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: Yoga & the Body in Time (Pt 2)
As the crew is in the final stages of submitting their forthcoming book, Julian and Derek reflect on how yoga has evolved in their personal lives. In Part 2, they talk about yoga in aging bodies, the…
00:08:52 |
Mon 16 May 2022
103: Roe Against the Machine (w/Kiera Butler)
Since day one, we've been covering medical disinformation on this podcast, always wondering where it would move next. Our collective breaths were stolen when learning about the seemingly inevitable o…
00:45:20 |
Thu 12 May 2022
Bonus Sample: Yoga & the Body in Time (Pt 1)
As the crew is in the final stages of submitting their forthcoming book, Julian and Derek reflect on how yoga has evolved in their personal lives. In Part 1, they discuss the origins of their yoga pr…
00:08:47 |
Mon 09 May 2022
102: Conspirituality, Cancer, & Compassion (w/Gavin Ryan)
After we published episode 98 on “Placebo Joe” Dispenza, an Australian artist named Gavin Ryan posted a comment to Facebook in response:“My wife was full of this stuff, when she stopped taking all th…
01:01:51 |
Thu 05 May 2022
Bonus Sample: Cash Grab
Manifestation workshops. MLM downlines. The supplement grift. Cash is king everywhere in the conspirituality sphere, even—especially—when disguised in the jargon of spiritual-ese. Derek and Julian st…
00:08:57 |
Mon 02 May 2022
101: Eugenic Pandemic (w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton)
In this conversation, Beatrice Adler-Bolton—disability justice advocate and co-host of Death Panel Podcast—says something twice:"Under capitalism, you’re only entitled to the survival you can buy." H…
01:23:45 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Bonus Sample: Taking the Con Out of Spirituality
Derek and Julian discuss the literary influences and yogic practices that led them to yoga in the first place, while also discussing what spirituality in a post-pandemic world could look like.
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00:09:49 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
100: State of Disinformation (w/Imran Ahmed)
In July 2020, just as we were finding our sea legs with this podcast, Imran Ahmed joined to discuss the state of disinformation occurring around the world. As the founder of the UK’s Center for Count…
01:35:33 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Bonus Sample: Zach Bush and the Holy Sardines
The Sermon of the Sardines is etched into our very souls. Picture the scene, as dreamboat doctor Zach Bush recounts his shimmering story of swimming off the coast of Tulum with thousands of tiny hero…
00:10:01 |
Mon 18 Apr 2022
99: Conspirituality Goes to Therapy (w/Rachel Bernstein)
Listeners: there’s a revolution going on. Legions of Twitter counselors and Instagram therapists has risen up to offer unsolicited sermons on cults, cult leaders, and cult recovery. With COVID closin…
01:29:21 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Bonus Sample: Watch What They Say, Watch What They Sell
Since early on in this conspirituality experiment, Derek has been using the catchphrase that is the title of this week's bonus episode. Julian joins in to discuss exactly what the phrase means in the…
00:07:55 |
Mon 11 Apr 2022
98: Placebo Joe Dispenza
If you get treated by someone who says they’re a doctor, but they’re not, can they still have a placebo effect? That’s the question we’d like to ask Dr. Joe Dispenza, who’s not a doctor, but who play…
01:41:16 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
Bonus Sample: Conspirituality Casting Call
Matthew and Julian draw back the curtain to take you behind the scenes of the book-writing process. They step back to consider the pantheon of conspiritualists we’ve covered over the last two years; …
00:08:29 |
Mon 04 Apr 2022
97: Brand Awareness
This week we’re “just asking questions.” You probably recognize that quip from Joe Rogan, of course, but today’s focus is another actor and comedian turned popular podcaster, Russell Brand. As with R…
01:09:40 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Bonus Sample: Feedback Monday
Hey everyone... Matthew and Julian here with a more relaxed format. We'll be periodically checking in on feedback going forward, starting with a look at some shade thrown by Lissa Rankin at the pod. …
00:10:24 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
96: The Terrain Theory Grift (w/Dr Dan Wilson)
You might have heard some revolutionary news: germs don’t exist. Ok, they exist, but they only make you sick after you ruin your relationship with your environment—the terrain. Actually, the idea isn…
01:20:41 |
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Bonus Sample: Reading Tony Robbins
The world's top life coach has a new book, Life Force. Seemingly bulletproof to criticism due to connections in high places (and a litigious legal team), Tony Robbins's new book is a perfect example …
00:08:17 |
Mon 21 Mar 2022
95: Aleksandr Dugin: Kali Yuga Chess
The mystical politics of Aleksandr Dugin, the mercurial philosopher and geopolitical strategist hovering behind Vladimir Putin, is front and center this week. Last week, we covered the phenomenon of…
01:12:06 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Bonus Sample: Conspirituality Timeline Stories (pt 1)
Matthew brushes off and polishes stories and analyses we’ve only had the time to glance at in various episodes. A second or even 3rd instalment may be forthcoming.Presented in chronological order, da…
00:10:18 |
Mon 14 Mar 2022
94: Conspirituality Goes to War
After two years of being lied to about COVID, are you really going to believe the mainstream media about what’s happening in Ukraine? Didn’t you know that Ukraine is a child-trafficking hub? That it’…
01:27:13 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
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