Conspirituality

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Three events converge—everything is connected. 


Steven Spielberg releases his new sci-fi film Disclosure Day


The American government’s UAP Disclosure Act drops three waves of declassified UFO documents


Well-known 2012 prophecy-popularizer, Disclosure movement advocate, and History Channel’s Ancient Aliens host, David Wilcock, tragically ends his own life

In the 16th installment of his Roots of Conspirituality series, Julian looks at the how everything inevitably led to this: 


How Spielberg got alien-pilled into being a true believer


How 2012 prophecy had to end with David Wilcock holding a gun


How the MAGA conspiracy chasers now find themselves standing on the steps beside David Grusch as he tells the media about non-human biologics and alien plasmoids

Deeper than that, Julian asks if perhaps we are re-enacting a pattern from the mid to late 1800s, when social upheaval in America’s Northeast led to new religions, failed prophecies, the rise and fall of charismatic heroes, and good people quit booze but got intoxicated on some quite bizarre beliefs. 


Correction: This recording states that David Grusch lost his security clearance. That is incorrect. In The Intercept article, Ken Klippenstein wondered how he was able to keep his security clearance after his psychiatric holds. Grusch left his job to become a whistleblower. 

Show Notes

White House Goes All In On UAP
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“I do not love America, and never have, especially now.”

With an opening sentence like that, you know you’re in for a ride, and Eddie Glaude Jr does not disappoint. Derek discusses touch points from America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries, with a slight diversion into the surging online activism that purports to be about justice for all yet time and again refuses to acknowledge race as a foundation of our distress.

Show Notes

America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

Author Talk: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. — America, U.S.A. - with Jonathan Capehart

An African-Centered Critique of Marx’s Logic

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
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Wellness for everyone. That’s how virtually every wellness event pitches their offering. If the everyman and woman did these practices or ingested these products or adopted these mindsets, we’d all be better off as a species.

Yet what happens when the wellness event in question is hosted in an expensive resort town on the French Riviera and features top-tier celebrities like Oprah Winfrey speaking to guests who paid thousands of dollars to attend? Does it really remain “for everyone?”

Show Notes

The Impact of the TOMS Shoe Donation Program in Rural El Salvador

Shoeing the Children

Is Blake Mycoskie of TOMS an Evangelical

Do in-kind transfers damage local markets? The case of TOMS shoe donations in El Salvador

Instagram — @millennial.therapist

It's On Me

Sara Kuburic official site

Notes From My Phone

Alfried Längle's website 

Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
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JD Vance calls Catholic Social Teaching (CST) a "fully integrated theory of a good human life" — and he's not wrong that it sounds good. So how’s he going to weaponize it?

Matthew traces why CST's moral critique of capitalism, innovated by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum (1891), is tailor-made for Vance's political project. CST may be sincere about human dignity, but it actively suppresses structural analysis, while opening two dangerous doors of moralism: scapegoating powerful enemies above, and blaming the poor for their own immiseration below. 

Show Notes

Rerum Novarum, Leo XIII (1891)

Humanum Genus, Leo XIII (1884)

Purusha Sukta, Rigveda 10.90

B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste (1936)

JD Vance, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith

David Kertzer, The Popes Against the Jews

Canadian Food for Children
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Has former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s career been scripted and controlled by the strange leader of a breakaway Hare Krishna group? Chris Butler formed the Science of Identity organization in the seventies. Gabbard’s parents joined when she was two years old.

Gabbard claims Butler has no influence on her political life, yet bombshell reporting by the Washington Post piece unearths 25,000 leaked documents to reveal that her guru may have been pulling the strings all along. The kicker? Gabbard resigned two days after journalist Jon Swaine let her team know the article would be published.

Meanwhile, another cult-leader story concerns American-born Abdullah Hashem. Claiming to be the “true and only legitimate pope” (as well as successor of Jesus, Saint Peter, and Mohammed), Hashem and 150 followers took over a former orphanage in England—and have been building a significant online following ever since. On April 29, hundreds of police raided Hashem’s headquarters, charging the holy man and eight others with human trafficking, sex crimes, and forced marriage.

This is the story of how these two cult operators are influencing minds across the pond.

Show Notes

British Police Raid Abdullah Hashem’s Compound

Slavery and Trafficking Risk Orders Granted in AROPL Case

Religious Sect Immigration Visas Investigated

Patreon Bonus: The New Age Muslim Apocalyptic Prophet

WaPo Piece on Tulsi Gabbard’s Mysterious Guru’s Influence on her Political Career

Hare Krishna Guru Sought Political Power Starting in the 1970s

New Yorker: What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe?
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