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: Swamp Creatures 6: Leonard Leo, Judicial Kingmaker

Bonus Sample: Swamp Creatures 6: Leonard Leo, Judicial Kingmaker

Control the Court. Overturn Roe. Funnel anonymous donations and shady gifts. Deregulate for Jesus. Roll back the cultural clock. Celebrate. Rinse and Repeat.  Leonard Leo’s libertarian Catholic agenda...

15 Jan 20249min

Brief: Fascia Facts vs Fictions (w/David Lesondak)

Brief: Fascia Facts vs Fictions (w/David Lesondak)

The online pseudoscience clearing house, Human Garage, treats fascia as a cure-all to nearly every disease imaginable. Yet as today's guest, David Lesondak, Senior Structural Integrator and Fascia Spe...

13 Jan 202435min

188: Everybody Wants to Save the Children (feat Esme Providence Brown)

188: Everybody Wants to Save the Children (feat Esme Providence Brown)

What happens when white knights role-play at saving all the children? What impacts do they have on the actual realities faced by trafficked children and adults? And how does their propaganda—rolled ou...

11 Jan 20241h 29min

Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo Wants America to Return to 1776

Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo Wants America to Return to 1776

Rightwing activist Chris Rufo recently led the charge in helping oust Claudine Gay from the Harvard presidency. While the charge is plagiarism—a charge Gay herself acknowledged—the reason for Rufo’s i...

8 Jan 20246min

Brief: RFK Jr’s New Director of Propaganda

Brief: RFK Jr’s New Director of Propaganda

On January 6, 2021 Del Bigtree took the stage at the MAGA Health Freedom Rally a few blocks away from where Donald Trump had just instigated a riot. He joked about how the former president was a hard ...

6 Jan 202426min

187: Project 2025: An Authoritarian Conspiracy

187: Project 2025: An Authoritarian Conspiracy

Last year, the Heritage Foundation published a 920-page document that lays out the conservative organization’s road map for the next Republican president’s first four months in office, which could ver...

4 Jan 20241h 20min

Bonus Sample: Secular Person of Faith: pt 2 (w/Brad Onishi)

Bonus Sample: Secular Person of Faith: pt 2 (w/Brad Onishi)

Friend of the pod and Straight White American Jesus host Brad Onishi returns to pick up with Matthew where they left off in their discussion of post-religious spirituality. They discuss what happens a...

1 Jan 20246min

Brief: Secular Person of Faith: pt 1 (w/Brad Onishi)

Brief: Secular Person of Faith: pt 1 (w/Brad Onishi)

Friend of the pod and Straight White American Jesus host Brad Onishi joins Matthew for a New Year’s discussion of post-religious spirituality. Onishi fills out the details on a nascent identity that m...

30 Des 202341min

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