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: Your Gut Isn't Leaking

Bonus Sample: Your Gut Isn't Leaking

The Cleveland Clinic's website states that leaky gut is a "hypothetical condition." Yet Cleveland Clinic physician, Mark Hyman, claims that leaky gut is at the foundation of autism, depression, cancer...

19 Feb 20246min

Brief: Plandemic Takes the Promenade

Brief: Plandemic Takes the Promenade

An anti-vax, COVID-grievance, climate-science denying, communism panic-generating film by Mikki Willis just won “Best Documentary Feature” at the Santa Monica International Film Festival.  Julian atte...

17 Feb 202429min

193: Speaking Truth to GOOP (w/Dr Jen Gunter)

193: Speaking Truth to GOOP (w/Dr Jen Gunter)

When she’s not talking to her angel guides, Christiane Northrup says that taking Vitamin D is better than the HPV vaccine for preventing cervical cancer. When Kelly Brogan isn’t denying germ theory, s...

15 Feb 202450min

Bonus Sample: Living in the Enema Times

Bonus Sample: Living in the Enema Times

Selling enemas to replace psych meds, or treat cancer, or cure autism is some dangerous shit. But Matthew has a tingling sense that the wellness enema craze promises more than false health benefits. P...

12 Feb 20245min

 Brief: The Culture Warrior to Wellness Pipeline (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

Brief: The Culture Warrior to Wellness Pipeline (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

Wellness influencers are quite capable of inventing and spreading health misinformation. When it comes to culture war issues, however, they're incapable of generating original thoughts. So it shouldn'...

10 Feb 202440min

192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)

192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)

This episode has been brewing for some time. This week we ask: which hole is coffee really supposed to go in? Because, in the contrarian and conspiratorial wellness world, a growing number of influenc...

8 Feb 20241h 1min

Bonus Sample: The GOP Takeover of Media

Bonus Sample: The GOP Takeover of Media

Project 2025 is the libertarian conservative Heritage Foundation’s systematic governance plan for the next Republican president. The 920-page plan aims to implement the "unitary executive theory," whi...

5 Feb 20246min

Brief: Deep Church Conspiracy (w/David Lafferty)

Brief: Deep Church Conspiracy (w/David Lafferty)

From the Supreme Court to Project 2025, reactionary Catholics are on the frontlines of this year’s war on democracy. Many of them bend the knee to an Italian redpilled Vatican diplomat: Cardinal Carlo...

3 Feb 202445min

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