JP Sears: Get Ultra Spiritual, Resist the Government, and Promote Coronavirus Conspiracies

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

JP Sears is quite the contradictory figure. He's well known for his YouTube videos mocking alternative health and spirituality, but he also sells natural supplements, and is a life coach / spiritual mentor. He's all about positive thinking and natural supplements, but he's spending most of his time now railing against the mainstream media, the Deep State, and COVID restrictions. As Chris and Matt dig deeper, it becomes clear that JP occupies an interesting place, at the nexus of trenchant libertarianism and spiritual self-actualisation. Think Californian surfer dude meets hardcore tech-bro with a healthy dose of conspiracies. Yes, it's confusing. But just take a listen to this episode, and the doors of perception will open for you too!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Cody the Guru's the podcast where two academics
0:16.8	listen to content from the greatest minds the online world has to offer and
0:20.4	we try to understand what they are talking about.
0:23.0	So I'm Professor Matt Brown, I'm a psychologist from Australia and with me is Dr.
0:27.8	Chris Kavanaugh, a cognitive anthropologist, currently resident in Japan. So we are fully credentialed gatekeepers of the
0:35.7	institutional narrative and we are ready to get to the bottom of the guru of
0:40.0	this current week. So before we get started Chris I just have to say I've been
0:44.0	warned by a colleague of mine who have listened to our podcast and he's warned me
0:49.1	about calling myself a psychologist. apparently the call.
0:53.4	Yeah, apparently it's a protected term.
0:56.3	So these clinical psychologists who have had like four years training and a couple of years
1:01.8	counseling or something, are real psychologists and someone like me
1:06.8	with with a decade of education a decades of research experience and not a professor chip in psychology
1:15.1	a professor ship I am not allowed to call myself a psychologist can you believe the
1:18.8	justice of that man I I can't that's I mean what are you going to do?
1:25.0	Yeah, what has become of academia?
1:28.0	It's I know.
1:30.0	It's a shocking state of affairs.
1:31.0	Well, you know, I'm going to stand my ground on this.
1:34.1	So if they want to come after me, they can sue me.
1:37.4	I'm not going to stop calling myself a psychologist because I am.
1:41.3	Yeah, the much more concerning thing, of is that would apply to me as well and because I also am technically
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