690 Episodes

  1. 56: Critical Race Theory in Real Life (w/Dax-Devlon Ross)

    Published: 6/17/2021

  2. Bonus Sample: Doomsday Prophecy & Spirituality Porn

    Published: 6/14/2021

  3. 55: Games Against Humanity (w/C. Thi Nguyen)

    Published: 6/11/2021

  4. Bonus Sample: What Will Yoga Do to Our Children?

    Published: 6/7/2021

  5. 54: Māori MAGA (w/Joe Trinder and Anke Richter)

    Published: 6/3/2021

  6. Bonus Sample: How Many Monuments Must Fall?

    Published: 5/31/2021

  7. 53: Learning Cultish (w/Amanda Montell)

    Published: 5/27/2021

  8. Bonus Sample: Loaded Language & Productive Discussion

    Published: 5/24/2021

  9. 52: The Clerical Class of the Right (w/Alex Ebert)

    Published: 5/20/2021

  10. Bonus Sample: No Moral Outrage Porn, No Punching Down

    Published: 5/17/2021

  11. 51: You Can’t Force It (w/Devendra Banhart)

    Published: 5/13/2021

  12. Bonus Sample: On the Anxiety of Death

    Published: 5/10/2021

  13. 50. Sellouts & Zealots (w/Sheena Sood)

    Published: 5/6/2021

  14. Bonus Sample: The God-Man & His Enabler: How Ken Wilber Got Adi Da All Wrong

    Published: 5/3/2021

  15. 49: Tik Tok Fulfillment Center (w/Abbie Richards)

    Published: 4/29/2021

  16. Bonus Sample: Post-Cult Shame

    Published: 4/26/2021

  17. 48: Traumatic Influence (w/Kyra Haglund & Hala Khouri)

    Published: 4/23/2021

  18. Bonus Sample: Vanillaroma

    Published: 4/19/2021

  19. 47: Is An Ethical Cult Possible? (w/Jamie Wheal)

    Published: 4/15/2021

  20. Bonus Sample: Gaia & The Map to Nowhere

    Published: 4/12/2021

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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.