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
241: Unravelling The Telepathy Tapes
One of the top podcasts in the world—even beating out Rogan for a few hours—is popularizing a well-meaning intervention for non-speaking autistic people. Unfortunately, that intervention happens to b…
01:11:58 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Relief Project #7: Sam Adler-Bell
The seventh installment of Matthew’s Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person.
Sam Adler-Bell is a journalist, political theorist, and co-host of one of Matthew’s favourite podcast…
00:32:40 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Bonus Sample: Calling Out Bullsh*t
Twitter Files journalist Alex Berenson recently published two articles claiming that Moderna covered up a child's death from a Moderna Covid booster trial—and the FDA is complicit. Children’s Health …
00:03:53 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
Brief: Tech-Bro Mormonism (w/Blair Hodges)
We know Bryan Johnson gobbles 100 pills a day. He pumps his son’s plasma through his veins. He does light therapy on his junk and wants to live forever. But do we understand how Johnson’s fascination…
00:47:54 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
240: Bryan Johnson’s Impossible Blueprint
In January, 2023, Bloomberg published an article about how tech entrepreneur turned longevity stan, Bryan Johnson, spends $2 million a year in an attempt to live forever—or at least until age 200, as…
01:01:52 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
Clarity Lab: Fighting Cancer Misinformation
A one-time drop of Derek's new podcast, Clarity Lab, the official podcast of Siris Health, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit building a free educational platform and curating social media channels that feature e…
00:35:53 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Bonus Sample: Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 1 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)
Matthew sits down with sex-work veteran and social justice advocate Esme Providence Brown for the first of two chinwags about our famous New Age / wellness antifeminist, Kelly Brogan, and how her cra…
00:05:51 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
Brief: Vinay Prasad’s Pick-me Campaign
UCSF epidemiology and biostatistics professor Vinay Prasad's star rose when he compared the US response to Covid-19 to the beginnings of the Third Reich in October, 2021. Though a less famous contrar…
00:36:15 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
239: Conspiracy Of Dunces
Like it or not, 2025 is here. What happens in post-truth America when formerly fringe conspiracy theorists, religious extremists, pseudoscience-peddlers, and wannabe authoritarians become a governmen…
00:54:17 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Bonus Sample: The Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention
George van Tassel was the original UFO contactee. He claimed to have been visited by aliens from Venus in 1953, which led to him hosting thousands of people at the annual Interplanetary Spacecraft Co…
00:06:07 |
Mon 06 Jan 2025
Brief: Trump the Babyface, Trump the Heel (w/Abraham Josie Reisman)
Journalist and author Josie Reisman says we can’t understand the Trump era without understanding his life-long pro-wrestling fandom, and his bonds with one of his closest friends, WWE tycoon Vince Mc…
00:46:08 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
238: Diary of a CEO Bro
British entrepreneur and investor Steven Bartlett launched his podcast, Diary of a CEO, in 2017. He quickly found an audience in the tech world, which gave him access to a wide range of celebrities a…
01:14:28 |
Thu 02 Jan 2025
Relief Project #6: Rebecca Solnit
Happy New Year’s Eve!
The sixth installment of Matthew’s Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person.
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 20 book…
00:28:10 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Bonus Sample: Why Big Wellness Hates Ozempic
Ozempic might be all the rage among people who want to lose weight, but wellness influencers and MAHA acolytes are raging against the antidiabetic medication. Derek investigates recent statements by …
00:05:34 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
Brief: The Free Press Tastes Its Own (Polio) Medicine
We've been highly critical of The Free Press in the past, but a recent memoir-article about grappling with a familial history of polio by Jana Kozlowski stood out. Derek and Julian take no issue with…
00:39:28 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Unlocked: “What will happen?” (asks a 12 year-old)
A special Patreon bonus unlocked episode as we enjoy the holidays with our families and friends.
Matthew got The Question on the morning after the election. At that moment, he came up with nothing bu…
00:30:08 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
Bonus Sample: Blessed NeoKayfabe of Santa Claus
“If you grow up with it, religion is real until you realize it is also imagined. And after a period of disenchantment or even depression that associates imagination with lies, you might then sense th…
00:06:09 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
Brief: My Dad Became a MAGA Power Broker (w/Julia Tucker)
Jeffery Tucker is the founder of the MAGA thinktank Brownstone Institute. In 2020, Brownstone published The Great Barrington Declaration, with lead author Jay Bhattacharya—now the nominee for head of…
00:38:48 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
237: Your Revolution is Out of Network
The murder of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson has set off shockwaves across America. This week we look at the story’s online impact, people mythologizing the alleged killer, its intersection wit…
01:20:04 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Relief Project #5: Annie Kelly
The fifth installment of Matthew's Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person.
Dr. Annie Kelly joined us in Episode 61 to lay out her research on the manosphere-to-conspirituality pi…
00:31:53 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
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