Special Episode: Interview with Matthew Remski on Conspirituality

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk to Matthew Remski, co-host of the Conspirituality podcast, writer, yoga practitioner, and independent journalist.

Matthew is a font of information on the alternative spirituality and health and wellness spheres and he gives Matt and Chris a crash course on the dynamics of those spheres.

We discuss a range of topics including the growing overlap between spirituality and right wing politics, the enlightened locker room dynamics of male influencers, the role of invented traditions and the spirituality sphere and why Matt should grovel at the feet of his muscle master.

Matthew provides a wealth of insight into the gurus we've examined as well as an entire host of new characters. As ever, we greatly enjoyed the chat and hope you do too!

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:13.4	welcome to Dakota Naguaries the podcast we're an anthropologist and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the
0:20.1	world has to offer and we try our best to understand what they're talking about.
0:25.1	I'm Professor Matt Brown with me is Dr. Chris Kavanaugh and sometimes we have a great mind to help us understand
0:31.9	the other great minds and that's the case today isn't it Chris?
0:36.4	It is yes so we've invited on Matthew Ramski who maybe some of you know from the
0:44.8	conspiracy podcast. He's done quite a lot of other things as well, but I came
0:51.9	across Matthew relatively recently and I've started working my way through the back catalog and
0:56.7	conspiratoriality is looking at the overlap between the spirituality and health and wellness communities and the growth in
1:07.2	conspiratorial thinking and cult dynamics and Matthew is also a journalist and researcher, investigative journalist, would it be fair to say,
1:17.0	I'd say that's fair, yes.
1:19.0	Independent, independent, and not degreed.
1:23.5	Well, sometimes that's better.
1:25.0	But when I was looking at your website to get information about your background,
1:31.0	I saw that you published a lot on a broad range of topics so I feel like I'm doing
1:37.6	the service by just picking out on one thing but I will also say that it's relevant that you are a yoga teacher or
1:46.6	yoga practitioner I would say practitioner I don't I haven't I haven't I haven't taught in
1:51.0	a classroom except for training groups where I will give like history and culture
1:57.1	content for yoga training programs, but I haven't taught like a led yoga class in close to 10 years now. So that's pretty firmly in my past. I still practice at home, but I do a lot of, you know, sort of independent study and research into recent yoga history and the sort of cultural scene.
2:17.0	So, so yeah.
2:19.0	Yeah, that's interesting because in listening to the conspiracy, the impression that I got was all of the hosts are within the communities that you are talking about and that you know criticizing or highlighting issues with but I wouldn't say that
2:35.5	you are all typical of those communities in any respect but you're speaking about it from the
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