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 Dangers of Slogans

Bonus Sample: The Dangers of Slogans

In 1970, farmer, writer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry published his essay, "Think Little." In it, he writes about the dangers of not making your public causes private causes as well, depen...

22 Maj 20236min

154: The Truth Wars (w/Renée DiResta)

154: The Truth Wars (w/Renée DiResta)

In the post-truth world, journalists who report facts are disparaged as perpetuating the narrative while candidates who hold the appropriate qualifications are smeared as deep state operatives. Likewi...

18 Maj 20231h 18min

Bonus Sample: The Dalai Lama Spectacle

Bonus Sample: The Dalai Lama Spectacle

What the hell happened between the Dalai Lama and that Indian boy? The internet served up a raft of painfully inflammatory takes, so I took a month to talk with Tibetologists and review the literature...

15 Maj 20237min

Brief: Why Does Every Conspiracy Theory Lead Back to Antisemitism? (w/Ben Cohen)

Brief: Why Does Every Conspiracy Theory Lead Back to Antisemitism? (w/Ben Cohen)

We've seen it over and over again: somehow, in some way, globalists are involved. George Soros is pulling the strings. Jews will replace us, with other minorities, or fund the interests that are again...

13 Maj 202328min

153: The Anti-Sunscreen Movement (w/Sara Aniano & Michelle Wong)

153: The Anti-Sunscreen Movement (w/Sara Aniano & Michelle Wong)

Did you know that it’s not the sun that causes cancer, but sunscreen? Or that sunscreen is actually a Big Pharma creation to keep you from receiving the sun’s magical healing properties? How about the...

11 Maj 20231h 3min

Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game

Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game

Florida governor Ron DeSantis appointed right-wing propagandist, Christopher Rufo, along with other conservative Christian education-activists, to the board of the tiny, progressive New College in Sar...

8 Maj 20236min

Brief: Marianne Williamson’s Spiritual Therapy Schtick

Brief: Marianne Williamson’s Spiritual Therapy Schtick

Marianne Williamson? Inexperienced? Not at all. In fact, she does have a ton of experience… in New Age, on-stage pseudotherapy, where she solves the problems of the troubled with memorized lines from ...

6 Maj 202352min

152: Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness (w/Nitai Joseph)

152: Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness (w/Nitai Joseph)

What does it mean for a prominent American politician to come into power as the sleeper cell of an eccentric Hindu-American cult? Does she act independently, or has her God-man got her on speed-dial? ...

4 Maj 20231h 32min

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