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.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 685
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Brief: Conspiracies Down Under
The recent killing of two police officers (and wounding of a third) in Porepunkah, Australia has highlighted the dangers of sovereign citizen-style conspiratorial beliefs. The alleged shooter is stil…
00:35:39 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
273: Trump Will Die
Trump is still alive, though a lot of folks are excited that won't last. Maybe it’s testimony to the allure of the fantasy that he really is powerful, that his strongman schtick has legs, that he rea…
01:03:50 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Bonus Sample: Antifascist Christianity: Bonhoeffer (Pt 2)
Matthew recounts the story of a young, hoity-toity soft-nationalist German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer who discovered the radical soul of antifascism by hanging out in a Black Baptist church…
00:05:34 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
Brief: Antifascist Christianity: Bonhoeffer (Pt 1)
Matthew recounts the story of a young, hoity-toity soft-nationalist German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer who discovered the radical soul of antifascism by hanging out in a Black Baptist church…
00:37:39 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
272: Jillian Michaels is the Biggest Loser
The unavoidable question of the week: why is Jillian Michaels on CNN commenting on slavery, exactly?
As it turns out, Netflix provides the answer. The three-part docuseries, Fit for TV: The Reality…
00:58:36 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Bonus Sample: The Beatles’ Billionaire Yogi
Levitation, world peace, and blissful enlightenment were all essential to the hippie counterculture. But it came at quite a price. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi made billions selling magical mantras and the …
00:06:09 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
Brief: Ground Zero Grifting
Plandemic creator Mikki Willis recently hosted an hour-long webinar to promote his supplements company. Marketed as a storytelling hour to share the power of immunity and god with their followers, th…
00:37:44 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
271: The Miseducation of PragerU
The right has waged a war on “woke” Sesame Street for generations. When the party passed the 2025 Recissions Act, they were finally able to take a significant field advantage in this battle—one which…
01:01:50 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Bonus Sample: The Naturopaths Are At It Again
In preparation for this Thursday's episode on PragerU, Derek looks at one of the propaganda organization's videos featuring naturopathic practitioner, Joseph Pizzorno.
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00:05:53 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
Brief: Olympics for Dopers
The Enhanced Games promises to display the "true potential" of athletes by letting them use any sort of performance enhancement drugs available when it launches in Las Vegas in 2026. Yet why would a …
00:34:59 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
270: Kennedy's Bloodbath
The implications of awarding Robert F Kennedy, Jr with a position he’s completely unqualified for are becoming clearer by the day. While he’s made numerous egregious and dangerous moves as Secretary …
00:59:41 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Bonus Sample: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)
Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of …
00:05:22 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
Brief: Nair, Mamdani, and Culture against the Culture War (Pt 1)
Well, I seem to always be inspired by the person who is considered marginal. Firstly, their spirit of survival, their resilience, their lack of self-pity, the ability usually to laugh in the face of …
00:43:05 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
269: The Book of Gwyneth
In her new biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, Amy Odell calls Goop “a powerful platform for spreading health misinformation.” So many topics Goop has covered favorably—yoni eggs, coffee enemas, celery jui…
01:02:29 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Bonus Sample: The '80s Zen Master Con Man
Everything about Zen Master Rama was fake—except for the piles of money he made. His black belt in paranormal martial arts, three past lives as a Buddhist teacher, 31 meditation albums he claimed to …
00:06:03 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Brief: DJ Khaled of Pseudoscience
Strange billboards have been popping up all over Los Angeles featuring disgraced Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes, and an unidentified man listing a new URL—one that redirects to the Theranos websi…
00:23:21 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
268: Rogan’s Christian President
We catch up on three figures this week.
First is Bari Weiss, who's trying to sell her upstart media org, The Free Press, to Skydance for a reported $250 million, just days after the network's merge…
01:14:18 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Bonus Sample: "Natural" Snake Oil?
MAHA hates petroleum-based food dyes. Yet, as Derek unpacks, many of the main influencers in this movement monetize products synthesized by the same exact chemical process.
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00:05:58 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Brief: Mehdi Hasan vs Jordan Peterson
Mehdi Hasan's recent Jubilee appearance has blown up—and so has criticism of the entire media operation. Derek and Julian discuss the value and pitfalls of this format, contrasting the far-right part…
00:39:17 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
267: Epstein Never Died
Jeffrey Epstein’s name is being screamed into the headlines again. The late and former self-described best-friend of Donald Trump's highly suspicious 2019 death following his arrest for child sex tra…
00:58:51 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
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