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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104: Leaving Ramtha's Ranch (w/Cortney & Shana)

104: Leaving Ramtha's Ranch (w/Cortney & Shana)

Cortney and Shana can’t remember exactly how they first became aware of the New Age promises and anxieties that would come to dominate every aspect of their lives. Their mom brought it into the house ...

19 Mai 20221h 28min

Bonus Sample: Yoga & the Body in Time (Pt 2)

Bonus Sample: Yoga & the Body in Time (Pt 2)

As the crew is in the final stages of submitting their forthcoming book, Julian and Derek reflect on how yoga has evolved in their personal lives. In Part 2, they talk about yoga in aging bodies, the ...

16 Mai 20228min

103: Roe Against the Machine (w/Kiera Butler)

103: Roe Against the Machine (w/Kiera Butler)

Since day one, we've been covering medical disinformation on this podcast, always wondering where it would move next. Our collective breaths were stolen when learning about the seemingly inevitable ov...

12 Mai 202245min

Bonus Sample: Yoga & the Body in Time (Pt 1)

Bonus Sample: Yoga & the Body in Time (Pt 1)

As the crew is in the final stages of submitting their forthcoming book, Julian and Derek reflect on how yoga has evolved in their personal lives. In Part 1, they discuss the origins of their yoga pra...

9 Mai 20228min

102: Conspirituality, Cancer, & Compassion (w/Gavin Ryan)

102: Conspirituality, Cancer, & Compassion (w/Gavin Ryan)

After we published episode 98 on “Placebo Joe” Dispenza, an Australian artist named Gavin Ryan posted a comment to Facebook in response:“My wife was full of this stuff, when she stopped taking all the...

5 Mai 20221h 1min

Bonus Sample: Cash Grab

Bonus Sample: Cash Grab

Manifestation workshops. MLM downlines. The supplement grift. Cash is king everywhere in the conspirituality sphere, even—especially—when disguised in the jargon of spiritual-ese. Derek and Julian ste...

2 Mai 20228min

101: Eugenic Pandemic (w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton)

101: Eugenic Pandemic (w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton)

In this conversation, Beatrice Adler-Bolton—disability justice advocate and co-host of Death Panel Podcast—says something twice:"Under capitalism, you’re only entitled to the survival you can buy." He...

28 Apr 20221h 23min

Bonus Sample: Taking the Con Out of Spirituality

Bonus Sample: Taking the Con Out of Spirituality

Derek and Julian discuss the literary influences and yogic practices that led them to yoga in the first place, while also discussing what spirituality in a post-pandemic world could look like.  -- -- ...

25 Apr 20229min

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