Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

by Derek Beres

Modern yoga and wellness, which echoed with a kind of (now-depoliticized) body fascism that was over a century old, was being laundered through aspirational consumerism so that its sexist, racist, and violent implications were almost invisible.

Conspiritualists can benefit if they can appropriate the moral dignity of the marginalized.

For the mega-rich disaster capitalist, a hurricane or civil war is a windfall.

Research shows that in the United States, doctors interrupt their patients within eleven seconds,

“empowerment epistemology.”

helplessness and uncertainty can be managed in New Age contexts via simply choosing to believe what feels empowering, regardless of evidence to the contrary. It could be Jesus, juice fasting, crystals, angels, or alien messages. Talismanic objects and in-group beliefs keep anxiety at bay, while the dangers being denied multiply and fester.

Making people feel guilty for their material conditions is cruel.