How Rhonda Patrick Modelled Being Science-Informed — How Rhonda Patrick Modelled Being Science-Informed Credit is due to the Joe Rogan Experience team for publishing a 15-minute excerpt clip of Dr. Rhonda Patrick addressing vaccine misinformation to YouTube last week, though it may not ameliorate the damage done by publishing an entire “special emergency episode” in June featuring…

My One & Only Time Voting in Apartheid-Era South Africa — When I was 14, I would climb over the back wall of our school each morning. It was less than two blocks from our front door — but to get to the school entrance would have taken at least another ten to fifteen minutes to walk all the way around. …

Misinformation, Trauma, Fractured Culture, & New Age Vulnerabilities to the Red Pill — Misinformation, Trauma, Fractured Culture, & New Age Vulnerabilities to the Red Pill On September 17th, we had our friend, prominent yoga teacher, Seane Corn, on the Conspirituality Podcast. She had joined forces with a group of wellness influencers to make a stand against the QAnon messaging that has been steadily…

911, Q, Fear, and My Child’s Mind in the Time of Covid. — 911, Q, Fear, and My Child’s Mind in the Time of Covid. This was written and then also recorded for a recent Conspirituality Podcast episode. “I wanna be in the dark Daddy, I wanna be a skeleton. Turn off the light,” says my toddler daughter. Later, when she hears…

Are some ayahuasca plant-medicine ceremony groups are becoming platforms for the QAnon conspiracy? — Are some ayahuasca plant-medicine ceremony groups becoming platforms for the QAnon conspiracy? Imagine emerging from the most mentally disorienting, emotionally confronting, physically purgative ordeal of your first heroic spiritual quest, guided by a shaman who has set up the space, prepared you and the group for the journey into previously…