Teal Swan is kind of a what would you say a cult YouTube cult leader. She says things like suicide and killing yourself as a reset button. And she's batshit crazy, I think is the technical term we're looking for. This idea that there was this big phenomenon going on turned out to be completely baseless.
Conspirituality co-author Julian Walker joins us to discuss how influencers have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia.
What We Discuss with Julian Walker:
- Why have so many wellness influencers gone off the conspiracy deep end since COVID began?
- What do these conspiracies have in common, and who benefits from their proliferation?
- How do otherwise reasonable people get sucked down conspiracy rabbit holes?
- How "The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics)" has synthesized into a hybrid system of belief dubbed "Conspirituality" by sociologists Charlotte Ward and David Voas.
- Why a privately owned platform's refusal to host and perpetuate the views of disinformation peddlers isn't censorship or a violation of free speech.
- And much more...
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