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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Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration

Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration

In October 2020, three contrarian medical professionals published The Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro-business, anti-closure crowd. One of them, Jay Bhattacharya, now runs th...

16 Juni 20257min

Brief: The Ghost Lab

Brief: The Ghost Lab

Cable travel channels are filled with haunted houses and other paranormal activity, beyond History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and cryptozoology content. The more radicalized Gaia TV has close to a milli...

14 Juni 202540min

261: Where Are They Now?

261: Where Are They Now?

From 1999-2002, VH1 ran a show called “Where Are They Now?” The irregularly produced series wondered aloud what happened to former cultural icons like eighties hair metal bands, kid actors, and one-hi...

12 Juni 20251h 1min

Bonus Sample: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 2)

Bonus Sample: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 2)

Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a ragtag band of writers and worldbuilders Trojan-hor...

9 Juni 20256min

Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)

Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)

Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a ragtag band of writers and worldbuilders Trojan-hor...

7 Juni 202539min

260: Aubrey Marcus's Polyamory God Bomb

260: Aubrey Marcus's Polyamory God Bomb

Megamillionaire supplements and New Age life coach tycoon Aubrey Marcus recently claimed the goddess Isis told him that he must impregnate both his wife and the third member of their throuple while do...

5 Juni 20251h 10min

Bonus Sample: Has Nonviolence Been Debunked?

Bonus Sample: Has Nonviolence Been Debunked?

Support Conspirituality on Patreon. Does the word protestor conjure a masked figure in black clothing smashing windows and lighting fires or a weekend liberal ineffectually following rules while sipp...

2 Juni 20255min

Brief:  The FDA Amateur Hour Podcast

Brief: The FDA Amateur Hour Podcast

Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad claim they're going to open the "black box" at the FDA, an agency they're now both employed at. So they started a podcast. It's not the first official FDA podcast, but it...

31 Maj 202534min

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