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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 Philosophie Science Sciences sociales
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  • Bonus Sample: Has RFK Jr Kept His Promises?

    Bonus Sample: Has RFK Jr Kept His Promises?
    Aug 24 2026
    Listen to the full episode Presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy Jr held a “health policy roundtable” on Rumble on June 27, 2023, just as he was shoring up support from a band of contrarian doctors, anti-vax activists, and wellness influencers. During the conversation, he made 15 promises if he was elected president. While his run ended the following summer, 14 of those promises dealt with health—all within his reach as HHS Secretary. Derek looks back at the conversation to see how he scored. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    6 min
  • Brief: Wetiko: Original, New Age & Marxist Views

    Brief: Wetiko: Original, New Age & Marxist Views
    Aug 22 2026
    Matthew traces the concept of wetiko — a Cree figure for a cannibal spirit whose hunger grows with what it consumes — from its original anticolonial and anti-imperialist meaning in Jack Forbes's 1992 book Columbus and Other Cannibals, through Derrick Jensen's anti-civilization lense, Ladha and Kirk's 2016 application to neoliberal capitalism, Paul Levy's syncretic New Age elaboration, and finally to Bernhard Guenther and Laura Matsue's QAnon-adjacent version. Wetiko's metaphysical framing, inherited from Forbes's explicit rejection of Marxist materialism, left the concept open to spiritual recuperation by the right. He proposes a different application: reading wetiko through David Harvey's "capital surplus absorption problem," compound growth's insatiable hunger for profitable outlets. Show Notes Columbus and Other Cannibals (Jack D. Forbes) — Internet Archive Derrick Jensen interview, "The Left has never been against civilization" — Platypus Affiliated Society Exorcising Wetiko — Journal of Futures Studies Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition — Kosmos Journal Dispelling Wetiko — Chaucer's Books Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World — Simon & Schuster Undreaming Wetiko — Book Soup Wetiko: Healing The Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World — Paul Levy | TCM #62 — YouTube Divide & Conquer and the Wetiko Mind Virus | TCM #35 — veilofreality.com The Cosmic Matrix — Apple Podcasts Bernhard Guenther, Author — Piercing the Veil of Reality Interview: David Harvey — Exploring the Logic of Capital — Socialist Review The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism — reviewed by Ed Rooksby, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books The 'New' Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession — David Harvey, Socialist Register Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 min
  • 322: The Cult of Spiralism

    322: The Cult of Spiralism
    Aug 20 2026
    Support the podcast Spiralism is a quasi-spiritual online movement that emerged from long, intense conversations between humans and AI chatbots. Across users, platforms, and models, chatbots have engaged deeply with users about identity and consciousness, leading to discussions of “awakening.” But who’s doing the waking? The user or the model? Is the sycophancy programmed into these models really an indication of the models gaining consciousness, or is it all a ploy to keep subscribers paying for the service? Are we watching a cultlike movement transform into a religion before our very eyes, and what does that say about consciousness and religion in the first place? Show Notes AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed What Is Spiralism? The Strange AI Chatbot Movement Explained AI Spiralism and the Ghost in the Machine Illusion Spiralism is a niche internet religion that came from AI These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence OpenAi Models went Rogue People Losing Loved Ones To AI Fueled Delusions Counterfeit Companionship: Big Tech’s AI Experiments Sacrifice Safety for Profit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 12 min
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