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
- 686
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Bonus Sample: The Anti-Woke Industrial Complex
From Ron DeSantis's anti-woke presidential campaign to Bari Weiss's FAIR war on woke, the concept of "wokeness" has become an ideal devil in right-wing and right-leaning politics—even if (or especial…
00:06:23 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Brief: Updates on Countering Hate
How can we protect ourselves and our children from online hate and misinformation? Julian interviews Imran Ahmed about the latest work the Center for Countering Digital Hate has done on TikTok, Twitt…
00:39:37 |
Sat 10 Jun 2023
157: Science & Sensibility
How did “following the science” get so confusing during the pandemic? As the publication of our book draws closer, Derek shares his best practices for science literacy, and examples of where grifters…
01:25:39 |
Thu 08 Jun 2023
Bonus Sample: Conspirituality Marches on the White House (pt 2)
After reviewing how Mother Marianne and Bobby Kennedy Jr are set to disrupt the race in Part 1, we turn now to Mr. “Coronavirus is a Coronation for all,” Charles Eisenstein, has just disclosed that …
00:12:30 |
Mon 05 Jun 2023
Special Report: Taking Alberta Backwards (w/Jeremy Appel)
On Monday, May 29, Danielle Smith, the leader of the UCP of Alberta, seized the reigns of majority government power with the help of a right-wing antivax group called Take Back Alberta.
Jeremy Appel…
01:08:36 |
Sat 03 Jun 2023
156: Medical Medium (w/Dan Adler)
Medical Medium, aka Anthony William, gained many of his 4.4M IG followers thanks to his declaration that celery juice can heal you from many ailments that science hasn’t figured out. William proudly …
01:37:22 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
Bonus Sample: Conspirituality Marches on the White House (pt 1)
Marianne Williamson—New Age matriarch and popularizer of A Course in Miracles—is polling at 9%. Muscular Catholic antivax entrepreneur Bobby Kennedy Jr is polling at 20% or more: Rasmussen has him in…
00:12:35 |
Mon 29 May 2023
Brief: RFK Jr., The Anti-Vax Candidate
Another Kennedy is running for President. But discussion of his anti-vaccine activism often overlooks how it affects people with autism. Julian talks to Eric Michael Garcia, political correspondent f…
00:34:30 |
Sat 27 May 2023
155: We Want Them Infected (w/Jonathan Howard, M.D.)
What "really" happened during the pandemic? Conspiracists have decided to take a victory lap. They were right, you see? The vaccines failed, and besides, they were super dangerous. COVID obviously ca…
01:30:17 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Bonus Sample: The Dangers of Slogans
In 1970, farmer, writer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry published his essay, "Think Little." In it, he writes about the dangers of not making your public causes private causes as well, depe…
00:06:41 |
Mon 22 May 2023
154: The Truth Wars (w/Renée DiResta)
In the post-truth world, journalists who report facts are disparaged as perpetuating the narrative while candidates who hold the appropriate qualifications are smeared as deep state operatives. Likew…
01:18:13 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Bonus Sample: The Dalai Lama Spectacle
What the hell happened between the Dalai Lama and that Indian boy? The internet served up a raft of painfully inflammatory takes, so I took a month to talk with Tibetologists and review the literatur…
00:07:05 |
Mon 15 May 2023
Brief: Why Does Every Conspiracy Theory Lead Back to Antisemitism? (w/Ben Cohen)
We've seen it over and over again: somehow, in some way, globalists are involved. George Soros is pulling the strings. Jews will replace us, with other minorities, or fund the interests that are agai…
00:28:02 |
Sat 13 May 2023
153: The Anti-Sunscreen Movement (w/Sara Aniano & Michelle Wong)
Did you know that it’s not the sun that causes cancer, but sunscreen? Or that sunscreen is actually a Big Pharma creation to keep you from receiving the sun’s magical healing properties? How about th…
01:03:04 |
Thu 11 May 2023
Bonus Sample: Chris Rufo’s Fascist Long-Game
Florida governor Ron DeSantis appointed right-wing propagandist, Christopher Rufo, along with other conservative Christian education-activists, to the board of the tiny, progressive New College in Sa…
00:06:47 |
Mon 08 May 2023
Brief: Marianne Williamson’s Spiritual Therapy Schtick
Marianne Williamson? Inexperienced? Not at all.
In fact, she does have a ton of experience… in New Age, on-stage pseudotherapy, where she solves the problems of the troubled with memorized lines from…
00:52:33 |
Sat 06 May 2023
152: Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness (w/Nitai Joseph)
What does it mean for a prominent American politician to come into power as the sleeper cell of an eccentric Hindu-American cult? Does she act independently, or has her God-man got her on speed-dial?…
01:32:41 |
Thu 04 May 2023
Bonus Sample: Reimagining the Apocalypse
Apocalyptic language is everywhere: in the marketing copy of wellness influencers and pseudo-documentary makers selling spike protein detoxes and vaccine fear-mongering videos, and in the fervent ant…
00:10:53 |
Mon 01 May 2023
151: Satan Wants You Watch Party (Spoilers)
How, in the name of the Holy Virgin Mary, did Michelle Remembers—the book that started the Satanic Panic—come to be written? Who was Lawrence Pazder really? Did he encourage and exaggerate Michelle S…
01:37:22 |
Thu 27 Apr 2023
Bonus Sample: Framing George Soros
FOX News says he wants to destroy America. Candace Owens is scared to speak his name out loud. Mikki Willis is making a film about his assault on the American family. Dr. Christiane Northrup claims h…
00:12:40 |
Mon 24 Apr 2023
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