The Cult of Manifestation

Sounds Like A Cult

Studio71

Comedy, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Host Amanda's new book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality is out TODAY!!! Get your copy wherever you buy books (including audiobooks). The book is about magical overthinking in the Information Age—how our deep-rooted cognitive biases are clashing with contemporary culture to create a new era of delulu. Themes covered in the book include celebrity worship, nostalgia, and today's topic of discussion... the cult of manifestation. This special episode features an exclusive excerpt from Amanda's new audiobook! It's a portion from the chapter titled “I Swear I Manifested This: A Note on Proportionality Bias,” which explores how radical conspiracy theories and New Age ideas of manifestation are actually both motivated by the same psychological quirk, all the while telling the story of a cult-followed online manifestation guru 👽 Turns out, we all have a pinch of conspiracy theorist in us. Tune in to find out how🤞

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Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from THE AGE OF MAGICAL OVERTHINKING by Amanda Montell, read by the author. Copyright © 2024 by Amanda Montell. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Catch Amanda on tour this week:
April 9: Los Angeles, CA — feat. Pauline Chalamet (tickets here) *few tix left*

April 12: Brooklyn, NY — EXCLUSIVE VARIETY SHOW feat. Ceara & Griff from Petty Crimes (tickets here) *promo code: CULTMAGIC*

April 16: Philadelphia, PA — EXCLUSIVE VARIETY SHOW feat. Kelsey McKinney from Normal Gossip (tickets here) *new promo price*

May 1: Atlanta, GA — Wild Heaven – West End with A Cappella Books (tickets here)

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0:00.0	The views expressed on this episode, as with all episodes of sounds like a cult, are solely host opinions and quoted allegations.
0:06.1	The content here should not be taken as indisputable fact. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. This is sounds like a cult, a show about the modern day.
0:26.2	Sounds Like a Cult. A show about the modern day, Cults, we all follow. I'm your host Amanda Montel, author of the new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking, out today.
0:31.5	Every week on our show, we analyze a different culty group from the modern
0:35.8	days at Geist. Today we're talking about the cult of manifestation to try and answer the big
0:41.6	question. This group sounds like a cult. What is it really?
0:47.0	Today is such a special day for me and for sounds like a cult because my new book
0:59.7	the Age of Magical Overthinking that I've been working on so hard for three years is finally out!
1:06.0	Yay!
1:08.0	And I am so over the moon, I actually can't even find the words to describe how I feel to be sharing this
1:14.8	book with you today's episode is going to be a little bit different it's about the
1:18.8	cult of manifestation and I'm going to provide some background like a normal sounds like a cult episode and then I'm actually going to share an excerpt from my new audio book for the Age of Magical Overthinking which I got to record myself, from a chapter that directly addresses
1:35.9	this subject matter. The chapter is called, I swear I manifested this, a note on proportionality
1:41.9	bias, which is the psychological inclination underlying ideas of
1:46.7	manifestation, but also much more hardcore conspiracy theories. I am getting to share this excerpt
1:52.1	thanks to my publisher, Simon and Schuster, Simon
1:55.2	Audio, thank you so much. So please stick around because I'm so excited to share it with you.
1:59.4	But first I wanted to tell you a little bit about this book because I've been working on it for all these years and I can't believe it's finally out today.
2:07.0	The Age of Magical Overthinking, Notes on Modern Irrationality, is about cognitive biases in the information age.
2:14.0	So digital age, de lulu, if you will,
2:17.4	where every chapter is dedicated to a different cognitive bias.
2:21.1	One of these deep-rooted mental magic tricks that we unconsciously play on ourselves
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