Conspirituality
A podcast by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
743 Episodes
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Bonus Sample: “CIS White Man” Means So Many Things
Published: 3/15/2021 -
42: Deradicalizing From Digital Hate (w/Caolan Robertson)
Published: 3/11/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Cats and the Meaning of Life
Published: 3/8/2021 -
41: Snark Tank
Published: 3/5/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Stranded On The Lifeboat: Escaping The Large Group Awareness Cult
Published: 3/1/2021 -
40: White Supremacy: Grift and Gravity (w/Michelle Cassandra Johnson & Daniel Lombroso)
Published: 2/25/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Anti-Masker at the Skating Trail
Published: 2/22/2021 -
39: How to Talk about Conspiracy Theories (w/Anna Merlan)
Published: 2/18/2021 -
Bonus Sample: How to Debate on Social Media
Published: 2/15/2021 -
38: Natural Hopes, Natural Fallacies (w/Drs Juniper Martin & Adriana Berusch)
Published: 2/11/2021 -
Bonus Sample: The Devil & The Arrow of Time
Published: 2/8/2021 -
37: Guru Jagat Cultjacks Kundalini Yoga (w/Philip Deslippe & Stacie Stukin)
Published: 2/4/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Michael Roach Meditates COVID Away
Published: 2/1/2021 -
36: Guru Jagat’s Pandemic Brandwash (w/Philip Deslippe & Stacie Stukin)
Published: 1/29/2021 -
Hearing Voices, Seeing Colors, & Fighting Phantoms
Published: 1/26/2021 -
35: Séance Science (w/Susannah Crockford)
Published: 1/22/2021 -
34: Insurrectionist Influencers (w/RP Eddy)
Published: 1/15/2021 -
33: Manipulating the Hero’s Journey
Published: 1/8/2021 -
32: Both Sides Pt 2: Healing & Sense-making in the New Year (w/Charles Eisenstein)
Published: 12/31/2020 -
31: Bro Science: Anti-Vaxxers (w/Jonathan Berman)
Published: 12/24/2020
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.
