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3: Why Are Spiritual People Vulnerable to Conspiracy Theories?

Conspirituality

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Yoga Culture in the Globalization Period

In the globalization period, a yoga culture in general has often been this place where this kind of throwback social conservatism can be reframed as a kind of spiritual order. And so there's this latent heteronormative fetish that informs some of the binery discourse and like goddess discourse and divine masculine discoursewe've all heard about. So when you throw all this together, we might see that the interest in purity amongst the vegan grammars is not always indistinguishable from the politics of exclusion and self interest. The main thing that makes people vulnerable to spirituality is the same set of criteria that makes them vulnerable to culti control via carismatic leadership.

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