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: Reality Bites: The Tragedy of Magical Thinking

Bonus Sample: Reality Bites: The Tragedy of Magical Thinking

Julian traces the roots of today’s pandemic-era conspirituality back to What The Bleep’s quantum woo, The Secret’s privileged denial and grandiosity, and the dark lessons of why beliefs really matter,...

27 Sep 20219min

70: Conspiracy Theories Conceal a Burning World (w/Daniel Sherrell)

70: Conspiracy Theories Conceal a Burning World (w/Daniel Sherrell)

Daniel Sherrell is the author of an extraordinary memoir and prayer book, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, in which he recounts how, as a climate activist born in 1990, he has fought to ...

23 Sep 20212h 16min

Bonus Sample: Spirit Island No Garbage

Bonus Sample: Spirit Island No Garbage

On his family’s yearly trip to Manitoulin Island, Matthew detoxes from conspirituality influencer garbage, and returns with parts of a new plan.Show NotesWarmth by Daniel Sherrell: 9780143136538 | Pen...

20 Sep 20219min

69: Fascism Down Under!!! (w/Dr. Izzy Smith)

69: Fascism Down Under!!! (w/Dr. Izzy Smith)

This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom rode sane pandemic messaging to victory against the Republican-led recall election by a huge margin. Unsurprisingly, voting patterns perfectly matched the s...

16 Sep 20212h 16min

Bonus Sample: Mikki Willis Rewrites History

Bonus Sample: Mikki Willis Rewrites History

In June, Planedemic creator Mikki Willis appeared on Living 4D with Paul Chek to discuss what “really happened” at the Capitol on Jan 6. During the long-ranging talk, Willis took some time to attack a...

13 Sep 202110min

68: The Jordan Peterson of Fitness Bros (w/Antonio Valladares)

68: The Jordan Peterson of Fitness Bros (w/Antonio Valladares)

Paul Chek will tell you how much he’s influenced the fitness industry. He’ll tell you that he popularized Swiss Balls, and about his time working with the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls and then the champio...

10 Sep 20211h 13min

Bonus Sample: Hollow Men: The QAnon Roadshow Flop

Bonus Sample: Hollow Men: The QAnon Roadshow Flop

A QAnon-themed Stop The Steal, anti-vax, Covid-denial roadshow came to an untimely end in mid-August with their fearless leader succumbing to COVID pneumonia on a ventilator in Florida. He denied the ...

6 Sep 20216min

67: The Promise & Peril of Psychedelics

67: The Promise & Peril of Psychedelics

Psychedelics are all the rage in the investment world, with hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into research-based startups in the hope of finding interventions for addiction, depression, PTSD, e...

3 Sep 20211h 27min

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