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by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
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.
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- Yesterday35 min
Book Club: Fed Up
Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman returns with Fed Up: What Evolution Teaches About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well. In the book, he tries a variety of major diets, breaking down the latest science around each. His work, Derek argues, is a necessary corrective to the wellness influencers who promote and monetize single-diet solutions, when history and biology tell a much different story. Show Notes Fed Up: What Evolution Teaches About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 days ago1h 7m
326: The War on Empathy
Humans are social animals. We’re not the strongest, fastest, or even best adapted to our environment. But what we excel at is our ability to work together, which means we’ve been able to adapt to every environment, a true outlier in the animal kingdom. And a big reason for that is our ability to empathize with others. Basically, empathy is the ability to step into someone else's shoes, understand what they are thinking or feeling, and share in that emotional experience. The main types of empathy are cognitive, affective (or emotional), and somatic. Derek looks at the first two in segment two through the lens of Paul Bloom’s work, but given a recent book by Lebanese-born Canadian marketing professor, Gad Saad (which Matthew covers in segment three), we thought we’d look at how empathy is being used, and potentially distorted, in modern society. Or, as Julian starts with, how it’s being weaponized on social media by Christian nationalists. Show Notes This Lebanese-Canadian Behavioral Scientist Is Gaining World Fame Gad Saad: Google Scholar profile Jews safer in Mississippi than Canada, says Jewish prof who left Montreal for Ole Miss He's Canada's number one author, and he's leaving Canada for safety reasons David Saad: Olympedia (official Olympic biographical record) Gad Saad thread on his brother's Olympic/antisemitism story Trump Says There Are 25 Million Illegal Immigrants Fact Check: Did 20 Million Illegal Immigrants Enter US Under Biden? Record 14 Million Unauthorized Immigrants Lived in the US in 2023 Vance magnifies false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets ADL's Global 100 Survey: What Does It Actually Say About Muslim Attitudes Toward Jews? Examining the ADL's Antisemitism Audit Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) Flawed by Design: Jewish Faculty Network Response to CASE Report First Anti-Islam March by Pegida Movement Fizzles in Denmark Why Moslems Cannot, Will Not, Need Not Integrate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 6 days ago6 min
Bonus Sample: What Happened to Yoga?
A recent article in The Atlantic ponders the current state of yoga. Derek weighs in based on his decades-long experiences. Show Notes What Happened to Yoga? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago42 min
Brief: The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory (w/AJA Woods)
AJA Woods (The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy) joins Matthew to trace how "cultural Marxism" mutated from Nazi "cultural Bolshevism" and the British Union of Fascists' attacks on modernist art, through Lyndon LaRouche's CIA-brainwashing lore, into Paul Weyrich and William Lind's 1990s "political correctness" rebrand, Pat Buchanan and the Tea Party's free-floating panic, Andrew Breitbart's arugula jokes, before finally landing as Christopher Rufo's anti-CRT crusade and James Lindsay's "Race Marxism." Woods argues the throughline isn't honest scholarship on the Frankfurt School but a recurring move: relabel any liberation struggle—civil rights, feminism, trans rights, climate action—as an elite conspiracy, so its gains can be revoked as "foreign" corruption. Should sane people keep participating in these "debates" or refuse the frame and point to material stakes instead? Show Notes A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West Jack Z. Bratich, Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture Perry Anderson, Considerations on Western Marxism James Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis Christopher Rufo, New Yorker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago1h 13m
325: Long COVID Profiteers
Conspiracy theorists have decided Novak Djokovic has long COVID — despite no evidence — because he's become an anti-vax icon courted by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. So we thought it was high time for a long COVID update. Derek looks at a new Boston Children's Hospital research on viral reactivation, as well as the findings of a 2026 meta-analysis pooling 200,000+ participants. Matthew surveys the Canadian LC landscape, where insurance-industry money is quietly funding McGill's Institute for Transforming Healthcare and McMaster's FALCON trial, testing the pseudoscientific "Lightning Process" on Long COVID patients, led by researcher Dr. Jason Busse, who has deep insurance-disability ties. Finally, Julian unpacks Phil Parker's Lightning Process — Ericksonian NLP dressed as neuroscience, with roots in hypnotherapy, cult techniques, and pure "neuro-bollocks." Show Notes Kennedy Hires Covid Vaccine Skeptic to Look at Dubious Claims of Military Deaths A New Brunswick woman's account of being left to find her own way with long COVID Canadians frustrated by long COVID as they grapple with its effects December 2023 release on Canadians' experiences with long-term COVID symptoms Fourth Report on longer-term symptoms among Canadian adults "Dealing with the Fallout": post-COVID condition's continued impact Survey record confirming the CCAHS was a one-time collection RFK Jr.'s workforce cuts wiped out federal tracking of key health data Trudeau kept Harper's health care funding formula 2025 National Health Expenditure Trends snapshot Canada Health Transfer deductions for non-compliance are declining Carney refuses to commit to enforcing the Canada Health Act Canada's affordability crisis and health care Ontario should join Alberta in challenging the Canada Health Act Alberta's new health system structure under Premier Smith Alberta's "Bill 11" and Ford's hospital privatization Union concern over Saskatchewan's move toward privatization McGill launches initiative to strengthen Canada's healthcare system Sectoral Asset Management's healthcare-investing focus Manulife launches Global Longevity Institute committing $350M by 2030 Manulife advances longevity leadership in Canada with support for the National Institute on Ageing's landmark survey National Institute on Ageing releases 2025 Ageing in Canada Survey FALCON study Petition calling to pause McMaster's FALCON trial Original 2011 PACE trial publication Peter White's ties to Swiss Re The PACE team's insurance-company consulting work The yawning gap in ME/CFS research funding Trial By Error: BBC Takes On The Lightning Method Can Lightning Method Help Kids with CFS? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago12 min
DROP: Kennedy Chooses Erectile Dysfunction Over Postpartum Research
Heading into the holiday weekend, RFK Jr terminated almost all grants dedicated to the Office of Minority Health. Now, $38 million over four years will be redirected from postpartum screenings and assistance for Black and Native American families to "research" on erectile dysfunction, testosterone, and sperm counts. Derek reports on this disturbing news, as well as how the kratom industry appears to be influencing Kennedy's decisions. Show Notes HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED RFK Jr. Bails on MAHA Event After Being Cornered on ‘Gas Station Heroin’ Kratom drink Feel Free gains popularity despite growing concerns about addiction, health impact and death How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Bonus Sample: How Oprah and Art Bell Red-Pilled 1990’s Normie America
Listen to the full episode The 1990s were a special time in American media. Female-coded, liberal-leaning, daytime TV talk shows like the Oprah Winfrey Show normalized past-life regression, alien abduction, and Satanic Ritual Abuse for housewives. At the same time, male-coded, conservative-leaning, night-time AM-radio shows like Art Bell’s Coast to Coast did the same for their husbands and brothers on the graveyard shift at budget hotels or driving enormous trucks on long stretches of open highway. For the latest installment in his Roots of Conspirituality series, Julian digs into how these two media figures brought conspiracism, pseudoscience, and the paranormal into America’s mainstream, setting the stage for how the internet and social media would melt everybody’s minds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago27 min
Book Club: The Nerd Reich
Support the podcast and listen ad-free Gil Duran's exceptional new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, explains how technofascists like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance, and Marc Andreessen are not-so-quietly dismantling America as we know it. Derek discusses this science fiction nightmare we’re now all living through. Show Notes The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy Gil Durán and Wajahat Ali: The Rise of "The Nerd Reich” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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About Conspirituality
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.
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