655 Episodes

  1. 13: Religion Can Be A Dangerous Verb (w/Dr Theo Wildcroft)

    Published: 8/20/2020

  2. 12: So You Want To Stop Child Abuse (w/Regan Williams & Dr Theo Wildcroft)

    Published: 8/13/2020

  3. 11: Cults and Disaster Spirituality

    Published: 8/6/2020

  4. 10: The Anti-Vax Agenda (w/Imran Ahmed)

    Published: 7/30/2020

  5. 9: Ableism in Conspiracy Theories (w/Jivana Heyman)

    Published: 7/23/2020

  6. 8: Taking Dr. Christiane Northrup Seriously (w/ Professor Jacqueline Antonovich)

    Published: 7/16/2020

  7. 7: Doctoring COVID: Christiane Northrup’s Great Truther Awakening (w/Britt Hermes)

    Published: 7/9/2020

  8. 6: Grappling with the Cult of Trump (w/Steven Hassan)

    Published: 7/2/2020

  9. 5: Disease as a Metaphor (w/Maggie Levantovskaya)

    Published: 6/25/2020

  10. 4: Racism in Wellness Culture (w/Dr Natalia Petrzela & Dax-Devlon Ross)

    Published: 6/18/2020

  11. 3: Why Are Spiritual People Vulnerable to Conspiracy Theories?

    Published: 6/11/2020

  12. 2: Conspirituality in Zach Bush and J.P. Sears

    Published: 6/4/2020

  13. 1: Coronation for Whom?

    Published: 5/28/2020

  14. 0.2: The Kelly Brogan Effect & Red Pills

    Published: 5/21/2020

  15. 0.1: Conspiracy Theories & Cult Dynamics

    Published: 5/14/2020

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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.