This week could have been worse; what comes now must get better. If we’ve learned anything over these six months, it’s that QAnon is to conspirituality as Trump is to the political status quo. We can debunk or vote out the fever dream, but the virus will remain.

In our first post-election episode we take stock of work yet to do. Derek checks in on QAnon mysticism. Julian speaks on the populism and language games that horseshoe right and left together, and how strong communities cannot afford horizontal violence anymore. We review a new podcast out of Montreal that studies “The Nexus” — the toxic intersection between identitarian activism, social media, and cancel culture.

Matthew crystal-balls the precarious future of post-COVID yoga, and interviews cultural somaticist Tada Hozumi on why Andrew Yang offered attachment politics, decolonizing wellness, and WTF is going on at The Embodiment Conference. “The future of global embodiment,” Hozumi says, “is also the future of global politics. Because the mind always follows the body.”

Show Notes

Sapolsky: Religious Ritual is OCD

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst — Robert Sapolsky

Most Yoga Teachers are Not Online Producers. They Have a Deeper Gift, and Now Is the Time to Trust It.

Dr. Northrup continues: now the conspiracy is electoral fraud

Fucking Cancelled podcast

Molly Meehan’s 5-part “zine”.

Molly’s podcast: “Out of the Woods”.

Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher (who tragically died by suicide after a lifelong struggle with depression).

Open Letter to Mark Walsh and The Embodiment Conference

Why I, as a therapist, support Andrew Yang

The Ritual As Justice School

Whiteness as trauma in the body

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