690 Episodes

  1. 23: Election Resilience (w/Hala Khouri, Lissa Rankin, & Tara Stiles)

    Published: 10/29/2020
  2. Bonus: Hay House & New Age Jesus

    Published: 10/26/2020
  3. 22: Racism & Fraud in New Age Publishing (w/Rebekah Borucki & Dr Jay Mohan)

    Published: 10/22/2020
  4. Bonus: A Letter to a Friend in a Cult

    Published: 10/19/2020
  5. 21: Om-ed and Dangerous: Militant Wellness (w/Sarah Hightower)

    Published: 10/15/2020
  6. Bonus: The White Yogi, The Brown Activist, and the Evil Billionaire

    Published: 10/12/2020
  7. 20: The Second Wave: Pastel Q Goes Undercover (w/Ben Lee)

    Published: 10/8/2020
  8. Bonus: Bullying Gates, Bullying Biden: The Conspiracy of Male Violence

    Published: 10/5/2020
  9. 19: Hurtling Into the Q-Hole (w/Mike Rains)

    Published: 10/1/2020
  10. Bonus: Demons in QAnon & Beyond (w/Professor Jonathan O’Donnell)

    Published: 9/28/2020
  11. 18: From Psych Meds to Red Pills (w/Jules Evans)

    Published: 9/24/2020
  12. 17: The Politics of QAnon Spirituality (w/Seane Corn & Jared Yates Sexton)

    Published: 9/17/2020
  13. 16: So You Want to Save the Earth? (w/John Roulac)

    Published: 9/10/2020
  14. 15: Tantra: Sex, Death, & Chaos (w/Alex Auder)

    Published: 9/3/2020
  15. 14: The Problem with Revelation: Psychedelics and Conspiracies (w/Lorna Liana)

    Published: 8/27/2020
  16. 13: Religion Can Be A Dangerous Verb (w/Dr Theo Wildcroft)

    Published: 8/20/2020
  17. 12: So You Want To Stop Child Abuse (w/Regan Williams & Dr Theo Wildcroft)

    Published: 8/13/2020
  18. 11: Cults and Disaster Spirituality

    Published: 8/6/2020
  19. 10: The Anti-Vax Agenda (w/Imran Ahmed)

    Published: 7/30/2020
  20. 9: Ableism in Conspiracy Theories (w/Jivana Heyman)

    Published: 7/23/2020

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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.