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: Hydroxychloroquine Emergency

Bonus Sample: Hydroxychloroquine Emergency

In this listener story, Julian talks to disabled rights activist and journalist Abby Mahler about how the fake COVID-cure grift endangers people who really need hydroxychloroquine to survive. -- -- --...

13 Mar 20238min

144: The Magic Spells of Wellness (w/Colleen Derkatch)

144: The Magic Spells of Wellness (w/Colleen Derkatch)

"Cleansing is no longer an option, it's a necessity.” From wellness influencers obsessed about the meat-body, to Christofascists obsessed about the body politic, rhetoric bombards us from all sides. ...

9 Mar 20231h 30min

Bonus Sample: Marianne Williamson for Prez. New Age Jesus for VP.

Bonus Sample: Marianne Williamson for Prez. New Age Jesus for VP.

Can Marianne Williamson maintain street cred as a progressive while promoting New Age Jesus? Can she hammer out functional policy while preaching out of A Course in Miracles—the most anti-political ps...

6 Mar 202315min

Brief: Flood the Zone (w/Dr Dan Wilson)

Brief: Flood the Zone (w/Dr Dan Wilson)

Answering the current wave of confusing vaccine misinformation. Julian is joined by molecular biologist Dr. Dan Wilson. "Died Suddenly," correlation vs. causation, the vaccine court, and the recycled ...

28 Feb 202317min

Bonus Sample: Romancing the Stoned

Bonus Sample: Romancing the Stoned

So much suffering occurs because we romanticize a past that never actually existed in the belief that it's destined to become the future. In the middle we sit, here, now, with time marching forward. D...

27 Feb 20236min

Brief: Reggae Muzak

Brief: Reggae Muzak

Continuing a conversation from EP142, Derek looks at the cultural damage done when musicians co-opt musical styles to promote their own propaganda, which is often at odds with the social struggles of ...

25 Feb 202327min

142: Destination Rabbit Hole (w/Anna Merlan)

142: Destination Rabbit Hole (w/Anna Merlan)

Do visiting inter-dimensional spirits and stowaway UFO passengers use the LAX Airport to touch down among us? Well they do if they're in town for the Conscious Life Expo, conveniently located at the L...

23 Feb 20231h 33min

Bonus Sample: Maggie the Good Conspiritualist

Bonus Sample: Maggie the Good Conspiritualist

How does it feel to grow up in a back-to-the-land house that vibrates with the anxious passion of conspiracy theories? What would happen when the world began to disconfirm the conspiratorial lore? How...

20 Feb 20236min

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