Deepak Chopra is all over the Epstein files. Are we surprised? Nope. But we are interested in the various layers of his entanglement and what they say about the ethics and politics at play in the shadow of Big Wellness.
Show Notes
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/self-help-guru-sorry-he-got-busted-for-vile-epstein-emails/">Self-Help Guru Sorry He Got Busted for Vile Epstein Emails</a>
<a href="https://voiceofsandiego.org/2026/02/05/deepak-chopra-new-age-guru-ucsd-prof-and-epstein-confidant/">Deepak Chopra: New Age Guru, UCSD Prof – and Epstein Confidant</a>
<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/god-construct-cute-girls-real-230728032.html">God Is A Construct, Cute Girls Are Real': Bestselling Spiritual Author Deepak Chopra's Emails To Epstein Revealed</a>
<a href="https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/deepak-chopra-epstein-email-exchange/2852735/">Deepak Chopra told Epstein to 'bring your girls.' Here's their entire email exchange</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Brief: Toxic Masculinity & The Epstein Files

Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.