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@thyztwizta 'Spiritueel evenement'. 'Het is tijd voor plezier, verbinding en diepgang' aldus organisatoren. 'Bron, hart, ziel, zelf, awakening'. Klinkt allemaal lieflijk en relaxed, en dat maakt het juist gevaarlijk. Want achterliggend gedachtengoed van bijv sprekers is helemaal
@thyztwizta niet zo lieflijk en relaxed.

Klein draadje over conspiritualiteit (conspirituality).

Een goede definitie:
It offers a broad politico-spiritual philosophy based on two core convictions, the first traditional to conspiracy theory, the second rooted in the New Age:
@thyztwizta 1) a secret group covertly controls, or is trying to control, the political and social order, and 2) humanity is undergoing a ‘paradigm shift’ in consciousness. Proponents believe that the best strategy for dealing with the threat of a totalitarian ‘new world order’ is to act in
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For many ppl – me included – it was a shock when the pandemic sparked an affinity b/w wellness culture and the far right. The two seemed opposites, what common ground could there be?

The truth is wellness & fascism have more than just a modern connection.
Settle in for a long🧵 Screenshot of the title image of a Guardian article. It's ca
We think of wellness culture as nature-loving hippie liberalism originating in the 60s. This image clung even as wellness grew into $-driven industry by the 90s.

But Boomers didn’t create wellness, it goes back to the 19th C and shares elements with the 20th C worst ideologies.
Wellness came out of a movement called physical culture, created by history’s first fitspo influencer, Bernarr Macfadden.

He used aspirational images of his own rippling physique to sell followers on a lifestyle of regimented diet and exercise. Cover of Physical Culture magazine, with an image of BernarrCover of Physical Culture magazine, with an image of Bernarr
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