The Conspirituality Report

Challenge to Alt-Health Practitioners in the COVID Era

Prove that you are not feeding conspirituality

Local outlet of Indian federal agency AYUSH promoting homeopathy against COVID. From The Wire.

If you’re going to continue to teach/practice/market yoga, yoga therapy, Ayurveda, meditation, modern Buddhism, New Age healing, crystal bowls, and/or alternative medicine:

Imagine a new ethical requirement to show that your content is not enabling intensifying attacks on public health servants and the information they’re struggling to communicate, especially to the vax-hesitant, bombarded with disinformation.

Here are some ways in which spiritual/wellness content might be thickening the fog of corona chaos. Taking part in these activities may result in having your earnest caregiving impulses weaponized by conspirituality.

1. Implicitly or explicitly competing with and therefore degrading the credibility of public health professionals. This includes drawing attention, money, political pressure, and social resources away from public health efforts.
2. Failing to transparently present your work as a cultural or artistic product meant to aid in self-regulation, as opposed to supporting evidence-based interventions that help protect society, especially the poor and marginalized who cannot afford boutique wellness…