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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Episoder(799)

Bonus Sample: Listener Stories: Christina (part 2)

Bonus Sample: Listener Stories: Christina (part 2)

Christina Flinders returns for the second of a two-part tour through her experience with cultic dynamics, conspirituality, and the long road towards finding her place in the world. Picking up where sh...

19 Sep 20224min

120: Overripe Avocado (w/Jill Ettinger)

120: Overripe Avocado (w/Jill Ettinger)

Did you know that Joe Biden is a Satanic alien Nazi pedophile intent on bringing about the New World Order? Or that Donald Trump is the only thing that will save us from complete tyranny? How about th...

15 Sep 20221h 13min

Bonus Sample: Listener Stories: Christina (part 1)

Bonus Sample: Listener Stories: Christina (part 1)

Christina Flinders is our honoured guest today for the first of a two-part tour through her  experience with cultic dynamics and conspirituality. Matthew and Julian learn about her family's enmeshment...

12 Sep 20227min

119: We Are Slenderman (w/Kathleen Hale)

119: We Are Slenderman (w/Kathleen Hale)

On May 31st, 2014, Morgan Geyser stabbed her onetime best friend Bella Leutner nineteen times, while her new best friend, Anissa Weier, looked on. All three girls were twelve years old.  Geyser was li...

8 Sep 20221h 34min

Bonus Sample: The Consciousness Instinct

Bonus Sample: The Consciousness Instinct

As we're all with family over the holiday weekend, here's a 2018 interview that Derek conducted with neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga after the publication of his last book, The Consciousness Instinct...

5 Sep 20226min

118: Detoxing From Wellness (w/Kerri Kelly)

118: Detoxing From Wellness (w/Kerri Kelly)

Do you ever stop to think about whether or not you can afford organic food—and then consider that many people don’t have such an option? Is Goop’s $295 incense holder a sign of feminine empowerment or...

1 Sep 202252min

Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 6 | Michelle Remembers: Literal Symbols

Bonus Sample: Swan Song Series 6 | Michelle Remembers: Literal Symbols

The homestretch of our study of Michelle Remembers zeroes in on the literal symbols—and symbols gone literal—of the Satanic Panic. Archetypes, gore, anxieties about sex and babies and filth: Lawrence ...

29 Aug 202210min

117: The Real Cost of Fitness in America (w/Natalia Petrzela)

117: The Real Cost of Fitness in America (w/Natalia Petrzela)

Fitness is the beating heart of America. No, wait, that’s opportunistic capitalism. But opportunistic capitalism, as it turns out, is the beating heart of fitness. Yet fitness has a soul too—in fact, ...

25 Aug 20221h 9min

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