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Conspirituality

Bonus Sample: The OG New Age Grifter: Madame Blavatsky

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

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

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Born in 1831, Helena “Madame” Blavatsky pioneered the New Age grift. The Russian aristocrat plagiarized her books while claiming to be channeling the “Masters of Ancient Wisdom” to tell a dodgy heroic back-story. She founded the Theosophical Society in New York, claimed to have learned a secret Tibetan language, and laid the foundation for alien channelers and Woo-Anon. She also inspired the Nazis. In this debut episode from a series on the pseudoscience New Age roots of today’s conspirituality phenomenon, Julian pins Blavatsky on the cork-board map. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There was once an ancient and sacred time when we lived in harmony with the earth, in touch with intuitive knowing, open to spiritual guidance. We're not from here you see we were

0:14.4

descended from another world and then we lived on the islands of Atlantis and

0:18.8

Lemuria before they were destroyed. Our true origins lie in the immaterial domain and our

0:25.9

destiny is to reawaken to our innate but slumbering paranormal abilities and

0:32.1

divine true nature.

0:34.4

There is an ancient and secret group of masters who've developed great wisdom and supernatural

0:39.1

powers, some of them are in human form, but others have ascended, and they speak to us through channelers.

0:46.8

We stand at a turning point in human evolution and must overcome the forces of animalistic darkness

0:53.6

in order for light to prevail.

0:57.2

Now this is all no doubt familiar,

0:59.7

but I have a wild tale to tell you

1:02.4

about the origins of these kinds of ideas.

1:05.4

And a shocking connection that reveals how even these romantic and fanciful, maybe kind of harmless

1:12.2

seeming spiritual notions can drive some of the darkest

1:15.6

impulses in human history.

1:18.2

We're going to talk today about the OG New Age grifter, Madam Blavatsky, as well as toward the end, Heinrich Himmler.

1:29.8

He's the man who ran the terrifying SS and engineered the Nazi death camps.

1:36.2

And all of this was inspired and justified to some extent by his occult beliefs that intersected with something called Theosophy.

1:47.0

So this harmless sounding fantasy style of metaphysical beliefs has been

1:56.8

circulating in the West for quite some time. It became widespread during the

2:00.4

80s and 90s as new age spirituality and this is during a time where natural living and holistic

2:06.7

wellness and yoga meditation collided with a kind of science fiction mythology around UFOs and alien beings and so-called

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