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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Bonus Sample: Russell Brand Is Christian Now?

Bonus Sample: Russell Brand Is Christian Now?

Russell Brand has accepted Jesus into his heart and been baptized in the spirit. But does his conversion to Christianity make sense along the New Age rebel to right-wing, conspiracy-theorist radicaliz...

20 Mai 20247min

Brief: The Outside Agitator Conspiracy Trope (w/Dr. Peniel Joseph)

Brief: The Outside Agitator Conspiracy Trope (w/Dr. Peniel Joseph)

Two weeks ago, several university administrators asked militarized police units to smash pro-Palestinian encampment protests on quads and in occupied buildings. It happened at places like Columbia and...

18 Mai 202437min

206: Surviving Modern Yoga (w/ Matthew Remski)

206: Surviving Modern Yoga (w/ Matthew Remski)

Matthew is in the guest seat today! Why? Because in 2019—just months before the pandemic and this podcast kicked off—he published a book titled Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Hea...

16 Mai 20241h 2min

Bonus Sample: The Force That Divides Us All

Bonus Sample: The Force That Divides Us All

In 2020, former NY Times journalist Isabel Wilkerson published Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The book tells a compelling story: that the root of our social divisions is the invented hierarchi...

13 Mai 20246min

Brief: An Honest Discussion About Food (w/Dr Sarah Ballantyne)

Brief: An Honest Discussion About Food (w/Dr Sarah Ballantyne)

Dr Sarah Ballantyne forged a career in science communication and health education advocating for autoimmune solutions in food and the paleo diet. In 2014, she began questioning her approach. Shortly a...

11 Mai 202444min

205: Dismantling Movement Dogmas (w/Laurel Beversdorf & Sarah Court)

205: Dismantling Movement Dogmas (w/Laurel Beversdorf & Sarah Court)

We have a real treat today for listeners who love all forms of movement, especially yoga and strength training. Derek and Julian talk to Movement Logic hosts, Laurel Beversdorf and Sarah Court, who na...

9 Mai 20241h 16min

Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children #1: Fetal Remains

Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children #1: Fetal Remains

In the first full episode of this ongoing series, Matthew looks at the anti-abortion arcs of two men: Rob Schenck and Frank Pavone. Both leaders invested the images and remains of the unborn with pass...

6 Mai 20245min

Brief: Religion is Not Belief? (w/Blair Hodges)

Brief: Religion is Not Belief? (w/Blair Hodges)

The late historian of religion James Carse (1932-2020) made a radical proposal in his 2012 book, The Religious Case Against Belief. He argued that beliefs, far from being central to or definitive of r...

4 Mai 202447min

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