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Conspirituality

著者: Derek Beres Matthew Remski Julian Walker
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  • 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.
    © 2023 Conspirituality
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  • 213: Yoga for Gaza, Yoga for Israel
    2024/07/03
    Can yoga bring hostages home? No. Can yoga stop a genocide? Also no. But this won’t stop earnest practitioners from instrumentalizing practice for both purposes. For supporters of Israel, practice is dedicated to the protection of land, the return of hostages, and to uphold the spiritual valor of soldiers. Among supporters of Palestine and a ceasefire, yoga practice and community is an organizing principle for decrying genocide, building mutual aid, and resisting global colonialism. Both factions cite the Bhagavad Gita. Does yoga support nationalistic violence and body fascism? Isn’t that where its modern origins lie? Or does it have deeper, intersectional roots in universal liberation? The interpretive war, articulated and inflamed online, only accelerates the material war. But there is a third space we examine today: the gap between how spiritual aspirations appear and are praised or condemned in the world of the spectacle, and how they play out in the flesh. Show Notes Tel Aviv Yoga Event About : Israeli hostages taken by Hamas We Are Still Standing handstand event Carmel Gat | Yoga in captivity Taken captive: Carmel Gat, seen doing yoga with hostage children Initial Twitter posting of Alfie's yoga class in Gaza Reserve combat engineer practices yoga with soldiers in a house in Gaza IG post | criticism of Yoga Journal cover In Israel, Chanting 'Om' Between Missiles What does Israel's rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks? AP: Calculating death numbers in Gaza Sarah Martin Little Rock yoga benefit event Rasha Madkour fundraiser for The Longhorn Muslim Alumni Network UK yoga event for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund Hot Yoga Glasgow yogathon for the International Rescue Committee A look inside the growing Pro-Palestine student solidarity encampment at UCSB Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators At USC Join Camp-In Movement On Heels Of Valedictorian Controversy Sheena Sood's Yoga for Palestine series at Bhakti Yoga Movement in Portland 50. Sellouts & Zealots (w/Sheena Sood) Samson's Foxes insignia Reserve combat engineer practices yoga with soldiers in a house in Gaza The Dangerous History Behind Netanyahu’s Amalek Rhetoric Dark Mirror: A Torah View of Revenge, and its Reflection in Israeli Media During Operation Iron Swords Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 9 分
  • Bonus Sample: The Prophet & the Electrical Storm
    2024/07/01
    What does it really mean to be a prophet, found a religion, and persuade millions of people that god speaks directly to you? And what does this god tell you? How to live morally. What kinds of sex are forbidden. How to avoid death and live forever. When the end of the world is coming, and which messiah will bring it. In this latest installment on the history of the intersection of spirituality and pseudoscience, Julian looks at the story of a prophet named Ellen G. White and what she may have in common with historical figures as diverse as Gopi Krishna, Dostoevsky, and Joan of Arc. Show Notes Christian Experiences and Teachings of Ellen G White Phantoms in the Brain Sam Kean: Heaven is for Neuroscience Neuroscience for the soul Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    7 分
  • Brief: Jordan Peterson Teaches Russell Brand Theology
    2024/06/29
    Last month, Russell Brand visited Jordan Peterson's podcast for “The Evolution of Theology.” Which, given these two figures, had to focus on topics like the unreligious impulsivity of gay people and why slaves should “just not be slaves.” Derek and Julian discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 分

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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.
© 2023 Conspirituality

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