354 episodes
Conspirituality Awakener
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.1 • 1.3K Ratings
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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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Bonus Sample: Conspirituality Marches on the White House (pt 2)
After reviewing how Mother Marianne and Bobby Kennedy Jr are set to disrupt the race in Part 1, we turn now to Mr. “Coronavirus is a Coronation for all,” Charles Eisenstein, has just disclosed that he’s working on Bobby’s campaign as Director of Messaging. Holy shit.
It’s like our book is so accurate that Steve Bannon fed a digital ARC into a LLM to spit out AIs of all the characters in it so he could play them like chess pieces across the 2024 electoral map.
Matthew and Julian take stock of this new stage: the routinization and institutionalization of conspirituality.
Show Notes
A Major Life Change - Charles Eisenstein
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1247343782279839744
Charles Eisenstein | Zika and the Mentality of Control
Keys to the Navajo Nation’s COVID-19 Vaccination Success | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible w/Sayer Ji
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Conspirituality Marches Towards the White House (pt 2)
After reviewing how Mother Marianne and Bobby Kennedy Jr are set to disrupt the race in Part 1, we turn now to Mr. “Coronavirus is a Coronation for all,” Charles Eisenstein, has just disclosed that he’s working on Bobby’s campaign as Director of Messaging. Holy shit.
It’s like our book is so accurate that Steve Bannon fed a digital ARC into a LLM to spit out AIs of all the characters in it so he could play them like chess pieces across the 2024 electoral map.
Matthew and Julian take stock of this new stage: the routinization and institutionalization of conspirituality.
Show Notes
A Major Life Change - Charles Eisenstein
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1247343782279839744
Charles Eisenstein | Zika and the Mentality of Control
Keys to the Navajo Nation’s COVID-19 Vaccination Success | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible w/Sayer Ji -
Special Report: Taking Alberta Backwards (w/Jeremy Appel)
On Monday, May 29, Danielle Smith, the leader of the UCP of Alberta, seized the reigns of majority government power with the help of a right-wing antivax group called Take Back Alberta.
Jeremy Appel, founder of The Orchard, joins Matthew for a masterclass on how things got so bad in Alberta, and how conspirituality played a key role.
Show Notes
The Orchard — Jeremy Appel
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156: Medical Medium (w/Dan Adler)
Medical Medium, aka Anthony William, gained many of his 4.4M IG followers thanks to his declaration that celery juice can heal you from many ailments that science hasn’t figured out. William proudly displays his numerous celebrity endorsements and hundreds of anecdotal healing stories on his library-esque website. Yet when one reporter—Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler—had the audacity to report on one now-deceased confidante of William, the self-proclaimed medium went on the defense, releasing a four-part podcast series and posting on social media in a frenzy about how there’s a plot to “take down Medical Medium.”
Yes, William speaks of himself often in the third person, and wears his lack of any medical training whatsoever as a badge of honor. Today, we look at some of the most outrageous claims that he’s made and discuss the rhetorical techniques that have made him an alt-health celebrity. We’re also joined by Dan Adler to discuss his in-depth reporting on the man who claims angels give him medical advice decades ahead of modern science—and somehow gets away with it.
Show Notes
The Medical Medium and the True Believer
Medical Medium Survivors
Medical Medium: Miracle Healer or Quack? (The Celery Juice Guy)
Why Is Everyone Drinking Celery Juice as if It Will Save Them From Dying?
The Truth About The Celery Juice Craze
Everyone Is Drinking Celery Juice — But Is It Healthy? We Dive Into The Science Behind The Trend
Alex Ebert on Conspirituality
Matthew’s reply to Alex
Alex’s follow-up
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Bonus Sample: Conspirituality Marches on the White House (pt 1)
Marianne Williamson—New Age matriarch and popularizer of A Course in Miracles—is polling at 9%. Muscular Catholic antivax entrepreneur Bobby Kennedy Jr is polling at 20% or more: Rasmussen has him in a dead heat with Biden.
And Mr. “Coronavirus is a Coronation for all,” Charles Eisenstein, has just disclosed that he’s working on Bobby’s campaign as Director of Messaging. Holy shit.
It’s like our book is so accurate that Steve Bannon fed a digital ARC into a LLM to spit out AIs of all the characters in it so he could play them like chess pieces across the 2024 electoral map.
Matthew and Julian take stock of this new stage: the routinization and institutionalization of conspirituality.
Show notes available on Patreon.
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Conspirituality Marches on the White House (pt 1)
Marianne Williamson—New Age matriarch and popularizer of A Course in Miracles—is polling at 9%. Muscular Catholic antivax entrepreneur Bobby Kennedy Jr is polling at 20% or more: Rasmussen has him in a dead heat with Biden.
And Mr. “Coronavirus is a Coronation for all,” Charles Eisenstein, has just disclosed that he’s working on Bobby’s campaign as Director of Messaging. Holy shit.
It’s like our book is so accurate that Steve Bannon fed a digital ARC into a LLM to spit out AIs of all the characters in it so he could play them like chess pieces across the 2024 electoral map.
Matthew and Julian take stock of this new stage: the routinization and institutionalization of conspirituality.
Show notes available on Patreon.
Customer Reviews
Forced to pay?
You are all awesome & informative in so many ways! Your podcast serves as quite useable information that I’ve found no where else. Conspirituality has been my favorite Apple podcast for several months, although it now appears your free content is disappearing into Subscribers only access. Extremely disappointing to us that cannot afford to add one more bill to our household income. Isn’t the money you’ve been paid for your book deal and certainly will increasing once it’s released enough?? Please rethink just how much is enough and allow free episodes to continue on Apple Podcast. I’m watching them sadly becoming less & less and I can not be forced to pay.
Sincerely Disappointed~
Must listen for yoga/wellness leaders
As a former yoga teacher and massage therapist that has been heavily involved in the wellness/spiritual community, this podcast has been a game changer for me. During the pandemic and George Floyd protests I was unbelievably disappointment in my so called yoga community’s response to both. The conspiracy theories, the unwillingness to do the basics in a public health crisis, and performative social justice responses changed everything for me. For years I’ve been unable to articulate the reasons behind my sudden departure from teaching and lack of desire to go back. This podcast helps explain the reasons I was right to intuitively walk away from it all. And now with fellow colleagues preaching Marrianne Williamson for President, this podcast is a must listen for anybody still within the yoga/spiritual world and does an excellent job breaking down how people within it can fall prey to cult like mentalities.
“Experts” that aren’t actual experts.
The hosts don’t often look at their own biases and I question their abilities at self-reflection. They act as if they’re experts and lack humility.