Conspirituality
A podcast by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
743 Episodes
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Bonus Sample: The Middle Circle
Published: 12/20/2021 -
82: Steve Bannon, Mystic (w/Benjamin Teitelbaum)
Published: 12/17/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Not All Conspiritualities Are the Same
Published: 12/13/2021 -
81: Praying for Fire (w/Sean Prophet)
Published: 12/10/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Spiritual Consumerism
Published: 12/6/2021 -
80: Lights, Camera, Yoga (w/Jill Miller)
Published: 12/3/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Did We Choose to Be the Good Ones?
Published: 11/29/2021 -
79: Anti-Hate Work in Canada (w/Dan Collen, Elizabeth Simons, & Morgan Yew)
Published: 11/25/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Sam Harris: High-Brow Secular Conspiritualist
Published: 11/22/2021 -
78: Society of the Conspiracy
Published: 11/19/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Privilege in Wellness Spaces
Published: 11/15/2021 -
77: A Homeopathy Episode So Potent You Can’t Hear It (w/Jonathan Jarry)
Published: 11/12/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Rational Emotions & Poetic Science
Published: 11/8/2021 -
76: A Field Guide to White Supremacy (w/Kathleen Belew)
Published: 11/4/2021 -
Bonus Sample: My Religious Attitude Toward Science
Published: 11/1/2021 -
75: How to Talk to a Science Denier (w/Lee McIntyre)
Published: 10/28/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Charisma & Extroversion
Published: 10/25/2021 -
74: Elena Brower Could Stop Selling doTERRA
Published: 10/21/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Radical Denial
Published: 10/18/2021 -
73: Eating Disorders in Yogaland (w/Jason Nagata & Chelsea Roff)
Published: 10/14/2021
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.
