Conspirituality podcast

Conspirituality

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.

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.

 

#616

Bonus Sample: American Oligarchy and the Kremlin Wizard

What is an oligarchy, exactly? Is the US entering a period similar to post-Soviet Russia i... more

Yesterday

06 MINS

06:06

Yesterday


#615

Brief: Is It Fascism?

Derek and Julian discuss Robert Paxton's 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, in light of 20... more

29 Mar 2025

43 MINS

43:37

29 Mar 2025


#614

250: The Mercola Tapes

McGill University science communicator, Jonathan Jarry, was recently given hundreds of hou... more

27 Mar 2025

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:18

27 Mar 2025


#613

Bonus Sample: The War on Fat People

The Wellness Company is now selling retatrutide, a weight loss drug currently undergoing s... more

24 Mar 2025

06 MINS

06:07

24 Mar 2025


#612

Brief: Jordan Peterson’s Shady Billionaire Backers

Julian covers the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London. ... more

22 Mar 2025

40 MINS

40:41

22 Mar 2025


#611

249: Kings of Pain

Trump administration Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, recently stated the American econo... more

20 Mar 2025

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:21

20 Mar 2025


#610

Bonus Sample: Antifascist Woodshed 2.1 (Punching Nazis?)

Click [here] (https://www.patreon.com/c/conspirituality) to hear the full episode on Patre... more

17 Mar 2025

05 MINS

05:39

17 Mar 2025


#609

Brief: Antifascist Woodshed 2 (Punching Nazis?)

First of Matthew's two-part examination of why the hell questions of force, non-violent re... more

15 Mar 2025

43 MINS

43:02

15 Mar 2025


#608

248: What Side Are You On?

Lately a lot of folks (including us) have been doing the fascism comparisons. The questio... more

13 Mar 2025

1 HR 20 MINS

1:20:24

13 Mar 2025


#607

Bonus Sample: Sex, Lies, & Communist Spies

[Subscribe for full episode ] (https://www.patreon.com/c/conspirituality) The MAGA attack... more

10 Mar 2025

06 MINS

06:03

10 Mar 2025


#606

MAHA's Soft Eugenics

MAHA's response to the measles outbreak has been horrific, though expectable. Yet RFK Jr's... more

08 Mar 2025

29 MINS

29:32

08 Mar 2025


#605

247: The Deeper State

This week we’re looking at how folks who associated themselves with the magical and morbid... more

06 Mar 2025

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:00

06 Mar 2025


#604

Bonus Sample: What’s a Nazi Salute, Really?

Former "race realist" Richard Hanania recently published an article on The Free Press clai... more

03 Mar 2025

05 MINS

05:39

03 Mar 2025


#603

Brief: Smooth-Talking Anti-Feminism

Is life worse for women now than in the 1950s? In a recent interview for The Free Press, a... more

01 Mar 2025

35 MINS

35:03

01 Mar 2025


#602

246: Shock Doctrine of Discovery

Trump has decreed it’s the Gulf of America, and Google agrees, at least for US users. Rep ... more

27 Feb 2025

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:24

27 Feb 2025


#601

Bonus Sample: Manners, the Machine, and Malaparte’s Technique de Coup d’État

What do we worry more about: the far-right beliefs of trolls, or the coding skills of the ... more

24 Feb 2025

06 MINS

06:05

24 Feb 2025