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(822)

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

100: State of Disinformation (w/Imran Ahmed)

100: State of Disinformation (w/Imran Ahmed)

In July 2020, just as we were finding our sea legs with this podcast, Imran Ahmed joined to discuss the state of disinformation occurring around the world. As the founder of the UK’s Center for Counte...

21 Apr 20221h 35min

Bonus Sample: Zach Bush and the Holy Sardines

Bonus Sample: Zach Bush and the Holy Sardines

The Sermon of the Sardines is etched into our very souls. Picture the scene, as dreamboat doctor Zach Bush recounts his shimmering story of swimming off the coast of Tulum with thousands of tiny heroi...

18 Apr 202210min

99: Conspirituality Goes to Therapy (w/Rachel Bernstein)

99: Conspirituality Goes to Therapy (w/Rachel Bernstein)

Listeners: there’s a revolution going on. Legions of Twitter counselors and Instagram therapists has risen up to offer unsolicited sermons on cults, cult leaders, and cult recovery. With COVID closing...

14 Apr 20221h 29min

Bonus Sample: Watch What They Say, Watch What They Sell

Bonus Sample: Watch What They Say, Watch What They Sell

Since early on in this conspirituality experiment, Derek has been using the catchphrase that is the title of this week's bonus episode. Julian joins in to discuss exactly what the phrase means in the ...

11 Apr 20227min

98: Placebo Joe Dispenza

98: Placebo Joe Dispenza

If you get treated by someone who says they’re a doctor, but they’re not, can they still have a placebo effect? That’s the question we’d like to ask Dr. Joe Dispenza, who’s not a doctor, but who plays...

8 Apr 20221h 41min

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