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: 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

191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)

191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)

The internet has changed not only how we communicate with each other, but how we understand the world. All technologies reorient how we navigate the world. This one just feels, at times, so disorienti...

1 Feb 202452min

Bonus Sample: The Plan to Dismantle Health Care

Bonus Sample: The Plan to Dismantle Health Care

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...

29 Jan 20246min

Brief: New Year, Same Old Conspiritualists

Brief: New Year, Same Old Conspiritualists

Do people radicalized into conspiracism or cults ever admit their errors? When the prophecy fails and evidence shows they were wrong, do they come clean or double-down?  Julian checks in on some of th...

27 Jan 202445min

190: Females Drive Evolution (w/Cat Bohannon)

190: Females Drive Evolution (w/Cat Bohannon)

Science evolves, often through fits and starts. Yet for most of medical history, there’s been one consistent theme: most science has been conducted on male bodies. And this has created a range of prob...

25 Jan 20241h 10min

Bonus Sample: Post-Catholic Music (w/Julia Tucker)

Bonus Sample: Post-Catholic Music (w/Julia Tucker)

Julia Tucker is a professional church organist in Savannah, Georgia. She grew up homeschooled in a TradCath home presided over by a father who is now a minor celebrity on the reactionary right. In thi...

22 Jan 20246min

Brief: Being Muslim Amidst the Wars (w/Dr. Taslim Alani-Verjee)

Brief: Being Muslim Amidst the Wars (w/Dr. Taslim Alani-Verjee)

Dr. Taslim Alani-Verjee joined us last January for a Brief on Jordan Peterson’s professional status as a shitposting registered psychologist. She returned for Episode 141 on whether it makes sense tha...

20 Jan 202446min

189: Leftists Who Turn Right (w/Jeff Sharlet)

189: Leftists Who Turn Right (w/Jeff Sharlet)

Nothing will stop Republicans from lining up behind Trump. But the left? It's in crisis. Fragmented. Perhaps in times of great flux fascists reflexively double-down while progressives slide into a clo...

18 Jan 202457min

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