26: Return of the Repressed, Or The Drugs Paula White is Not On (w/Brian Muraresku)

Trump’s personal pastor Paula White seizes the podium to speak in tongues and prophesize that angels from Africa will certify her master’s electoral victory. Evangelical Kenneth Copeland laughs maniacally at the devilish proposition that Biden has won. They both yearn to squeeze some drop of ecstasy from the husk of conservative politics. How much of the emotional terrorism rolling through these times is the return of the repressed?

In our weekly reporting, Derek looks at Australian chef Pete Evans and his nostalgia for fascist mysticism, hidden beneath green shakes and doTerra downlines. Julian covers Dr. Northrup’s latest viral science fictions, as well as the bizarre Nazi comparisons trending on conspiritualist pages. Matthew looks at nested repressions returning with a vengeance: QAnon resurrecting the Satanic Panic, Bill Gates as the return of the vampire, and the strange new phenomenon of the Aggro-Spiritual Boss Babe Rage Witch, whose coin seems to be on the rise just as the Mark Walsh Spiritual Pick-Up Artist currency tanks. He also considers distinctions between canceling and punching sideways, picking up from last week’s episode.

Then, in a rich interview with author of The Immortality Key, Brian Muraresku, Derek explores the ancient psychedelia of Christianity, both forgotten and repressed, and hopes for its return, as it would probably make Paula White and Kenneth Copeland chill TF out.

Show Notes

Pete Evans says COVID-19 isn’t contagious

Pete Evans fined $25,000 by Therapeutic Goods Administration over coronavirus claims relating to BioCharger

Controversial celebrity chef Pete Evans canned by Seven Network

Healing hubs, a ‘sacred geometry hub’ and solar-powered cabins: Inside the new hippy commune promoted by Pete Evans where people pay to live off the grid in ‘earth ships’

Pete Evans, Truthseeker

Pete Evans shares the Nazi symbol, Black Sun

Christiane Northrup’s Nazi tweet

Northrup’s COVID vaccine interview

COVID-19 Vaccine To Alter DNA? 5 False Claims By Christiane Northrup

Nazi comparison misusing Shulman’s quote

Friday takeaway: Flu shots

No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not The Moment To Remain Silent

Paula White / Eminem mashup

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