Hello, Matthew here from the Conspirituality Podcast Team.

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Not all Conspiritualities are the same.

Hey everybody, it's Matthew here.

This is another straight up audio essay, no music breaks or fancy stuff.

The three of us are working very hard on a special project and for me,

some new time commitments mean fewer bells and whistles, so I hope that's okay.

I wanted to start by addressing some of the amazing feedback that came up over my last bonus episode

in which I stretched the definition of Conspirituality to include somebody who many people find very interesting,

inspiring, provocative, irritating, and dangerous from different perspectives that person is Sam Harris.

And I don't think we've produced an episode that has attracted such vigorous feedback and debate so far

as of this morning, there's 123 comments, many of them essay length,

and it's great that it all played out on our Patreon page, which is kind of like a haven of sanity and kindness

within the larger social media sphere, so thank you for all of that.

And so I'll start by making a few clarifications.

There's a difference between Conspirituality podcast as a media project and the three of us as individual contributors.

And I think most of you, if you're Patreons, you're aware of this at this point,

for as much as Derek Julian and I share with regard to our histories and the yoga and wellness worlds,

and for as much as we share with regard to the disillusionments of spirituality in late capitalism,

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