Podcast Episodes
Back to Search66: Spirituality & Status (w/Will Storr)
Spirituality, ill-defined a term that it is, often implies both an emptying out and an addition. What leaves is the vacuous clinging to achievements …
4 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Question of Consciousness
One of the most debated topics in spirituality (and beyond) involves the origins of consciousness. Most neuroscientists agree that it’s emergent—the …
4 years, 6 months ago
65: Long-Haul QAnon (w/Rachel Bernstein & Jitarth Jadeja)
Santa Barbara surf coach Matthew Coleman murdered his two young children in Mexico nearly two weeks ago. He told the FBI that he was “enlightened by …
4 years, 6 months ago
Bonus Sample: Strongman Heroes, Barefoot Science, & Fake Victims
Conspiritualists amp up their victimhood-fetish by comparing anti-vaxxers to Jim Crow-era African Americans and Jews under the Holocaust. Meanwhile, …
4 years, 7 months ago
64: Remembering Guru Jagat: a Panel
With guests: Philip Deslippe, Jules Hartley, Janja Lalich, and Stacie Stukin
We’ve convened an expert panel this week to remember and discuss Katie Gr…
4 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Sample: Wellness Pornography as Abuse
This past week, Matthew defined “Wellness Pornography”, working from the ideas of C. Thi Nguyen and Bekka Williams in their essay “Moral Outrage Porn…
4 years, 7 months ago
63: Yoga and the Jab (w/Colin Hall & Sarah Garden)
The YogaVaxGate Instagram post turns out to have been a bellwether for the $88B industry packed with science skeptics and spiritual bypassers. When W…
4 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Sample: Vaccines Are Not the Holocaust
A recent uptick in Holocaust-related memes around the COVID vaccine is fueling further anti-Semitic thought and behavior. Derek investigates a crop o…
4 years, 7 months ago
62: Manifesting Something Awful (w/Dale Beran)
The genius parade continues this week with co-host Dale Beran, author of It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Dona…
4 years, 7 months ago
Bonus Sample: Digital Delusions: How conspiracy-fueled political religions like QAnon hijack our brains
QAnon emerged out of a perfect storm of evolving technology, social psychology, and global crisis. But it exploited pre-existing neural architecture …
4 years, 7 months ago