Bonus Sample: This is NOT Just a Drug!
Julian recounts the wild and touching journey of four close friends in a self-directed spiritual group therapy session—super high on Ecstasy.Content Warning: this story includes accounts of traumatic ...
22 Mars 20217min
43: How to Redpill a Yoga Podcaster
Back in December, a certified anesthesiologist named Dr. Madhava Setty posted a long critique of our podcast to the New Age website Collective Evolution. While cordial and apparently well-meaning, Set...
19 Mars 20211h 35min
Bonus Sample: “CIS White Man” Means So Many Things
This episode follows up on earlier discussions on the podcast about how we manage privilege. Our exploration of cancel culture — specifically that part of it that is really a form of horizontal violen...
15 Mars 20218min
42: Deradicalizing From Digital Hate (w/Caolan Robertson)
Imagine that you’re 25 years old. You grew up Irish, gay, and online. When the Orlando Pulse massacre explodes, you go to YouTube for the news. You watch Milo Yiannopolous and Gavin McInnes fake-kiss ...
11 Mars 20212h 19min
Bonus Sample: Cats and the Meaning of Life
Humans will never be cats. In his new book, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life, the philosopher John Gray argues that we can learn a lot about how to live from them—namely, how to calm ou...
8 Mars 20218min
41: Snark Tank
Two episodes in our catalog haunt this podcast. In episode 6, Steve Hassan advised listeners to treat people under the undue influence of QAnon and conspirituality with welcome and respect. Castigatio...
5 Mars 20211h 26min
Bonus Sample: Stranded On The Lifeboat: Escaping The Large Group Awareness Cult
One-hundred-and-twenty seekers filled the LA hotel ballroom. We sought the life-changing experience that could only happen by holding in our pee, being religiously on-time, and taking full responsibil...
1 Mars 20215min
40: White Supremacy: Grift and Gravity (w/Michelle Cassandra Johnson & Daniel Lombroso)
Around 2015, the alt-right movement erupted online to both provoke and monetize MAGA momentum and distort and defame the real-world progress symbolized in Barack Obama and agitated by Black Lives Matt...
25 Feb 20212h 8min
