655 Episodes

  1. Bonus Sample: Post-Cult Shame

    Published: 4/26/2021

  2. 48: Traumatic Influence (w/Kyra Haglund & Hala Khouri)

    Published: 4/23/2021

  3. Bonus Sample: Vanillaroma

    Published: 4/19/2021

  4. 47: Is An Ethical Cult Possible? (w/Jamie Wheal)

    Published: 4/15/2021

  5. Bonus Sample: Gaia & The Map to Nowhere

    Published: 4/12/2021

  6. 46: Back to the Vax (w/Lydia Greene & Heather Simpson)

    Published: 4/8/2021

  7. Bonus Sample: Pray & Work

    Published: 4/5/2021

  8. 45: Theatre of the Transferred

    Published: 4/1/2021

  9. Bonus Sample: The Role of Intuition

    Published: 3/29/2021

  10. 44: Netflix & Pill

    Published: 3/26/2021

  11. Bonus Sample: This is NOT Just a Drug!

    Published: 3/22/2021

  12. 43: How to Redpill a Yoga Podcaster

    Published: 3/19/2021

  13. Bonus Sample: “CIS White Man” Means So Many Things

    Published: 3/15/2021

  14. 42: Deradicalizing From Digital Hate (w/Caolan Robertson)

    Published: 3/11/2021

  15. Bonus Sample: Cats and the Meaning of Life

    Published: 3/8/2021

  16. 41: Snark Tank

    Published: 3/5/2021

  17. Bonus Sample: Stranded On The Lifeboat: Escaping The Large Group Awareness Cult

    Published: 3/1/2021

  18. 40: White Supremacy: Grift and Gravity (w/Michelle Cassandra Johnson & Daniel Lombroso)

    Published: 2/25/2021

  19. Bonus Sample: Anti-Masker at the Skating Trail

    Published: 2/22/2021

  20. 39: How to Talk about Conspiracy Theories (w/Anna Merlan)

    Published: 2/18/2021

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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.