Conspirituality
A podcast by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
692 Episodes
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Bonus Sample: “What will happen?” (asks a 12 year-old)
Published: 11/11/2024 -
Brief: Tucker Carlson's Daddy Issues
Published: 9/11/2024 -
231: New Age Bible, Postmodern Novel (w/ Sheila Heti)
Published: 7/11/2024 -
Bonus Sample: Elections on 3 Continents
Published: 4/11/2024 -
Brief: No Really, They’re Coming For Your Pets
Published: 2/11/2024 -
230: How Did We Get Here?
Published: 31/10/2024 -
Relief Project #3: Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Published: 29/10/2024 -
Bonus Sample: Tucker Carlson's Daddy Issues
Published: 28/10/2024 -
Brief: Leonard Leo’s Plan to “Crush” Democracy
Published: 26/10/2024 -
229: Stanford Has Fallen
Published: 24/10/2024 -
Bonus Sample: The Apocalyptic Portal
Published: 21/10/2024 -
Brief: Trump Temple Playlist
Published: 19/10/2024 -
228: Hurricane Trump
Published: 17/10/2024 -
Bonus Sample: Surviving Modern Yoga Panel (w/Ann Gleig & Michelle C. Johnson)
Published: 14/10/2024 -
Deep Cut: The OG New Age Grifter: Madame Blavatsky
Published: 12/10/2024 -
227: Rescue Remedy for The Republic
Published: 10/10/2024 -
Bonus Sample: What Are We Doing About Health?
Published: 7/10/2024 -
Brief: RFK Jr Screws His Followers
Published: 5/10/2024 -
226: MAHA Storms the Capitol
Published: 3/10/2024 -
Relief Project #2: Natalie Wynn/Contrapoints
Published: 1/10/2024
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.
