Conspirituality
A podcast by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
693 Episodes
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Bonus Sample: A Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Published: 28/06/2021 -
57: The Storm is Mutating (w/Mike Rothschild)
Published: 24/06/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Playing Shaman
Published: 21/06/2021 -
56: Critical Race Theory in Real Life (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)
Published: 17/06/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Doomsday Prophecy & Spirituality Porn
Published: 14/06/2021 -
55: Games Against Humanity (w/C. Thi Nguyen)
Published: 11/06/2021 -
Bonus Sample: What Will Yoga Do to Our Children?
Published: 7/06/2021 -
54: Māori MAGA (w/Joe Trinder and Anke Richter)
Published: 3/06/2021 -
Bonus Sample: How Many Monuments Must Fall?
Published: 31/05/2021 -
53: Learning Cultish (w/Amanda Montell)
Published: 27/05/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Loaded Language & Productive Discussion
Published: 24/05/2021 -
52: The Clerical Class of the Right (w/Alex Ebert)
Published: 20/05/2021 -
Bonus Sample: No Moral Outrage Porn, No Punching Down
Published: 17/05/2021 -
51: You Can’t Force It (w/Devendra Banhart)
Published: 13/05/2021 -
Bonus Sample: On the Anxiety of Death
Published: 10/05/2021 -
50. Sellouts & Zealots (w/Sheena Sood)
Published: 6/05/2021 -
Bonus Sample: The God-Man & His Enabler: How Ken Wilber Got Adi Da All Wrong
Published: 3/05/2021 -
49: Tik Tok Fulfillment Center (w/Abbie Richards)
Published: 29/04/2021 -
Bonus Sample: Post-Cult Shame
Published: 26/04/2021 -
48: Traumatic Influence (w/Kyra Haglund & Hala Khouri)
Published: 23/04/2021
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.
