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: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)
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…
00:39:07 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
260: Aubrey Marcus's Polyamory God Bomb
Megamillionaire supplements and New Age life coach tycoon Aubrey Marcus recently claimed the goddess Isis told him that he must impregnate both his wife and the third member of their throuple while d…
01:10:13 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Bonus Sample: Has Nonviolence Been Debunked?
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Does the word protestor conjure a masked figure in black clothing smashing windows and lighting fires or a weekend liberal ineffectually following rules while sip…
00:05:36 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
Brief: The FDA Amateur Hour Podcast
Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad claim they're going to open the "black box" at the FDA, an agency they're now both employed at. So they started a podcast. It's not the first official FDA podcast, but i…
00:34:23 |
Sat 31 May 2025
259: MAHA is Project 2025’s Trojan Horse
We’ve been talking about RFK Jr for years, and even dedicated an entire chapter to him in our 2023 book—and we’re going to keep covering him. Since his power and influence has only grown, and since h…
01:03:00 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Bonus Sample: A Master Class in Wellness Propaganda
Calley Means is one of RFK Jr’s top advisors. Alongside Tucker Carlson, Means has claimed responsibility for shepherding Kennedy into Trump’s camp. Does this former business school graduate Heritage …
00:07:04 |
Mon 26 May 2025
Brief: The Gospel of MAHA Apologetics
After being confirmed as Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr started installing his cabal of wellness influencers and contrarian doctors across the government's many public health agencies. And that means they …
00:34:43 |
Sat 24 May 2025
258: Pope Bob Vs. Trump World
The most annoying convert TradCath in the world, JD Vance, whose cherubic face belies all his bootlicking aggression, gets his moment with Pope Bob. Usha stands behind him in a black mantilla. He han…
01:16:13 |
Thu 22 May 2025
Bonus Sample: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 2)
Matthew is back today for more with Ben Case: profiling Gene Sharp and the (non)politics of strategic nonviolence, plus his strange funding sources. Also: why did Erica Chenoweth speak out against an…
00:06:07 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Brief: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 1)
You may have grown up with the term “nonviolence” shining like a pole star over every discussion of how we accomplish socio-political change. But what does it really mean? And who defines violence fo…
00:47:48 |
Sat 17 May 2025
257: AI Gurus
The chat bot flashes its elipsis at the bottom of the screen. What is it thinking, what does it want from you, what do you want from it? Beneath those pixels lies a sea of mined data and lightning st…
01:10:31 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Bonus Sample: The UFO Race-War Apocalypse is Coming!
It begins with a failed human sacrifice in Detroit in 1932. Some would say it actually starts with an evil god-scientist who created the first white people—white devils, really—some 6,000 years ago. …
00:05:42 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Brief: What Will Universal Healthcare Actually Require?
In 2022, Oregonians passed Measure 111, which amends the state constitution to declare access to affordable healthcare a right for every citizen. As it happens, this was the first ballot Derek voted …
00:33:10 |
Sat 10 May 2025
256: Quacks, Cancer, and Kangen Water (feat Mallory DeMille)
Cancer, as physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee writes, is the emperor of all maladies. The disease—the over 200 different diseases all falling under this umbrella term—has been with us as long …
00:59:20 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Bonus Sample: How Did Gen X Go MAGA?
Gen X went from leaning slightly right in 2016 to become, as one analysis puts it, “the bedrock of Trumpism.” Derek meditates on what happened to his generation by reading from four different thought…
00:06:55 |
Mon 05 May 2025
Brief: The New Media Order
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a little different this year. No president. No comedian. The event featured a mea culpa from an Axios journalist who discussed the media’s complicity in fai…
00:27:54 |
Sat 03 May 2025
255: A MAHA Wellness Scam at Ontario Place
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government in Ontario has leased the public space of OP to the Therme Spa company, which promises to bring wellness and democracy to the good citizens of Toronto,…
01:01:16 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Bonus Sample: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 2)
Part 2 of Matthew’s conversation with historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley), who hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of the radical right. He’s the author of an excellent …
00:07:47 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Brief: How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism (Pt 1)
Historian Craig Johnson (PhD Berkeley) hosts Fifteen Minutes of Fascism, which covers the global rise of the radical right. He’s the author of an excellent new book, How to Talk to Your Son about Fas…
00:46:32 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
254: The Great MAHA Purity War of 2025
Someone’s got dirt on RFK Jr. MAHA voters went MAGA because Bobby said he was going to end vaccine mandates—their code for ending vaccines, period. No longer would food be dyed and oils be made of se…
01:15:46 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
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