Hey everyone, this is Conspiratuality, where we investigate the roots and intersections of conspiracy

theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.

I'm Matthew Remski. You can follow myself, Derek, and Julian on Blue Sky. The podcast is on Instagram and threads at Conspiruality Pod.

And you can also find me on YouTube and TikTok at Anti-Fascist Dad.

Today I've got a short episode for you in the bonus category called What My Late Mom Would Have Thought About Jordan Peterson.

First of all, it's shocking to me that it's been five years since my mom died, December 28th, 2020,

still at peak COVID time. On January 7th, 2021, we published an episode together called Manipulating the Hero's Journey.

This was our 33rd episode, we're about at 290 now.

And on to the end of it, I tacked a reflection on my mother dying at home in hospice the previous week.

Now, a lot of our listeners back then wrote very kind notes to me about it.

And part of what I want to do today is follow up for those folks, if they're still out there.

And if you didn't catch the original, I'll post that in the notes.

Now, needless to say, this was an emotional time and I wanted to mark the occasion, but of course

I was processing a lot of things. So I did the avoidant thing and I settled on something germane

to the podcast beat, which was how this experience of home hospice

reshaped my understanding of conspirituality, care, and institutional trust. Because being able to

nurse my mom at home was a privilege that was enabled by Canada's public health system, you know, our proximity to a very

good hospice care center and the fact that my father and I could step away from work. We had the

time to do that. And I could see this hospice sort of situation as this rare meeting place between worlds that are often treated as

irreconcilable, the institutional medical and the intimate, the clinical and the relational.

We've described conspirituality as a volatile fusion of conspiracy thinking and new age promise,

a kind of fear and hope bound together by digital acceleration.

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