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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 288: Conspirituality Live with Dr Jessica Knurick

288: Conspirituality Live with Dr Jessica Knurick

Derek sits down with Dr Jessica Knurick at the Eudemonia Summit for this special live recording. They discuss combating health misinformation online, what MAHA gets right and wrong, whether or not "nu...

18 Dec 20251h 6min

Bonus Sample: Marx’s “Atheism” vs. the Capitalist Religion of Everyday Life

Bonus Sample: Marx’s “Atheism” vs. the Capitalist Religion of Everyday Life

Listen to the full episode Matthew explores Marx’s “opium of the people” passage by placing it back into the philosophical and political project it came from. Marx was not attacking religion in some ...

15 Dec 20255min

Brief: Demonic Karl Marx ATTACKS Private Property and DESTROYS Religion

Brief: Demonic Karl Marx ATTACKS Private Property and DESTROYS Religion

Matthew examines how Karl Marx has long been framed as a demonic threat to religion and private property — a tactic that sidesteps Marx’s actual critique of capitalism. J. Edgar Hoover, Ronald Reagan,...

13 Dec 202540min

287: She Did Nuzzi RFK Jr Coming

287: She Did Nuzzi RFK Jr Coming

How does an elite Millennial politics reporter wind up having phone sex with and giving campaign advice to the 70-year-old emerging fascist she’s reporting on? Most of that should stay between Olivi...

11 Dec 202558min

Bonus Sample: “Joe Rogan of The Left” Glazes China

Bonus Sample: “Joe Rogan of The Left” Glazes China

Listen to the full episode here Hasan Piker just spent two weeks in The People’s Republic of China. The famous streamer is often invoked as being a potential “Joe Rogan of The Left,” who might bring ...

8 Dec 20255min

Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics?

Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics?

"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian break down the performative nature of this stunt and d...

6 Dec 202528min

286: RFK Jr’s Great Crusade

286: RFK Jr’s Great Crusade

RFK Jr is one of the greatest perpetrators of a firehose of falsehoods that we’ve ever covered. The stakes were raised when he was installed as head of America’s public health system. A new longform a...

4 Dec 20251h 8min

Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected?

Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected?

Listen to the full episode. With the CDC recently updating its website with anti-vax propaganda under the direction of RFK Jr, disgraced and disbarred physician, Andrew Wakefield, is back in the news...

1 Dec 20255min

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