Five-Minute Summary: Jake Cassar Bushcraft, QANON, and the Crisis of Conspirituality

This article investigates Jake Cassar and the Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA) as exemplars of settler conspirituality: a fusion of New Age spiritualism, far-right conspiracy, and settler-colonial mimicry that appropriates Aboriginal cultural authority to oppose Indigenous governance (Cooke, 2025; Watego, 2021). Cassar, a self-styled bushcraft educator and founder of CEA, blends rugged settler masculinity with spiritual … Continue reading Five-Minute Summary: Jake Cassar Bushcraft, QANON, and the Crisis of Conspirituality