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: On Belief

Bonus Sample: On Belief

What do we mean when we say that we believe something? When the QAnon Shaman got dressed on the morning of January 6, he put on his red, white, and blue face paint, his postmodern quasi-Native America...

10 Jul 20236min

Brief: RFK's Health Propaganda Roundtable

Brief: RFK's Health Propaganda Roundtable

On June 26, presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy, Jr hosted a "health policy roundtable" on Rumble. His guests included Joe Mercola, Sherri Tenpenny, Mikki Willis, and a host of other anti-vax lumi...

8 Jul 202355min

161: The Timeline is Chaotic (Conspirituality Audiobook Excerpt)

161: The Timeline is Chaotic (Conspirituality Audiobook Excerpt)

Matthew narrates the first three sections of the audiobook, Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat. More information on our book here. Learn more about your ad choices...

6 Jul 20231h 10min

Bonus Sample: From Pranams to Pogroms

Bonus Sample: From Pranams to Pogroms

Derek discusses the new Conspirituality book with filmmaker and podcaster Mike Hull at Powell's Books on June 26, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Jul 20238min

Brief: RFK Jr Flirts with Body Fascism (w/Natalia Petrzela)

Brief: RFK Jr Flirts with Body Fascism (w/Natalia Petrzela)

Friend of the pod and historian of American fitness culture, Natalia Petrzela, joins Matthew to shed light on a new development in RFK Jr’s campaign to disrupt the Democratic Party: his recent workout...

1 Jul 202337min

160: Empire of Lies (w/Sofia Cherici & Jan Zabka)

160: Empire of Lies (w/Sofia Cherici & Jan Zabka)

Chaos in Russia! Wagner’s pagan neo-Nazis. Is conspirituality unique to a failing American empire in the internet age? Does it require Californian New Age spirituality, with conspiracy theories that w...

29 Jun 20231h 23min

Bonus Sample: God Seemed Like A Dumb Reason to Break Up

Bonus Sample: God Seemed Like A Dumb Reason to Break Up

Today in our Listeners’ Stories installment, Lynn Short joins her partner Justin to discuss how they met, grew up in, and grew out of a branch of “Gnosis,” a theosophical cult founded in the 1950s by ...

26 Jun 20237min

Brief: An Atheist's Guide to Spirituality

Brief: An Atheist's Guide to Spirituality

“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong," wrote Richard Feynman. But does curiosity end where awareness cuts off? Derek explores the positive and nega...

24 Jun 202322min

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