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
Bonus Sample: Galloway and the Mooch: The Lost Boys of Capitalism (Pt 2)
On the horizon: a new liberal-center manosphere, yearning to reach out to the young men poached by Trumpism, but offering what, exactly?
Professor Scott Galloway and Anthony Scaramucci are earnest …
00:05:23 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Brief: Galloway and the Mooch: The Lost Boys of Capitalism (Pt 1)
On the horizon: a new liberal-center manosphere, yearning to reach out to the young men poached by Trumpism, but offering what, exactly?
Professor Scott Galloway and Anthony Scaramucci are earnest …
00:46:13 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
266: Jubilee’s Body Image Debates
Body image is a phenomenon that has long simmered below the surface of the wellness industry. We’ve spent years covering the hard and soft eugenics that inform so many physical and spiritual practice…
01:15:09 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Bonus Sample: Globalize The Intifada?
Protest slogans are designed to pack a punch. They communicate potent emotions and persuasive ideas to the public while galvanizing activist allies. At 5 '11, wearing an elegant hijab over jet-black …
00:06:06 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Brief: Vaccination, a Delusion?
In 1898, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace published a pamphlet entitled, "Vaccination a Delusion; Its Penal Enforcement a Crime." This work became the foundation of the modern anti-vax moveme…
00:22:12 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
265: Guru Rehab
We return to the ongoing saga of Aubrey Marcus. As a wealthy, anti-vax New Ager who campaigned for RFK Jr (before going MAGA), he’s a pole star for the conspirituality moment and its political manias…
01:11:41 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Bonus Sample: Purity Tests & Coalition Building
Zohran Mamdani's win in the NYC democratic mayoral primary has been filled with deflections and pivots so that politicians and pundits don't have to focus on the core issues he's talking about. The l…
00:07:37 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
Brief: The Liver King Crash-Out
On June 24, Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, was arrested in Austin for threatening Joe Rogan. The infamous raw organ "primal" influencer has since published dozens of videos detailing what appears…
00:35:58 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
264: The Mamdani Effect
"Tonight we made history," grinned Zohran Mamdani as his supporters cheered with delight, "I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City. His victory over disgraced former governor…
01:10:29 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Bonus Sample: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” Vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 2)
Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learns more, and networks with other activists around th…
00:05:23 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Brief: Greta Thunberg’s “Super Power” vs. Fascists and Liberals (Pt 1)
Greta Thunberg is a burr in the ass of the powerful throughout the world—and not only for rightwing sociopaths. Increasingly, as she grows up, learns more, and networks with other activists around th…
00:41:35 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
263: The Apostle Assassin
“Dad went to war last night” read Vance Boelter's text to his family in the early hours of June 14. This was sent after his shooting rampage aimed at Democratic lawmakers, which left two dead and two…
00:58:51 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Listen Now: Liberty Lost
In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, when Abbi becomes pregnant at 16, her devout parents hide her away at the Liberty Godparent Home, a li…
00:05:54 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Bonus Sample: The Two-For-One Guru of MSIA
He built a lucrative seminar empire in the 80s, owned an Italian Villa, founded a “spiritual university,” and travelled the world with a harem of handsome young initiates. Roger Hinkins claimed to be…
00:06:04 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Brief: MAHA Mass Casualty Horizon
What dangers does an RFK Jr HHS pose to Americans, really? Derek dives into science writer's Laurie Garrett's work, who spoke to the dangers we're facing today in 1994—and who has raised an alarm abo…
00:37:09 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
262: Dems Ask “What is a Man?”
takeover—legacy media and Democratic strategists have the same question on their lips: What is going on with young men? Though Kamala Harris won the overall 18- to 29-year-old demographic, Trump impr…
01:00:07 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration
In October 2020, three contrarian medical professionals published The Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro-business, anti-closure crowd. One of them, Jay Bhattacharya, now runs t…
00:07:22 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Brief: The Ghost Lab
Cable travel channels are filled with haunted houses and other paranormal activity, beyond History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and cryptozoology content. The more radicalized Gaia TV has close to a mill…
00:40:18 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
261: Where Are They Now?
From 1999-2002, VH1 ran a show called “Where Are They Now?” The irregularly produced series wondered aloud what happened to former cultural icons like eighties hair metal bands, kid actors, and one-h…
01:01:22 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Bonus Sample: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 2)
Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a ragtag band of writers and worldbuilders Trojan-ho…
00:06:15 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
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