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Conspirituality

by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
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  • Book Club: American Caesar (w/Brad Onishi)

    October 24, 2026 · 57 min

    Listen ad-free Matthew welcomes friend of the pod, Brad Onishi, back to Conspirituality. Brad is the co-host of Straight White American Jesus, and he’s got a new book out called American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning…

  • 331: Charles Eisenstein Reflects

    October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    Listen ad-free Charles Eisenstein’s very long essay, “The Coronation,” was the focus of EP1 of Conspirituality. The sacred economist turned philosopher king joined us on EPs 30 and 32 for a two-part interview about that very essay. We’ve…

  • Bonus Sample: The New Age Nuclear Doomsday Prophet

    October 19, 2026 · 10 min

    Listen to the full episode The Church Universal and Triumphant became an international mainstream news story in 1990. Their leader, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, was poised, eloquent, and beautiful. She also claimed to have received messages…

  • Book Club: The Last Temptation of Beck (w/Josephine Riesman)

    October 17, 2026 · 37 min

    Listen ad-free and support the podcast Although Beck David Hansen was born into Scientology, he’s never really practiced it. Except for that period where he did, heavily, when he even contemplated becoming an auditor. But then he left the…

  • 330: The Hypocrisies of Paul Saladino [feat Mallory DeMille]

    October 15, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    Listen ad-free and support the podcast Paul Saladino doesn’t like peanut butter. Or whey protein. Or processed foods at all. Except when they’re his peanut butter whey protein bars that are, you guessed it, processed. But his bars are…

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  • Bonus Sample: Max Haiven’s The Player and the Played

    October 12, 2026 · 6 min

    Listen to the full episode Max Haiven's The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to Twenty-First Century Fascism (MIT Press, 2026) argues that financialized capitalism has turned us all into speculative "players" in rigged games…

  • Book Club: Protocols (w/Scott Carney)

    October 10, 2026 · 43 min

    Andrew Huberman’s new book takes many hours of podcast transcripts and distills them to what he believes are ideal protocols for a healthy life. Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body became an instant bestseller upon its…

  • DROP: It’s Not a Horseshoe. It’s a Business Model.

    October 9, 2026 · 55 min

    This is episode 1 of a new side project Julian is doing with Azi Ghaffari, Dr. Inna Kanevsky, and Aaron McCall. Find upcoming episodes via Grifty Podcast and at grifty.org  The wellness people think your toothpaste is poisoning you…

  • 329: Does Claude Have Charisma?

    October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    Listen ad-free and support the podcast When we started this show, the charismatic influencers we covered had identifiable tactics of hard-selling, finding pain points, using disorganized attachment strategies like cult leaders do, to…

  • When Men Lie: Listening to the MAHA Summit

    October 5, 2026 · 9 min

    Listen to the full episode Last week, MAHA Action once again blurred the lines between activist organization and government entity, with RFK Jr, JD Vance, Dr Oz and other officials sharing the stage with dozens of corporate sponsors and…

  • Brief: Mark Carney, Davos Catholic

    October 3, 2026 · 31 min

    Matthew examines how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has paired an 18-month austerity rampage with approval ratings near 60%. Centralized power, new surveillance and protest laws, refugee restrictions, public-service cuts, a tripling…

  • 328: Canadaland Platforms Antivax Grifter

    October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    In 2013, businessman turned independent journalist Jesse Brown launched Canadaland as a podcast focused on media criticism. He grew the business to include many other podcasts, creating his own small media empire. Then October 7 happened…

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About the show

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.