39: How to Talk about Conspiracy Theories (w/Anna Merlan)
What are we learning about conspiracies, conspiracy theories, and those who hold them? How are we maintaining our optimism that facts are real, that they can be discovered, and shared? How will we con...
18 Feb 20211h 58min
Bonus Sample: How to Debate on Social Media
The medium of social media is both relatively new and socially challenging. But this doesn’t mean we can’t have healthy debates. In this sample from our Monday Patreon bonus episode, Derek investigate...
15 Feb 20216min
38: Natural Hopes, Natural Fallacies (w/Drs Juniper Martin & Adriana Berusch)
Many of us came to yoga and wellness spaces to heal or flee from the alienation of modernity. We wanted something untouched by our cities and factories and labs; something that reminded us of a world ...
11 Feb 20212h 15min
Bonus Sample: The Devil & The Arrow of Time
In this sample of our weekly Patreon bonus episode, Julian travels back in time to the 80s. He finds that when it comes to the fear of diabolical evil, the appeal of conspiracy patterns, and the missi...
8 Feb 20216min
37: Guru Jagat Cultjacks Kundalini Yoga (w/Philip Deslippe & Stacie Stukin)
Today we forge ahead with part 2 of Matthew’s interview with Kundalini Yoga scholar Philip Deslippe and journalist Stacie Stukin on the tragic past, chaotic present, and future relevance of the cult o...
4 Feb 20212h 25min
Bonus Sample: Michael Roach Meditates COVID Away
Episodes 36 & 37 cover how Guru Jagat (Katie Griggs) and her Venice Beach RAMA Institute have pivoted in the COVID era to a new area of focus: anti-lockdown, anti-“woke” rhetoric, anti-masking, and an...
1 Feb 202112min
36: Guru Jagat’s Pandemic Brandwash (w/Philip Deslippe & Stacie Stukin)
What happens when a charismatic yogalebrity rises to prominence in LA’s fashion and wellness scene, gets exposed as an inheritor of a notorious cult, and then gets sideswiped by a pandemic? Meet Katie...
29 Jan 20212h 18min
Hearing Voices, Seeing Colors, & Fighting Phantoms
We decided to release this Monday patron bonus episode publicly after receiving a great response on Patreon. Julian draws heavily on the work of neurologist and author V.S. Ramachandran in an attempt ...
26 Jan 202143min
