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.
| Title | Date published | ||
| 7: Doctoring COVID: Christiane Northrup’s Great Truther Awakening (w/Britt Hermes) | 2020-07-09 | ||
| 6: Grappling with the Cult of Trump (w/Steven Hassan) | 2020-07-02 | ||
| 5: Disease as a Metaphor (w/Maggie Levantovskaya) | 2020-06-25 | ||
| 4: Racism in Wellness Culture (w/Dr Natalia Petrzela & Dax-Devlon Ross) | 2020-06-18 | ||
| 3: Why Are Spiritual People Vulnerable to Conspiracy Theories? | 2020-06-11 | ||
| 2: Conspirituality in Zach Bush and J.P. Sears | 2020-06-04 | ||
| 1: Coronation for Whom? | 2020-05-28 | ||
| 0.2: The Kelly Brogan Effect & Red Pills | 2020-05-21 | ||
| 0.1: Conspiracy Theories & Cult Dynamics | 2020-05-14 |