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    Bonus Sample: Stranded On The Lifeboat: Escaping The Large Group Awareness Cult

    Bonus Sample: Stranded On The Lifeboat: Escaping The Large Group Awareness Cult

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    Bonus Sample: Stranded On The Lifeboat: Escaping The Large Group Awareness Cult

    FromConspirituality

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    Length:
    5 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 1, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    One-hundred-and-twenty seekers filled the LA hotel ballroom. We sought the life-changing experience that could only happen by holding in our pee, being religiously on-time, and taking full responsibility for creating the lives we said we wanted, but hadn’t achieved… yet.
    Released:
    Mar 1, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    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.