Bonus Sample: Conspirituality and the Imaginary Children (Series Intro)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this series of audio essays, Matthew will examine how children as symbols—but not persons with their own internal lives—are at the center of conspirituality anxiety and discourse. There are two types of imaginary child in conspirituality. One is an object of dread. The other is an idol of aspiration. In the realm of dread we have fetuses murdered by late term abortion, children who are trafficked, made autistic by vaccines, sexualized by pornography in elementary school, or mutilated by trans activist doctors. In the realm of idols we have newborn babies sliding like dolphins into warm birthing tubs after a mere hour of ecstatic, medically-unassisted home births. We have little girls in prairie dresses or first communion veils who must be protected from library drag queens or woke grade school teachers. We have starseeds and indigo children who carry prophecies from the great beyond. We often reflect on the problem of authority on this podcast. Who are our leaders, and what gives them power? Why do conspiracists default to God to corroborate fantasies? What gap in cultural fatherhood is Jordan Peterson trying to fill? With this series, Matthew looks in the other direction: what does the conspirituality crowd do with its own authority? How do misgivings, regrets and shame in relation to children get inflated and projected into moral panics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a sample of our Monday Bonus episodes.
0:06.2	To support independent media, access our entire catalog of Bonus
0:10.0	episodes and listen to everything add free.
0:13.4	Please visit Patreon.com slash spirituality.
0:17.0	You can also access these full bonus episodes on Apple
0:20.5	podcasts.
0:21.7	Thank you for your support.
0:23.4	Hello everyone. Welcome to Conspiruality where we investigate the
0:28.2	intersection of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults pseudoscience and authoritarianism. and a Patreon bonus series called Conspiratoriality and the Imaginary Children.
0:46.7	Now I've drafted a number of episodes that will fill out this collection and I'll preview
0:52.2	many of them in this brief introduction. collection and I'll be
0:55.0	near the end I'll be asking you all a question to the
0:58.0	question to see what you have to say about this territory.
1:04.0	But I'm going to let Kelly Brogan kick this series off.
1:08.0	So you'd want to just kind of get centered
1:12.0	and pull up in your mind's eye the image of yourself walking on a mountain path.
1:28.1	And as you're walking, you begin to hear the sounds of a child crying.
1:38.0	And you walk over to this child that you find in this brush on the side of the path. And this child, same gender as you, so I will be a little girl and she has all cuts and bruises on her body and she's soiled, she's full of dirt, her clothes are tattered, her hair is totally unbrushed, she has bruises
1:58.8	on her face, and she's inconsolably crying.
2:05.0	And she can't even verbalize what's going on.
2:10.0	He tried to ask and she just keeps crying and she's shivering and so you don't bother to try and
2:17.2	talk her out of it or soothe her through your words you know that all you can do is just hold her.
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