brief: Why Didn’t I Yell STFU at Jordan Peterson in 2017?

In the spring of 2017, Jordan Peterson first went viral by writing this in Canada’s National Post:  I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and artificially constructed words “zhe” and “zher.” ...

8 Feb 202545min

243: Free Market Contrarians (w/Eoin Higgins)

243: Free Market Contrarians (w/Eoin Higgins)

Edward Snowden is largely only a public name thanks to Glenn Greenwald’s reporting, for which he was one of the contributors to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series for The Guardian in 2014. For a while, M...

6 Feb 20251h

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