Conspirituality

By: Derek Beres Matthew Remski Julian Walker
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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.
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Episodes
  • 228: Hurricane Trump

    228: Hurricane Trump
    Oct 17 2024
    People will reach for anything to relieve the stress of climate anxiety. There’s outright denial: this can’t be happening. It doesn’t fit in with my understanding of the world. The science must be wrong. During Milton, Catturd wonders why the wind speed keeps changing on the weather reports. They must be making it up. Or the guy in Galveston, TX, posting that he can’t see any hurricane from his Gulf view. When denial is impractical, there’s political displacement: our enemies are responsible. They’re seeding the clouds, they’re spewing the chemtrails. The Democrats are sparking tornadoes with invisible drones over swing states. They’re using radio waves to steer the hurricane’s eye. They’re clearing land for lithium mining so they can take our gas hog pickups away. But when the storm surge is just too high to attribute to Jewish space lasers, there’s also good old spiritual displacement: God is punishing our enemies for their sins. We didn’t stop all their abortions and anal sex, and now we are caught in the crossfire of God’s just vengeance. Today we look at the distortions and disruptions, the fallacies and fables—and not all of them from the right—that keep people locked in climate paralysis. Show Notes Food Babe misinformation carousel Wigington v. MacMartin, 2:21-cv-02355-KJM-DMC Record Hot Water Is Fueling Hurricane Milton Hurricane Milton: what causes such intense storms? What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words Early oil industry knowledge of CO2 and global warming | Nature Climate Change Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk Guy McPherson and Near Term Human Extinction - The Mike Nowak Show with Peggy Malecki Arctic News: It’s time to pursue hospice, by Guy McPherson Statement on Guy McPherson - Eugene The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation - Ecological Grief as a Response to Environmental Change: A Mental Health Risk or Functional Response? - PMC The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of 'Deep Adaptation' | openDemocracy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Bonus Sample: Surviving Modern Yoga Panel (w/Ann Gleig & Michelle C. Johnson)

    Bonus Sample: Surviving Modern Yoga Panel (w/Ann Gleig & Michelle C. Johnson)
    Oct 14 2024
    Matthew fields excellent questions about his new book from colleagues Ann Gleig and Michelle C. Johnson. NAB Show Notes This event includes discussions on sensitive topics related to abuse; sexual assault; high-demand tactics; racism; gender-based violence; and systems of dominance, patriarchy, and oppression. We know that these topics may be distressing or triggering to some attendees, and we invite you to take care when listening, and to tend to your needs if you feel activated, overwhelmed, or emotionally impacted. We're so grateful you're here, and we thank you for coming. We also want to thank survivors of sexual violence and abuse in yoga, wellness, Buddhist communities, and beyond, whose stories, voices, and feedback have been invaluable to the work each of us continues to do in service of healing our communities from the harm of sexual violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    6 mins
  • Deep Cut: The OG New Age Grifter: Madame Blavatsky

    Deep Cut: The OG New Age Grifter: Madame Blavatsky
    Oct 12 2024
    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 heroic back-story. She founded the Theosophical Society in New York, claimed to have learned a secret Tibetan language, and laid the foundation for alien channelers and Woo-Anon. She also inspired the Nazis. In the latest episode from a series on the pseudoscience New Age roots of today’s conspirituality phenomenon, Julian pins Blavatsky on the cork-board map. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 mins

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