Conspirituality
A podcast by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
650 Episodes
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Bonus Sample: 1950’s Alien Yoga
Published: 1/27/2025 -
Brief: Patients Before Profits
Published: 1/25/2025 -
241: Unravelling The Telepathy Tapes
Published: 1/23/2025 -
Relief Project #7: Sam Adler-Bell
Published: 1/21/2025 -
Bonus Sample: Calling Out Bullsh*t
Published: 1/20/2025 -
Brief: Tech-Bro Mormonism (w/Blair Hodges)
Published: 1/18/2025 -
240: Bryan Johnson’s Impossible Blueprint
Published: 1/16/2025 -
Clarity Lab: Fighting Cancer Misinformation
Published: 1/14/2025 -
Bonus Sample: Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 1 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)
Published: 1/13/2025 -
Brief: Vinay Prasad’s Pick-me Campaign
Published: 1/11/2025 -
239: Conspiracy Of Dunces
Published: 1/9/2025 -
Bonus Sample: The Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention
Published: 1/6/2025 -
Brief: Trump the Babyface, Trump the Heel (w/Abraham Josie Reisman)
Published: 1/4/2025 -
238: Diary of a CEO Bro
Published: 1/2/2025 -
Relief Project #6: Rebecca Solnit
Published: 12/31/2024 -
Bonus Sample: Why Big Wellness Hates Ozempic
Published: 12/30/2024 -
Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine
Published: 12/28/2024 -
Unlocked: “What will happen?” (asks a 12 year-old)
Published: 12/26/2024 -
Bonus Sample: Blessed NeoKayfabe of Santa Claus
Published: 12/23/2024 -
Brief: My Dad Became a MAGA Power Broker (w/Julia Tucker)
Published: 12/21/2024
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.