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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141: Does Canada Want Suffering Citizens to Die? (w/Taslim Alani-Verjee)

141: Does Canada Want Suffering Citizens to Die? (w/Taslim Alani-Verjee)

Is Canada trying to euthanize the mentally ill? Self-professed "theocratic fascist" Matt Walsh says so. So does the OG anti-woke agitator, James Lindsay. Both cravenly distort Canada's proposed expan...

16 Feb 20231h 10min

Brief: Bikram Convoy Stopped by His Survivors

Brief: Bikram Convoy Stopped by His Survivors

Hot yoga tycoon and sex offender Bikram Choudhury was set to teach his sweaty pseudoscience in Vancouver starting on February 20th. But a team of yoga allies, led by a woman who has sued Choudhury for...

14 Feb 202343min

Bonus Sample: Bad News Berenson on Brand

Bonus Sample: Bad News Berenson on Brand

The Twitter Files are the grift that keeps on giving. This week, Derek and Julian look at Alex Berenson's recent appearance on Russell Brand's Rumble channel to talk about the conspiracies that only e...

13 Feb 202310min

140: Surviving Larry (w/Daniel Levin & Zach Heinzerling)

140: Surviving Larry (w/Daniel Levin & Zach Heinzerling)

Today, Hulu releases a 3-episode doc series called “Stolen Youth,” directed by Zach Heinzerling. The pole star for this low-dopamine, low-cortisol, non-true-crime, survivor-centred documentary is Dan...

9 Feb 20231h 23min

Bonus Sample: What Are We Doing Here?

Bonus Sample: What Are We Doing Here?

Sure, a big question: one Derek explores in the context of this nearly three-year-old Conspirituality project. Criticism and awareness are essential tools in a critical thinking kit, but to what end? ...

6 Feb 202310min

UNLOCKED: Leaving S-Factor (w/Jessica Hopper)

UNLOCKED: Leaving S-Factor (w/Jessica Hopper)

Those who fly high, fall hard. Pole dance company S-Factor crashed and burned in 2021 amidst a stack of complaints. Detractors said the company was conducting unlicensed group therapy, cosplaying enli...

4 Feb 20232h 55min

139: Comedy in the MAGAverse (w/Jordan Klepper)

139: Comedy in the MAGAverse (w/Jordan Klepper)

Can you believe that Nancy Pelosi paid people to attack the Capitol on Jan 6 in order to make Republicans look bad? Actually, I mean, Jan 6 was the most peaceful gathering of a million patriots in his...

2 Feb 202352min

Brief: Long Live Guru Jagat (w/Emily Guerin)

Brief: Long Live Guru Jagat (w/Emily Guerin)

Katie Griggs. Katie Day. Kundalini Katie. Guru Jagat. We hardly knew you. The late "Queen of Conspiracy Theories" is now memorialized on NPR through Emily Guerin's LAist podcast "Imperfect Paradise." ...

31 Jan 202338min

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