Podcast Episodes
Back to Search86: Charles Eisenstein, New Age Q
Up to this point, we’ve understood Charles Eisenstein as the poet-philosopher of conspirituality, lending his Burning Man ritual workshop chops to th…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Sample: Red-pilled Poet, Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eistenstein has had quite the pandemic. Essays read by millions, retweeted by Jack Dorsey, quoted by Ivanka Trump, held up as the poet philos…
4 years, 2 months ago
85: Gaia Buys Yoga International, Stocks Rise on Uranus
On the day after the Winter Solstice, as the world tucked in for an Omicron staycation, a news flash came over the wire. Yoga International—one of th…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Inventor of Yoga Teacher Training Was a Rapist Obsessed with UFOs
In 1969, Swami Vishnudevananda pioneered what has become a life transition ritual for the GenX and Millennial precariat: the Yoga Teacher Training (Y…
4 years, 2 months ago
84: Red State Christians (w/Angela Denker)
"When we don't avoid people who think differently than we do, we gain an opportunity for growth and national renewal." So opens Red State Christians:…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Language of Conspiritualist Merchants
Derek investigates the origins of language through thinkers like David Crystal, Michael Corballis, and others, to investigate how two popular figures…
4 years, 2 months ago
83: Climate Solstice (w/George Monbiot)
The global pandemic response is a microcosm of the global climate collapse response. In both we get to see what’s really under the hood when the pre…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Middle Circle
In the 1990s, Westerners searching for enlightenment flocked to India. The pilgrimage represented an affirmation of status and authority in the burge…
4 years, 2 months ago
82: Steve Bannon, Mystic (w/Benjamin Teitelbaum)
While Americans were transforming esoteric strains of yoga into a commodifiable industry in 1980, a young naval officer named Steve Bannon was pickin…
4 years, 3 months ago
Bonus Sample: Not All Conspiritualities Are the Same
Matthew responds to the robust feedback on the Sam-Harris-is-a-highbrow-conspiritualist bonus, and then stretches the terms around harm in the conspi…
4 years, 3 months ago