651 Episodes

  1. 219: Dems Learn to Sh*tpost

    Published: 8/15/2024

  2. Bonus Sample: JD Vance’s Dictator Fetish

    Published: 8/12/2024

  3. Brief: Stealing Democracy for Jesus

    Published: 8/10/2024

  4. 218: Meet the Sexvangelicals (w/Julia Postema & Jeremiah Gibson)

    Published: 8/8/2024

  5. Bonus Sample: The "Crisis" of Meaning

    Published: 8/5/2024

  6. Brief: JD Vance Taps into Parental Rage

    Published: 8/3/2024

  7. 217: Childless Cat Lady

    Published: 8/1/2024

  8. Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children: “God’s Word on Spanking”

    Published: 7/29/2024

  9. Brief: Bret Weinstein: “The Biden Psy-Op”

    Published: 7/27/2024

  10. 216: J.D. Vance, Conspiracy Hobbit

    Published: 7/25/2024

  11. Bonus Sample: Project 2025 on Worker's "Rights"

    Published: 7/22/2024

  12. Brief: Cult of the Lamb Anti-Cult School? (w/Riley MacLeod)

    Published: 7/20/2024

  13. 215: Divinely Protected

    Published: 7/18/2024

  14. Bonus Sample: Project 2025's Plan: Let It Burn

    Published: 7/15/2024

  15. Brief: Project 2025’s “Bloodless” Coup

    Published: 7/13/2024

  16. 214: Aubrey Marcus is Totally Not a Cult Leader

    Published: 7/11/2024

  17. Bonus Sample: You Can’t Do Religion on the Internet

    Published: 7/8/2024

  18. Brief: The Freebirth to Born-Again Pipeline

    Published: 7/6/2024

  19. 213: Yoga for Gaza, Yoga for Israel

    Published: 7/3/2024

  20. Bonus Sample: The Prophet & the Electrical Storm

    Published: 7/1/2024

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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.