Conspirituality

About Conspirituality

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.

Publisher

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 May 2020

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

296 of 856 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Drop: When Spiritual Teachers Abuse Their Power

   Matthew Remski discusses high-control groups and spiritual abuse with Brianna Patten, offering insights into leaving cults and finding healing.

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   21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Bonus Sample: Swoletarians and the Left Manosphere Attack a Disability Activist

   Host Matthew explores how "swoletarians" in the Left Manosphere misinterpret disability activist Beatrice Adler-Bolton's ironic use of "dysgenic" in this interview.

3. 

   19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Book Club: Fed Up

   Host Derek Lampert interviews Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman about his book "Fed Up," exploring evolutionary insights into food, diet, and health.

Inside a recent episode

Drop: When Spiritual Teachers Abuse Their Power

Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So I think people should be aware that there's a zone of Cult recovery that is very concentrated on the details, the granular details of the experience itself. And because of that focus, that space in which that conversation happens can be claustrophobic and you might get as much. healing and recovering by joining a knitting league or going bowling or taking up softball again as you do in the formal recovery group. And I'm saying this not to disparage recovery groups, but just to say that they can be very attractive and feel like some sort of homecoming or blessing. And they can be that way. And they can also have these sort of entrapping dynamics that can slow you down and Keep you in the past, really. […]

Who has been a guest on Conspirituality

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Matthew Remski
• AJA Woods
• Annette McGivney
• Kent Anderson
• Joy Moore

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

2,082 ratings

Spotify

4.2 / 5

1,806 ratings

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