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Conspirituality

Bonus Sample: Listener Stories: Christina (part 1)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Philosophy

4.02.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Christina Flinders is our honoured guest today for the first of a two-part tour through her  experience with cultic dynamics and conspirituality. Matthew and Julian learn about her family's enmeshment in the cult of Eknath Easwaren, and her subsequent journey through rebellion, self discovery, and political awakening.We'd like to thank Christina for her generosity and lucidity, and her family for supporting her in this. We hope that this will be the first in a series. If you'd like to share your story with us and the Patreon community of listeners here, please get in touch.Show NotesComment from Pratik Joshi on Easwaren's abuse history in IndiaPEOPLE v. RUPPENTHALEknath Easwaran on the Training of Attention -- -- --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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

0:11.0

Hello Conspirituality Podcast listeners.

0:13.0

Welcome to a sample of a Patreon bonus episode.

0:17.0

We release these every week for our subscribers.

0:20.0

They're usually solo essays from our team.

0:22.0

It costs $5 a month for access

0:25.0

and the support helps to keep us ad free and editorially independent.

0:30.0

You can sign up at patreon.com-conspirituality.

0:35.0

Thank you.

0:37.0

Okay, so getting to it.

0:40.0

Christina, you sent us a pretty comprehensive written account

0:46.0

of your life path in relation to spirituality called.

0:50.0

So thank you for that. It was fascinating to read.

0:53.0

There's a couple of detours in it that we think are really poignant.

0:57.0

But I'll just summarize.

0:59.0

You're going to go through it, but for listeners,

1:01.0

we're going to be going through roughly three parts.

1:04.0

Firstly, you grew up in part in the abusive cult of Echnarthaswaran.

1:12.0

Secondly, it seems like you broke free of that network

1:17.0

and then began to take some control back

1:21.0

over your sense of self.

1:23.0

And part by working in strip clubs

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