Conspirituality

A podcast by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Categories:

Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture

622 Episodes

  1. Brief: The God Pivot: Rogan, Brand, & Huberman

    Published: 3/9/2024

  2. 196: Julian Goes to the New Age Expo!

    Published: 3/7/2024

  3. Bonus Sample: “There Are Worse Things Than Dying”

    Published: 3/4/2024

  4. Brief: The CPAC Pope and the Icicle Babies (w/ Brad Onishi)

    Published: 3/2/2024

  5. 195: Long COVID (w/Tara Haelle)

    Published: 2/29/2024

  6. Bonus Sample: Through the Looking-Glass

    Published: 2/26/2024

  7. Brief: The “Super Reasonable” Dr. Vinay Prasad

    Published: 2/24/2024

  8. 194: The Power Worshippers (w/Katherine Stewart)

    Published: 2/22/2024

  9. Bonus Sample: Your Gut Isn't Leaking

    Published: 2/19/2024

  10. Brief: Plandemic Takes the Promenade

    Published: 2/17/2024

  11. 193: Speaking Truth to GOOP (w/Dr Jen Gunter)

    Published: 2/15/2024

  12. Bonus Sample: Living in the Enema Times

    Published: 2/12/2024

  13. Brief: The Culture Warrior to Wellness Pipeline (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

    Published: 2/10/2024

  14. 192: Coffee is Your Friend, Not Your Enema (feat Mallory DeMille)

    Published: 2/8/2024

  15. Bonus Sample: The GOP Takeover of Media

    Published: 2/5/2024

  16. Brief: Deep Church Conspiracy (w/David Lafferty)

    Published: 2/3/2024

  17. 191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)

    Published: 2/1/2024

  18. Bonus Sample: The Plan to Dismantle Health Care

    Published: 1/29/2024

  19. Brief: New Year, Same Old Conspiritualists

    Published: 1/27/2024

  20. 190: Females Drive Evolution (w/Cat Bohannon)

    Published: 1/25/2024

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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.