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
Brief: RFK Jr Says the Devil Measures Carbon
“God talks to human beings through many vectors. But nowhere with such detail, and grace and joy, as through creation. When we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine.”
With this…
00:42:13 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
224: RFK Jr’s Pet Guru Blesses Trump
There’s been a question gnawing at fans of Charles Eisenstein: what does he really feel about RFK Jr’s pivot to Trump? The always aspiring poet-philosopher was hired as a messaging advisor to Bobby, …
01:12:33 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Bonus Sample: Waking Up With the Biohackers
"Biohacking expert" Kayla Barnes recently published a 31-minute video about her morning routine, filled with EMF-blocking shields, grounding protocols, and 40 different daily supplements. Good if you…
00:05:40 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
Brief: Tucker Carlson’s Friendly Fascism
Tucker Carlson is the Steve Bannon of Joe Rogans. Tucker surpasses Rogan’s massive reach at times, but his curated guest list drives a deliberate agenda: normalizing neo-fascist political discourse. …
00:27:50 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
223: Tucker Carlson’s Toxic Cleanse
In 2022, Tucker Carlson produced a documentary called “The End of Men,” his contribution to the so-called “masculinity crisis.” That’s when testicle tanning hit the mainstream, which one astute obser…
01:15:00 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Relief Project #1: Jivana Heyman
Here’s the first installment of a regular timeline cleanser featuring interviews with folks reflecting on hope, faith, resilience and building community in hard times.
You know—all the things that c…
00:30:18 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Bonus Sample: Imaginary Children # 3: Mole Children vs. Gazan Children
What does it mean to spill ink on dispelling conspiracy theories about non-existent children being murdered, while actual children are being murdered? At what point does the labour of debunking right…
00:06:11 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Brief: Ultra-processed Pseudoscience
Calley Means is the cofounder of TrueMed, a company that helps businesses qualify products and services like supplements and ice baths for HSA and FSA money. Casey Means is the founder of Levels, a c…
00:21:07 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
222: RFK Jr: As the Worm Turns
RFK Jr has dropped out of the presidential race and thrown his weight behind Trump. In our 10th episode on the man in the last year-and-a-half, we look at the potential dangers of this unholy allianc…
01:09:43 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
Bonus Sample: The OG New Age Grifter: Madame Blavatsky
Born in 1831, Helena “Madame” Blavatsky pioneered the New Age grift. The Russian aristocrat plagiarized her books while claiming to be channeling the “Masters of Ancient Wisdom” to tell a dodgy heroi…
00:05:58 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
Brief: Trump’s Impending Ego Implosion (w/ Daniel Shaw)
Dems are laughing about Donny Dentures or #TrumpisDone, but the reality inside his head, and Mar a Lago, will be very grim, and there will be a lot of collateral damage.
Mental health titans like Rob…
00:33:49 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
221: The Dangers of Dr Google (w/Dr Jonathan Stea)
In one survey, 82% of young people aged 18-25 searched the internet for mental health advice. Another survey of university students found that 44% report using the internet to learn about sadness, an…
01:01:54 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
Bonus Sample: The Next Plandemic Grift
Peter McCullough recently shared a ton of misinformation about mpox while speaking to Drew Pinsky; both men work for The Wellness Company, a supplements company that weaponizes anti-vax misinformatio…
00:06:56 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Brief: Dictatorship for Dummies
ProPublica recently got a hold of 25 Project 2025 training videos—over 14 hours worth of content revealing the policies the Heritage Foundation would like to see implemented if Donald Trump regains t…
00:38:31 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
220: Swifties for Trump (and Other AI Lies)
Did you hear that Taylor Swift is supporting Donald Trump for president? That’s right: last week, the former president shared photos of fans rocking “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts on Truth Social. Tru…
01:15:28 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Bonus Sample: Introducing the Conspirituality Relief Project
A short break-the-fourth-wall reflection from Matthew on his new regular series for our main feed, starting in September.
The Conspirituality Relief Project will provide regular timeline-cleanser in…
00:05:08 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Brief: Big Dad Energy
An unexpectedly cheerful followup to “JD Vance Taps into Parental Rage.” The alt titles today could be: “Tim Walz Taps into Parental Goals,” or “Disarming the Disinfo of the Right is Great, But Have …
00:35:07 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
219: Dems Learn to Sh*tpost
Eight years ago, they called us cucks, libtards, and globalists. We were corrupted by cultural Marxism, teaching our kids to hate themselves. Four years ago they gloated over drinking liberal tears. …
01:17:58 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Bonus Sample: JD Vance’s Dictator Fetish
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel claims “freedom and democracy are incompatible.” Mentor and $15M donor behind JD Vance’s political career, Peter Thiel also has an influence: Mencius Moldbug, computer pr…
00:05:12 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Brief: Stealing Democracy for Jesus
Ziklag’s ultra-wealthy network of Christian donors is spending nearly $12M to mobilize Republican voters in order to secure a Trump victory this November. ProPublica found that their plan involves pu…
00:36:40 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
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