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Conspirituality

Conspirituality

Auteur(s): 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.© 2023 Conspirituality Philosophie Science Sciences sociales
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  • Bonus Sample: The Wellness Civil War

    Bonus Sample: The Wellness Civil War
    Sep 29 2025
    Listen to the full episode here. When RFK Jr announced that Tylenol might be implicated in autism, he forefronted correlative research that has yet to prove causation. That didn’t stop a number of MAHA-pilled wellness influencers from running with the narrative. Derek looks at their posts, as well as the immediate pushback, after breaking down Kennedy’s slipperiness during the press conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    5 min
  • Brief: MAGA’s Censorship Hypocrisy

    Brief: MAGA’s Censorship Hypocrisy
    Sep 27 2025
    MAGA congressman Clay Higgins recently sent a letter to top tech executives demanding subservience when it comes to "acceptable" speech. This comes two years after Higgins co-sponsored a bill protecting freedom of speech. Given recent capitulations to the Trump administration by tech CEOs, we shouldn't write off Higgins's aggressive push. Derek and Julian discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 min
  • 276: Inventing Saint Charlie Kirk

    276: Inventing Saint Charlie Kirk
    Sep 25 2025
    Charlie Kirk became the latest victim of gun violence in America on September 10. And he wasn't the only person shot on a school campus that day, nor was he the only political figure killed this year. Unlike Melissa Hortman and her husband, the motivation for Kirk’s murder remains unclear. That hasn’t stopped right-wing pundits and politicians from framing it as typical extremist left-wing violence. In between calls for civil war and censorship, the ramping up of police-state authoritarianism, and painting of the slain Christian Nationalist activist as a noble martyr, anti-racist icon Ta-Nehisi Coates called out the strange reflex from some left-of-center figures (like Ezra Klein) to participate in whitewashing Kirk's hateful politics. Today we discuss what happened and what it might mean. Show Notes ⁠From Secular Activist to Christian Nationalist⁠ ⁠Doug Wilson on Abortion, Gays, Women Voting⁠ ⁠Meet The New Apostolic Reformation⁠ 167: Straight White American Jesus (w/Bradley Onishi)⁠ ⁠129: White Christian Nationalism (w/Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry)⁠ ⁠Stealing Democracy for Jesus⁠ ⁠Blackpill Aesthetics: A Crash Course in Meme Extremism⁠ ⁠Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 11 min
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