conspiritualism means The melding of conspiracy theories into the narrative of the wellness industry. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
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CONSPIRITUALISM — [Noun] The syncretic ideology that merges conspiratorial narratives with the language and practices of wellness and spirituality. Blend of 'conspiracy' (theory) and 'spiritualism' (belief in spiritual realities), a portmanteau that grafts ancient yearning onto digital-age paranoia and updates the earlier term 'conspirituality'. Unlike “spiritualism” (which seeks communion with the departed) or “skepticism” (which applies doubt as a methodological tool), conspiritualism is a credulous hybrid that transmutes secular anxiety into sacred revelation. It is the yoga instructor citing QAnon drops between chakras, the detox tea peddler warning of chemical trails in the sky, and the brittle texture of a colloidal silver pamphlet next to a crystal singing bowl—a modern gnosticism that finds its original sin not in the flesh, but in the vaccine, a palliative faith that crowns paranoia as enlightenment.
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- The melding of conspiracy theories into the narrative of the wellness industry.“But little prepared me for this most recent pop-political mash-up, coined conspiritualism. It’s certainly a Venn overlap that is hard to fathom. How did wellness warriors come to unite with the alt-right QAnon community?”