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22: Racism & Fraud in New Age Publishing (w/Rebekah Borucki & Dr Jay Mohan)

22: Racism & Fraud in New Age Publishing (w/Rebekah Borucki & Dr Jay Mohan)

FromConspirituality


22: Racism & Fraud in New Age Publishing (w/Rebekah Borucki & Dr Jay Mohan)

FromConspirituality

ratings:
Length:
109 minutes
Released:
Oct 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Author and publisher Rebekah Borucki joins the Conspirituality team as our first co-host for this episode. She’s got a story to tell: the culture of her publisher, Hay House, was so resistant to taking a position on the racist attitudes of some of their leading cash-cow authors that she ditched her contract and her job with the company as a diversity mentor.We’ll be talking about the money and politics of New Age media, as well as editorial standards, ghostwriting, cult apologetics, and the responsibility of publishers to deplatform authors that are hurtling toward QAnon. New Age media isn’t all love and light—it’s a pathway into consumers’ vulnerability, and sometimes a recruitment gateway for cults. Also this week: Derek interviews Dr Jay Mohan on his gruelling COVID front-line work as an interventional cardiologist in a Detroit suburb.02:13 Get Your (Hay) House In Order1:14:24 Interview with Dr Jay MohanAll music by EarthRise SoundSystem (Duke Schommer + Derek Beres)Support Conspirituality on PatreonShow notesRebekah on toxic White Women WellnessRebekah on the silence of Hay House authorsRebekah on leaving Hay HouseA Critique of Abraham Hicks & the Law of AttractionCelery Juice: The big problem with a viral Instagram ‘cure
Released:
Oct 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A weekly study of converging right-wing conspiracy theories and faux-progressive wellness utopianism. 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.