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Conspirituality

1: Coronation for Whom?

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Barely two weeks into various stages of lockdown around the world, New Age philosopher Charles Eisenstein published a 9,000-word essay on the meaning of the pandemic. He summed up his core theme with deft wordplay at about the 7,000-word mark. After suggesting that the global crisis afforded a kind of transformative opportunity, he writes “Now the question arises: Initiation into what? What is the specific nature and purpose of this initiation? The popular name for the pandemic offers a clue: coronavirus. A corona is a crown. ‘Novel coronavirus pandemic’ means ‘a new coronation for all.’ What was so captivating about this essay that Jack Dorsey tweeted it to the 4.5M followers on his platform? What are Eisenstein’s premises, credentials, rhetorical techniques? What are his connections to medical libertarianism, and how does he manage to endorse conspirituality while seeming to deconstruct it? Show Notes The Coronation — Charles Eisenstein CORONATION UNVEILED: A Critique and Cure for Charles Eisenstein’s Fairy Tale Pandemic Essay — Jack Adam Weber Daniel Pinchbeck’s response to The Coronation The Conspiracy Myth — Charles Eisenstein Covid-19 Is A Rehab Intervention: Charles Eisenstein | Rich Roll Podcast Charles Eisenstein / Sayer Ji discussion During COVID-19, Charles Eisenstein Invites You to Think Deeply About His Awesome Writing — Matthew Remski Transformational Weight Loss — Charles Eisenstein -- -- -- Support us on Patreon Pre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | Julian Original music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glass Fox Media Podcast. Hey everyone. welcome to Conspiratoriality. I'm Derek Barris.

0:24.6

I'm Matthew Remsky.

0:26.2

I'm Julian Walker.

0:26.9

And I.

0:28.2

All right, and this is, this podcast has come about from Matthew and Julian, who I've both known for about nine years now,

0:36.4

either online as Matthew or in person with Julian.

0:39.2

We're both in Los Angeles.

0:40.7

And I've had them as a guest on my Earthrise podcast the last two weeks and A I really love talking to both of them and B I think that these topics that we're addressing which we all independently work on ourselves are very important and so we decided to make

0:57.4

this a regular thing so we'll be doing this podcast every Thursday.

1:01.0

I want to give a brief overview of what Conspiruality is about and then we're going to talk about

1:05.8

our personal investments in this field of research and discussion and then from there we'll move on and talk about this week's topic.

1:15.4

So Matthew wrote this sort of overview which I like a lot.

1:19.9

As the Alt-Write and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation,

1:25.2

well-intentioned discourse and honest debater

1:27.6

being smothered.

1:29.2

Charismatic influencers exploit their followers

1:31.8

by peddling dangerous conspiracy theories.

1:35.2

In the process, spiritual beliefs that nurture creativity and meaning are transformed into

1:40.2

means of a quickly globalizing paranoia. In summation, conspiracy theories are really ruining a lot of discourse, right?

1:50.0

Conspiratoriality attempts to bring clarity to this conversation.

1:53.7

A journalist, me, cult researcher, which is Matthew,

1:57.0

and philosophical skeptic, Julian, I love that, Matthew,

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