Podcast Episodes
Back to Search46: Back to the Vax (w/Lydia Greene & Heather Simpson)
Our EP10 guest, Center for Countering Digital Hate founder, Imran Ahmed, has been bringing the heat. His “Disinformation Dozen” white paper made a hu…
4 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Sample: Pray & Work
Matthew offers a meditation on Brandolini’s Law — “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it”…
4 years, 11 months ago
45: Theatre of the Transferred
Conspiritualists hide their grifts in mantras. MLMs market themselves as communities, while cults preach freedom. When a research firm spotlights Say…
4 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Sample: The Role of Intuition
Social psychologists and evolutionary psychologists have been studying the origins, neural networks, and role of intuition for decades. Wellness infl…
4 years, 11 months ago
44: Netflix & Pill
It was inevitable: QAnon has stormed HBO. Less inevitably, Conspirituality Podcast has been invited to an academic conference Down Under. In this epi…
4 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Sample: This is NOT Just a Drug!
Julian recounts the wild and touching journey of four close friends in a self-directed spiritual group therapy session—super high on Ecstasy.
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4 years, 11 months ago
43: How to Redpill a Yoga Podcaster
Back in December, a certified anesthesiologist named Dr. Madhava Setty posted a long critique of our podcast to the New Age website Collective Evolut…
4 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Sample: “CIS White Man” Means So Many Things
This episode follows up on earlier discussions on the podcast about how we manage privilege. Our exploration of cancel culture — specifically that pa…
5 years ago
42: Deradicalizing From Digital Hate (w/Caolan Robertson)
Imagine that you’re 25 years old. You grew up Irish, gay, and online. When the Orlando Pulse massacre explodes, you go to YouTube for the news. You w…
5 years ago
Bonus Sample: Cats and the Meaning of Life
Humans will never be cats. In his new book, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life, the philosopher John Gray argues that we can learn a lot…
5 years ago