QAnon-wellness 'conspirituality' overlap (umbrella)

The 'conspirituality' concept was first systematically described in a 2011 academic paper by Charlotte Ward and David Voas (Journal of Contemporary Religion) defining the convergence of New Age spirituality with conspiracy theory. The phenomenon massively accelerated during the 2020-2022 COVID-19 pandemic, when wellness-influencer communities (anti-vax, raw-food, essential-oils, yoga-and-meditation, ascension-and-starseed) increasingly absorbed elements of QAnon eschatology, anti-elite conspiracy theory (Great Reset, World Economic Forum, Bill Gates depopulation), and far-right political content. The Conspirituality podcast launched in 2020 by Matthew Remski, Derek Beres, and Julian Walker — three former yoga and wellness teachers turned investigative journalists — became the definitive ongoing documentation of the phenomenon, with 200+ episodes documenting specific influencer-led cult dynamics by 2025.

Documented mechanisms include: (1) gateway content: wellness-influencer audiences exposed to ostensibly health-focused content gradually move through anti-vax → general medical distrust → 'Great Awakening' eschatology → QAnon-adjacent worldview; (2) 'doing your own research': rhetorical framing that elevates parasocial-influencer claims above peer-reviewed evidence; (3) parasocial-influencer loyalty: followers of wellness influencers experience the influencer as personal-authority figure beyond their actual subject-matter expertise; (4) family-severance pattern: documented extensively in the r/QAnonCasualties subreddit (1M+ subscribers by 2024), where family members of conspirituality-converts document the cult-like behavioural changes; (5) financial extraction: substantial subscription, course, and product fees flowing from conspirituality-influencer ecosystems; (6) far-right convergence: documented overlap with militia, accelerationist, and Christian-nationalist political content.

Notable specific cases covered as separate entries include: Mickey Willis (Plandemic documentary), Christiane Northrup (turned anti-vax), David 'Avocado' Wolfe, Kelly Brogan, Sayer Ji (GreenMedInfo), Reiner Fuellmich, JP Sears, and dozens of others. The Conspirituality podcast and ICSA conference papers provide ongoing case-by-case documentation.

The CLCI 23 (High, lower-range) is an umbrella score reflecting the documented family-severance pattern, the financial-extraction mechanism, and the documented thought-replacement worldview across the broader conspirituality ecosystem; individual influencer cases have separate dedicated entries where documentation supports.