American New Age culture isn’t all crystals and Tarot cards. A New World Order? The Aryan race? Alien-human hybrids? Throughout history, New Age belief systems have so often been blended with wild, and sometimes dangerous, conspiracy theories that academics have coined the term “conspirituality.”
This week, we journey into murky waters of Love Has Won, a ... Show More
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The FBI's Movie Star Target: Who Killed Jean Seberg?
After starring in the French New Wave classic Breathless and the American blockbuster Airport, Jean Seberg had the world’s eyes on her. But in the late 1960s, one organization watched her even more closely: the FBI. Seeing Jean’s political affiliations, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov ... Show More
54m 15s
Jun 2025
Standing in my own truth, by Moj Mahdara
<p>No boys. No dresses. As a teen, Moj Mahdara, founder of the fashion media company Beautycon, knows she’s different. And growing up in a traditional Iranian household, she struggles to reveal her own true identity. When two long-term houseguests descend — her grandmothers — Moj ... Show More
26m 40s
May 2025
The Hidden Truth Of Reincarnation According To Edgar Cayce
<p>What happens after we die?</p><p> </p><p>Is this life a one-time event, a fleeting spark in a sea of darkness? Or are we part of a greater journey—one that stretches across centuries, across continents, across stars?</p><p> </p><p>The idea of reincarnation has lingered in the ... Show More
43m 3s
Aug 2024
Tarot, Tech, and Our Age of Magical Thinking
<p>Until recently, tarot, astrology, and spiritualism—practices often shorthanded simply as woo-woo—were the stuff of dusty psychic parlors and seventies nostalgia. But today, mysticism has permeated mainstream culture. In the third and final installment of the Critics at Large i ... Show More
46m 43s
Nov 2023
#62 Sarah Breskman Cosme - Remembering Past Lives: Atlantis & Lemuria, Dolores Cannon, Quantum Healing Hypnosis
<p>Sarah Breskman Cosme is a Master Hypnotist, a Level 3 practitioner of Dolores Cannon’s QHHT hypnosis, and a student of Dr. Brian Weiss. She is the best-selling author of A Hypnotist’s Journey to Atlantis and the author of A Hypnotist’s Journey to the Secrets of the Sphinx. QHH ... Show More
1h 14m
Jul 2025
Astro-Medical Wisdom & the Birth of the Zodiac with Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
What can the world’s first written civilization teach us about astrology, medicine, and our connection to the cosmos? In this fascinating episode, I sit down with Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid, honorary fellow at the University of Oxford’s Wolfson College and leading expert on the languag ... Show More
56m 39s