690 Episodes

  1. 66: Spirituality & Status (w/Will Storr)

    Published: 8/26/2021

  2. Bonus Sample: The Question of Consciousness

    Published: 8/23/2021

  3. 65: Long-Haul QAnon (w/Rachel Bernstein & Jitarth Jadeja)

    Published: 8/20/2021

  4. Bonus Sample: Strongman Heroes, Barefoot Science, & Fake Victims

    Published: 8/16/2021

  5. 64: Remembering Guru Jagat: a Panel

    Published: 8/12/2021

  6. Bonus Sample: Wellness Pornography as Abuse

    Published: 8/9/2021

  7. 63: Yoga and the Jab (w/Colin Hall & Sarah Garden)

    Published: 8/6/2021

  8. Bonus Sample: Vaccines Are Not the Holocaust

    Published: 8/2/2021

  9. 62: Manifesting Something Awful (w/Dale Beran)

    Published: 7/30/2021

  10. Bonus Sample: Digital Delusions: How conspiracy-fueled political religions like QAnon hijack our brains

    Published: 7/26/2021

  11. 61: From Anti-Feminism to Anti-Vax (w/Dr. Annie Kelly)

    Published: 7/23/2021

  12. Bonus Sample: Dear Raw Meat Guy

    Published: 7/19/2021

  13. 60: Crypto Dreamin’ (w/David Morris)

    Published: 7/15/2021

  14. Bonus Sample: The Future of Psychedelics

    Published: 7/12/2021

  15. 59: Is Rudolf Steiner Dead Yet? (w/Jennifer Sapio)

    Published: 7/8/2021

  16. Bonus Sample: True Colors

    Published: 7/5/2021

  17. 58: NXIVM: Recover & Educate (w/India Oxenberg)

    Published: 7/1/2021

  18. Bonus Sample: A Conspiracy Theory of Everything

    Published: 6/28/2021

  19. 57: The Storm is Mutating (w/Mike Rothschild)

    Published: 6/24/2021

  20. Bonus Sample: Playing Shaman

    Published: 6/21/2021

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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.