3: Why Are Spiritual People Vulnerable to Conspiracy Theories?

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

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

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Right-wing conspiracy theories are being marketed in wellness communities as a form of spiritual freedom. While pattern recognition is an essential survival instinct, it’s being exploited during a time of a global pandemic, governmental collapse, and social paranoia. Tragically, so-called spiritual leaders are trafficking in propaganda while advocating for individual sovereignty. We also discuss the history of and science behind 5G and vaccines. Show Notes Ivanka Trump’s graduation speech to Class of 2020 Can a Vaccine for Covid-19 Be Developed in Record Time? Louis Pasteur, from crystals of life to vaccination The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t -- -- -- 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 Glassbox Media Podcast. Hey everyone welcome to conspiratoriality a weekly discussion of the intersection between right-wing
0:24.8	conspiracy theories and left-wing wellness utopianism.
0:29.7	I'm Derek Barris.
0:31.2	I'm Matthew Rimsky. I'm Julian Walker. This week on
0:35.2	Conspiruality we thought we'd step back from what we've been doing which was
0:39.0	really looking at significant figures on the Conspiratorialuality landscape and really step back to where this
0:45.8	started from for us as kind of liberal yoga types. The question really is, what is the world
0:52.0	view that makes our friends, family, and colleagues
0:56.4	vulnerable to conspiracy thinking? And I have people asking me this every week on social media and through messages that I get.
1:04.7	How is this happening?
1:05.6	How do I talk to my family?
1:07.0	Why is it that people that I thought looked at the world in this way that I look at it in
1:12.0	are now becoming sort of swept up in this conspiracy
1:14.7	mania. But before we get to the main course, which is going to be discussing
1:20.3	that and the dessert, which is looking at 5G and vaccines in a little more depth.
1:27.0	Let's start with our appetizer segment called This Week in Conspiruality.
1:32.0	Right, and I mean this week in Conspiratoriality. Right, and I mean this week in Conspiruality,
1:35.5	it's like, where do we even start?
1:38.2	It's kind of hard to choose.
1:40.0	I had a number of things lined up,
1:41.4	but I'm really gonna go with Eisenstein hits the big time as he is quoted by
1:47.0	Evanka Trump. So first of all, I'd like to thank Jesse Hyde for flagging this for me.
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