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: The Music of the Conspirituality Podcast

Bonus Sample: The Music of the Conspirituality Podcast

Derek steps back from conspiracies and wellness this week to discuss something very healing and personal to him: music. Specifically, how music has shaped his career, as well as the story behind the m...

11 Jul 20229min

111: Who's Afraid of Teal Swan (pt 2) (w/Jennings Brown)

111: Who's Afraid of Teal Swan (pt 2) (w/Jennings Brown)

Our guest today, Jennings Brown, is a bright light in an increasingly chaotic cult-content economy. His 2018 podcast on Teal Swan, The Gateway, produced with Gizmodo, sets a high-watermark standard fo...

7 Jul 20221h 50min

Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series: Close to Home

Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series: Close to Home

We can't understand Teal Swan without understanding the Satanic Panic. And we can't really understand that historical disaster with out feeling our way into the mysteries of memory, fantasy, shame, an...

4 Jul 20229min

110: Temple of the Gun

110: Temple of the Gun

Rosaries made of shell casings. A breakaway Unification Church sect that holds rituals with gilded ARs. JP Sears on the gun range. The unholy American trinity of conservative politics, religious extre...

1 Jul 20221h 26min

Bonus Sample: The Chapels in Our Brains

Bonus Sample: The Chapels in Our Brains

Matthew introduces Julian to the solipsism of an old Catholic catechism. Julian remembers meditating on non-duality. What spaces in our brains do these exercises create? Did we need those spaces for s...

27 Jun 20229min

109. Who’s Afraid of Teal Swan? (w/Jon Kasbe)

109. Who’s Afraid of Teal Swan? (w/Jon Kasbe)

If the world has become too much to bear—and the bots know it from your search history— you will likely find Teal Swan. She will appear, an angel of the algorithms, part icon and part anime avenger. A...

23 Jun 20222h 4min

Bonus Sample: Giving Up the Gun

Bonus Sample: Giving Up the Gun

After becoming global leaders in gun manufacturing in the 16th century, Japan banished all guns from their country for two centuries. How did this happen? And what were the results? Well, even today, ...

20 Jun 20227min

108: Downeast with Christiane Northrup (w/ Mooncat, Andy O’Brien, & Alyce Ornella)

108: Downeast with Christiane Northrup (w/ Mooncat, Andy O’Brien, & Alyce Ornella)

Half-a-million Facebook followers. Hundreds of videos in a series called “The Great Awakening.” Christiane Northrup, the matriarch of New Age women’s wellness, warns her followers about fake viruses, ...

16 Jun 20221h 40min

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