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Conspirituality

Conspirituality

De: 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 Ciencia Ciencias Sociales Filosofía
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  • Bonus Sample: Michael Parenti Went to a Yoga Ashram

    Bonus Sample: Michael Parenti Went to a Yoga Ashram
    Mar 9 2026
    Matthew found out that the late Marxist historian Michael Parenti went on a yoga retreat at the Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas. He clocked the BS immediately—unlike Matthew when he showed up in spaces like that decades later. Was political training the difference? Show Notes Michael Parenti "The Political Uses of Religion" Denver, Colorado 4.18.87 How a #MeToo Facebook Post Toppled a Yoga Icon | by Matthew Remski | GEN Shielded for Decades, a Leader of Sivananda Yoga Finally Comes Under Fire for Alleged Abuse | GEN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    5 m
  • Brief: Bishop Bootlicker Barron

    Brief: Bishop Bootlicker Barron
    Mar 7 2026
    Matthew digs into the fascism-enabling political theology of Bishop Robert Barron and the rightward slide of Big Catholic media. From his early admiration of Thomas Merton—carefully stripped of his antiwar and anti-capitalist passion—to his praise for Jordan Peterson, Marco Rubio, and Charlie Kirk, Barron repackages Red Scare tropes in the language of beauty, civility, and “religious liberty.” And what about his virtual silence on ICE operations in Minnesota and the suffering of immigrants within his own diocese? What does “religious freedom” mean when it defends American exceptionalism more than human beings? Show Notes McGarry: Ireland and the Spanish Civil War Ireland | Virtual Spanish Civil War Diocese of Winona-Rochester settles with abuse survivors for $21.5 million | National Catholic Reporter Word On Fire Catholic Ministries - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica Evangelization, Movement, and the Word on Fire Institute Word on Fire Institute The Hundredth Anniversary of Thomas Merton’s Birth - Word on Fire The Jordan Peterson Phenomenon - Word on Fire He Died with a Microphone in His Hand - First Things Bishop Barron’s Latest MAGA Crusade Sparks Vatican Alarm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 m
  • 298: MAHA’s Glyphosate Meltdown [feat Mallory DeMille]

    298: MAHA’s Glyphosate Meltdown [feat Mallory DeMille]
    Mar 5 2026
    Despite saying “I believe glyphosate causes cancer” a few weeks ago, RFK Jr quickly pivoted when his boss declared an executive order calling for the ramping up of glyphosate under a 75-year-old defense production act that also happens to give immunity to Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto. MAHA activists immediately went into a frenzy, shocked that their tallow daddy would betray them like this. Mallory DeMille not only coined the term “tallow daddy,” she’s also been tracking the civil war that exploded in MAHA after Kennedy said, eh, maybe Roundup ain’t so bad after all. Show Notes What to know about glyphosate, the herbicide behind a Trump executive order that’s angered MAHA moms Glyphosate Use and Cancer Incidence in the Agricultural Health Study Exposure to glyphosate and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma: an updated meta-analysis Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 m
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