{"podcast":{"title":"Conspirituality","slug":"conspirituality-582888","podcast_index_feed_id":582888,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLSS1122389842","website_url":"https://conspirituality.net/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/244201b2-c360-11ed-8a91-97e8b69444b5/image/Conspirituality_Show_Art__1_.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker","episode_count":811,"summary":"Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T20:20:18.804323+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888"},"episode":{"title":"311: AI, Pope Leo, & The Antichrist","slug":"311-ai-pope-leo-the-antichrist","published_at":"2026-06-04T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888/311-ai-pope-leo-the-antichrist","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS8128127947.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS8128127947.mp3","summary":"Leo the XIV wrote a big letter about a hyperobject. Many thoughts and debates are triggered. Today we’ll look at what the hell an encyclical is, the Vatican's decade-long conversation with Silicon Valley about coding morally-sound AI, and the broken and laundered echoes of Liberation Theology in Leo’s text. Show Notes Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII, May 15 1891 Catholic Church largest non-governmental landowner Magnifica Humanitas full text Paragraph 177: memory of past complicity in slavery Thiel’s Antichrist Framing Collides with Church Doctrine Why Silicon Valley is Turning to The Catholic Church Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation (1971/1973) Medellín Conference 1968, CELAM documents Camilo Torres Restrepo, ELN Colombia Ratzinger CDF investigation of Gutiérrez, 1984 James Martin SJ, \"A capitalist priest reads Magnifica Humanitas,\" America Magazine Word on Fire publishing Magnifica Humanitas in hardcopy Brief: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 1) — November 1, 2025 Bonus: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 2) — November 3, 2025 Conspirituality Episode on Leo XIV vs Trump (Leo's immigration remarks through Good Friday) — April 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Leo the XIV wrote a big letter about a hyperobject. Many thoughts and debates are triggered. Today we’ll look at what the hell an encyclical is, the Vatic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4879,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conspirituality-582888/episodes/311-ai-pope-leo-the-antichrist/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888/311-ai-pope-leo-the-antichrist.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}