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Hey, it's Antonio Serejida, the host of Imperfect Paradise, a show about hidden worlds and messy realities.

We first released Yoga's Queen of Conspiracy theories a year ago, and as we were planning to re-release this series, I asked correspondent Emily Guerin, who reported this story, what has happened in this last year? Are there any

developments in the yoga conspiracy world? And she suggested that I check in with Matthew

Remski, one of the hosts of Conspirality, a podcast that looks at the intersection between

spiritual communities and conspiracies. And that conversation with Matthew opened up a whole new chapter in this story that I was really not expecting.

There's a general process of mainstreaming that I think reaches its pinnacle with the presidential

candidacy of RFK Jr.

We found ourselves on the presidential campaign trail.

In this episode, a journey through the yoga boom of the 90s, the inner turmoil within a

prominent democratic political family, and finally, we land in a Spanish colonial house in

Mid-City, L.A., where a Kundalini Yogi makes her pitch for a baby boomer candidate campaigning on a mix of conspiracies

from both the wellness world and the far right.

He has never come across a conspiracy theory that he doesn't love.

All that coming up on Imperfect Paradise.

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