This past week, New Age Satanic Panic influencer Teal Swan released a new video to 1.5M YouTube subscribers about the dangers of "Wokeism." Yesterday, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) announced plans to form a Congressional Anti-Woke Caucus. We know by now that conspirituality is a machine charismatics can use to generate mystical solutions to exaggerated or imagined crises. With Swan’s pivot into anti-woke discourse, she is taking the next logical step in broadening and secularizing her message.  What's not entirely clear is the pathway Swan has taken from Satanic Panic influencer to a New Age starseed, to unlicensed trauma recovery expert, to this potential future as a culture warrior. This Brief connects some of the dots, as the entanglement between New Age wellness objectives and reactionary populism tightens. Show Notes"Wokeism" and Today's "Woke" Society109. Who’s Afraid of Teal Swan? (w/Jon Kasbe)111: Who's Afraid of Teal Swan (pt 2) (w/Jennings Brown) UNLOCKED: Swan Song Series 1 | Close to Home (please search "Swan Song Series to find all unlocked episodes)From QAnon to Anti-Woke. A New Age guru pivots to a new… | by Matthew RemskiQanon - The Great Awakening: PsyOp or the Real Deal? - Piercing the Veil of Reality Bernhard GuentherThe January 6th Capitol Siege has indelibly linked QAnon to domestic terrorism.The deletion of vast networks of QAnon influencers and groups from social channels like FB and TwitterCullen Hoback’s Q: Into the Storm documentaryRep. Jim Banks announces the Anti-Woke CaucusFighting the Woke Agenda in Congress - The American Mind -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem