Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker
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Receipts for the wellness-conspiracy pipeline.
Conspirituality follows the traffic between self-help language, fringe health claims, and authoritarian politics. Its panel format mixes research, clipped incredulity, and moral seriousness without pretending the absurd parts are harmless.
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Conspirituality is a long-running examination of the routes between wellness culture, spiritual influence, conspiracy belief, and authoritarian politics. The show treats strange claims as evidence of systems, not just personality quirks. A supplement pitch, a public clip, a men's gathering, or a billionaire's theory of the self can become the doorway into a larger map of money, media, ideology, and harm. The tone is brisk and skeptical. It can also be wry, especially when grand claims collapse under basic context. Episodes often move like a researched seminar with interruptions: a timeline is built, a claim is tested, someone asks the obvious skeptical question, and the argument tightens. Recent material ranges from Marc Andreessen's thoughts on introspection to Russell Brand, Mikki Willis, Christiane Northrup, peptides, COVID narratives, and Gen X masculinity. Public health misinformation is a recurring concern. So is the way spiritual language can be repurposed to excuse reactionary politics or sell experimental wellness products. The show does not flatten every spiritual practice into fraud. It is more interested in the moment meaning-making becomes a market, a recruitment channel, or a shield against accountability. That distinction gives the analysis some weight. It can make room for grief, too, as in episodes centered on Joseph Baker, A Course in Miracles, radical politics, illness, and memory. The panel's dry jokes keep the pace moving, but the stakes keep returning to bodies, institutions, and power. Conspirituality is especially strong when it follows a public network across time, showing how the same characters adapt to new platforms and new crises. It is not a detached fact-checking desk. It is more pointed than that. Still, its best moments depend on evidence, caveats, and historical context rather than simple contempt. Listeners looking for wellness debunking will find plenty of it. Listeners interested in media ecosystems, masculinity, religion, and political drift will find a broader argument underneath.
Made for: For listeners who want skeptical analysis of wellness culture, spiritual politics, public health misinformation, and influencer ecosystems. It fits people who can handle dense context, dry humor, and uncomfortable links between private belief and public harm.
What sets it apart: Conspirituality stands out by tracking networks, incentives, and historical context rather than treating each claim as isolated weirdness. Its panel rhythm lets research, skepticism, grief, and sharp comedy share the same table.
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 unders…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Conspirituality shows how spiritual ideas become vehicles for conspiracy, political loyalty, and cultic influence without losing sight of their historical roots.
Conspirituality traces how spiritual influence, conspiracy thinking, and authoritarian politics reinforce one another. Derek Barris, Matthew Remsky, and Julian Walker move between host discussion and guest interviews, asking how apocalyptic belief, cult dynamics, and claims of…
The ivermectin contradiction gets a hearing here; your next confident health claim may have to work harder.
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A brisk history of selfhood that questions the modern faith in inner life.
This episode makes a persuasive case that introspection is not some timeless default. It moves from Sam Walton's work-first blankness to the Stoics, Augustine, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and later thinkers such as Locke, Rousseau, and Kant, keeping the argument tied to…
A steady, skeptical look at how conspiracy thinking overlaps with spiritual influence, cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.
Conspirituality stays focused on the overlap between conspiracy thinking and spiritual influence, and this episode works best when it slows down, names the people involved, and traces claims about cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism without losing its skeptical…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
MJ Dorian's solo deep dives trace genius through Blake, McQueen, da Vinci, and Jung's Red Book.
Two Methodist pastors and guests work through forgiveness, control, and grief in scripture.
Matthew Remski traces Jesse Brown's path from the 2014 Peter Mansbridge and Jian Ghomeshi stories to a post-October 7 focus on antisemitism that cut Canadaland's masthead from 28 to 14.
The episode opens with Sam Walton as a blunt example of someone with little or no introspection.
A discussion on the importance and dynamics of men gathering in intentional communities for support and growth.
The host introduces a conversation with the late Joseph Baker about A Course in Miracles, reflecting on their differing views and Joseph's recent death.
A brief episode discussing Mikki Willis's appearance on Russell Brand's show and the rewriting of history.
The Conspirituality hosts dissect a MAHA Report livestream where members of the disinformation dozen celebrate a court settlement as a free speech victory.
This episode explores how the wellness industry leverages the brain's dopamine-driven novelty seeking to market experimental treatments like peptides.
A eulogy for Joseph Baker, a faithful listener, reflecting on conspiracy theories and spiritual influence.
A discussion on how Generation X men are engaging with the manosphere and the cultural implications.
The episode discusses Ballerina Farm's stance on raw milk regulations and their decision to focus on pasteurized products.
Derek and Mallory discuss RFK Jr.'s contradictory statements on glyphosate and the intersection of conspiracy theories and spirituality.
The episode discusses the cultural context of toxic masculinity in light of the DOJ's release of Epstein investigation documents.