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: Why Does Every Conspiracy Theory Lead Back to Antisemitism? (w/Ben Cohen)

Brief: Why Does Every Conspiracy Theory Lead Back to Antisemitism? (w/Ben Cohen)

We've seen it over and over again: somehow, in some way, globalists are involved. George Soros is pulling the strings. Jews will replace us, with other minorities, or fund the interests that are again...

13 Mai 202328min

153: The Anti-Sunscreen Movement (w/Sara Aniano & Michelle Wong)

153: The Anti-Sunscreen Movement (w/Sara Aniano & Michelle Wong)

Did you know that it’s not the sun that causes cancer, but sunscreen? Or that sunscreen is actually a Big Pharma creation to keep you from receiving the sun’s magical healing properties? How about the...

11 Mai 20231h 3min

Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game

Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game

Florida governor Ron DeSantis appointed right-wing propagandist, Christopher Rufo, along with other conservative Christian education-activists, to the board of the tiny, progressive New College in Sar...

8 Mai 20236min

Brief: Marianne Williamson’s Spiritual Therapy Schtick

Brief: Marianne Williamson’s Spiritual Therapy Schtick

Marianne Williamson? Inexperienced? Not at all. In fact, she does have a ton of experience… in New Age, on-stage pseudotherapy, where she solves the problems of the troubled with memorized lines from ...

6 Mai 202352min

152: Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness (w/Nitai Joseph)

152: Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness (w/Nitai Joseph)

What does it mean for a prominent American politician to come into power as the sleeper cell of an eccentric Hindu-American cult? Does she act independently, or has her God-man got her on speed-dial? ...

4 Mai 20231h 32min

Bonus Sample: Reimagining the Apocalypse

Bonus Sample: Reimagining the Apocalypse

Apocalyptic language is everywhere: in the marketing copy of wellness influencers and pseudo-documentary makers selling spike protein detoxes and vaccine fear-mongering videos, and in the fervent anti...

1 Mai 202310min

151: Satan Wants You Watch Party (Spoilers)

151: Satan Wants You Watch Party (Spoilers)

How, in the name of the Holy Virgin Mary, did Michelle Remembers—the book that started the Satanic Panic—come to be written? Who was Lawrence Pazder really? Did he encourage and exaggerate Michelle Sm...

27 Apr 20231h 37min

Bonus Sample: Framing George Soros

Bonus Sample: Framing George Soros

FOX News says he wants to destroy America. Candace Owens is scared to speak his name out loud. Mikki Willis is making a film about his assault on the American family. Dr. Christiane Northrup claims he...

24 Apr 202312min

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