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24: Body Politic Recovery (w/Tada Hozumi)

24: Body Politic Recovery (w/Tada Hozumi)

FromConspirituality


24: Body Politic Recovery (w/Tada Hozumi)

FromConspirituality

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Length:
126 minutes
Released:
Nov 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week could have been worse; what comes now must get better. If we’ve learned anything over these six months, it’s that QAnon is to conspirituality as Trump is to the political status quo. We can debunk or vote out the fever dream, but the virus will remain. In our first post-election episode we take stock of work yet to do. Derek checks in on QAnon mysticism. Julian speaks on the populism and language games that horseshoe right and left together, and how strong communities cannot afford horizontal violence anymore. We review a new podcast out of Montreal that studies “The Nexus” — the toxic intersection between identitarian activism, social media, and cancel culture.Matthew crystal-balls the precarious future of post-COVID yoga, and interviews cultural somaticist Tada Hozumi on why Andrew Yang offered attachment politics, decolonizing wellness, and WTF is going on at The Embodiment Conference. “The future of global embodiment,” Hozumi says, “is also the future of global politics. Because the mind always follows the body.”03:07 Numbers are hard20:02 How did we get here?38:21 Walk in the park1:01:10 Interview with Tada HozumiAll music by EarthRise SoundSystem (Duke Schommer + Derek Beres)Support Conspirituality on PatreonShow NotesSapolsky: Religious Ritual is OCDBehave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst — Robert SapolskyMost Yoga Teachers are Not Online Producers. They Have a Deeper Gift, and Now Is the Time to Trust It.Dr. Northrup continues: now the conspiracy is electoral fraudFucking Cancelled podcastMolly Meehan’s  5-part “zine”.Molly’s podcast: “Out of the Woods”. Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher (who tragically died by suicide after a lifelong struggle with depression).Open Letter to Mark Walsh and The Embodiment ConferenceWhy I, as a therapist, support Andrew YangThe Ritual As Justice SchoolWhiteness as trauma in the body
Released:
Nov 5, 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.