Guardian journalist Richard Sprenger goes down the wellness rabbit hole to find out why the industry has become linked with conspiracy theories, so called ‘conspirituality’.
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From the Cheshire mum offering harmonic egg healing to sound bathing at the Stroud goddess temple, therapists discuss how mistrust of conventional medicine appears to have grown in the wake of the pandemic, while a familiar face from earlier in the series points to the inevitable end point of such alternative thinking.
0:00 Has wellness become a gateway to conspiracy?
1:06 What on earth is a harmonic egg?
6:19 Time for a gong bath
10:34 Ley lines and conspiracy theories
14:02 Has alternative thought gone mainstream?
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